Throughout his tenure, Trump has tried to limit U.S. spending on Chinese technology. “I think this was a proxy for larger international political issues the Trump administration has with China and an opportunity for the Trump administration to flex,” said Christopher Ali, a UVA media studies professor. “But these are serious and important questions regarding the ownership of apps and communication platforms. Is this a conversation we need to have? Perhaps. But this can’t be a conversation only about TikTok.”
A study out of the University of Virginia found that seasonal depression may be linked to a genetic mutation in the eye that makes seasonal affective disorder patients less sensitive to light.
In a video posted online Nov. 19, UVA President Jim Ryan said the University had accomplished “what many said couldn’t be done,” and showed the world “what being a great and good university looks like.” Since August, the University has identified just under 1,300 COVID-19 infections among students, faculty and staff. Those cases resulted in zero deaths and zero hospitalizations, reports university spokesman Brian Coy.
“People wanted Trump out, but they didn’t want Democrats in control,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “If that isn’t clear now, they just haven’t kept up with the election results. … This kind of compromise is probably the only thing that can get through,” Sabato said in an interview on Tuesday.
President Trump lost the election but surprised many by making new Republican inroads with Black and Latino voters. Whether or not the gain can be maintained, it's a reminder that no demographic constituency is monolithic. “I definitely know that Trump made some inroads with those groups this time, but it always surprised me that Democrats did so well with them in the first place,” says J. Miles Coleman, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. “It reminds me of something Lee Atwater would always say: How come Democrats are basically trying to tell poorer and working-class constitu...
Multiple academic studies have found companies with more diverse boards get greater return on investment in research and development. Professor Yo-Jud Cheng at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business pointed out that boards also hire CEOs. “Having a more diverse board might lead to having a broader network that allows an organization to have a more diverse candidate pool,” Cheng said.
Ultimately, Giving Green reveals the value—and the limits—of an evidence-based approach to philanthropy. Jennifer Rubenstein, a political theory professor at the University of Virginia who has written about effective altruism, told me that she thinks the methodology is good at helping donors avoid the worst 15% of nonprofits. Giving Green has likely done so here.
(By Francesca Fiorani, art history professor, excerpted from her new book, “The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint”) We know why the candle was on Leonardo da Vinci’s desk – to bring light into the darkness. But why a ball and a small screen, perhaps made of thick paper, or of simple wood? … Why this obsession with shadows? Because of some new invention or experiment he was considering? No. His goal was a different one: to learn how to paint.
A 1992 study by James Ryan, now president of the University of Virginia, found that federal courts of appeals heard 97 free exercise of religion cases applying the “compelling interest” test between 1980 and 1990, and they rejected 85 of these cases
The testing event will be first-come, first-served, and all for free. “It goes without saying that cost and access to health care should not be a barrier during these times to get such a critical resource,” said Ben Allen, the executive director of the University of Virginia Equity Center. On Dec. 5 and 6, the Blue Ridge Health District and the UVA Health System are teaming up to put on a massive COVID-19 testing event that prioritizes school and university staff.
Thousands of free self-administered COVID-19 tests will be available this weekend in the Albemarle High School parking lot. Priority will be given to employees of Albemarle County Public Schools, Charlottesville City Schools and the University of Virginia. Pre-registration is required and participants must arrive in a vehicle to receive a test.
UVA Health officials are in a similar plan-now, revise-later mode. “There has been a lot of discussion at the federal level about how to distribute it to the population and we know there will be a point where supplies are simply outstripped by the demand, especially early in the distribution process,” said Dr. Costi Sifri, director of hospital epidemiology at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
As students go back to school and people return to work, the UVA Health System is gearing up for a potential surge in coronavirus cases.
Mezzanotti examined the real economic impacts of angel-investor tax credits in collaboration with a team that included Ting Xu, an assistant professor of business administration at the University of Virginia. The researchers’ findings cast some doubts about the success of these programs – at least according to the broader economic goals touted by political leaders.
The seagrass project, led by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and The Nature Conservancy, was started as an experiment and has now been running for over 20 years. In that time, researchers and volunteers spread more than 70 million eelgrass seeds over the seabed, hoping the seeds would take hold and birth new life into the area. The project is now widely regarded as the most successful of its kind worldwide, with new seagrass beds having grown to cover 3,612 hectares of seabed. “In my first years here, there was no seagrass and there hadn’t been for decades,” Karen McGlathery, coastal ...
Should the court allow Trump to use immigration status in determining what population counts will be used in apportionment, New Jersey is one of only two states that could lose one of its current House seats, according to an analysis by the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
There remain a lot of obstacles before an algorithm like PREEMPT could be deployed in the real world: predominantly, that PREEMPT lacks many of the socioeconomic factors that have played major roles in the spread of COVID-19 to date. “Social and economic determinants play a role in disease spread,” said Anil Vullikanti, a computer scientist at the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute who contributed to the research. “Algorithmic fairness is a big topic and something we all talk about. We want to make sure everyone in the community has the opportunity to get vaccinated without one com...
(Editorial) Instead of taking the field against the Florida State Seminoles on Saturday in Tallahassee, football players from the University of Virginia spent the evening lounging poolside when the game was postponed after the Cavaliers had traveled to Florida. Chalk it up to another weird moment in a year of coronavirus, but don’t overlook the dunderheaded policies that landed both teams, as well as their families and fans, in this situation and the very real costs resulting from it.
After being such a big piece in college at the University of Virginia and then earning some playing time in the early part of his NBA career, Justin Anderson found himself on the verge of being out of the league. He needed that time in the G League to give him that reset and get him back focused again.
(Transcript) Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, medical director and a UVA associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, discusses COVID’s impact on minority populations and the importance of minorities being included in the vaccine trials.