Despite the controversy, Kwame Edwin Otu, assistant professor of African studies at the University of Virginia, and specialist in LGBT issues, is optimistic: “If the reaction of homophobes is so violent, it is because Ghana is changing. Before considering a decriminalization of same-sex relationships, it is necessary to provoke debate, and this is what LGBT Rights Ghana has done. “
(Video) The 2020 presidential election saw historic voter turnout. Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, discusses how absentee ballots played a role in the outcome.
As the dosing is being figured out doctors are encouraging individuals to take advantage of what is out there. "Any one of them is just so amazingly effective, and nobody anticipated we’d have vaccines that worked so well against this," said Dr. William Petri, an immunologist at the University of Virginia.
“There is evidence that content from highly conservative news sites is favored by Facebook algorithms,” Steven Johnson, an information technology professor at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce told USA TODAY in November.
“Positive Waves for COVID Days” by Matalie Deane, presented by the University of Virginia Health Arts Program, can be seen Thursday through April 29 in the Main Hospital Lobby.
The intersection of life, art and storytelling will take a variety of directions this month at Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. “The Art in Life: Comic Books,” a webinar presented by Kluge-Ruhe and The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, will start the explorations at 7 p.m. Thursday.
The old and the young could benefit from nearly $80,000 in study grants recently approved by a National Institutes of Health organization of medical providers and universities, officials say.
Superintendent of Public Instruction James Lane announced Wednesday that the Virginia Department of Education has secured a three-year, $999,912 federal grant that will go toward support researchers from VDOE and the University of Virginia as they examine pre- and post-pandemic trends through the 2022-2023 school year.
The system is long past a crisis. Now, a prominent forensic psychiatrist and a nationally recognized expert in mental health law are calling for a reset. In a paper published in Psychiatric Services, Dr. Steven Hoge and Richard Bonnie are proposing a new commitment pathway that would divert offenders with serious mental illness into treatment. (Bonnie is a UVA professor of law and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy.)
UVA says there were 12 new COVID-19 cases reported on Tuesday, all but one of which were among students. There are currently 230 active cases of the virus in the UVA community, including those who live on Grounds. The seven-day average positivity rate has dipped 0.7%.
(Video and photos) UVA Chapel bells rang out Wednesday from 1:50 p.m. to 2 p.m. to commemorate the day the Union Army marched into Charlottesville 156 years ago. Liberation and Freedom Day is the annual commemoration of the freeing of Charlottesville’s enslaved population.
For the second straight year, UVA students on the slate to graduate will find very little pomp due to a lot of circumstances as the school has decided to forego traditional final exercises in light of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
Some kids likely won’t get COVID vaccines until 2022: Is it safe for Virginia schools to reopen now?
Dr. Steven Zeichner, a UVA pediatrics professor, said it’s not necessary for all children to be vaccinated for in-person learning to resume safely, as long as school districts are following proper precautions. He said it’s a “reasonable possibility” that students will still need to wear masks and practice social distancing well into next school year.
Dozens of third-year UVA nursing students are waiting for the call to help administer coronavirus vaccines in Albemarle County.
Bells tolled Wednesday afternoon at the UVA Chapel commemorating Liberation and Freedom Day, the start of a long path to freedom for enslaved laborers. It was there, on March 3, 1865, when town and University officials surrendered to Union troops making their way south, the first step to emancipation of enslaved laborers. In a virtual panel called “Marching Toward Emancipation: Commemorating the Arrival of Union Troops in Charlottesville,” hosted by the Lifetime Learning program at UVA’s Office of Engagement, historians and researchers reflected on the importance of the historic date.
Paul Mensah, a Ghanaian resident in the U.S., led a team of Pfizer scientists, engineers, and technicians to develop a vaccine to combat the coronavirus across the world. Mensah, who earned a Ph.D. from UVA, is a chemical engineer and vice president of the Bioprocess Research and Development Group at Pfizer in St. Louis.
Steve Huffman is an American entrepreneur and businessman who achieved a remarkable level of success in the business world before reaching the age of 30. Young entrepreneurs may benefit from learning about Huffman and the choices that he made that gave him an edge on getting ahead in his career. Here are 10 things about the UVA alumnus that you probably didn’t know.
Dawn Staley quickly covered her mouth in embarrassment. She cursed while telling the story of how she got kicked out of a convenience store when trying to buy lottery tickets. The moment came and went in a blink, a second in almost an hour’s worth of one-on-one conversations with The Athletic spread out over the last month. But it is a succinct way to tell a long story, which is how the head coach of the United States women’s national team and the No. 7 South Carolina Gamecocks [and a UVA alumna] finds herself at the confluence of so many forces in a moment so filled with tension.
Although rapidly decreasing COVID-19 case numbers among UVA students led administrators to lift stay-at-home orders for students on and off Grounds last week, the school’s Greek-life leaders are continuing to restrict in-person activities for fraternities and sororities.
“Empty nose syndrome is a paradoxical sense of nasal obstruction,” explains Dr. Spencer C. Payne, associate professor in UVA’s Department of Otolaryngology. “Paradoxical because, by all measures, the nose appears really open, but the person suffering from it feels as though they can’t breathe or that air is not moving through the nose. And because the physics of airflow through the nose is kind of complicated, it’s hard to know if they’re truly experiencing nasal obstruction or if they’re just truly not sensing the flow of air through the nose,” he says.