(By Dr. Bruce Greyson, professor emeritus of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences) I was raised in a scientific household, where things that couldn’t be seen, heard or felt were never discussed. Our world was the physical world, and the idea that there was anything else never came up. When you died, that was the end. That was the world I knew and felt comfortable with. I felt no need to go looking for anything else.
From properly positioning patients to prolonging the life of personal protective gear, UVA Medical Center personnel learned a lot about COVID-19 in very little time, especially considering that they started out with next to no knowledge.
App security testing firm Veracode has launched its inaugural Veracode Hacker Games, an event which aims to encourage the growth of secure coding skills. Taking place over two weeks from March 15-25, computer science and cybersecurity teams from eight leading universities in the U.K. and U.S. will be tested on their secure coding skills in a collegiate contest. A number of individual prizes will be on offer and Veracode will donate $10,000 and $5,000 for the first and second best-performing universities, respectively. Institutions that have signed up to the contest include the University of Vi...
Famed political science professor Dr. Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan political analysis and handicapping newsletter run by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, predicts Maryland’s next governor will be a Democrat.
(Commentary) Why not push for universal child care while the tax code sorts itself out? That may help parents avoid a tax headache, but it wouldn’t be the panacea some hope for. Leading voices on family policy, like Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia, have documented the failures of universal care programs in other nations, some of which have increased childhood misbehavior and anxieties. Far better, he says, to offer parents cash payments and let them decide what the best arrangement is for their families.
(Podcast) Chris Lu, former deputy secretary of labor under Obama and senior fellow at the University of Virginia Miller Center, discusses the passage of the Biden relief bill and what comes next.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, said Biden's past tragedies, including the deaths of his first wife and daughter in a car accident and his son to brain cancer, uniquely positioned the president to comfort Americans about the grim anniversary. "He really genuinely does feel people's pain because he's had so much of it in his life," Perry said. "He seems so comfortable in the role, which, in turn, makes him the perfect comforter-in-chief.”
Depending on how many people were counted in the most recent census, the city of Charlottesville could lose its metropolitan status. “I think losing the title of being a metro area would mean something, whether it means something materially it’s hard to say,” Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia, said.
“We need to approach the past year with the assumption that existing inequities in opportunities, access and outcomes will have been amplified,” Nancy Deutsch, director of Youth-Nex at the University of Virginia, said. “We have to be aware of that. That’s displayed itself in many ways, and it will continue to come out as kids come back into school in-person.”
(Commentary) In her research on the term, the University of Virginia’s Meredith Clark traces cancel culture from “its roots in Black vernacular tradition to its misappropriation in the digital age by social elites,” a trajectory that does not include my tweet about the online discourse surrounding weekly television ratings.
Researchers at the University of Virginia say exercise during pregnancy may help mothers reduce their child’s risk of diabetes and other metabolic diseases later in life.
"Excessive property taxes can lead to financial distress, including mortgage default and foreclosure, and it is vital that they are assessed accurately and equitably," wrote economists Andrew Hayashi of the University of Virginia Law School, Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato of Duke University and Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon of Indiana University Kelley School of business in a peer review letter supporting the University of Chicago study.
A 2020 study done at the University of Chicago evaluated between 2016 and 2018, finding there's still a problem with the lowest valued homes in Detroit being over-assessed at higher rates. "Both before and after the city-wide assessment, those conclusions are well-supported by the data," said Dr. Andrew Hayashi. Hayashi, from the University of Virginia and others, did their own analysis of the data used in the aforementioned University of Chicago study and came to the same conclusion - that, yes, there's a problem.
A 2020 study done at the University of Chicago evaluated between 2016 and 2018, finding there's still a problem with the lowest valued homes in Detroit being over-assessed at higher rates. "Both before and after the city-wide assessment, those conclusions are well-supported by the data," said Dr. Andrew Hayashi. Hayashi, from the University of Virginia and others, did their own analysis of the data used in the aforementioned University of Chicago study and came to the same conclusion - that, yes, there's a problem.
The decline of North American bee populations has been a hot topic in recent years. Calls to “save the bees” have people buzzing about pesticides and habitat loss. But why the bees need saving in the first place is a complicated question. And to understand why bees are struggling, we first have to know which bees are doing poorly and which aren’t — which is where Kathryn LeCroy, a Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, comes in.
The University of Virginia tested its emergency notification system on UVA Grounds at 10:50 a.m. Thursday. The university recently changed vendors for the system.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seemed like everything was shutting down such as restaurants, schools and even a University of Virginia Health volunteer program for students known as "Rounding with Heart." The program that brings together doctors, residents, and students by a patient's bedside to discuss care stopped abruptly at the start of the pandemic.
The University of Virginia reported a slight uptick in the number of active COVID-19 cases on Thursday. According to the UVA COVID Tracker, there were five new cases of the virus reported on Wednesday, all but one of which were students. The number of active cases among students, faculty, staff and contract employees sits at 54, up from 50 on Tuesday.
The University of Virginia announced Thursday it is relaxing some of the toughest COVID-19 restrictions it placed on its students following a surge in cases in February.
March 11, 2020 was a day filled with cautious optimism for the University of Virginia's student-athletes. The date turned out to be the last day of athletic competition for six months, but it started with hope and excitement.