UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection has published a new book about the Papunya Tula Artists work over the last 50 years. The book, “Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu | Past & Present Together,” tells the story of a group of men in Australia who banded together to form their own art cooperative. The group is known for its Aboriginal art, or dot painting.
University of Virginia doctors are trying to get their hands on what looks to be the only effective treatment for the omicron variant of COVID-19. There are concerns that when omicron comes to Charlottesville, there may not be enough treatment to help everyone. “Our best strategy for keeping patients out of the hospital is becoming less effective,” Dr. Patrick Jackson with UVA Health said.
University of Virginia junior swimmer Kate Douglass closed out the final day of competition at the FINA Short Course World Championships in Abu Dhabi with a gold medal in the women’s 4x50 freestyle relay. Douglass finished with five World Championship medals for Team USA, swimming on four relays and winning an individual medal in the 200-meter medley.
UVA will pay new coach Tony Elliott $4.1 million in his first season at the helm of the Hoos, according to the offer sheet obtained through an open records request, the fourth highest first-year salary for a coach hired without any previous head-coaching experience since 2017. Only Oklahoma, Ohio State and Oregon — all teams that have reached the College Football Playoff before — have shelled out more to a first-time head coach.
Other experts speculate that several issues are at play. Sara Grose Stephens, a pediatric psychiatrist who specializes in eating disorders at the University of Virginia, says the pandemic disrupted our lives in significant ways; as a result, what might have started as a bid to eat healthier quickly became rigid and disordered, especially when vulnerable teens and young adults spent so much time isolated. “We lost a lot of positive structure in our days like school, friendships and hobbies, and at the same time increased our social media use dramatically,” says Stephens. “Looking at all these i...
(Commentary) When compared with a male crash victim a woman is 17% more likely to die, according to a study conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a vehicle crash, according to a 2019 University of Virginia study.
Dr. Judith White at the University of Virginia is part of an international team working to speed up the production of “COVID cocktails.” Drug cocktails are combinations of different medicines that are used to attack multiple different symptoms.
1. University of Virginia. About the program: The online project management graduate certificate focuses on team leadership, cost control, and project risk management. Learners prepare for Project Management Institute certification.
The University of Virginia will be requiring students, faculty and staff will need to get a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine for the spring semester. UVA third-year student Jack Waters said he’s thankful the University is taking this precaution and says he thinks it’s necessary for the safety of everyone on Grounds. “We’ve been very thankful to have a very normal semester first semester. And it would be awesome in my opinion to do whatever we can to keep that going into the spring semester,” Waters said.
University of Virginia students will need to COVID-19 booster shots in order to study, live or at the work the University this spring.
Officials at the University of Virginia have announced that all students, faculty and staff will be required to receive a COVID-19 booster shot. UVA employees, including remote employees, must have received their final vaccination dose by Jan. 4. After Jan. 4, employees not in compliance will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including unpaid leave or termination.
Donald Fry, a scholar of medieval literature and culture as well as a noted contributor to ethics in journalism, died Dec. 6 in Charlottesville. He taught English at the University of Virginia and at Stony Brook University.
The intent of historical figures like Madison and Hamilton “is very difficult to discern, and sometimes doesn’t even exist,” says Lawrence Solum, an originalist scholar at the UVA School of Law. “The [original] public meaning of the constitutional text is something that we can almost always figure out, and then apply it to contemporary circumstances,” he adds.
The University of Virginia will require all students, faculty and staff to get COVID-19 vaccine booster shots in order to study, live, or work on Grounds in the coming spring semester, officials announced on Tuesday.
A University of Virginia student is receiving recognition from the Materials Research Society. Chang Liu is working to split water molecules into hydrogen fuel, resulting in gas with less pollution. He was recognized for helping find a cost-effective way to complete the process.
Commencement speakers for each of the five ceremonies included a wide variety of alumni, including University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock.
Donald W. Lemons will step down as chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court effective Dec. 31, and his colleagues have elected Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn to succeed him on Jan. 1, the court announced Monday. From 1976 to 1978, Lemons was an assistant dean and assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Law from which he had just graduated. … Prior to going on the bench, Goodwyn served as a research associate professor at the UVA School of Law and as a litigation partner at a Norfolk law firm.
Bryan Lewis, a research associate professor at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, has used models to predict future COVID-19 cases. “We’ve come through a Delta wave, and we had a nice little descent out of it,” he said. From recent model runs, Lewis believes the omicron variant will become the dominant strain in the state before the end of the year. “We could be seeing some reasonable sustained growth in cases in the next couple of weeks,” he said. “Now, where it stops is something these models are not super good at predicting because it depends on how the population responds to it....
(Commentary co-written by Jennifer “J.J.” Davis, executive vice president and chief operating officer) The remarkable life story of Ruth Ann Minner is a matter of public record. She rose from the humblest of beginnings to become the first and, to date, only female governor of Delaware. Rather than repeat her inspirational story, we wish to add to Delaware’s knowledge of its native daughter by describing her leadership qualities and record of success.
(Commentary by Matthew B Crawford, senior fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) The pandemic has brought into relief a dissonance between our idealized image of science, on the one hand, and the work “science” is called upon to do in our society, on the other. I think the dissonance can be traced to this mismatch between science as an activity of the solitary mind, and the institutional reality of it. Big science is fundamentally social in its practice, and with this comes certain entailments.