Members of UVA’s transgender community gathered Sunday to remember lives lost to transphobic violence.
(Video) Members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at UVA and Virginia Tech are working together ahead of a big rivalry game set for Friday.
(Commentary by Jeffrey W. Holmes, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine) Artificial heart valves, prosthetic hips, bedside monitors, MRI machines – these and so many other innovations that we now take for granted emerged at the interface of engineering and medicine. In an era of big data, personalized medicine and artificial intelligence, the importance of engineering, especially in medicine, is increasing.
(Commentary by Robert F. Bruner, a UVA professor of business administration) Ten years after the financial crisis, here are the best books on what went wrong and what still should be fixed.
As snow and cold rain fell on Virginia, I spoke with state climatologist Jerry Stenger at UVA. I asked if Virginia has ever suffered the kind of fires California is enduring now. Later in our conversation, he explains why it is so hard to come up with an accurate long-term outlook for Virginia’s winter weather.
Three political scientists, including UVA’s Jennifer Lawless, studied how members of Congress acted in four ways: travel to research foreign policy, co-sponsor bills, cast procedural votes and offer amendments. In each area, the women in Congress did not have more bipartisan tendencies and they did not demonstrate a greater willingness to collaborate. They also found that Democratic women and men are "statistically indistinguishable" from one another, as are their Republican colleagues.
On Tuesday, Juul announced that it will no longer sell its flavored pods – each of which contains the same amount of nicotine as a pack of cigarettes –in retail stores. I texted Katie McCracken, a sophomore at the University of Virginia – whose mint Juul I once sampled in a campus library, for research – and asked if she thought the flavor ban would have an effect. “I don’t think kids are going to keep Juuling if they have to do tobacco or menthol,” she replied. She thought the Juul trend was fading out, anyway.
Patients with obesity who undergo bariatric surgery are less likely to develop new-onset atrial fibrillation over eight years vs. similar patients who received medical therapy, possibly related to a greater reduction in BMI with surgery, according to study data presented here. “We have some evidence that in patients who have been well-matched against a nonsurgical cohort, there still seems to be some reduction in the incidence of new-onset atrial fibrillation for patients who have undergone bariatric surgery,” Dr. Kevin Lynch, a surgical resident in the Department of Surgery at the UVA Health ...
Earlier this fall, the UVA Health System began construction on a new Musculoskeletal Center, which will consolidate multiple outpatient orthopedic clinics to a single location. The 195,000-square-foot facility will include six outpatient operating rooms, advanced imaging, physical and occupational therapy and 95 exam rooms.
Also contributing to the increase in money needed for Medicaid are some one-time expenses – delayed payments totaling $26 million to the University of Virginia Health System and Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters – and a billing dispute with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services over charges from two state geriatric hospitals. That dispute will cost Virginia $58 million.
A huge gap exists between the need for home-based medical care and what is actually being provided to frail older adults, especially in rural areas, a new study has found. “Most homebound seniors have not received medical care at home,” Nengliang “Aaron” Yao, one of the study’s authors and an assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, said. “More medical house call programs are needed.”
Autonomous shuttle service could be on the streets of Albemarle County soon. On Wednesday, Albemarle County supervisors signed off on a $600,000 partnership with Perrone Robotics and JAUNT Inc. The University of Virginia plans to join the partnership with the pilot launch.
Hunter J. Smith was named Benefactor of the Year for giving the largest gift in the history of UVA’s College at Wise. The Carl W. Smith Bicentennial Scholars Fund was established by a $10 million gift from the Hunter Smith Family Foundation. The University of Virginia matched it with an additional $10 million.
(Commentary) Amazon’s decision to locate HQ2 in Virginia strengthens several well-known narratives: Virginia is the technology hub of the East Coast, a top producer of an educated workforce, and one of the best states for business in the nation. We have one of the top higher-education systems in the country.
At first, the judge was skeptical. Maybe he even bought into whispers that Norfolk’s innovative attempt to help drug addicts was “hug-a-thug” court. “I thought it was soft,” he said. Twenty years later, Circuit Judge (and UVA alumnus) Junius Fulton III is a true believer in Norfolk Drug Court, one of the oldest programs of its kind in Virginia.
The 2016 primary season kicked off nearly 20 months before the vote, and the 2020 primary could begin even sooner – especially now that California’s primary, previously held in June, has been moved to March. Having the California vote so early in the primary season could potentially upend the process, said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia.
Reportedly, research has associated insomnia with high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, diabetes and other ailments. According to JoAnn Pinkerton from the University of Virginia, early surgical menopause is linked to more severe menopause symptoms. Hence, it is essential to examine the sleep quality in women after surgery that leads to menopause, because insomnia and disrupted sleep can cause fatigue, mood changes and reduce your quality of life.
Tech companies like Facebook and Google are relying on FireEye and other vendors in part because they grew so quickly over the past decade that they did not anticipate how people might misuse their services – or they did not act on warnings. Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies, said that companies like FireEye have an advantage because they focus on hiring people with language and cultural expertise in contrast to Silicon Valley’s approach of trying to solve problems with large-scale software.
(Subscription required) Beckie has a new article out exploring how and why some colleges are laying out a new vision of what it might look like to educate the whole student. The story uses as its main example a course, “The Art and Science of Human Flourishing,” that she observed at the University of Virginia (it’s being co-developed with, and also taught at, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison). She noticed that the two instructors teaching the course at UVA this fall followed a pretty specific time schedule for how they used the 50-minute class period. Th...
Crozet will be the latest community in the country to test autonomous shuttles. Perrone Robotics, a Crozet-headquartered developer of autonomous vehicle software platform MAX, will be running the pilot autonomous shuttle program in a partnership with JAUNT and Albemarle County around the Crozet area come March. According to a news release, the University of Virginia also plans to join the partnership.