Deploying senior radiology trainees as at-home “teleresidents” is a feasible solution to maintain productivity and social distancing amid the pandemic, according to new research published Friday. With diagnostic radiology work largely handled electronically, the University of Virginia Medical Center has experimented with administering its residency program remotely. All told, 28 workstations were divvied out to senior residents and fellows, leaders detailed in Academic Radiology.
The papers cited in the review “really called into question ‘is this structure something that is an absolute requirement for giving cells their identity?’” review coauthor and University of Virginia developmental biologist Ann Sutherland tells The Scientist. “Or is it just a convenient way to get the cells from one place to another, and that final destination is where they’re going to differentiate and create new tissue shapes?”
(Transcript) Dr. Steven Zeichner, who works in the Child Health Research Center at UVA Health, is looking for a master key -- a universal vaccine that would work against any variation of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
3. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. About the program: UVA offers a graduate leadership in human resources management certificate, preparing individuals for top HR management positions. The courses include organizational change and strategic compensation.
In a partnership with Google, the University of Virginia will offer any current or former students with a Google Career Certificate a $5,000 scholarship to continue their education. Students with a Google Career Certificate in one of its five programs may receive a one-time $5,000 scholarship to UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies to complete their bachelor’s degree.
When Mia Love spoke at the University of Virginia last night, she could have told insider stories about her two terms as the only Black female Republican elected to Congress. She could have dished juicy details about what it was like as the sole GOP member of the Congressional Black Caucus, or the frustrating conversations with President Trump about recruiting Haitian immigrants into the Republican Party, or the $450,000 she had to raise and hand over to GOP party leaders to secure preferred committee assignments. She could have talked public policy about issues she cares about such as abortio...
Aproposed tuition hike of up to 4.9% met with resounding silence Thursday as no one showed up at a meeting set up by University of Virginia officials to get public input on the proposal. The UVA Board of Visitors scheduled and publicized the hearing early last month, and finance officials took the proposal to various groups on Grounds in the past 30 days.
The University of Virginia has matched its record high mark set last year in the new annual NCAA Graduation Success Rate data. Incoming student-athletes from 2011-to-2014 shows UVa’s graduation rate was 95% in 2021, the same as 2020. The national average in this report is 88%.
Bronco Mendenhall says three decades as a football coach is enough for now. He’s ready to try something new. Saying he wants “to become a better version of himself,” Mendenhall surprised his team and Virginia fans by announcing he will step down as the Cavaliers’ head football coach at the end of this season.
Bronco Mendenhall is stepping down from his position as head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers football program following the team’s bowl game at the end of the season, the team announced on Thursday. “This week, there was a sense of clarity that I needed to step back from college football,” Mendenhall said in a press conference on Thursday evening.
(Commentary) This is how Bronco Mendenhall’s tenure at Virginia was destined to end. He was never going to coach college football into his dotage and was never going to betray his team with energy he deemed less than full throttle. So while the precise timing of Thursday’s resignation was somewhat surprising, the abruptness of Mendenhall’s decision, the unyielding principles and abiding faith that informed his thinking, and the incurable transparency of his explanation were Bronco Mendenhall to the core.
The distinction of becoming the first woman engineer at NASA belongs to Kitty O’Brien Joyner, who began her career with the NACA in 1939. Her path to a successful career began after being inspired by her father, an engineer by trade who encouraged Joyner to pursue her passion. Joyner was also the first woman to graduate from the University of Virginia’s engineering school.
Dewey Cornell, a UVA professor of education and the country’s leading advocate for school-based threat assessments, has published an array of studies. His data suggests schools that used threat assessment were less likely to use other exclusionary school discipline practices and that racial disparities among those who are suspended or expelled were also reduced.
Sequencing itself can be as fast as a 24- to 48-hour turnaround. It’s the logistics of moving samples around that’s the real bottleneck. “It’s really just stupid stuff,” said Amy Mathers, associate director of clinical microbiology at UVA Health, whose lab team sequences positive coronavirus samples for the state of Virginia.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have re-signed infielder/outfielder [and UVA alumnus] Chris Taylor, perhaps the most difficult to replace of the Dodgers’ 12 free agents. The 31-year-old Taylor drew interest from multiple teams following his first All-Star season but chose to return to the franchise where his career blossomed. The deal is expected to be for at least four years and $60 million, with a club option for a fifth year.
Edward Finley, finance professor at University of Virginia and a regular correspondent, wrote to point out that how value stocks respond to changes in rates depends on how stocks in general respond to rates, a relationship that has changed a lot over time. Before the 1990s, stocks and bonds were positively correlated (so when stocks rose, bond yields went down). He explains: “Until the ‘90s, investors had little confidence in the Fed’s ability to control inflation. As a result, inflation expectations drove all asset prices, leading to a positive correlation between stock and bond returns. Once...
“Be cautious, he has no record,” warns Larry Sabato, the founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “He displayed a talent in the campaign for giving all the right signals to the right groups without committing to very much. He’ll be doing a tap dance, depending on the issue. It’s clever, but you don’t have to admire it or think it’s courageous. It worked politically.”
Giving What We Can and the wider effective altruism movement are not without their critics. These say that such charitable donations should never be seen as a substitute to a decent level of taxation and state social services. Jennifer Rubenstein, assistant professor of politics at the University of Virginia, and author of Between Samaritans and States, adds that effective altruism “does not empower poor people as political actors or entities.”
(Audio) We often hear from Washington that the United States is locked in another great powers conflict with China. But is the “great powers” Cold War era analogy the right one for modern China? Among the guests is Melvyn Leffler, professor of history emeritus at the University of Virginia and author of several books on the Cold War.
Pathologists believe it is likely a matter of time before the omicron variant of the coronavirus appears in the D.C. region, but labs across Virginia are scanning millions of previous positive tests for it. It all depends on the new variant’s transmissibility, Dr. Amy Mathers with the UVA Health Lab told WTOP. “We don’t know if omicron is going to take off like delta did. If it does, and takes over in different areas and turns out to be much more transmissible, we will then see it in a matter of probably weeks,” Mathers said.