A semi-autonomous coronavirus decontamination robot is being developed by researchers at the University of Virginia. “It is available and usable already, it just depends on how much capability we are going to introduce [into the system],” UVA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Tomonari Furukawa said. “The ultimate goal really is to remove the human completely from the operation.”
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, along with colleagues at the University of Virginia, has been named the best research article published in the scholarly journal Movement Disorders in 2019-20.
Virginia also announced Thursday the interim results of an adult antibody study found 2.4% of adults statewide have Covid-19 antibodies. Northern Virginia is estimated to have the highest prevalence at 4.2%, followed by Central Virginia at 3%. They were followed by the eastern (1.5%), southwestern (1%) and northwestern (0.9%) regions in the state. The adult study was carried out by Inova, Norfolk’s Sentara Healthcare, Roanoke’s Carilion Clinic, the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Undergraduates at the University of Virginia are scheduled to begin some in-person learning on Sept. 8, and the school is making adjustments indoors to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
These agreements add to the more than 40 existing guaranteed admissions agreements between VCCS and major four-year institutions such as the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech. These agreements allow students to complete a two-year associate degree at DCC that includes most of their major prerequisites and allows them to fully focus their last two years in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree on coursework related to their chosen major.
The University of Virginia will hold another virtual town hall on Friday. This one is aimed to provide information and answer questions from parents and families of students.
CNBC researched data from a number of sources, including The Hechinger Report’s Tuition Tracker and PayScale’s College Salary Report. Utilizing its findings, CNBC recently released its annual ranking, “50 Colleges That Pay Off The Most.” The list was separated into private and public colleges and universities. The 25 public colleges offer more realistic options for college-bound students. There are still many extremely competitive schools on this list, including University of California at Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, and Georgia Institute of Technology.
A new crop of UVA student-nurses started their studies this month, taking classes and making use of a newly expanded laboratory where they’ll learn how to care for patients without putting anyone at risk.
(Podcast) After the coronavirus forced colleges and universities to shut down last March, those same institutions are struggling to figure out how – or if – students can safely come back this fall. In this episode, co-hosts Katie Couric and Bozoma Saint John tackle this thorny issue with the presidents of their alma matters, James Ryan of the University of Virginia and Michael Roth of Wesleyan University
Before arriving on Grounds, UVA students will sign a two-page contract agreeing to follow the University’s public health measures and all local COVID-related laws. The contract gives the University the right to discipline students caught breaking COVID-related rules.
Tuesday saw a pair of Power 5 conferences postpone their fall football seasons. The Big Ten and Pac-12 announced the cancellation of fall football games, while the ACC, Big 12 and SEC remain committed to pressing forward with a potential fall season. That means powerhouse programs such as Michigan, Ohio State and USC won’t play football games this fall. Virginia, however, continues to prepare for the season despite constant uncertainty.
Over the summer, the UVA football team met virtually in Zoom meetings. It was in those virtual sessions where players shared about their experiences with social injustice and a new group was just starting to form. GroundsKeepers is a powerful name with an even stronger purpose. “It's our Grounds and they want it to be an amazing place and it already is, but there’s things that we can improve,” UVA head football coach Bronco Mendenhall said.
“It’s one of these very simple setups, and it already is rich enough to show this effect.” University of Virginia theoretical physicist Marija Vucelja tells Science News. The experiment also suggests that the effect might show up in materials other than water and glass beads. Vucelja says, “I would imagine that this effect appears quite generically in nature elsewhere, just we haven’t paid attention to it.”
Biden's choice of Harris will shore up support among key voting blocs that are critical to ensuring a victory in the fall, political scientists and campaign strategists said. UVA political scientist Larry Sabato said the selection shows Biden has “accepted the fact he’s the front-runner” for the general election, and “when you’re the front-runner, you do not make a risky decision.”
Three pediatric cardiologists, including Dr. Peter Dean at UVA Children’s, are offering some advice on when it may be safe for kids to return to playing sports after recovering from COVID-19.
For decades, conventional wisdom claimed that the brain was disconnected from the immune system, but recent research has shown that this is not the case. Microglia are at the center of this debate, but it’s not easy to study them — until recently, lab equipment struggled to distinguish between brain microglia and other types of immune cells. Now, Samantha Batista from University of Virginia used an elegant approach to study these microglia.
“My understanding is that West has already missed enough deadlines that he has no path to 270 electoral votes,” Kyle Kondik from UVA’s Center for Politics said Tuesday. “And even in places where he has submitted signatures, there are questions about the validity of those signatures.”
In early June, the commonwealth launched an adult COVID-19 serology study in partnership with the University of Virginia, Inova Health System, Virginia Commonwealth University, Sentara Healthcare and Carilion Clinic. To date, that project has enrolled 4,652 adults (93%) of the 5,000 participant goal and is ongoing.
Wednesday, community members gathered to reflect, mourn and heal. “We’re reclaiming this space because this once was adjacent to Vinegar Hill,” Zyahna Bryant, UVA student and activist, said. “Vinegar Hill was demolished and Black people and indigenous people have a history of being removed and being violently abused in many different ways by this city, so by taking this space today we’re not only reclaiming the narrative of Aug. 12, we’re reclaiming the narrative of our city.”
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, UVA’s Darden School of Business was among the first institutions to get out ahead of the calamity. Darden Dean Scott Beardsley was the first B-school dean to recognize that the pandemic and the recession it would cause would open the doors to a flood of new MBA candidates, some newly unemployed, others who saw their opportunities for advance scuttled by the downturn and the health crisis.