Because men drive more miles and engage in riskier driving – speeding, not wearing a seatbelt, driving drunk – more men than women die in car crashes overall. But when you compare similar car accidents with belted occupants of about the same age, height, BMI and vehicle year, women are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in frontal car accidents, according to a 2019 study from UVA’s Center for Applied Biomechanics.
“If you focus all the time on your goals, you can miss important information. And so, having a free-association thought process that randomly generates memories and imaginative experiences can lead you to new ideas and insights,” says co-author Zachary Irving, a UVA assistant professor of philosophy who explored the psychological and philosophical underpinnings of mind-wandering as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley.
An innovative warning system developed by two UVA researchers has become a critical factor in helping to keep students on campus. The system, developed by environmental engineer Lisa Colosi-Peterson and molecular epidemiologist Amy Mathers, uses wastewater testing from the university’s residence halls to detect COVID-19 infections before students even report symptoms.
Researchers who tested nearly 4,700 Virginians from June to mid-August for traces of a prior coronavirus infection found that only about 2.4% had previously been sick. But two out of three of those who had contracted the virus didn’t have any symptoms. And when adjusted for population, the numbers were nearly three times higher than summer reports of positive tests on the Virginia Department of Health website. This indicates that the number of COVID-19 cases, as expected, is likely much higher, said Dr. Eric Houpt, an infectious diseases expert at UVA Health who was a co-author of the report.&...
UVA will expand its graduate school catalog to include Africana and Caribbean studies, the school’s news outlet, UVAToday, reported on Monday. The two new programs will focus on culture, heritage, and history through an interdisciplinary lens, involving multiple school departments including the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. The Caribbean serves as a knowledge gold mine for finding solutions for today’s societal and environmental challenges, according to UVA professors.
For nearly a year, Isabella Gibbons has peered over Charlottesville. Inscribed into the rough-hewn granite of UVA’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, her eyes not only draw attention to the cruel realities of slavery – but ask what we are going to do to rectify them. As UVA continues to atone for its racist history, a form of reparation may finally be on the way for the living descendants of enslaved laborers like Gibbons, who helped build and maintain the University for decades.
UVA officials on Tuesday banned all in-person events and gatherings on and off Grounds and shuttered recreational centers, citing a sudden surge in student COVID-19 cases related to failure to follow health guidelines.
UVA announced on Tuesday night a litany of health and safety restrictions after reporting its highest single-day spike of new cases of COVID-19. The measures went into effect at 7 p.m. Tuesday and will remain in place until Feb. 26, at which point University leaders will assess lifting them.
UVA implemented new restrictions after a “troubling rise” in coronavirus cases, including the arrival of a more contagious variant, officials said Tuesday night.
UVA student Spencer Buddington was home on winter break in Abingdon when he and his friends intervened to give CPR to a man who had a heart attack inside Abingdon General Store.
(Commentary by Rita Felski, John Stewart Bryan Professor of English) What exactly would be lost if we lost the humanities? Perhaps this question can serve as a thought experiment for clarifying why the humanities matter. It puts things in a fresh perspective by inviting us to imagine an experience of loss and to anticipate the reactions triggered by this loss.
One of the first things that UVA Health did when the pandemic began this year was get tablets out to nursing homes, according to David Cattell-Gordon, director of its nationally recognized telemedicine program. “When there were outbreaks of COVID, we were able to see patients quickly using a peripheral device where you can hear chest sounds, and a pulmonologist could make a quick determination that that patient needed to come in and be tested or stay at home and be monitored.”
(Transcript) At UVA, a new memorial to the thousands of enslaved people who helped build the school and then worked there – craftsmen, construction workers, cooks, domestic servants. Some of their names are known. Most, more than 3,000, remain anonymous, honored by so-called memory marks in the stone.
A Lebanon County native is on the move again after being traded for the second time in his Major League Baseball career. Cedar Crest High School andf UVA graduate Derek Fisher, 27, has been traded from the Toronto Blue Jays to the Milwaukee Brewers the teams announced.
Excited and relieved. Those were the first two words [UVA alumnus] Alec Bettinger used to describe his reaction when the Milwaukee Brewers added him to its 40-man roster Nov. 20.
With a growing number of successful women of color occupying various positions in government, entertainment, and business, young girls of color have more and more inspiration and representation in real life than ever. Children’s book author Tanya Terry is sending a message to Black girls. The first time author published her children’s book, “You Are Loved” to inspire young Black girls to love themselves fully and unconditionally.
Since the pandemic began, the Abbey Theater of Dublin’s artistic director Joe Bishara has thrown himself into producing solo shows for streaming as part of the Virtual Theatre Project with a wide-ranging group of talents. Next in line, “#Charlottesville” is simultaneously a premiere and a reunion. I talked to Bishara and playwright and star Priyanka Shetty, who earned her M.F.A. from UVA, by Zoom.
The first executive director of the Oak Ridge Institute, a groundbreaking research partnership between the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been announced. Joan Bienvenue will serve as the executive director. Bienvenue is currently the senior executive director of the Applied Research Institute at the University of Virginia. She helped launch the institute there and has been the senior executive director since June 2013.
As a matter of policy, the Confederate military promised not to treat captured Black prisoners as soldiers and threatened to re-enslave them or execute them, said William B. Kurtz, managing director of UVA’s John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. Confederate leaders made the same threat against the white officers leading Black troops, Kurtz noted.
Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we focus on Gregory B. Fairchild from UVA’s Darden School of Business.