(Subscription may be required.) “The Catholic Church in this country has never been as divided as it is right now, and the meeting is going to be put in terms of this division in the American church,” said the Rev. Gerald P. Fogarty, UVA religious studies professor.
Siddhartha Angadi, professor in the UVA Department of Kinesiology, and Arizona State University professor of exercise physiology Glenn Gaesser reviewed 200 past studies and concluded that "a weight-centric approach to obesity treatment and prevention has been largely ineffective."
(Subscription may be required) Jefferson, for all of his blindness concerning the evils of slavery, championed religious liberty in Virginia and in the nation as a whole.
Chris Taylor, a 31-year-old University of Virginia product, has provided more drama for these Dodgers than just about anyone. He is the reason the Dodgers are here, still alive, after a postseason of looking like a team on the brink. He is the one who hit the walk-off homer in the wild-card game that allowed them to get here in the first place, the one who seemed to walk or single when his team desperately needed to start rallies late against the San Francisco Giants in the National League Division Series.
“It’s not enough for us to merely support things like ‘reusable straws’ anymore,” said Sadey Rodriguez, University of Virginia discus thrower and co-founder of Green Athletics, a UVA student-athlete organization. “It’s time to go big. Since I am privileged enough to have an athlete’s platform, I am happy to use it to urge the leaders of the COP to take real climate action to help people who don’t have a voice.”
The University of Virginia Center for Politics is keeping an eye on the races for the upcoming general election. J. Miles Coleman thinks Republican Jason Miyares is running a good campaign against Attorney General Mark Herring. “I’ve heard from some of my Republican sources that Miyares may be, if you look at the three campaigns, he may be running the best campaign on the Republican side,” he said. “So we’ll see if that can help him overperform the rest of the ticket.”
(Video) University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato joins Shep Smith to discuss the state’s gubernatorial race, which has tightened up significantly.
McAuliffe “needs a good turnout, and for Democrats that means a good turnout of Blacks,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center For Politics. “That’s why they’ve scheduled so many big hitters the last two weeks.”
“Most Americans believe that government should be helping solve our problems and that compromise is better than obstruction,” said Jennifer Lawless, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. “But the incentives for our elected leaders to do compromise has dissipated, creating a vicious cycle where we’re seeing less action on what the average American wants. By the same token, there’s also a very, very little incentive for the elected leaders to deliver moderation, because there’ll be a primary, and they’ll lose.”
David Nemer, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, also notes that Bolsonaro adopts a position close to Trump and Steve Bannon’s playbook. “It’s a tactic that works, as Bolsonaro has seen in the US,” he told Motherboard. “Not that Trump was put back in power, but it was enough for an insurgency on the Capitol, so he expects that the population will support a coup so that he can perpetuate himself in power.”
(Commentary) University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash argues (in “Imperial from the Beginning: The Constitution of the Original Executive”) that although there is no constitutional privilege of presidential privacy, neither is there a constitutional authority for Congress to demand information. In his “The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers,” Prakash says one purpose for the increasing frequency of executive refusals to comply with congressional demands for information and testimony is “stymieing congressional investigations of...
Julie Bargmann, a professor at the University of Virginia and founder of D.I.R.T. (Dump It Right There) studio, has spent the last 30 years transforming postindustrial and sometimes toxic sites into aesthetically appealing spaces. Multi-disciplinary collaborations with architects, historians, engineers, hydrogeologists, artists, and, most importantly, the residents of the area in which she is working are hallmarks of Bargmann’s approach.
In cases that are not fatal but in which the abuse is long-term, repeated burst blood vessels and lack of oxygen to the brain may cause blood clots, stroke, and other traumatic brain injuries, according to Kathryn Laughon, an associate professor of nursing at the University of Virginia who studies the effects of strangulation.
In fact, Facebook has been hinting at a rebrand for years, according to Siva Vaidyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia, whose book, “Antisocial Media,” examines the company’s sins. “The Facebook of today has never been the end game for Zuckerberg,” Vaidyanathan says. “He’s always wanted his company to be the operating system of our lives that can socially engineer how we live and what we know.”
(Commentary) Americans, the story goes, have always had a special relationship with the automobile, cherishing the freedom that a car or truck can provide. University of Virginia history professor Peter Norton has traced the idea to Groucho Marx, who spoke of a “burning love affair” between Americans and automobiles while hosting a television show in 1961. The idea stuck.
13News Now asked University of Virginia Infectious Disease Professor Dr. Bill Petri about the safety of mixing vaccines. Petri said mixing is safe because of an intensive study conducted at the University of Maryland. “They actually tried every single combination of the three vaccines that we have. So it will be like nine different ways of mixing and matching vaccines and the really good news is, it works great however you do it,” said Petri. Petri said mixing the vaccines also proved to be effective too. “There’s actually no way you can go wrong with this. You get about a 20-fold increase in ...
It may be time to throw out your onions. A salmonella outbreak linked to onions has sickened more than 600 people, including 59 in Virginia. White, yellow, or red onions without a sticker to confirm where they were grown could be dangerous. Dr. Bill Petri, a University of Virginia infectious disease specialist says reach out to your doctor for antibiotics if you develop a fever. “It was onions from Chihuahua, Mexico that were imported and contaminated with salmonella. It probably happened because the water that was used to irrigate the field was contaminated,” Petri said.
At Augusta Health, COVID patients still make up a large percentage of the adult inpatient population, 22%. At nearby UVA Health, they account for just 10%, even though UVA is almost twice as large a hospital.
UVA Health is one of dozens of hospitals getting funding to expand their telehealth options. According to a release, the Federal Communication Commission approved an additional 71 applications for funding commitment on Thursday. These commitments total more than $40.4 million for Round 2 of the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
Drug shortages are impacting the treatment of COVID-19 patients in Charlottesville. It all comes down to a medication called Tocilizumab, which reduces inflammation in COVID patients. It’s given as a last effort to help keep people off of ventilators, and studies show it works. “This has really forced us to make hard decisions about which patients get prioritized for this drug,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson at UVA Health. “It’s one of our last medications that we have available to really change how the immune system is responding to the inflammation.”