UVA Health announced on Wednesday afternoon that adolescents may receive their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine as early as Friday. The vaccination clinic will take place at the Vaccination Center at Seminole Square. Parents or guardians must schedule an appointment for their child and must accompany them to the vaccination event.
A breakthrough came 2013 when Nicolás Yunes of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Kent Yagi of the University of Virginia discovered the “I-Love-Q” relations. The relations vary depending on which model of gravity you subscribe to, but in general they show how three of a neutron star’s bulk properties relate to one another. Now Silva and Yunes, along with A Miguel Holgado of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have applied their model to real neutron stars with a little help from the ...
The Fontaine Streetscape Improvements Project team presented plans for the Charlottesville corridor during a virtual public hearing Wednesday night. The project seeks to improve pedestrian and bicycle facilities, safety for all users, transit access and facilities and traffic flow. Fontaine Avenue is a mixed-use residential/commercial gateway to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia.
Here are the 47 highest-ranked full-time MBA programs at public institutions. (UVA’s Darden School of Business is tied for second on the list with the Univeristy of Michigan-Ann Arbor.)
UVA professors are shedding light on the politics of food and how it impacts different social groups. UVA is in the process of expanding on this by opening an Indigenous studies minor in the near future. Wednesday, the professors talked virtually about the impacts on a Indigenous communities. “It’s really important to consider the ways that history has disrupted the food-ways for a lot of native people,” said Kasey Jernigan, professor in the anthropology department.
In Virginia, a new law mandates the state’s five public colleges provide “tangible benefits” for slave descendants. Cauline Yates, a descendant of one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, said she hopes the law compels the flagship University of Virginia, which Jefferson founded, to provide academic scholarships and economic development projects for descendants. “It’s time for them to stand up and honor our ancestors,” said the 67-year-old Charlottesville resident, who works at the University and co-founded a group advocating for UVA's slave descendants. Brian Coy, a University spokesperson, said it'...
Charlottesville Albemarle Regional Airport Manager Melinda Crawford says air travel through Charlottesville will be strong as long at the University of Virginia, James Madison and Liberty Universities maintain normal calendars. “If you looked at our passenger traffic, you would see that we have peaks and valleys, and a lot of it is associated with the schools.”
UVA Health will offer COVID-19 vaccines for ages 12 through 15 beginning Friday, following the federal government’s authorization of the Pfizer vaccine for that age group.
The run on gas has not fueled changes to UVA’s plans to celebrate graduations over the next two weekends, but officials are watching the situation and preparing for possible disruptions. UVA spokesman Brian Coy said officials recommend anyone traveling to UVA monitor local conditions and make plans to ensure they have enough fuel.
Today The Narcotix shares its first official single, “John/Joseph” from the forthcoming EP Mommy Issues, which the band will self-release on June 11. Composers Esther Quansah (guitars, vocals) and Becky Foinchas (keys, vocals) met in an elementary school chorus class in the ghostly woodlands of Woodbridge, Virginia. The daughters of African immigrants (Quansah from Cote D’Ivoire and Foinchas from Cameroon), they soaked up influences as far-flung and varied as choral symphonies, African wedding music, and progressive math rock, distilling them through a unique lens. While attending the Universi...
(Podcast) Boy band One South Lark formed in high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. Now, away from each other at college, they still display a strong connection to each other and the music they make together, reminding listeners of youthfully blissful times. (The band includes UVA student Grayson Worley, a guitarist.)
Published in both Circulation and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the ACC/AHA societal statement follows a predecessor from 2004 and was written based on discussions had during a virtual conference of 40 cardiologists, internists, associated health care professionals, and lay people held last fall. “It was perfect timing to convene this conference and to look at these areas,” conference co-chair Dr. C. Michael Valentine (University of Virginia), said. “It was also a perfect time to discuss the dramatic changes in the delivery of care that had occurred to our cardiovascular w...
Looking ahead to the general election in November, political analysts say Youngkin’s fundraising abilities will work to his advantage. J. Miles Coleman—an assistant editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics—accurately predicted that Youngkin was the likely winner given his sheer ability to outraise the other candidates. “At least in Charlottesville, he’s the only candidate I've got a mailer from,” Coleman said last Thursday. “So I have to think, will people who aren’t paying attention to politics at least know his name?”
UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato says the former president hinders the nominee. “Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement of Youngkin, which will last in Democratic ads all the way to election eve, has made it much more difficult for Youngkin,” he said.
Larry Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia, says Republicans are very focused on the midterms. “The way McCarthy and his pals look at it, lying is a small price to pay in order to take control of the House in 2022 – even if the lie undermines our entire democratic system and promotes the worst president in U.S. history,” he said. “Trump received 46-47% of the national vote in two elections, and of that, 35-40% is hardcore Trump. Turn the Trump base off, even a good part of it, and you lose. Plus, Trump himself would lead the parade to take down all of his enemies in the ...
The drive that people with autism bring to special interests is akin to a non-autistic person’s focus on personal relationships, says neuroscientist Kevin Pelphrey of UVA’s Brain Institute. “Looking at other people, looking at their faces, reading emotions — that’s something that for the vast majority of typically developing people, they’re born with it, and then they develop a high level of expertise and never stop adding to it throughout development,” Pelphrey says. This consuming focus on other people could conceivably fit the definition of a special interest, Pelphrey says, except that it’...
“Wait, What?” challenges the notion of constantly seeking the “right” answer, and instead encourages readers to raise good questions that give meaningful responses. Providing examples from various industries, James E. Ryan, the president of the University of Virginia, illustrates how inquiries can deepen connections and help individuals focus on life’s essential issues.
UVA researchers have found a part of the SARS2 spike protein that appears to persist among many of the variants. A vaccine that targets this part was able to protect pigs from both COVID-19 and another coronavirus that gives pigs diarrhea.
(Press release) Airbnb today announced new plans to donate a total of $1 million over the next five years to establish the Airbnb Melissa Christian Thomas Hunt Research Fund for Global Connection and Belonging at University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have narrowed down best practices for testing wastewater for COVID-19 in dorms. A collaboration among UVA Health and the university’s School of Medicine and School of Engineering found wastewater testing methods used in an eight-week study caught 96% of COVID-19 cases across two student dormitory complexes.