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.
The research is mixed. In 2011, researchers found that watching nine minutes of fast-paced programming could impair a child's executive function. But in 2015, the same researcher, Angeline Lillard, a developmental psychologist at the University of Virginia, conducted another study. This time, the team concluded it was the "fantastical content," not pacing, of shows that was an issue. In both studies, the effects were short-term.
(Press release) Racial bias can unconsciously seep into many aspects of life, causing people to unknowingly act in discriminatory ways. Even when not ill-intentioned, this type of discrimination can still have serious consequences – and a new study suggests this can extend to how we communicate electronically. … UVA’s John B. Holbein is among the contrbutors to the research.
One way health systems could prevent burnout and reduce high turnover rates, particularly among nurses, may be through burnout-reduction programs. In an analysis published in the Journal of Patient Safety, researchers from UVA Health analyzed more than 20 separate studies to examine the cost of burnout-related turnover among nurses.
The University of Virginia COVID projection model is forecasting an omicron surge in the Greater Augusta area peaking in late January at roughly three times the high-water mark of the September wave that pushed Augusta Health to the brink.
Is the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business on your shortlist of dream MBA programs? Then be sure to review this Darden MBA interview advice straight from the admissions team.
The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and VCU are among universities just advising all eligible students and employees to get a booster as case numbers continue to surge across the country.
Finding their way can be harder for boys, says clinical psychologist Meg Jay, a UVA associate professor UVA and author of “The Defining Decade: Why Your 20s Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now.” A young woman might prioritize work, marriage or parenthood, and she has friends to talk to about it, Jay says. “Many men, however, feel like their lives cannot start until they find a way to get their footing in the workplace, and many don’t know how to begin or where to turn for help.”
“It’s never been as complicated as it has been at this point,” Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in UVA’s Division of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, said. “We have a variant that’s already causing problems in delta, a new variant that could potentially cause additional problems on top of that. We have vaccinations, but we have spotty uptake in some areas that are lowly vaccinated. And we have a staffing crisis. There are a lot of variables here that could pull the levers the wrong way.”
A news bulletin from Dr. William Petri, our UVA expert who studies the coronavirus and COVID-19 and who has been answering reader questions this fall for The Daily Progress.
Muriel Powell spent almost 20 years working in corporate America. After graduate school, she attended the University of Virginia where she received her MBA. She immediately began working for a large corporation managing strategy, finance, and multicultural marketing. In 2001, Powell received the opportunity to work for McDonald’s with the desire to be an owner-operator. In 2008 she purchased her first restaurant and has been an owner-operator ever since.
Welcome to the case of the missing senator. His name is James Hamilton Lewis. He grew up in Augusta after the Civil War, attended UVA, became a lawyer, a soldier, a diplomat, a congressman and member of the U.S. Senate. He was an adviser to Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman. He was a skillful debater and a fashionable dresser. He made the cover of Life magazine. When he died in 1939, he was honored in the U.S. Capitol, then buried in a fashionable mausoleum near Arlington National Cemetery. Then, this man, who achieved so much attention in life, vanished.
The US Senate confirmed more than 30 ambassadors on Saturday, including [UVA Lawe alumnus] Mark Brzezinski, a political scientist and longtime diplomat.
William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800-May 4, 1873) was a University of Virginia professor and Cincinnati College president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of elementary school-level textbooks.
A massive exhibit at one of Miami’s leading art museums is reclaiming a place in art history for an iconoclastic but little-known Jewish artist and Holocaust survivor. The show, “My Name Is Maryan”, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, explores the legacy of the Polish-born artist Maryan, who survived an adolescence in Nazi camps to create a groundbreaking, visceral body of work. … A text by Marlene Daut, a professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of Virginia, relates Maryan’s series of horrific Napoleon portraits to the mostly ignored history of the French emperor ...
(Commentary) Over the weekend, Politico had an extremely Politico article asking politicos for their political advice for how Kamala Harris could fix her disastrous run of low public approval and dismal press coverage. Some of it is exactly the sort of overoptimistic off-the-shelf advice that consultants give without regard to whether the politician receiving it is at all capable of doing any such thing. Probably the best and least encouraging advice comes from University of Virginia political guru Larry Sabato and former John Kasich campaign manager Beth Hansen, both of whom argue that Harris...
One template to consider is Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s Virginia win, even though Biden won the state decisively in 2020, said Miles Coleman, an associate editor for the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, which ranks political contests. “Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan are all states where Biden won but performed worse than he performed in Virginia,” Coleman told Fox News.
Despite that, however, Biden’s approval ratings remain underwater – a likely consequence, experts say, of public frustration with the persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic, and an illustration of the political challenges inherent in trying to govern during times of domestic crisis. “Some of this is an inability – and I’m not sure if any other administration could do it any better – but an inability to communicate at a really individual level about how people’s lives are better because the Democrats are in Washington right now,” said Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics at the University of...