UVA researchers are tracking the new Mu variant of the coronavirus. Their research looks at the differences between variants as they appear in Charlottesville. This public health surveillance helps them notice new areas of emergence. “Based on the fact that it has several mutations, that make it such that it might be slightly resistant to neutralization by vaccine,” said Dr. Amy Mathers, an UVA infectious disease physician.
The return of in-person classes means a lot more students than last year in and around the University of Virginia's Grounds. The Charlottesville Police Department is reminding drivers to be cautious about pedestrians in those areas.
MBA students at UVA’s Darden School of Business are known to work quite hard amid the rigors of the case method. Each day, they are expected to read a business case and perform their own analysis of the situation presented. Then, they must compare and reason through their analysis with a small, diverse group of fellow students—their Learning Team. Students can often spend two to four hours prepping on their own and then two to three more with their teammates to arrive at an answer (as opposed to the answer). And what might be the reward for all this work? The student may be selected for a “col...
It’s not all rest and leisure and travel this Labor Day. Many people are on the job, and University of Virginia students are in the classroom. Some administrators get to enjoy some extra free time, but students and professors were still expected to come in for class.
The Princeton Review has released its 30th annual list of the country's best colleges. The 2022 list (listed alphabetically), which features 387 schools, includes 16 in Virginia – including UVA – and five in Washington, D.C.
The Cavaliers weren’t the only winners in Charlottesville this weekend. Businesses on the UVA Corner were booming, which is welcoming after a tough year. Football weekends are known to be packed in Charlottesville, but businesses say this weekend reached new levels.
Those who died included Lt. Paul R. Fridley, 28, a pilot from Annandale. Fridley studied mechanical engineering at the University of Virginia.
When the coronavirus reached Virginia, public health officials worried there would be so many patients, they would need to start building field hospitals right away. Across the country, there were jarring images of states filling parking garages and sports arenas with extra beds, reminiscent of war zone triage. But a team of UVA scientists, part of the Biocomplexity Institute, told the state to wait.
Darryl Blackstock is entering his third season at William & Mary, where he is one of five former UVA players on the staff working for head coach Mike London, who did two stints as a defensive assistant with the Cavaliers and was Virginia’s head coach from 2010-2015.
“It would be hard to draw five seats that are solidly Democrat, [because] outside of Portland, outside of Multnomah County, it’s a blue state, but it’s not as deep blue as Illinois or Massachusetts,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an elections newsletter run by the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Podcast) Host Jess Del Fiacco is joined by Ry Marcattilio-McCracken and Sean Gonsalves, senior researchers with ILSR’s Community Broadband initiative, as well as Christopher Ali, an associate professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Christopher discusses his new book, “Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity” and recent news in the broadband policy space.
A group of Liberian academicians, historians and former government officials including diplomats have launched the Historical Society of Liberia. Some distinguished guests included … Allison James of the Center for Cultural Landscape, School of Architecture, University of Virginia and also the Lead for the Feasibility Study for the preservation of Providence Island.
If storm water infrastructure has always suffered from problems, researchers who study flooding say the effects of climate change are proving the need to update decades-old pipes — in a way that has become impossible to ignore. “All infrastructure is designed to have some level of risk,” said Jonathan L. Goodall, a water resources engineer at the University of Virginia. “We’re just taking on more risk unless the existing infrastructure can somehow be retrofitted, which is expensive to do.”
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said it’s too early to determine whether and to what extent the Afghanistan exit will define Biden’s legacy, but argued that the current media environment could make it difficult for Biden to move beyond it. “He is stuck in an era in which it is more likely that presidents can’t rebound from military debacles because of 24/7 media and social media and the public and the press’s demand that presidents constantly come before the public and explain themselves,” Perry said.
Kyle Kondik, who tracks elections for the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said the far-right positioning of abortion laws being passed could further polarize voters on the issue. The “in-your-face nature” of the Texas law could turn out some voters who haven’t been motivated by the issue before, he said.
"The criticism is that when cases come before the court in an emergency posture, the court makes consequential decisions without a full airing of the legal issues and without applying consistent standards," said Rachel Bayefsky, a professor at University of Virginia School of Law. "The court’s handling of the Texas abortion case is bound to fuel this criticism."
“I think this is the end of the line for the plaintiffs,” said University of Virginia law professor Richard Schragger, who has followed the cases closely. He said the property owners’ lawsuit contains one contracts claim under the U.S. Constitution that could be a basis for an appeal, but he didn’t think it would succeed.
“This is a pretty complete vindication of the governor’s case,” said Richard Schragger, who teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law.
University of Virginia School of Law professor Caleb Nelson and University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Kermit Roosevelt explore the Supremacy Clause in a joint article found in the National Constitution Center's Interactive Constitution. "The core message of the Supremacy Clause is simple: the Constitution and federal laws (of the types listed in the first part of the Clause) take priority over any conflicting rules of state law," Nelson and Roosevelt write.
A scientist at the University of Virginia has received funding for a project looking into the sleep/wake cycle and Alzheimer's disease. Ali Güler, an associate professor of biology, has gotten a 2021 research grant from the Alzheimer's Association. The grant awards $150,000 over three years and will allow Güler to study sleep and circadian disruptions that often preceded the onset of memory issues associated with Alzheimer's.