There will be another COVID-19 vaccination site for community members starting Sunday. The Blue Ridge Health District and UVA Health are partnering to launch a vaccination site in the Seminole Square Shopping Center on Hillsdale Drive.
“There has long been a question about whether maintaining a healthy lifestyle can delay or prevent the development of macular degeneration,” said researcher Bradley Gelfand of UVA’s Center for Advanced Vision Science. “The way that question has historically been answered has been by taking surveys of people, asking them what they are eating and how much exercise they are performing. The problem with that is that people are notoriously bad self-reporters, and that can lead to conclusions that may or not be true. This [study] offers hard evidence from the lab for very first time.”
An online survey wants to see if there is a need for a place where people can safely telework when they can’t necessarily do it from home. The Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission is working with UVA and the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission to conduct the survey.
(Editorial) According to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the state’s population has already fallen below national growth levels during the past decade “to reach the lowest population growth rate since the 1920s.”
In 1817, Thomas Jefferson traveled to an abandoned farm near his home to launch his final public project. Joining him that day were 10 enslaved laborers who became the first of thousands forced to shape the land, construct the buildings and serve the students at what would become the University of Virginia.
In-person classes will be back in session for undergrads at the University of Virginia on Monday. Ahead of the spring semester, UVA leadership held a town hall and answered some questions about the safety of students, faculty, and the community.
UVA will be welcoming students back to Grounds on Feb. 1. UVA President Jim Ryan says the University is ready to welcome students back and classes will be held both in-person and online.
The University of Virginia drew a record 48,000 applications for the next class in Charlottesville — about 15% more than the year before. Freshman applications to the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University also spiked. The sudden explosion in demand for these and other big-name schools is another ripple effect of the coronavirus pandemic that could reshape college admissions for many years to come.
When Sara Rodell, a 2008 University of Virginia graduate, heard about thousands of COVID-19 patients dying alone, she took matters into her own hands.
Lesley Lokko has been busy since stepping down from her position as dean of the Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at City College of New York in 2020. The Architect’s Newspaper sat down with Lokko, currently a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and the Cooper Union, to discuss her new venture, the African Futures Institute, an architectural school she is founding in Accra, Ghana, and what she’s learned about race and identity during her decades-long career in architectural academia.
Benita Mayo knew she wanted to be trained as a doula to advocate for Black women during and after their pregnancies. But after receiving her training, her ambition morphed into something more – she pitched a project to UVA’s Equity Center to document inequities in pregnancy for women of color.
ABC’s "20/20," the network’s award-winning primetime TV news magazine, has been exclusively led by male executive producers during its first 42 years on the air. Now in its 43rd year, the ABC News president has announced the promotional appointment of only the fourth executive producer in the show’s history — and this time a woman who is a South Jersey resident and the first minority to hold the top job. She is [UVA Law alumna] Janice Johnston of Cherry Hill, a longtime Black broadcast journalist with ABC, a lawyer and six-time Emmy-award winning producer who has been a producer for ''20/20'' ...
"I assume [U.S. Rep. Liz] Cheney will continue to come under heavy fire from within" the Republican ranks, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. In the longer term, however, Cheney "actually could benefit from her daring words" urging impeachment, especially if Trump's star fades, Sabato said.
Experts were impressed with the team’s ability to identify the specific neural circuits in the spinal cord that were needed to affect blood pressure. “There is beautiful physiological and neurobiological work,” said Patrice Guyenet of the University of Virginia, who peer-reviewed the paper and wrote an accompanying perspective piece. “It’s a tour de force.”
Beyond the Screen: A Virtual Conversation Series will begin its 2021 schedule at 3 p.m. Feb. 4 with a livestreamed discussion of “The Little Things,” which stars Academy Award winners Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto. Joining the discussion in the Virginia Film Festival’s popular program will be writer/director John Lee Hancock and producer Mark Johnson. Emmy Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Flock will moderate the discussion.
UVA Health will receive $4.4 million in grant money to expand its home-monitoring services to patients with serious medical conditions like COVID-19. The grant, provided by the Federal Communications Commission, will fund data-enabled tablet devices for at least 1,500 patients in the area this year as part of its Connected Care pilot program.
One big problem for COVID patients is the tendency of the disease to get worse after a period of recovery. That often catches doctors and nurses by surprise and makes well-planned treatment impossible. Now, the University of Virginia reports a new way to predict problems before they occur.
UVA Medical Center officials said last Friday that the hospital had received 25,075 first doses. It’s not clear if all of those shots would show as doses administered in the health district. That’s because not all of the employees at the medical center live in the health district.
According to UVA researchers, intensity is key. Women who power-walked three times weekly for a short period – in addition to two longer, moderate-speed walks – lost five times more belly fat than those who simply strolled at a moderate pace five days a week. Both groups burned the exact same number of calories, about 400 per workout.
New research from UVA reveals why Black Americans might be more vulnerable to colon cancer than white people are.