(By Jim Detert, John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration) Fred Keller, the founder of Cascade Engineering, wanted to show that a for-profit business could also help address society’s social ills. So he accepted an employee’s suggestion that they hire unemployed locals. They rented a van, went to a low-income area of Grand Rapids, Michigan and – with the eight men they identified – started Cascade’s welfare-to-career program. Their first attempt failed completely.
UVA Health is not restricting elective procedures, officials said Friday. Because UVA utilizes a recently constructed and completed multi-story portion of the hospital for COVID care, the hospital is able to expand and contract COVID units as needed.
UVA students, staff and faculty will need to get COVID-19 vaccine boosters by Jan. 14 after University officials moved up the deadline by more than two weeks.
[UVA alumna] Demi Skipper was a 29-year-old newlywed working at home during the pandemic giving advice to people about how to save money with a tech app when she decided to try something crazy.
Steven Ginsberg, The Washington Post’s national editor who led the organization’s political coverage through the Trump years and helped propel the company to one of its most successful periods with reporting that brought Pulitzer Prizes along with enormous readership, was named as the paper’s new managing editor Thursday. Ginsberg has worked at The Post throughout his entire professional career, beginning upon graduation from the University of Virginia in 1994.
Taking the massification envisioned by “Higher Education for American Democracy” as the backdrop, we reveal how collegiate activism [at three public university campuses, including UVA] is shaped through two broadly opposing channels that steer students into divergent types of political mobilization and bring them into contact with different social and organizational networks. The progressive channel draws participants further inside their schools through a variety of institutional supports. The conservative channel, on the other hand, relies primarily on externally funded groups, often with an...
(Commetnary by Catherine Ward, a student at the School of Law) Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s (R) proposed executive order related to critical race theory (CRT) in Virginia public schools strikes against the spirit of the Virginia Constitution. In 1971, Virginia ratified its current constitution, which delivers explicit guidance on education policymaking. The constitution largely sought to ensure that the period of Massive Resistance — the period in which Virginia public schools closed to avoid desegregating — could not be repeated. As a result, the constitution’s drafters put primary ed...
In an accompanying editorial, Randy Jones, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, emphasized that improved treatment counseling at the time of diagnosis can help to minimize the likelihood of regret later. This communication, he wrote, should consider the patient’s personal values, stress shared decision-making between patients and doctors, and aim for an "understanding of realistic expectations and adverse effects that are possible during treatment."
Dr. Spencer Payne, an ear, nose and throat physician at UVA Health, told USA TODAY there is no scientific proof to back up the claim. Garlic cloves, depending on how far they are placed in the ear, have the potential to damage the eardrum, cause infection and leave rashes or irritation. "The other possibility is that you can't get it out," Payne said. "Specifically organic material, you're at much increased risk if you can't get it back out. We do generally recommend not putting anything in your ear."
But to others, including some legal experts, O’Connor’s decision is a judicial misstep. Amid a rapidly evolving public health emergency, rulings like these further complicate military officials’ work, said Micah Schwartzman, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “It’s quite surprising to see federal judges intervening in the middle of a pandemic to regulate how the military sets its policy with respect to vaccination. That’s not something we’ve seen before,” he said.
January is nicknamed Divorce Month, when couples split after one last holiday season. It turns out, though, that pandemic stress isn’t making this year’s numbers worse. Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, says COVID-19 has actually reduced the divorce rate.
The last time the Virginia General Assembly rejected a nomination was in 2006, when Republicans opposed Governor Tim Kaine’s nomination of Daniel LeBlanc to be secretary of the commonwealth, said Cale Jaffe, director of the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law. “It’s rare historically that the General Assembly objects to a governor’s cabinet picks, but it’s not unprecedented,” he said.
“This report, like those that preceded it, tells a sad story of the many different ways in which people of color in Virginia have disproportionately less access to economic opportunity, disproportionately worse life outcomes in rural communities and a disparate lack of conservation investment and access to outdoor space and fresh air,” said Andrew Block, the commission’s vice chair and a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
University of Virginia immunologist and COVID-19 researcher Dr. William Petri continues to answer reader questions about COVID-19, vaccines and, now, the omicron variant.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer in the Darden School of Business) Just days into the new year, financial markets have taken a noteworthy turn as investors assess what the Federal Reserve is contemplating for interest rates and its balance sheet this year. The minutes for the December Federal Open Market Committee meeting released on Wednesday showed that some officials believe the economy is close to full employment and are worried that the Fed is behind the curve in fighting inflation. They also suggest that the Fed could start raising interest rates as soon as March and th...
(Commentary by Mehr Afshan Farooqi is associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) “Hungamah hai kyun barpa,” sung in Ghulam Ali’s deep, dulcet voice, is a very popular ghazal. Ali seductively croons “thodi si jo pi li hai (I have only drunk a little)” over and over, and the audience is ecstatic. Not many people know that Akbar Illahabadi composed this ghazal. Nor do the other verses of this nine-verse ghazal resonate with audiences as much as the opening one does.
(By J. Kim Penberthy, professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences) A friend of mine – we will call him “Jay” – was working for IBM in New York City in the early ‘90s. He was a computer programmer and made a good salary. Occasionally, competitors and startups approached Jay to join their companies. He had an offer from an interesting but small organization in Seattle, but the salary was paltry and most of the offer package was in company shares. After consulting with friends and his parents, Jay declined the offer and stayed with IBM. He has regretted it ever since. That small company ...
With the spike in recent cases and hospitalizations—particularly among the unvaccinated—Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital and UVA Health, which serve the Central Virginia region, are imploring people yet to be vaccinated to do so as soon as possible and to get vaccine booster shots as soon as they qualify.
The University of Virginia has partnered with Germanna on College Everywhere, as announced last month at their signing ceremony in Spotsylvania County. Each fall and spring, UVA will offer a $2,500 scholarship for a Germanna graduating from the program to attend UVA.
Only about 10% of the officially public University of Virginia’s academic budget comes from state appropriations, and that number is even less, 5.8%, when the calculations include all of UVA’s many organizational divisions. Public and private interests and money have long commingled in American higher education, rendering a nominal distinction between public and private institutions more deceptive than descriptive.