“Normally [the U.S. Census is] something that you can rely on as being literally the best data available,” said Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center. “It's sort of a jubilee.”
“If you look at the data, those most likely to get the death penalty are black defendants with a White victim,” said Juliet Hatchett, associate director of the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Until she was 33, Kathryn Paige Harden, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, had enjoyed a vocational ascent so steady that it seemed guided by the hand of predestination. When she first went on the job market, at 26, her graduate-school mentor, Eric Turkheimer, a professor at the University of Virginia, recommended her with an almost mystified alacrity. “More than anyone else who has come through my lab, I find myself answering questions by saying, ‘We should check with Paige,’ ” he wrote. “I am absolutely confident she will be a successful addition to any faculty, ...
How much is a life worth? Attorney Kenneth Feinberg faced that question in a way he never had before in 2001, when he was put in charge of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Now, the new Netflix movie Worth—which is based on Feinberg’s own 2005 memoir and began streaming on Netflix today—is retelling the biggest dilemma of Feinberg’s career. … Feinberg is still working as a lawyer and was recently hired by The Boeing Company in July, 2019 to oversee the distribution of compensation to the families of victims of 737 MAX airplane crashes. He is also an adjunct professor of law at sever...
(Editorial) “The pandemic forced us to rethink the entire relationship individuals have with work,” Joseph Harder, an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, told Virginia Business. “It’s not just that white-collar workers are demanding flexibility ... but it’s also [happening with] the entry-level positions that are essential to reopening the economy.”
"Labor Day should be a moment when we all reflect the critical contributions of working people to the political, economic and cultural development of this country," said Claudrena Harold, a history professor at the University of Virginia.
All sorts of online activities would be “grist for discovery,” such as YouTube videos or location data if the court determines they are relevant, said University of Virginia law professor Danielle Citron. The content of communications would likely be off limits, but user names, IP addresses and email addresses, among other things, would not be. “This is such a terrifying assault on intimate privacy. It incentivizes spying and exposure of women and girls and their intimate relationships and reproductive life that is unfathomably troubling,” Citron said.
(Video) The CDC says unvaccinated teens are 10 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with those who have been fully vaccinated. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, more than 200,000 coronavirus cases were confirmed in children last week. Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at UVA Health, joins CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss that and more.
Physicians at UVA Health say they’re expecting COVID-19 cases to keep climbing. They’re calling it a perfect storm for a surge, thanks to the delta variant and more in-person fall activities.
(Commentary co-written by William I. Hitchcock, the William W. Corcoran Professor of History and the director of Governing America in a Global Era; and Meghan V. Herwig, a Ph.D. student in history and the Brian Layton Blades Jefferson Fellow) In his provocative essay titled “American Universities Declare War on Military History,” Hastings argues that the study of war in U.S. universities is in “spectacular eclipse.” Historians today, averse to military affairs, are concerned principally with, in his words, “culture, race and ethnicity.” So great is this “revulsion from war history,” Hastings b...
September is Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month, and the University of Virginia Health System is doing its best to spread the word on research and advances that have been made in treatments.
The Blue Ridge Health District and the University of Virginia Health System will have COVID-19 vaccination and testing events in Charlottesville and surrounding counties.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, PrEP can reduce the chances of getting HIV through sex by 99 percent. "We really need to improve PrEP uptake everywhere so we can help to prevent HIV infections, and help to end the HIV epidemic in the United States," said Dr. Kathleen McManus, an assistant professor in the University of Virginia's Department of Medicine and a co-author of the study.
Quantum computing has the potential to solve many of our most complex problems. Research teams at universities and private institutions all around the world are working hard to make this a reality. One of these teams is being led by Xu Yi, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science. His team has created a niche in the physics and applications of photonic devices, which are used to detect and shape light for applications like communications and computing. The team has developed a scalable quantum computing p...
In their new book, “The AI Marketing Canvas: A Five Stage Roadmap to Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Marketing,” Raj Venkatesan of the University of Virginia and his coauthor Jim Lecinski, a clinical associate professor of marketing at the Kellogg School, lay out an action plan for chief marketing officers to plan and implement a sustainable AI-driven marketing function within their organizations.
Across Virginia, 32 of the state's 35 health districts are designated "in surge," the most serious level with respect to COVID-19 infections, the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute reported in its latest modeling update on Thursday.
The University of Virginia’s School of Medicine uncovered new data about immune responses of the top two COVID-19 vaccines: the Pfizer and Moderna.
The Covishield vaccine is the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) that was developed by AstraZeneca-Oxford University. “The encouraging results support a strategy of delayed second dosing because antibody titres (concentration) were substantially higher after the second dose among individuals with almost a year between doses than among individuals who had an 8–12 week interval,” researchers from the University of Virginia wrote in a linked comment.
A second study compared antibody levels in 167 University of Virginia health system staff immunized with either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine. Antibodies levels after the second vaccine were about 50% higher in people who got the Moderna shot, the researchers said Thursday in a letter in Jama Network Open. But when the researchers dug further, they found that the difference was mostly explained by an inferior response to the Pfizer vaccine in people 50 and older, says Jeffrey Wilson, an immunologist at the University of Virginia and co-author on the study. With the Moderna vaccine, the antibod...
The pandemic’s latest surge is too far along to be stopped by people getting their first shots now, a new forecast by UVA scientists shows. Statistical models indicate that in the short-term, masks and keeping a distance of 6 feet or more from others will be the most effective strategy against COVID-19, with the potential to dodge 150,000 cases through the end of the year, according to a report based on the UVA Biocomplexity Institute’s findings.