“This kind of cap and trade regulation is now used all across the world,” says Bill Shobe, a UVA professor of economics. “It’s used in China, in the European Union, in New Zealand, and California is using a similar program to reduce its CO2 emissions.”
Although people have occupied Central Virginia for at least 11,000 years, Professor Jeffrey Hantman, anthropologist and former UVA professor, proposes that the Monacans became a recognizable, unique cultural group around 1000 AD.
Former VRS trustee Edwin Burton, the longest-serving trustee in the commonwealth’s history, said the new CIO should be reasonably knowledgeable about most of the fund’s asset classes, but not necessarily an expert in any of them. Burton, a University of Virginia economics professor and co-author of a book on behavioral finance, said someone with a background that strongly emphasizes one particular asset class will likely be biased toward that asset class when a balanced approach is needed.
“Money feeling strange in 2021 is based on a decade of money slowly feeling strange for lots and lots of different people throughout the world,” said Lana Swartz, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia who focuses on money. “We’re at a stage where the government and financial institutions are revealed to be less dependable than we ever imagined they would be, so why not YOLO?”
Dr. Bernard Beitman, a UVA visiting professor and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia, has spent his career researching coincidences and says about a third of us notice them regularly. In his book “Connecting with Coincidence: The New Science for Using Synchronicity and Serendipity in Your Life,” he says that there are personality characteristics and situations – if a person is religious or spiritual, or if they are actively seeking meaning in life – that make us more likely to experience coincidences. \
“What’s happened in Charlottesville over the last few years is an outlier,” said Charles Hartgrove, the director of the Virginia Institute of Government at the University of Virginia. “That (type of turnover) is not typical of what we see in most Virginia localities, cities, counties or towns.”
Another question to consider is how our personal health data is being stored and used. Margaret Foster Riley, a health privacy expert and professor of law at the University of Virginia, raises a few red flags about this growing trend. “Sometimes you’ll see companies will assert that they’ll never sell or use your data improperly but what’s unclear is what happens in a succession context,” she says, noting that your data might not be protected in a bankruptcy or acquisition (both common with startups).
Dr. Lorna Breen’s sister, Jennifer Feist, and her husband, Corey, started the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation to reduce burnout of health care professionals and safeguard their well-being and job satisfaction. Corey Feist is also the CEO of the UVA Physicians Group. When asked if Breen suffered from burnout prior to COVID-19, Corey Feist replied, “I know the practice of medicine is very hard. She was getting her MBA because she was trying to improve the system and advance her career. In my experience, doctors are getting their MBA and exploring alternative careers because the day-to-day cli...
Ebony Jade Hilton, an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at UVA, who was not involved in the study, says researchers examining this issue should consider the totality of the health impacts that structural racism has on Black patients. “We have a racism epidemic in America that has existed since 1619,” she says. “There are different traumas associated with growing up Black in America that are not experienced by others,” from environmental factors to post-traumatic stress disorder.
“There’s nothing more devastating than having to tell a patient, ‘I’ve got nothing else for you,’” says Jennifer L. Kirby, an associate professor of endocrinology and metabolism at the UVA School of Medicine, who supports legislation to change reimbursement rules. “This is a huge, untapped way to improve the health of our country and the world.”
Sue Donovan, conservationist of University of Virginia told the reporters that the items, which included books and newspapers, had to be frozen and treated with special chemicals to dry the items. Conservationists were not completely certain what exactly they had because so many of the items were in envelopes and all items had to undergo a careful drying process before being fully revealed.
On Tuesday, conservators found a printed image from an 1865 issue of Harper’s Weekly that they said seemed to show a figure grieving over Lincoln’s grave – but it was not the much-anticipated photo. “It was not an original. It was perhaps taken from a photograph, but it is an engraving,” said Sue Donovan, conservator for special collections at the University of Virginia Library.
There was no Lincoln photo. Instead, there was a very damp issue of Harper’s Weekly, dated April 29, 1865, showing a printed picture of what appeared to be an individual next to Lincoln’s body. “It was not an original,” said Sue Donovan, a conservator at the University of Virginia. “There was no photograph, per se.”
“It’s not too bad,” said Sue Donovan, a conservator for special collections at the University of Virginia. “Its not soup, so we’re OK with that.”
The unboxing on Tuesday came after workers found the time capsule that had eluded them for months – until Monday, when Virginia’s governor announced that crews had found “the time capsule everyone was looking for.” Historians had long hoped to find it, with a newspaper account at the time detailing dozens of objects placed inside, much of it Confederate memorabilia. “We found quite a few of them” from the list, said Sue Donovan, conservator for special collections at the University of Virginia Library.
Two UVA doctors have some masking advice. “A cloth mask is supposed to have at least two layers of cloth to be more effective in filtering out the virus particles. But if you have a cloth mask that has at least a couple of layers, it’s as effective as these disposable masks that most of us are wearing,” Dr. Bill Petri with UVA Health said.
Dr. Bill Petri at UVA Health says people may want to skip out on that highly anticipated New Year’s Eve party.
(Commentary) Dr. Michael Nelson, chief of UVA’s Division of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, was one panelist who expressed concern: “Almost every vote cast today is going to be caveated based on the discussion we’ve had today. Personally, I see this as an access [to vaccination] question . . . not a mandate for all of this age group.” And: “To me, we should certainly not underestimate the knowledge and decision-making power of the public.”
There are now two new pills to help fight COVID-19. The FDA approved Merck’s anti-viral pill on Dec. 23. It also recently approved Pfizer’s Paxlovid under an emergency use authorization. Dr. Costi Sifri, an epidemiologist with the University of Virginia, says Paxlovid was created in part to help overworked hospital systems. Now more people can recover from COVID-19 without filling a bed.
“I think it’s with the anticipation that we are going to have a terrible time with Omicron, so many people are going to be infected,” said Dr. Bill Petri, an infectious disease doctor at UVA Health. “Trying to figure out balanced risks versus benefits so as to not shut down the economy with not as many people being quarantined or isolated as long as necessary.”