UVA Health is lit up in support of Ukraine this weekend. The upper floors of the South Town of the hospital are lit up in blue and yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
The drug ivermectin remains a flashpoint in the debate over the treatment of Covid-19. Labeled merely as a “horse de-wormer” by the Food and Drug Administration, the medication was once called a “wonder drug” and its developers won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015. In spite of the FDA’s apparent campaign against ivermectin, the remedy is now the subject of a national trial which includes research being done at the University of Virginia to find out how effective the “controversial” drug is against early stages of COVID-19.
(Commentary) In a study by the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project, researchers concluded: “The intact, biological, married family remains the gold standard for family life in the United States.” Children from cohabitating homes, they found, are far less likely to thrive socially, educationally, and psychologically than children who lived with their married biological parents. Additionally, the transitions required of a child because of cohabitation, divorce, and single parenthood “are linked to higher reports of school failure, behavioral problems, drug use, and loneliness.” Th...
Some hospitals have done a better job than others at mitigating the burnout that’s come with the two years of surging workloads. Those hospitals that have taken the time and expense to prevent burnout likely saved money, according to Jane Muir, a nurse researcher from the University of Virginia. For her doctoral research, she did an economic analysis of the costs of burnout to hospitals.
Economists found that legal, medical marijuana access has been linked to increased opioid-related deaths in a new study, contrary to earlier findings. Medical marijuana legalization was linked to 15% to 29% higher rates of opioid-involved fatalities from 1999 to 2019, two economists from the University of Virginia concluded in a new paper circulated in early March by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Scientists are celebrating positive results from an immunotherapy study, which showed success in making malignant tumors in mice disappear within a week. The startling findings were made by a group of scientists at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. The group collaborated with researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia community is working on non-violent crisis interventions. The University Networks of Care project at UVA has a goal to phase police out of non-violent crisis intervention calls, such as mental health and intoxicated personal crises. Members of the UVA Student Council and leaders at the Black Student Alliance explain how this works.
In this four-day, in-person program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, leaders learn how to use data analytics to inform key business decision making. The program is focused on forecasting, data visualization, and learning how to use data to enhance a company’s competitive advantage.
The world is on high alert following threats Russia has made towards using nuclear weapons as a result of its military invasion of Ukraine. “The risk of nuclear escalation is very small,” University of Virginia Professor of Politics Todd Sechser said Friday. Sechser says just because the risk is low right now, doesn’t mean it will remain that way.
A building at the University of Virginia is being renamed in honor of a Navy veteran and former U.S. senator. On Thursday, the UVA Board of Visitors Buildings and Grounds Committee approved a motion to rename Maury Hall in honor of John W. Warner.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was in Charlottesville on Friday on the Grounds of the University of Virginia. He addressed students of The Federalist Society, a conservative law organization, and had choice words for some key institutions.
In a keynote address last night at the Federalist Society’s annual student symposium, hosted this year at the University of Virginia, Republican governor Glenn Youngkin focused his remarks on the value and importance of federalism and state government.
(Editorial) Our best-known universities are awash in students. The University of Virginia received a record 51,000 applications from high school seniors this year; Virginia Tech has received 45,000, also a record; and the College of William & Mary’s enrollment is up 4% since 2017. The trend mostly is going in the opposite direction at our less-well-known schools.
The University of Virginia is extending President Jim Ryan’s contract. The UVA Board of Visitors voted unanimously Friday to extend Ryan’s contract through July 31, 2028. This adds three years to his agreement with the University.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia this week awarded $535,000 in funding to the University of Virginia, Old Dominion University and Marymount University for the Innovative Internship Fund and Program, also known as the Virginia Talent+ Opportunity Partnership. UVA and ODU will each receive $250,000 to connect employers with students and increase the number of paid internships and other work-based learning opportunities.
The University of Virginia terminated women's basketball coach Tina Thompson's contract with one year remaining, the school announced Thursday. Thompson, a WNBA legend, was named head coach in April 2018; the search for a new coach will begin immediately.
Raleigh internet personalities Kim and Penn Holderness won Season 33 of CBS’s “The Amazing Race,” crossing the finish line first in Wednesday night’s season finale, and walking away with $1 million. Penn went to the University of Virginia.
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1939: Kitty O'Brien Joyner is NASA's first woman engineer
Kitty O’Brien Joyner broke ground twice in 1939. After suing to be admitted into the University of Virginia’s engineering program, she was the first woman to graduate from the program that year. The electrical engineering knowledge she gained let her blaze a new trail several months later when NACA, the predecessor to NASA, hired her. She worked there for decades, eventually becoming branch head, before retiring in 1971.
The memories of Katie Couric, who went on to be the first woman solo anchor of “CBS Evening News” and later had her own talk show, have come to light due to her recent memoir, “Going There.” Although she only scantly mentions her time attending UVA, there is one line in the book that hints of her possible friendship with some Chattanoogans. Their views of her are not that much different from those of America, who found her outgoing and usually smiling manner appealing overall.
(Commentary by Esther Eriksson von Allmen, a third year student at the University of Virginia, studying political philosophy, policy and law, and a writing fellow for the Nation.) Since the 1990s, the nonprofit sector has ballooned into a massive industry, now representing the third-largest employer in the US economy. For students and college graduates hoping to “do some good” while also getting paid and gaining important career skills, the allure of the nonprofit world is potent–especially today, when young Americans face unprecedented levels of debt and high living costs.