“The problem with natural immunity is that A) it’s not as good as vaccination and B) it does wane over time and people get re-infected if you don’t follow that up with a vaccination,” University of Virginia assistant professor of medicine Dr. Taison Bell said.
(Video) University of Virginia Political Science Department Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE, where she spoke about the potential political implications of U.S. inflation.
Biden’s poll numbers have declined in recent weeks, adding urgency to a pivot for the White House. “Clearly, what they’re doing isn’t working in terms of messaging,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
More than two-dozen states have filed legal challenges in at least six federal appeals courts. All the states have a Republican governor or attorney general. Judges on the New Orleans-based federal court have paused the rules from taking effect in January, saying it raises constitutional concerns. Raymond Scheppach, professor of public policy at the University of Virginia, said it’s a close call whether Youngkin and the state’s soon-to-be attorney general, Jason Miyares, will join the legal battle. “It’s not New York,” Scheppach said. “So I would suspect he’s going to be kind of a moderate Rep...
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturuer at the Darden School of Business) In formulating public policy, political leaders need to forge a consensus about the urgency of a problem and then deliver a solution that does not create a new set of problems. In the case of climate change, public support has increased, and the Biden administration is taking steps to speed the transition from fossil fuels to alternative forms of energy. The big unknown is whether this can happen without creating an energy shortage and higher inflation.
(Co-written by Jasmine Wang, accounting professor) The well-developed theory of the winner’s curse can potentially explain the poor performance of mergers and acquisitions. A key reason for the curse is the uncertainty concerning a deal’s value. The greater the disagreement over the target’s value, the more likely that a winning bid will fail to account for the uncertainty and lead to overpayment. The empirical relevance of the winner’s curse is central to takeover efficiency, because it teaches that the bidder who overpays the most, instead of the bidder who can create the highest synergy, wi...
(By Mehr Afshan Farooqi, associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) Obviously, translation is not substitution; practical experience tells us that, even if a word-for-word list between two languages existed, it would be redundant because of syntactic arrangements. Idiom, tone, style, flavour, spirit and shade of the original produce obstinacy that makes it difficult to render words from one language to another. It is said that no translation can ever be correct or exact.
(Book review by Gerard Alexander, professor of politics) Olaf Gersemann, a German journalist, 15 years ago set out to correct Europeans who believed that economic life in America was a race to the bottom. He showed that America’s flexible labor markets, dynamic growth, and job creation worked at least as well as Europe’s economies and welfare states. Now American writer David Harsanyi bookends that earlier project with a new text that punctures not European myths about America, but the myths that some Americans hold about Europe.
(Book review by Elizabeth R. Varon, Langbourne M. Williams professor of American history) In this bold, perceptive offering, the Harvard law professor Noah Feldman contends that as president, Abraham Lincoln unilaterally tore apart and remade the Constitution, ensuring the demise of slavery but also “effectively transforming himself into a constitutional dictator.” While Feldman’s book, “The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America,” has many valuable insights, its argument downplays some crucial context.
(Commentary by Christopher Ali, associate professor of media studies) President Joe Biden’s trillion-dollar infrastructure bill promises the largest public investment in telecommunications in the country’s history. Of the $65 billion allocated for high-speed internet—broadband—$42.45 billion is earmarked specifically for deployment projects through state grants. Now that the legislation has passed the House, and Biden will sign it into law Monday, all hopes for broadband connectivity now turn to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which has 180 days to write the rul...
(Podcast) Why do weak autocrats create strong autocracies? Using game-theoretic logic and an analysis of the post-colonial experience of sub-Saharan Africa, Anne Meng shows that by creating institutions that incorporate other elites into the inner circles of power, dictators create regimes that can outlast their founders. By creating clear lines of succession, they avoid disruptive power struggles that could bring down the regime. Anne Meng is a professor of political science at the University of Virginia who studies authoritarian institutions.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute are seeing cases continue to decline or plateau across the state. But COVID-19 case rates remain high in some regions, particularly Southwest Virginia. “So far, Virginia has not seen a repeat of increased transmission rates seen last fall. This reduces the expected impact of a potential holiday surge,” the UVA researchers said. “Nevertheless, the model shows a large surge is possible under current vaccination rates.”
In what could be very good news for the immunocompromised, an antibody cocktail tested at the University of Virginia School of Medicine appears to offer long-lasting protection from COVID-19.
Acocktail of COVID-19 antibodies tested at the University of Virginia appears to not only help patients already suffering from the disease but offers long-lasting protection against the virus for those who have been exposed.
Attending preschool also reduces the percentage of children repeating a grade by 15%, according to a study done by researchers at the University of Virginia that appeared in the Education Finance and Policy journal’s spring 2019’s issue.
Who counts as a scientist? In an effort to answer that daunting question, Caitlin Wylie (a UVA associate professor of science, technology, and society) focuses on one group of professionals that often goes unrecognized: fossil preparators. The result is her newly released book “Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes,” which takes her to 14 museums across the country.
(Book review) Andrew D. Kaufman’s biography “The Gambler Wife” is not only a much-needed act of justice; it is also profoundly entertaining, sometimes funny, and sometimes intolerably sad.
Mount Zion First African Baptist Church held a supply drive on Saturday, November 13, but they also had some help from the community. Volunteers at the site say other churches participated in the same event, in order to give back. They were also joined by the University of Virginia Police Department, who donated some of the items.
Brown’s public reckoning inspired a national dialogue about how institutions have benefitted from slavery, and approximately 100 schools embarked on their own similar projects. Brown’s work also inspired the creation of the Universities Studying Slavery Consortium at the University of Virginia, an international group of over 75 schools devoted to addressing slavery and racism in institutional histories.
A senior American faith leader said Friday during a landmark address at the University of Virginia that the nation’s believers should respect legal efforts to protect people from discrimination as much as they desire to protect religious liberty. The best way to resolve “the current conflict between two great values” is to seek public policy solutions that protect both, said President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.