Mobility data, compiled from cellphones, showed more Virginians returning to work, dining out and using transit in recent weeks. In a report from the UVA Biocomplexity Institute, which has tracked COVID-19 trends for more than a year, researchers noted the possibility of a more sustained peak in the summer if Virginians relax their behaviors. “Vaccines do have an impact, but they need time to work,” the report said.
(Podcast) Host Doug Kacena dives in to a thoughtful, wide-ranging conversation with artists Ashley Eliza Williams (a UVA alumna) and Andrew Jensdotter. The three trade thoughts and ideas for integrating play and curiosity into artistic experimentation, keeping your own traditions alive while bringing in the new, working with collaborators, and allowing your work to change as your life changes.
Bryan Price, education and outreach specialist in the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement for the University of Virginia Cancer Center, has led the efforts of an Averett University student group to raise awareness about radon. He feels the students are the catalyst to promoting this campaign and have the pulse of their peers. “It has been a pleasure working with the students. Through our collaboration, we have partnered to recreate the scientific information using terms and social media avenues that are informative and appealing to the students and their peers,” he said.
Dr. Alan Rogol is a UVA professor emeritus of pediatrics and pharmacology and a former vice president of The Endocrine Society. He said, "[Achondroplasia] is the most common cause out of at least 1,000 different causes of disproportionate short stature." But it's critical to distinguish between the condition and efforts to treat it, on the one hand, and simply being short on the other, he added. "Healthy short people are proportionate, and everything works," Rogol noted. "People with this condition have very small hands and feet, a relatively large head, and have a very difficult time with the...
The pandemic's surge in applications for jobless benefits swamped the commission and laid bare a number of problems with the system in Virginia and other states. Recently, the General Assembly approved a bill awaiting action from Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam that aims to tilt the scales in favor of workers who over the course of the pandemic found themselves stuck in a bureaucratic morass. The measure from Del. Sally Hudson would essentially codify an executive directive Northam made in December, so that someone initially determined to be eligible for benefits won't lose that help before they...
However, there is a dark and murderous side to the self-declared emperor of France that is largely missing from public discourse in France. For example, Napoleon reintroduced slavery in France’s colonies a few years after the French revolution had abolished it. “I find it particularly galling to see that France plans to celebrate the man who restored slavery to the French Caribbean, an architect of modern genocide, whose troops created gas chambers to kill my ancestors,” wrote Marlene Daut, a professor of American and African diaspora studies at the University of Virginia.
In the year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health care workers have been on the front lines fighting. Restaurants and organizations have been showing their support by offering free meals and more, including the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative. According to a release, REC donated more than 1,000 meals to 11 hospitals across its service area during February. These hospitals included UVA Health and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital.
Researchers at the UVA and Virginia Tech are cooperating on a COVID-19 vaccine that may protect against existing and future strains of the virus and similar coronaviruses while costing only about $1 a dose.
Virologists at UVA and Virginia Tech are joining forces to create a new COVID-19 vaccine that could fight against current and developing strains of the virus. “What we want to do is think toward the future and try to find vaccines in the future that may protect against variants that are starting to come up,” said Steven Zeichner of UVA Health.
Athletic rivals Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia are working together on two new coronavirus vaccines, and their research has shown early promise in protecting people from existing and future variants of COVID-19, according to the universities.
Scientists at UVA and Virginia Tech may have developed a potential COVID-19 vaccine that would protect against existing and future strains of coronavirus, costs about $1 per dose and can be easily transported.
People can now gather outdoors in groups of up to 25 at the University of Virginia.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are expecting Chris Taylor to be a key member of the team as they embark on their quest for a repeat as World Series champions. But he hopes his contributions to a cause close to his heart will have an even bigger impact. The UVA alumnus will host a two-hour live music event on Friday from 8 to 10 p.m. ET. The virtual Home Run for Hope concert will include performances by country music stars Brad Paisley, Jake Owen, Scotty McCreery, Toby Keith and other up-and-coming country artists.
Experts on political rhetoric said Biden has played to his strengths so far, projecting folksiness in otherwise formal settings while limiting the opportunity to add to his list of infamous gaffes. “He seems to me more relaxed now than I ever remember him in his career,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. “He’s both genuine and authentic, but he’s taken on the mantle of the presidency and the dignity of the presidency.”
One issue that frequently comes up for women who are educated as engineers is dealing with the idea that you are different; different from other women, different from male engineers, different from society’s expectations of you. Jill Tietjen, an electrical engineer with more than 40 years of experience in the electric utility industry (after becoming one of the first 10 women to graduate from UVA’s School of Engineering), long ago accepted her differences, and sort of revels in them.
A hashtag and masks are part of helping University of Virginia students navigate the pandemic safely. The campaign is known as #YOUva. It came from a student project at the Meriwether Lewis Institute for Citizen Leadership.
The 59th District includes Appomattox and Buckingham Counties, and parts of Albemarle, Campbell and Nelson counties. Dr. Ben Moses, a veteran of the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps, is running in the district’s Democratic primary. Moses is also a relative newcomer to politics but has served as a faculty senator at the University of Virginia and on various medical boards.
(Commentary) This conversation with Dr. Aynne Kokas – associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia; senior faculty fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs; and author of “Hollywood Made in China” (2016) – discusses the recent setback for China’s CGTN in the U.K. and Beijing’s campaign for media influence abroad.
(Written by Andrew Kaufman, lecturer in Slavic languages and literatures) Creativity involves developing new ideas and imagining different ways of collaborating with others to solve problems. Those are critical skills in any line of work.
The effort aims to bring factual, scientific information to people across the country, particularly communities of color that have been hardest hit by the pandemic. Questions about safety, speed of vaccine development, side effects, efficacy and new variants will be answered with the latest scientific information. "In an age where most people get their information at a distance, we wanted to find a way to connect with people more directly," said Dan Engel of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Engel and Dr. Dean Kedes, both of UVA's Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer...