The University of Virginia School of Medicine has been honored for its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
The CARES Act allocations for UVA are: University of Virginia, $11,168,224; University of Virginia at Wise, $835,656; University of Virginia Medical Center, $5,945,369.
To say that Southwest Virginia is in decline is an understatement. A University of Virginia study five years ago found that, in the four years since the 2010 Census, six Southwest Virginia counties and the city of Bristol, Virginia, lost a combined 2,800 residents.
The University of Virginia reports there were four new cases of COVID-19 reported on Monday, but none of them were students.
“I would say the plurality of medical experts probably agree at this point that provided we can stick to public health practices – and with rigorous testing and contact tracing – schools can safely reopen,” said Dr. Taison Bell, an infectious disease expert at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary co-written by law professors Michal Barzuza and Quinn Curtis) The U.S. Department of Labor spent the summer declaring war on socially responsible investing.
The vistas immediately catch your eye. Birdwood Golf Course has always presided over a strikingly beautiful piece of property, but on a crisp, clear October afternoon with autumn color draped across the Blue Ridge foothills that surround the University of Virginia, the panorama across the course stands out more than ever.
On Tuesday, Gov. Ralph Northam announced allocating $116 million to help colleges and universities stay open during the pandemic. The UVA Medical Center also received $5.9 million in this package.
7-Eleven COO Chris Tanco visits stores throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to gather feedback from staff and franchisees. After moving to the United States to pursue an MBA at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, Tanco spent nearly 20 years with PepsiCo’s Pizza Hut division and later its Yum! Brands spinoff before joining 7-Eleven to overhaul its international business.
Marcus Whitney, CEO and co-founder of Nashville-based Health:Further, talks about the winding path that led him to health care entrepreneurship and his commitment “to make my life’s work about this.” Part of that “20-plus-year story” included two years at the University of Virginia, where Whitney dropped out during his junior year to pursue a career in hip-hop and to wait tables.
(Q&A) Brian Rainey is the CEO of Gooten, the globally distributed production and logistics company transforming how online brands manufacture and fulfill merchandise to their customers. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance from James Madison University in Virginia and an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
Nineteen-year-old Noelle Kuhoric from Seaford is battling cancer for the third time and on Sunday she got a special surprise. Kuhoric, a student at the University of Virginia, was first diagnosed with stage 4 small cell carcinoma when she was 17. She beat cancer for the second time in June but was diagnosed again in September.
Why little kids have a special ability to creep out their parents. Dr. Jim B. Tucker, a child psychiatrist and director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, studies children who claim to have memories of past lives.
Trump’s political advisers believe he must win Florida, Ohio and North Carolina – states that polls and analysts say are toss-ups and where Biden is competing. And he needs a combination of the Midwest states that gave him the presidency in 2016 – Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin – where Biden now holds an advantage. “He’s going to need to win all of the states we have as toss-ups plus a couple of states we have leaning to Biden at this point,” said J Miles Coleman, a data analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
For months, the Republican governor has been honing his talking points about dysfunction in Washington and the need for political leaders to set aside partisanship to work for the greater good. Add his targeted criticisms of President Donald Trump, a refusal to support U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, the publishing of a political memoir, and his write-in vote for Ronald Reagan for president, and some say Hogan looks like a man with an eye on the White House. J. Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics thinks Trump’s influence is likely...
(Commentary) A survey conducted by Merrit Hawkins and The Physicians Foundation found that 21% of U.S. physicians had actually “experienced a furlough or pay cut” during the pandemic. Things seem to have gotten worse since then as Medscape recently reported that 62% of U.S. physicians answering another survey had suffered pay drops. A number of physicians echoed these findings. For example, Dr. Anne M. Mills, an associate professor of pathology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Delegate Nick Freitas is running to unseat Representative Abigail Spanberger. J. Miles Coleman, the associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, says missteps Freitas has made in previous years may work to his advantage in this campaign.
According to the U.S. Elections Project, more than one-third of the votes returned so far come from the three most populous states: California, Texas and Florida. Larry Sabato with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics says California seems to be a lock for Biden. The race for Texas is close, but leaning Republican. That leaves the swing state of Florida, as he calls it “the glittering prize,” because “there’s no way practically for Trump to get elected without Florida.”
(Commentary) Before looking at specific mattresses, I reviewed the American Academy of Pediatrics’s data on safe sleep and asked follow-up questions via email of Dr.Fern R. Hauck, the director of the International Family Medicine Clinic at the University of Virginia Department of Family Medicine, who was on the AAP task force on sudden infant death syndrome.
This new University of Virginia discovery is giving insight on how exactly cancer builds itself a home in human bodies. Chongzhi Zang, a computational biologist for UVA’s Center Public Health’s Genomics, says when components of human chromosomes are arranged, it can affect our genes.