On June 22, during the first day of the AHIP Annual Institute, the annual conference of AHIP, the nation’s largest health plan association, being held virtually this year, a panel of five health care leaders discussed the important topic of “Health Equity in America: An Urgent Call to Action.” The panel included Dr. Cameron Webb, a leader on the White House COVID-19 Response Team, and director of health policy and equity at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
“Leading Republicans have been working to shift the blame to groups like antifa or the FBI — in conservative media, both those groups are frequently portrayed as anti-Trump,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Perhaps over the past several months, this message has sunk in with Republicans at large, which seems reflected in the polling here.”
Despite the unusually high-profile nature of her vice presidency so far, like most of her predecessors Harris so far has largely remained behind the scenes, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. “I don’t really think anything about Harris’s performance really stands out as overly strong or overly weak so far when compared to her predecessors,” Kondik said. “Kamala Harris is no different than any other vice president in that she will naturally take a back seat to the president until she is needed to assume the presidential role herself — some...
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said: “Right now I think the Republicans are definitely the more united of the two parties and the Democrats at a certain point are going to boil over because while the first big bill [coronavirus relief] went fine, everything since has not.”
Jalane Schmidt, a professor of religion at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, has been active in the campaign to remove the statues that the Unite the Right rally sought to defend in 2017, and is working on a book about the history of neo-Confederate groups including Sons of Coonfederate Veterans in Virginia. In a telephone conversation, she pointed to an 1 April ruling of the Virginia supreme court which reversed lower court rulings in favor of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and The Monument Fund in their quest to ensure Charlottesville’s monuments stayed in place. “According to...
A.D. Carson, a hip-hop artist and a UVA assistant professor of hip-hop, explains that helping out the folks back home isn’t just a subject of certain rappers’ music, but it’s also part of their practice. Part of the hip-hop tradition. “Thinking about not just shouting out home ... but also how do we bring the people from where we’re from into the space where they might also have access to those resources,” Carson said.
When sharpened shanks of metal whirling at 2,900 rotations per minute slam into skin and bone, there’s not much guesswork involved in determining winner and loser. UVA surgeon Dr. Mark Romness knows the outcome firsthand. In the past two months, he’s treated three children for serious injuries from lawnmowers that sheared bone, shattered limbs and, in the case of a Stuarts Draft first-grader, resulted in an amputation.
(Commentary by Spencer K. Bakich, professor of international studies and the director of the National Security Program at Virginia Military Institute, and a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center) Since his assumption of power in December 2011, Kim Jong-un reinforced the state ideology of juche, which emphasizes the principles of self-sufficiency and independence in a hostile world.
Doctors at the UVA Health are emphasizing the importance of getting a COVID-19 vaccine as the Delta variant spreads across the United States. The hospital is still seeing COVID patients, but there are currently fewer than 10 people hospitalized with the virus at UVA Health.
“The Delta variant, which has ravaged India, is gaining traction in the U.S. and Virginia,” says the latest weekly report from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. “Unvaccinated individuals, including those with a previous COVID infection, remain at risk from this variant.”
(Book review) Alan Taylor, the distinguished University of Virginia historian, has spent his career upending the conventional story in favor of the more sordid and useful truth. His latest, “American Republics,” a refreshing survey of our country’s tumultuous early years, forms a trilogy with two earlier works, “American Colonies” (2001) and “American Revolutions” (2016). Together they represent an enormous contribution, distilling an ocean of historical scholarship into a thoughtful and compelling narrative of three centuries of the American experience.
(Editorial) 5. Grow the University of Virginia’s College at Wise into a research university. Universities have been called “the steel mills of the 21st century” for their role as economic engines — and research universities are the biggest and best steel mills of all because they’re the ones generating spinoff industries.
The UVA Police Department has arrested a man in connection with a burglary. According to police, John Wayne Jordan of Charlottesville is facing charges for a burglary that occurred at Madison Hall on June 24.
There will be a partial lane closure on Emmet Street beginning next week. Charlottesville officials say the closure will be near Ivy Road where a contractor is going to be relocating a natural gas pipeline. This is to accommodate UVA’s Ivy Corridor Project.
People who live near the University of Virginia may hear its emergency notification system going off on Tuesday. According to a release, UVA will be testing all components of the system, including the sirens, between 10:50 a.m. and 11:05 a.m.
Brian O’Connor led the Virginia baseball program to its fifth College World Series appearance this season. Carla Williams, UVa’s athletic director, has rewarded O’Connor for a job well done with a contract extension, which was announced Saturday.
University of Virginia baseball fans, friends and family got together at Disharoon Park at noon on Saturday to welcome back the Cavaliers after a hard-fought journey in Omaha. Coach Brian O'Connor's main message to the crowd was Virginia baseball is back.
UVA athletic director Carla Williams, who is in her fourth year on the job, remains a staunch defender of some aspects of the NCAA’s amateurism model, but recognizes much of college athletics is due to be modernized.
Michaela Meyer finished fourth in the 800 meters final at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials late Sunday night in Eugene, Oregon, missing an Olympic berth by 0.16 seconds. Meyer, a graduate student in nursing at UVA and the 2021 NCAA champion in the event, finished in 1:58.55, a personal best for her by over a second. The top three runners make the Olympic team. (Note: UVA alumnus Henry Wynne also fell just short in his attempt to make the U.S. team in the 1,500 meters, finishing fifth.)
Shops may come and restaurants may go, but the local vibe on the Corner carries on. The recent closing of the College Inn, a restaurant with a 53-year history on the quaint strip of commercial properties across the street from the University of Virginia, has caused concern on social media among long-time residents and UVA alumni. The loss of the eatery, combined with last summer’s closing of the Corner’s iconic Littlejohn’s Deli, has some worried about a change in atmosphere in the University-centric shopping district.