A third panelist, Rachel Harmon, a former federal prosecutor who directs the Center for Criminal Justice at University of Virginia School of Law, said there were risks to eliminating police, or limiting policing to the fighting of crime. “I think we could reduce police a lot, but a society with no government organization to stop people from harming others could put a lot of violence in citizens’ hands,” she said. In particular, she pointed to “the risks of racial bias there, where citizens go out and start doing citizen’s arrests, that in their own ways are very dangerous.”
University of Virginia Dr. Cameron Webb, who lost to Good in last month’s election, tweeted in response to the Republican’s remarks: “I've seen firsthand the devastation COVID-19 causes. The fact is — even here in VA — the pandemic is surging right now. Anyone can be affected and it's our collective duty to respect this threat. It goes beyond partisanship or politics. This rhetoric is irresponsible and dangerous.”
“Cities with the highest use of public transportation did not have the highest rates of deaths; if anything just the opposite,” William A. Petri Jr., a professor of internal medicine and associate director of microbiology at the University of Virginia Medical School, said via email. “The authors are careful to point out the limitations of the analysis, but it really argues against conventional wisdom, and suggests that with proper safeguards of masking and social distancing that public transportation could be used safely.”
In 1955, when the polio vaccine became widely available in the United States, it was the news the nation had been waiting for. The disease had taken the lives of thousands, and left thousands more with permanent paralysis. Children were particularly affected, but beyond that, polio did not discriminate. It affected all races and income levels equally. “There were summertime epidemics every year,” said Dr. William Petri, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at the University of Virginia. “In 1916, there were 2,000 deaths in New York City alone.”
If there’s such a thing as a date with destiny, it’s marked on Dr. Taison Bell’s calendar. At noon Tuesday, Bell, a critical care physician, is scheduled to be one of the first health care workers at UVA Health to roll up his sleeve for a shot to ward off the coronavirus. “This is a long time coming,” said Bell, age 37, who signed up through hospital email last week. “The story of this crisis is that each week feels like a year. This is really the first time that there’s genuine hope that we can turn the corner on this.”
David Green teaches engineering at the University of Virginia. But just a few generations before, his ancestor lived here: a slave. “Does it give me goosebumps? Yeah,” Green said as he stood at a farm outside Brownsburg. “It really kind of deepens my appreciation for my beginnings.”
(By Elizabeth Varon, professor of history) Northerners imagined the Civil War as a war of deliverance, waged to deliver the South from the clutches of a conspiracy and to deliver to it the blessings of free society and of modern civilization. Northerners did not expect white Southerners to rise up en masse and overthrow secession. But they did fervently believe that as the Union army advanced across the South, Southerners, especially from the non-slaveholding majority, would increasingly welcome liberation from Confederate falsehood and despotism.
Back on Nov. 22, Valley of the Moon scored a coup by inviting Rita Dove, a poet laureate of the United States, to read the opening poem from her book, “Sonata Mulattica” (2008), as an introduction to a performance of the Violin Sonata in A Major by Zivian and violinist Rachell Ellen Wong.
Roanoker Heywood Fralin, a 1962 graduate of the University of Virginia who has supported UVA programs in various areas, has joined with his wife, Cynthia, in pledging $5 million for the endowment of UVA’s head football coaching position.
The University of Virginia athletics department announced Sunday that head coach Bronco Mendenhall’s football program will not participate in a bowl game even it’s offered an invitation, putting an end to its 2020 season. “Unless you live it each and every day, it is impossible to understand the mental, emotional and physical sacrifice these young men have made since their return in July,” UVA Athletic Director Carla Williams said in a statement. “I am proud of their commitment and their incredible maturity. Our students did everything we asked them to do and they were rewarded with the opport...
As of Monday morning, Augusta Health and University of Virginia Medical Center are still waiting to find out the distribution timeline for the arrival of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
Most approaches to preventing heart attacks focus on ameliorating risk factors like high cholesterol or high blood pressure. But what if heart attacks could be prevented altogether by targeting genes that raise the risk of coronary artery disease? That’s the premise behind a new study from the University of Virginia.
Researchers from the University of Virginia, the University of Alberta, and Harvard University have now pinpointed a specific gene that is activated at birth in a cluster of neurons in the brain stem that control breathing. Their study was published in Nature.
Last spring, the University of Virginia’s medical center canceled elective surgeries and clinic visits to prepare for a flood of patients with COVID-19. That flood didn’t come according to Brent French, a professor of biomedical engineering at UVA. Now, French says, the city and county are testing wastewater at five different locations, hoping to spot an outbreak early and to plan better.
Shai Bernstein teamed up with Richard R. Townsend from the University of California San Diego and Ting Xu from the University of Virginia to study nearly 84,000 job applicants who were active on the AngelList platform between February 5 and June 18, 2020.
Scientists at the University of Virginia say they may have a new treatment for women with the most aggressive form of breast cancer – an approach developed through some serious pillow talk.
On the campus of the University of Virginia sits a not-so-hidden gem – a more than century-old telescope that is the centerpiece of the Leander McCormick Observatory. Charlottesville is a sizable enough city that light pollution often interferes with stargazing, but in non-pandemic times, the McCormick Observatory offers twice-monthly public nights that invite visitors to peek through its 26-inch telescope.
The school day started as a normal one for three young engineers at Charlottesville High School – all girls, and all Advancement Via Individual Determination students – but then they got a surprise: an award meant to help them change the world. They’re all the recipients of a brand new laptop and a scholarship to the ID Tech STEM camp at the University of Virginia this summer.
(Commentary) For the next generation of leaders to find common ground and advance solutions to pressing national issues, we must teach students how to engage in civil dialogue. The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, part of the University of Virginia, promotes “effective leadership, working together, building trust, ethics, and a mastery of public policy issues” to “strengthen the quality of governance and community service at all levels and help restore public confidence in our political system.” One of Sorensen’s programs is the High School Leaders Program, which teaches about 32 s...
U.S., Chinese educational communities’ mutual support ‘silver lining’ amid pandemic: senior diplomat
It is indeed a silver lining that U.S. and Chinese educational communities have come out to support each other as unfavorable U.S. policies and the surging COVID-19 pandemic disrupted educational exchanges between the two countries, a senior Chinese diplomat said. “I have heard a bunch of touching stories” about the bilateral cooperation on education during the pandemic, Yang Xinyu, minister counselor for educational affairs at the Chinese Embassy in the United States, told Julia Chang Bloch, founder of the U.S.-China Education Trust and former U.S. ambassador to Nepal, on Thursday. For exampl...