It has never been more critical to assemble classes of future nurses that are diverse in experience, well-educated and culturally agile and humble. The kind of nurses you'd want to care for you, no matter who you are.
“To transplant three siblings is unusual,” said Dr. Kenneth Brayman, who did the surgery for all three at UVA.
When people learned that Weber had, one dark and foggy early morning this week, been hit by an SUV and killed while he was running, there was an outpouring of shock and grief.
Many smokers resolve to kick the habit at the beginning of the new year. Some will quit cold turkey; others won’t succeed even with the help of patches, pills or gum. UVA researchers believe it could be genetic.
As tools and technologies improve, scientists are producing and analyzing an ever-expanding amount of data, and some experts worry that we can’t keep track of it all. To assure global access to data and its analysis, the National Institutes of Health is spearheading a program called Big Data to Knowledge or BD2K. At the University of Virginia, one lab – led by one man – is playing a key role.
In The Tumbleweed Society, University of Virginia sociologist Allison Pugh describes this as “the one-way honor system;” shrugging one’s shoulders about job insecurity as just the way things are, while at the same time asserting your own loyalty as a worker.
A University of Virginia engineering professor has boosted communications around the world, and most people probably use his inventions without realizing it. Joe. C. Campbell, the Lucien Carr III Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has work that directly impacts the speed at which phone calls, text messages, streaming videos and just about all other major forms of communication are sent.
Scientists have long recognized that witness confidence tends to get inflated over time, thanks partly to reinforcement and encouragement by investigators and lawyers. So when a witness finally takes the stand, often months after the crime, they often sound far more sure of their pick than they were the first time. Even when a lineup is done blind, “lots of things can happen before a lineup procedure even occurs that would encourage a witness to make the identification,” Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia, told BuzzFeed News. A cop could tell the witness...
Pluto has a deep layer of solid nitrogen and other volatile ices. These things are key to understanding the activity on Pluto. Sputnik Planum is a 620 mile wide basin found on the left side of Tomboaugh Regio. This formation holds a deep layer of the said elements. "Pluto has greatly exceeded our expectations in diversity of landforms and processes - processes that continue to the present," Alan Howard of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, who is working with New Horizons' Geology, Geophysics, and Imaging (GGI) team, explained.
Recently, Netflix announced it's giving employees 12 months of paid maternity or paternity leave. The announcement seemed to thrust the topic of paid leave back in the spotlight. However, the conversation about parental leave often focuses on the mother. A professor at the University of Virginia's Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy wanted to look at how paid leave affects fatherhood.
To be attractive, society says your face needs to be symmetrical. However, most real people out there do not have symmetrical faces. Even actors and models have asymmetrical faces. In a series of studies, Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago and Erin Whitchurch of the University of Virginia found a logical explanation. In the tests, researchers digitally altered the pictures of the participants and made them look more attractive and less attractive by combining them with a picture of an attractive — or unattractive — person of the same gender. They mixed these doctored...
(Co-written by Ellen Regan, a first-year MBA student at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia) To help Marketing/GM students prepare for the recruiting gauntlet, we sat in on a couple of interviewing workshop sessions led by Johnson & Johnson and E.&J. Gallo at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. One of the tips offered by E.&J. Gallo is to understand what the interviewer is looking for.
The Republican Party needs to "clarify the choice" among the 15 candidates seeking the presidential nomination — and this will most likely happen after contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said on Friday. "We need to thin the herd," Sabato, director of the university's Center for Politics, told Eric Bolling on Fox News. "I think almost everybody agrees. "When you watch a debate with 9 or 10 people and have you an undercard, too, it is just too many people. Time to clarify the choice.&...
Does anyone really believe that those determined to muck around in their opponent’s primary will be stopped by a silly signature? In an email exchange Friday, political pundit Larry Sabato told me that the so-called “loyalty oath has been a controversy in both parties for about a century. Of late the Republicans are much more interested in having one than the Democrats. Mainly, the conservative Republicans want to control the party’s nominating process.” The University of Virginia professor dismissed the belief that crossover voting is common.
In her article on Friday, 'Professors in the pulpit' published in UVa Today , Caroline Newman introduces us to some of the members of the faculty at the University who are also religious leaders in the local community. Michael F. Suarez, S.J. has served as Director of Rare Book School, Professor of English, University Professor, and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia since 2009. He is also a priest affiliated with Holy Comforter Roman Catholic Church in downtown Charlottesville, established just a year prior to Jefferson’s death.
Fiscal conservatives might tell you that inequality is an inevitable and salutary side effect of the free enterprise system. In the U.S., after all, income inequality tends to be the most pronounced in highly innovative economies such as New York or the Silicon Valley. As a counterpoint, liberals might point to the many Scandinavian nations that are among the wealthiest, happiest, most productive, and most equal places on earth. Who’s right? A recent study from Shigehiro Oishi at the University of Virginia and Selin Kesebir at the London Business School takes a close look at the connecti...
Virginia lawmakers met with University of Virginia staff Friday; including UVa President Teresa Sullivan for an open legislative forum. The event was open to students, faculty, alumni, and the general public to hear viewpoints on current issues. The focus was on the higher education budget that will be talked about at the upcoming legislative session. Other issues brought up by UVa employees were mental health issues, investment in education, and use of handguns on Grounds.
The budget proposal released by Gov. Terry McAuliffe last week has higher-education officials hopeful going into the 2016 General Assembly session. Increased financial aid funding and noncredit career certifications could prove to be a boon for the University of Virginia and Piedmont Virginia Community College. The governor is asking the General Assembly for about $48 million in additional financial aid funding. McAuliffe also has stated his intent to tie the aid to completion rates, although details still are scarce.
As many people question the constitutionality of some politicians’ suggestions that Muslims, regardless of nationality or citizenship status, should be nationally registered in the name of public safety, hundreds of people have signed a petition expressing support for the Muslim community at the University of Virginia. Organized by two UVa faculty members, Frank Dukes and John Alexander, the petition started to circulate earlier this month. By the end of last week, nearly 1,000 people had signed it.
Gyalsten Druknya works through Arura Medicine of Tibet to collaborate with the University of Virginia, especially with palliative care. According to Druknya, Tibetan medicine medicine talks about mind and body healing. He says rather than treating specific ailments, Tibetan medicine has a more holistic approach. Through Arura Medicine, UVa collaborates with Tibetan doctors to share medical best practices and teachings.