Two UVA students say there is a real gender gap in the male-dominated cybersecurity industry. They say the lack of diversity inspired them to start a Women in Cybersecurity chapter at UVA.
Whether the bill maintains its popularity going forward, experts say, will depend largely on implementation. “The results are going to be crucial,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “Money in pockets, shots in arms, masks on faces, kids in classrooms.”
“Virginia has made excellent progress in our vaccine rollout, with over 1.5 million Virginians receiving a vaccine so far. Now the American Rescue Plan will put us on a path to vaccinating everyone faster than ever. The bill includes $7.5 billion for the CDC to speed up vaccine distribution and more funding for testing and PPE to keep people safe. As someone who spent the last year on the front lines of this pandemic, I know this is the kind of response we need to defeat COVID-19,” said Dr. Ebony Hilton, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, University of Virginia.
The issue that these anti-McAuliffe candidates run into is space. People close to McAuliffe cheered when Carter entered the race, believing he will further box out candidates like Foy. And the longer the four challengers stay in, the harder it will be for either candidate to make up for their lack of statewide name recognition or consolidate the anti-McAuliffe support. “If you believed that was so important, wouldn’t you gather together and consolidate your vote?” asked Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
“This study suggests that reduced PSA screening may come at the cost of more men presenting with metastatic prostate cancer,” Dr. Robert Dreicer of the UVA Cancer Center, said. “Patients should discuss the risks and benefits associated with PSA screening with their doctor to identify the best approach for them.”
On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that people who are fully vaccinated can now gather with other fully vaccinated people indoors and unmasked. Dr. William Petri at the University of Virginia spoke on just how significant these new guidelines are and gave a timeline for how soon things might look more normal.
Dr. Bruce Greyson, UVA professor emeritus, believes that a human body is not confined to the physical part, and there could be something spiritual to it. In a recent interview, Greyson revealed that near-death experiences have brought about surprising changes in the lives of survivors, and it has changed their attitudes, values, beliefs, and behavior. “I am convinced now, after doing this for 40, 50 years, that there is more to life than just our physical bodies. I recognize that there is a non-physical part of us. Is that spiritual? I’m not sure. Spirituality usually involves a search for som...
UVA law professor Danielle Citron, who researches digital harassment, privacy and free speech, noted that deepfake sex videos are increasingly common, overwhelmingly target women and, most troubling, are getting easier to make and harder to spot. “It’s like an arms race; pretty soon, the ‘dark hats’ are ahead of the ‘white hats’ and we can’t tell which is real,” said Citron, using hacker community terms to describe security experts who use their expertise for ethical versus illegal activity.
Racial protests over the summer further increased the pressure for government help. “Just as the civil rights movement pushed Johnson, this movement is pushing Biden,” said Sidney M. Milkis, a UVA political scientist who studies the relationship between presidents and grass-roots movements.
(By Philip Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the Miller Center of Public Affairs) For more than five months, from August 1916 until the end of January 1917, leaders from Germany, Britain, and the United States secretly struggled to end the Great War. They did so far out of public sight, one reason their battle is still little understood today.
UVA Health says it has administered 91.2% of both first and second-dose vaccines it’s received so far. “We’re set and poised for a rapid increase in vaccine that we can provide both in the Seminole Square as well as in our community outreach,” UVA Health’s Dr. Costi Sifri said.
Virginia Tech, UVA, Virginia Commonwealth University and Liberty University all boast multiple data science related programs, and along with JMU, account for 82% of the technology graduates.
Expecting mothers may receive a new type of prescription from doctors, thanks to a UVA study that shows that exercise during pregnancy can provide significant health benefits for children.
Overall, trends in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in Virginia continue to improve, UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute reported Friday. However, weekly new case rates statewide remain above peaks experienced last summer. “This is a positive time for key COVID-19 measures in Virginia,” researchers wrote in the report.
UVA pandemic analysts said while the state’s cases are dropping, colleges have remained a source of massive transmission. A few weeks ago, half of the state’s top 10 hot spots were in ZIP codes associated with colleges and universities, including Charlottesville, Richmond, Lexington and Blacksburg, according to the UVA Biocomplexity Institute.
A more contagious version of the coronavirus is on track to become the dominant strain by the end of March, but pandemic watchers aren’t sure what that will mean for Virginia. The U.K. variant could either lead to a drawn-out plateau of the current case rate or cause a new peak in July, according to a new analysis by the UVA Biocomplexity Institute.
UVA offers classes with tuition and certain fees waived for persons 60 years of age and older, who have been legally domiciled in Virginia for at least one year. Tuition-paying students are given priority. A senior citizen shall only be admitted to a class, tuition-free, after all tuition paying students have been accommodated.
(Commentary) The memorial to the slaves who labored at UVA is a quiet, dignified and moving tribute to the Virginians whose contributions to the University went unappreciated and unrecognized for too long. Yesterday my wife and I visited the memorial, which was dedicated almost a year ago, for the first time. It is a wonderful example of the “additive” approach to remembering our past — adding new layers of understanding — as opposed to the purgative approach of blotting out the remembrance of those who made significant contributions to society but whose association with slavery, the Confedera...
UVA is relaxing some restrictions that were put in place following a surge of COVID-19 cases in February.
UVA officials are again easing COVID-19 related restrictions on student gatherings as the number of virus cases and percentage of positive test results continue to decrease.