The number of visitors at the University of Virginia Medical Center will be limited beginning Thursday due to an increase in the COVID-19 cases in the community.
Citing increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in the community and at medical facilities, UVA Health officials are tightening restrictions on the number of visitors allowed at bedsides.
Shigehiro Oishi from the University of Virginia and Ulrich Schimmack from the University of Toronto Mississauga conducted a study where they “tested the relation between residential mobility and well-being in a sample of 7,108 American adults who were followed for 10 years.” From their study, published by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Oishi and Schimmack concluded that “The more residential moves participants had experienced as children, the lower the levels of well-being as adults.” The two scholars arrived at another interesting observation: the negative association betwe...
Some research has shown that application fees can nonetheless discourage certain students from even applying. A 2013 study by Caroline Hoxby of Stanford University and Sarah Turner of the University of Virginia examined an experiment they conducted with high-achieving low-income students. A number of interventions -- including offering them fee waivers to 171 selective colleges -- were conducted to make these students more aware of their options. The students in the program were more likely than similar students outside the program to apply to more colleges, and to more competitive colleges.
(Commentary) The result is the launch of several high-profile vaccine mandates. In July, the Biden administration began requiring that all federal workers be vaccinated or adhere to strict precautionary protocols (thought officials say it’s not a mandate). Meanwhile, some business, both large and small, health care facilities and universities have implemented mandates. Indiana University’s requirement was upheld in federal court when it was challenged. And The University of Virginia disenrolled 238 students who refused to abide by the policy.
(Commentary) Government leaders at all levels, from President Biden down to local school boards across the country, should require employees to be vaccinated — not “vaccinated or regularly tested,” as has become a popular way to impose a non-mandatory mandate, but “vaccinated, period.” All universities should join the University of Virginia, the University of Michigan and many others in requiring all students coming to campus this term to be vaccinated or face the prospect of being disenrolled.
The beginning of the school year marks a lot of firsts and Sunday was an important one: the first time UVA’s Class of 2024 was able to get together as a group. Second-year students were finally officially welcomed to the University during Opening Convocation, an event that wasn’t able to take place in person last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students are back on Grounds at the University of Virginia, and there are no gathering limits in place this academic year. However, there is a temporary indoor masking policy in effect that will be re-evaluated on Sept. 6.
(Co-written by Naomi Cahn, professor of law) When embryologist Joseph Conaghan arrived at work at San Francisco’s Pacific Fertility Center on March 4, 2018, nothing seemed awry. He did routine inspections of the facility’s cryogenic tanks, which store frozen embryos and eggs for clients who hope to someday have biological children. But what he found was not routine; it was an emergency.
If Aetna customers’ pharmacy benefit provider and pharmacy services provider merge, it could be difficult for them to go outside their network for pharmacy benefits, and their pharmacy options could diminish, said Dr. Michael Williams, an associate professor of surgery and director of UVA’s Center for Health Policy. Consumers might find they have fewer choices about where they can get services, or what they’ll pay – but those services might be more convenient.
While there is no widely accepted definition of near-death experiences, the term typically refers to the mystical, profound experiences that people report when they are close to death. They’re most common in patients who survive severe head trauma or cardiac arrest. In other words, “conditions in which you would die, and stay dead, unless somebody instituted emergency medical procedures to help you,” says Bruce Greyson, a UVA psychiatrist who has studied NDEs for nearly 50 years.
Carla Williams grew up in LaGrange and is now the first African American female athletic director in her conference at the University of Virginia. Being that she credits the William J. Griggs Recreation Center as the reason behind her success, she reached out to Calloway Foundations and asked them to fund the renovation of this historic landmark.
August 28 is the birthday of American poet Rita Dove, who reportedly told Black American Literature Forum,”There’s no reason to subscribe authors to particular genres. I’m a writer, and I write in the form that most suits what I want to say.” Dove is the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.
The temblor kicked up memories of the tumultuous aftermath of Haiti’s 2010 quake, of tent cities rife with illness and sexual abuse and of an international humanitarian response that largely excluded local people from decision-making. Since 2010, Haiti has been held up as an example of all that can go wrong with international disaster assistance. But this time, local and foreign aid workers say, things may be different. That’s because last time around, “we learned a lot about community-driven support” and “how can the international system support local efforts instead of the other way around,”...
It can feel like a data breach happens every month – involving emails, gas lines, grocery stores, hospitals – to the point that it can be numbing to consumers, says Kimberly Whitler, an associate business professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. “Data breaches used to be shocking. Think back to the Target breach or the Yahoo breach in 2016,” Whitler says. “Now they’re sort of a part of modern life.”
Payment processors are well within their rights to determine what transactions they will and won’t support on their networks. In that respect, they are not that different from platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, who are massively powerful in their own right, said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Virginia studying online content moderation and who also helps lead the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a group that advocates against nonconsensual porn.
The current precedent holds that as long as a law is generally applicable and on its face neutral, it doesn’t amount to religious discrimination. This is particularly the case when the government has a real and compelling reason, such as public health, to refuse exemptions—which legal scholars say certainly applies here. “I am about as strong a supporter of religious exemptions as you can find in legal academia,” said Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, in an email. “And I think that under the general law of religious liberty, including the Constitution and s...
(Video) The more contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 is ravaging the south. As Manuel Bojorquez reports, hospitalizations are spiking in the southern states. Then, Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at the University of Virginia, joins CBSN’s Lana Zak to discuss the coronavirus news of the day.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said Biden failed to meet the moment. “His message and his demeanor and his tone have deteriorated,” Perry said. She said Biden made a strong case in his first speech Monday after the Taliban takeover but flopped with a defensive tone in an interview Wednesday with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. She said Biden needed to be more prepared and precise on the plan moving forward. “In this modern age of social media, presidents in the White House have to have control of their message and narrative all the t...