Nineteen-year-old Noelle Kuhoric from Seaford is battling cancer for the third time and on Sunday she got a special surprise. Kuhoric, a student at the University of Virginia, was first diagnosed with stage 4 small cell carcinoma when she was 17. She beat cancer for the second time in June but was diagnosed again in September.
Why little kids have a special ability to creep out their parents. Dr. Jim B. Tucker, a child psychiatrist and director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, studies children who claim to have memories of past lives.
Trump’s political advisers believe he must win Florida, Ohio and North Carolina – states that polls and analysts say are toss-ups and where Biden is competing. And he needs a combination of the Midwest states that gave him the presidency in 2016 – Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin – where Biden now holds an advantage. “He’s going to need to win all of the states we have as toss-ups plus a couple of states we have leaning to Biden at this point,” said J Miles Coleman, a data analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
For months, the Republican governor has been honing his talking points about dysfunction in Washington and the need for political leaders to set aside partisanship to work for the greater good. Add his targeted criticisms of President Donald Trump, a refusal to support U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, the publishing of a political memoir, and his write-in vote for Ronald Reagan for president, and some say Hogan looks like a man with an eye on the White House. J. Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics thinks Trump’s influence is likely...
(Commentary) A survey conducted by Merrit Hawkins and The Physicians Foundation found that 21% of U.S. physicians had actually “experienced a furlough or pay cut” during the pandemic. Things seem to have gotten worse since then as Medscape recently reported that 62% of U.S. physicians answering another survey had suffered pay drops. A number of physicians echoed these findings. For example, Dr. Anne M. Mills, an associate professor of pathology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Delegate Nick Freitas is running to unseat Representative Abigail Spanberger. J. Miles Coleman, the associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, says missteps Freitas has made in previous years may work to his advantage in this campaign.
According to the U.S. Elections Project, more than one-third of the votes returned so far come from the three most populous states: California, Texas and Florida. Larry Sabato with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics says California seems to be a lock for Biden. The race for Texas is close, but leaning Republican. That leaves the swing state of Florida, as he calls it “the glittering prize,” because “there’s no way practically for Trump to get elected without Florida.”
(Commentary) Before looking at specific mattresses, I reviewed the American Academy of Pediatrics’s data on safe sleep and asked follow-up questions via email of Dr.Fern R. Hauck, the director of the International Family Medicine Clinic at the University of Virginia Department of Family Medicine, who was on the AAP task force on sudden infant death syndrome.
This new University of Virginia discovery is giving insight on how exactly cancer builds itself a home in human bodies. Chongzhi Zang, a computational biologist for UVA’s Center Public Health’s Genomics, says when components of human chromosomes are arranged, it can affect our genes.
New research at UVA Health reveals that the disease can remodel the architecture of our chromosomes taking hold and spreading.
The University of Virginia School of Architecture is rated No. 5.
Abigail Spanberger faces Del. Nick Freitas (R-Culpeper), while Elaine Luria is in a rematch with former congressman Scott Taylor (R). But both of their races are rated as “leans” or “likely Democratic” by four forecasting organizations: Cook, the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, the Niskanen Center and FiveThirtyEight. “They look like they’re going to survive,” said Larry Sabato, director of the UVA center. “You would think they would win another term, partly because Biden is doing better than Hillary [Clinton] did in Virginia.”
Volunteers plant 50 trees on Wednesday in the community forest at Blandy Experimental Farm in Clarke County. Blandy is a research field station affiliated with the University of Virginia’s Department of Environmental Sciences and the State Arboretum of Virginia.
Executive Director Colleen Keller said the Free Clinic partnered with UVA Health’s Riverside Clinic to refer people for COVID tests as needed.
Several academic institutions are collecting students’ wastewater in an effort to contain coronavirus outbreaks, according to an analysis. Using wastewater testing has given administrators at the schools such as the University of Arizona and the University of Virginia a heads-up on which students have the virus and how to contain those cases from spreading.
The University of Virginia and local musicians are teaming up to bring music performances safely to the community, in-person and online. One week ago, UVA started its Music Care Packages, inspired by UVA President Jim Ryan.
Jalane Schmidt, a UVA religious studies professor and activist who supported removing the monuments, said she thinks they can be properly contextualized in new locations, but that they must explain that the statues have been used through the last century to perpetuate a myth that the Civil War was not about slavery.
Wednesday promises to be a stressful day for Facebook, Google and Twitter, whose chief executives will be grilled by senators about whether social media companies abuse their power. “I think it’s a mistake to look at it as a right-wing versus left-wing bias,” UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan said.
University of Virginia students said they were motivated more by the issues and less by the candidates themselves.
Norman Thrower, who has died aged 100, was professor emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. From relatively humble beginnings, Norman became one of the world’s most famous cartographers. Norman and Betty Martin married in 1947 and, later that year, arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia, living in veterans’ housing while Norman did a BSc and an MSc in geography at the University of Virginia, where he was influenced by Erwin Raisz, an internationally renowned cartographer.