Thomas Platts-Mills of the University of Virginia, an allergy researcher, stumbled on the cause while studying a mysterious sensitivity to a cancer drug in some patients. The drug also contains alpha-gal. He noticed most of the allergic patients came from rural areas in the southeastern United States and also had a meat allergy. The clincher was when Platts-Mills himself was bitten by the tick in 2007 while hiking and wound up with the allergy.
Timothy Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, US, asked participants of all ages to sit quietly in a room by themselves for just 15 minutes - without music, books, TVs or phones. The result: 67 per cent men and 25 per cent women found the prospect so terrifying that instead of sitting idle, they chose to get shocked (static electricity) to deal with their solitude.
Kindergarten is changing, according to a January 2014 EdPolicy Works paper from the University of Virginia. Only 31 percent of kindergarten teachers surveyed in 1998 thought children should learn to read in kindergarten. That changed in 2006 to 65 percent. From 1998 to 2006, there was a shift toward full-day kindergarten, and teachers began spending more time teaching vocabulary, spelling, writing sentences and composing stories and less time allowing children to pick their own activities.
“Six or seven years ago, [summer melt] was really overlooked. As administrators at high school, if we got kids to apply for college and financial aid, and choose where to go ... we felt our work was done and the students would seamlessly transition,” says Benjamin Castleman, an education and public policy professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who conducted the summer-melt study with Lindsay Page of the University of Pittsburgh and developed the new text-messaging approach.
This might help to explain the phenomena of children with past life memories. The memories are very specific and can often be verified. Dr. Ian Stevenson, the founder and director of the University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies researched and wrote about this phenomena extensively.
Can sick people gain mental clarity just before they die? University of Virginia researchers Michael Nahm and Bruce Greyson explore this issue in a gripping (if macabre) paper published in the journal Omega: The death of Anna Katharina Ehmer: a case study in terminal lucidity.
"It's been a really busy year both at the poison center and at the University of Virginia. We've had about 16 patients that we've treated at the University of Virginia and then here at the poison center now just over 100 patients that we've seen," says Dr. Nathan Charlton, physician at the University of Virginia Medical Center. The Blue Ridge Poison Center has seen a 50% increase in the amount of reported copperhead snake bites compared to last year.
Uncompensated care is a key reason Virginia hospitals have pleaded with legislators to expand Medicaid. Across the country, uncompensated care totaled $45.9 billion in 2012, the most recent year for which data was available, according to the American Hospital Association. It was 6.1 percent of hospitals’ expenses that year. When we asked Barker about his claim, he sent us a link to an article from Governing magazine.The article cites a study from the Colorado Hospital Association that looked at 30 states, 15 with Medicaid expansion and 15 without. In the states with expansion, hospitals ...
The symphony’s 40th-anniversary season brings a new name and a new place to perform. Season tickets already are available, and single-ticket sales will begin Sept. 2. The Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia, led by music director Kate Tamarkin, previously was known as the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra. It will begin its season with a program that will bring a world premiere to its Cabell Hall Auditorium home stage at 8 p.m. Sept. 26 and to the Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center at Charlottesville High School — a new venue this year ...
By Juliana Bush, coordinator of student and policy programs at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.... In 2011, the Miller Center convened its second David R. Goode National Transportation Policy Conference due in part to frustration around the lack of public awareness and support that kept significant transportation reform from gaining any traction. The goal of that conference was to create a roadmap for effectively capturing the nation’s attention and encouraging active public engagement around the issue.The recommended communications strategy—gleaned from the ...
On June 24, 2014, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent the nomination of Joan A. Polaschik to be the U.S. ambassador to Algeria to the full Senate for its approval. It would be the first ambassadorial posting for Polaschik, who is a career Foreign Service officer. Polaschik is from Alexandria, Virginia, and attended the University of Virginia, earning a B.A. in Russian studies and foreign affairs. She subsequently earned an M.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University in 1993.
In the early years of their marriage, Mrs. Caplin worked as a fashion designer in New York. After moving to Charlottesville, where her husband was a professor at the University of Virginia’s law school, she wrote, directed, designed and sewed costumes for children’s plays in the local public schools….Among other philanthropic initiatives, the Caplins donated $4 million for the creation of the 300-seat Ruth Caplin Theatre, which opened at the University of Virginia last year. Survivors include her husband of 71 years, Mortimer Caplin '40 of Chevy Chase… ...
Caplin was married for more than 70 years to former UVa School of Law professor Mortimer M. Caplin '40, but her relationship with the university runs much deeper. For decades, she was an advocate of the arts programs at UVa, especially the drama program.
New University of Virginia basketball player B.J. Stith is the son of former Cavalier basketball great Bryant Stith.
The proposed policy that would have muzzled University of Virginia board members has received a necessary infusion of common sense. Under the latest version of the policy, Board of Visitors members would be permitted to talk with outsiders if they make clear that they are speaking as individuals.
The proposed policy that would have muzzled University of Virginia board members has received a necessary infusion of common sense. Under the latest version of the policy, Board of Visitors members would be permitted to talk with outsiders if they make clear that they are speaking as individuals.
Over the past year, six universities, including the University of Virginia, Columbia University and Ohio State have launched or announced plans to launch certificate and master's programs in data science to fill the gap.