Dawna Clarke, executive director of admissions and financial aid at UVA’s Darden School of Business, said she is always pleased to see applicants who have already completed business-focused training such as a certified-public-accountant certification or the HBX Credential of Readiness program at Harvard Business School, an online training curriculum covering topics such as business analytics and accounting that the school began widely offering in 2015. “I want to encourage people to take those quantitative classes before they even apply. It makes life easier when you’re in an M.B.A. program, a...
Dr. Gregory Saathoff is a co-founder of ParadeRest and a professor at the UVA School of Medicine. He worked with veterans when he was a medical student and realized their stories need to be told.
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation's Board of Trustees has new leadership. The nonprofit that owns and operates Monticello selected a new chairman and vice chair for its board. According to Glamour, Melody Barnes, who assumed the position of vice chair on June 15, is the first Africa-American person to ever hold the position. She is a senior fellow and Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics at UVA’s Miller Center.
According to University of Virginia historian Peter Norton, who studies the early automotive era, we’re on the brink of the most sweeping technological change in transportation since the transition from the horse and carriage to the car about a century ago.
(Commentary by U.S. Army Maj. Katie Hillegass, an assistant professor of military science at the University of Virginia) In February, Brazilian President Michel Temer placed the country’s military in charge of security for the state of Rio de Janeiro. The move marked the culmination of a decade-long expansion of the military’s role in internal politics and security. To date, the military intervention has been constitutional, legally sanctioned, and well-intentioned on the part of the military leadership. However, the use of the military for internal security is not a good practice for the mili...
(Video) Quite often physicians feel overworked and underappreciated, but it's nice to step back once in a while and think about the things that make it all worth it. Dr. Keith R. Bachmann, pediatric orthopedic surgeon at the UVA Health System, explains that every young physician should always remember what they find most rewarding about the work they do.
The UVA Health System is being honored for its heart care. The Heart Failure Program got the nod from the American Heart Association. This is the fifth consecutive year the program has received the Gold Plus and Target: Heart Failure recognition.
In 2015, two Princeton University economists published a key study showing that life expectancies were beginning to decrease for middle-aged Caucasians. The deaths were often attributed to drugs, alcohol, and suicide—the pair dubbed these “deaths of despair.” To probe the phenomenon further, UVA professor Christopher Ruhm examined U.S. mortality rates from 1999 to 2015. He found that increases in drug-related deaths during that period could account for “the entire growth” in mortality rates and years of potential life lost among Caucasians aged 22–56. “We have this surprising result that white...
"Every time I'd fly across the state, I'd look down from the plane and see large areas that had been impacted by prior economic uses, like mining, landfills, sand and gravel operations, and brownfields," said John Zablocki, southern Nevada conservation director for the Nature Conservancy. "I'd think to myself, ‘why not put solar development there? Or at least put as much of it as we can there. Who could argue with that?'" To answer that question, the Nature Conservancy partnered with the University of Virginia Law School to identify what legal, financial, and other barriers might explain why d...
More than a decade ago, clinicians noted striking similarities between patients with ebola and those with bacterial sepsis. Two of them – Dr. David S. Fedson, a retired professor of medicine at UVA, and Dr. Steven M. Opal, a professor of medicine at Brown University – analyzed several studies that have shown that STATINS reduce viral replication in human diseases. They recommend FDA approved oral immunomodulary STATIN drugs which are directly available that can treat the symptoms of Ebola and cure patients.
Interstitial fluid transports nutrients and removes waste between the organs and tissues in our body. In the brain, interstitial fluid is thought to be composed of circulating cerebrospinal fluid, cellular waste and blood plasma, and past research has shown a link between interstitial fluid flow and an increased invasion rate of glioblastoma, or brain tumor, cells. A team of biomedical researchers and electrical engineers from UVA and Virginia Tech recently developed a new method to measure and reconstruct interstitial fluid flow velocities in the brain.
You can learn a lot from your children. Through his autistic daughter, Vikram Jaswal, a UVA associate professor of psychology, learned you can’t always judge a person through accepted social norms.
Focusing on denuclearization won’t get us anywhere with North Korea, says Philip Zelikow, a former U.S. State Department official and professor of history at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, UVA professor of sociology) While many public commentators, like Ta-Nehisi Coates, have underlined the enduring character of racism in America, and the ways in which America's racial divide has exacted a particular kind of toll on black men and boys, there is today, unheralded, good news about African-American men.
Will Hardy had a first-hand look at what London Perrantes could provide last year in Las Vegas. The University of Virginia product scored the final six points for the 2017 Miami summer league team, including an 18-foot jumper with four seconds remaining to lift the Heat over the Spurs. Perrantes finished with 12 points, five assists and three steals in that contest and left an impression on Hardy. “I’m glad he’s with us,” said Hardy hours before the Spurs kicked off their 2018 Summer League schedule in Utah. “He kicked our butt pretty good last year in Vegas.” After a short stint on the team’s...
On the same day the Washington Wizards introduced Austin Rivers, whom they acquired last week from the Los Angeles Clippers, they lost their top free agent target to their trading partner. UVA alumnus Mike Scott, an unrestricted free agent, agreed to a deal with the Clippers on Monday.
The European scouting service Premier Players International recently completed its second annual DreamChasers Tour, making history in the process. Brandon Collier led 25 of Europe’s best college prospects on a whirlwind tour of the Eastern USA to compete in NCAA camps against America’s best. During the 10,000-mile journey, the tour was able to visit nearly a dozen FBS schools where its ‘DreamChasers’ had unrivaled access to college football’s top programs. Some schools feel they are getting a steal by snatching up these players. Programs like Temple, Rutgers, University of Virginia, and Old Do...
Sitting in the still, sunny courtyard of Tower Hill private school in Delaware, Zara Ali talks about her favorite city in the world: Mumbai. India's commercial capital, Mumbai -- crowded, dynamic, colorful -- is 13,324 kilometers and cultures away from Wilmington, Delaware -- a historic American town with fewer than 100,000 people. This month, among rolling hills and lush gardens, Ali graduated from the small private school of 700 students. “Sometimes it’s difficult to feel like you have a global outlook” when ensconced in the leafy Brandywine region of the mid-Atlantic U.S. But her teachers a...
Crowley’s leadership position will, of course, be vacated. And potentially seeking to replace him is Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Afghan war. “Lee came close to joining House Leadership in the past, so I don’t think you could rule out her winning,” Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics told me by email Friday morning.
(Commentary) Kennedy’s gay marriage opinions are less likely to be overturned. These decisions are of relatively recent vintage, but in contrast to affirmative action, they seem more secure because Kennedy’s “jurisprudence largely mirrors changes in society,” as University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Prakash recently noted.