(Audio) We often hear from Washington that the United States is locked in another great powers conflict with China. But is the “great powers” Cold War era analogy the right one for modern China? Among the guests is Melvyn Leffler, professor of history emeritus at the University of Virginia and author of several books on the Cold War.
Pathologists believe it is likely a matter of time before the omicron variant of the coronavirus appears in the D.C. region, but labs across Virginia are scanning millions of previous positive tests for it. It all depends on the new variant’s transmissibility, Dr. Amy Mathers with the UVA Health Lab told WTOP. “We don’t know if omicron is going to take off like delta did. If it does, and takes over in different areas and turns out to be much more transmissible, we will then see it in a matter of probably weeks,” Mathers said.
We spoke with Dr. Taison Bell, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia who specializes in infectious diseases, to learn about Omicron compared to previous COVID-19 variants. … Dr. William Petri, another infectious disease expert at UVA Health, highlighted how quickly the Omicron variant appeared to become dominant in South Africa, the first country to identify the mutation.
The University of Virginia Procurement Department is getting ready to host a couple of online workshops. According to a release, these free workshops are targeted toward small, woman-owned and minority-owned businesses.
Tiger Fuel has made a $20,000 donation to JackFest. The money will help with an expansion project at the Ronald McDonald House in Charlottesville and UVA Children’s.
UVA Health is searching for the omicron variant through a method called sequencing. Researchers use computer coding to study positive COVID samples across the state to detect the new strain. UVA Health associate professor of medicine and pathology Dr. Amy Mathers says there’s good news so far. “We’ve sequenced about 5,000 SARS-CoV-2 locally and on behalf of the state and did not find a single omicron,” she said.
UVA Health is among the few medical labs sequencing COVID-19 samples to look for the omicron variant right now. It studies COVID-19 positive samples from across the commonwealth looking for variants.
One approach is to create a vaccine that targets a feature that most coronaviruses (or at least SARS-CoV-2 variants) have in common. “If you want to make a universal vaccine, what you’d want to do is try to make a vaccine that targets something that the virus can’t apparently change,” Steven Zeichner, a pediatrician and infectious disease researcher at the University of Virginia, said. Zeichner’s lab is also currently working on a universal COVID vaccine that targets a piece of the spike protein called the fusion peptide—that piece is relatively unchanged across coronaviruses.
Birdwood typifies the multi-purpose direction that future golf developments would be wise to study. Located about 10 minutes from downtown Charlottesville, it’s a convenient, upscale public course that serves as an amenity to an adjacent resort, with a walkable routing across interesting and varied land. It’s also the home course for the University of Virginia golf teams boasting state-of-the-art practice facilities, including a new par-3 course called “The Nest.” Originally opened in 1984, Davis Love III, along with brother Mark and lead designer Scot Sherman, re-routed and re-engineered the ...
The very first words of the First Amendment are a warning against government establishment of religion. That is why the state of Utah’s welfare-provision system being intertwined with the LDS Church is “troubling,” said Douglas Laycock, a UVA law professor and a leading expert on the separation of church and state. “I can’t think of anything at all analogous,” he said.
When the going got weird, Dr. Amy Mathers got going. The associate director of clinical microbiology at the UVA Medical School, Mathers joined other researchers and clinicians in switching from their normal studies to working on the mysterious virus that caused COVID-19 at a time when little was known about the disease. Her efforts led the school’s creation and distribution of COVID-19 tests at a time when the test were scarce across the country, wastewater testing for the virus to help monitor students returning to Grounds and expanded genome sequencing when variants raised their ugly heads.
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The rivalry between Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia will generate plenty of excitement this weekend on the football field. It’s also putting food on the table for many families in western Virginia. The Hokie Bird was on hand at Feeding Southwest Virginia Tuesday morning, as Smithfield delivered a truckload of ham. The company is a presenting sponsor of the Commonwealth Clash. The donation includes 40,000 pounds, and more than 160,000 servings for Feeding Southwest Virginia. A second truck was headed to the food bank that serves the Charlottesville area.
Kihei Clark scored 11 points and dished seven assists for Virginia, which turned in a solid defensive performance to earn a 61-43 win over Lehigh on Friday night at John Paul Jones Arena. The win was Tony Bennett’s 300th for Virginia, putting him 26 shy of Terry Holland’s mark for career victories coaching the Cavaliers.
In case you are looking for extra things to be grateful for today, here’s our (incomplete) list of things Virginia fans can be thankful for.
For Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass, the signature moments of their swimming careers happened together, on the morning of July 28 in Tokyo. The two University of Virginia swimmers were each competing in their first Olympic final, Walsh in lane three and Douglass in lane four as medals were on the line in the 200 IM. Months after two 19-year-olds had helped deliver a national championship for their Cavaliers, the first ever for the school’s swimming program, they would be right next to each other in the biggest moment of their respective swimming careers.
Virginia’s women’s soccer junior forward Diana Ordonez is forgoing her remaining years of eligibility and declaring for the 2022 National Women’s Soccer League, Ordonez announced via social media post on Wednesday. This past season, Ordonez led the ACC with 18 goals, was named to the All-ACC First Team, and was the ACC Offensive Player of the Year. Her 18 goals this season are tied with Angela Hucles (1997) for fourth-most in a single season in UVA history.
Former Cave Spring High School, University of Virginia and Tampa Bay Buccaneers standout Ronde Barber was named one of 26 modern-day semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s class of 2022 on Wednesday.
Plaintiff Natalie Romero was injured in Fields’ car attack, which left her with a fractured skull, a cleft lip, persistent headaches and trouble maintaining balance. Romero and co-plaintiff Devin Willis were among a small group of University of Virginia students who linked arms around a statue of Thomas Jefferson during a torch march in which white nationalists made monkey noises at them and threw lit torches at their feet while macing, punching and kicking others.
The person who takes the Seventh Congressional District seat could depend on the makeup of the district, which may change when a new map is completed very soon. So far, eight Republicans are running for the seat, and just one Democrat: incumbent Abigail Spanberger. “It’s one of those races in Virginia that we’re going to have our eye to,” said J. Miles Coleman with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
While families gather to feast Thanksgiving evening, one University of Virginia student is making sure families in Charlottesville have enough food to celebrate. Makayla Peabody is a third year transfer student at UVA, and although she is new to the city, she wanted to continue her tradition of giving back this holiday season. “I have everything I ever could want or need in life, and so it just didn’t feel right to continue having this life of everything that I want for myself but not give back,” Peabody said.