Other experts speculate that several issues are at play. Sara Grose Stephens, a pediatric psychiatrist who specializes in eating disorders at the University of Virginia, says the pandemic disrupted our lives in significant ways; as a result, what might have started as a bid to eat healthier quickly became rigid and disordered, especially when vulnerable teens and young adults spent so much time isolated. “We lost a lot of positive structure in our days like school, friendships and hobbies, and at the same time increased our social media use dramatically,” says Stephens. “Looking at all these i...
(Commentary) When compared with a male crash victim a woman is 17% more likely to die, according to a study conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a vehicle crash, according to a 2019 University of Virginia study.
Dr. Judith White at the University of Virginia is part of an international team working to speed up the production of “COVID cocktails.” Drug cocktails are combinations of different medicines that are used to attack multiple different symptoms.
1. University of Virginia. About the program: The online project management graduate certificate focuses on team leadership, cost control, and project risk management. Learners prepare for Project Management Institute certification.
The University of Virginia will be requiring students, faculty and staff will need to get a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine for the spring semester. UVA third-year student Jack Waters said he’s thankful the University is taking this precaution and says he thinks it’s necessary for the safety of everyone on Grounds. “We’ve been very thankful to have a very normal semester first semester. And it would be awesome in my opinion to do whatever we can to keep that going into the spring semester,” Waters said.
University of Virginia students will need to COVID-19 booster shots in order to study, live or at the work the University this spring.
Officials at the University of Virginia have announced that all students, faculty and staff will be required to receive a COVID-19 booster shot. UVA employees, including remote employees, must have received their final vaccination dose by Jan. 4. After Jan. 4, employees not in compliance will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including unpaid leave or termination.
Donald Fry, a scholar of medieval literature and culture as well as a noted contributor to ethics in journalism, died Dec. 6 in Charlottesville. He taught English at the University of Virginia and at Stony Brook University.
The intent of historical figures like Madison and Hamilton “is very difficult to discern, and sometimes doesn’t even exist,” says Lawrence Solum, an originalist scholar at the UVA School of Law. “The [original] public meaning of the constitutional text is something that we can almost always figure out, and then apply it to contemporary circumstances,” he adds.
The University of Virginia will require all students, faculty and staff to get COVID-19 vaccine booster shots in order to study, live, or work on Grounds in the coming spring semester, officials announced on Tuesday.
A University of Virginia student is receiving recognition from the Materials Research Society. Chang Liu is working to split water molecules into hydrogen fuel, resulting in gas with less pollution. He was recognized for helping find a cost-effective way to complete the process.
Commencement speakers for each of the five ceremonies included a wide variety of alumni, including University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock.
Donald W. Lemons will step down as chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court effective Dec. 31, and his colleagues have elected Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn to succeed him on Jan. 1, the court announced Monday. From 1976 to 1978, Lemons was an assistant dean and assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Law from which he had just graduated. … Prior to going on the bench, Goodwyn served as a research associate professor at the UVA School of Law and as a litigation partner at a Norfolk law firm.
Bryan Lewis, a research associate professor at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, has used models to predict future COVID-19 cases. “We’ve come through a Delta wave, and we had a nice little descent out of it,” he said. From recent model runs, Lewis believes the omicron variant will become the dominant strain in the state before the end of the year. “We could be seeing some reasonable sustained growth in cases in the next couple of weeks,” he said. “Now, where it stops is something these models are not super good at predicting because it depends on how the population responds to it....
(Commentary co-written by Jennifer “J.J.” Davis, executive vice president and chief operating officer) The remarkable life story of Ruth Ann Minner is a matter of public record. She rose from the humblest of beginnings to become the first and, to date, only female governor of Delaware. Rather than repeat her inspirational story, we wish to add to Delaware’s knowledge of its native daughter by describing her leadership qualities and record of success.
(Commentary by Matthew B Crawford, senior fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) The pandemic has brought into relief a dissonance between our idealized image of science, on the one hand, and the work “science” is called upon to do in our society, on the other. I think the dissonance can be traced to this mismatch between science as an activity of the solitary mind, and the institutional reality of it. Big science is fundamentally social in its practice, and with this comes certain entailments.
(By Laurie Archbald-Pannone, associate professor of geriatric medicine) As a geriatrician, I often see patients whose families voice concerns about their health or well-being. This can be especially heightened if they haven’t seen each other in a while. The holidays can be an opportunity to not just enjoy the fruitcake but observe how your aging parents, grandparents or great-grandparents are doing at home. Objectively observing their functioning and memory can uncover warning signs that more evaluation is needed.
The Blue Ridge Health District, University of Virginia and NextMolecular Lab are continuing to provide free COVID-19 testing this week for those ages 6 months or older. The UVA Medical Center has seen a mild increase in COVID testing from last month, processing 3,707 tests in the last week, spokesman Eric Swensen said.
In recent years I’ve become aware of well-documented cases of young children who have reported very specific details of a past life, which were later verified by investigators. Research in this area was pioneered by Dr. Ian Stevenson, a psychiatrist at the UVA School of Medicine, who spent much of his career collecting and examining such cases.
Another researcher, Yao-Lun Lang, a postdoctoral fellow in astronomy at the University of Virginia, has been nervously watching the launch date for weeks. “I look forward to the launch while nervous about the deployment process of the telescope,” he said via email in early December. Lang will await data from the telescope toward the end of 2022, although the actual schedule is not yet available. His research group is focused on the chemical composition of ice in newborn stars.