Among those presenting programs were architecture expert and holder of the Commonwealth Professor’s Chair in architectural history at the University of Virginia Richard Guy Wilson, whose father actually ran the company that made shovels used during construction of Hoover Dam.
“The principle is one person, one vote,” says Kyle Kondik, who analyzes U.S. House politics for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “If you live in one district and I live in another district,” Kondik explains, “they should have relatively the same population so our votes have the same power.”
Christian McMillen is a historian and associate dean at the University of Virginia and the author of “Discovering Tuberculosis.” “It was a relatively common notion that air – whether it’s altitude, winter air, desert air, or what have you – was a good solution for tuberculosis,” he says. “Sometimes it did help. But there was a kind of mistake in correlation with causation. TB is contagious, so in this case, my guess is that you take five people with TB, and five people without TB, and put them together in a cave, and you’re going to wind up with 10 people who have TB.”
(Podcast) In this episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning UVA historian Alan Taylor discusses why it is important to acknowledge the violence and terror that scarred the revolutionary years as well as tales of heroism and courage and the triumph of freedom and liberty. “We’ve largely written [violence] out of telling the story of the American Revolution because, frankly, it is very uncomfortable,” said Taylor, the author of “American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804.”
An annual road trip-inspired reading program has announced this year’s selection for Virginia. The Virginia Center for the Book says “White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia,” by Kiki Petrosino, is the 2021 Route 1 Reads. Petrosino is a professor of poetry at the University of Virginia.
There is another rare side effect from the Johnson and Johnson vaccine; a neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome, which is not uncommon after infections. “To me what makes sense, if you are a woman, probably don’t get the J&J vaccine. Maybe get one of the mRNAs, because we havent seen any side effects. These vaccines work so well that they gave us excess protection, more than what we needed,” said Dr. William Petri, an epidemiologist at UVA Health.
Dr. William Petri from UVA Health says if anyone hasn’t already, now is the time to get a COVID vaccine. “These vaccines work so well that they gave us excess protection, more than what we needed,” said Petri.
Even with the rise in infections from the Delta variant of COVID-19 in some areas, UVA Drs. Taison Bell and Bill Petri say if you’re fully vaccinated, you’re well protected. But now, booster shot discussions are picking back up.
(Commentary by Cristina Lopez-Gottardi, assistant professor and research director for public and policy programs at UVA’s Miller Center) Sunday’s protests in cities across Cuba were unprecedented in their scale and in the boldness of Cuban citizens to confront authorities and the repression that has plagued them for six decades. The sweep and scope of this weekend’s protests appear to mark a new and distinct era of broad citizen defiance and disaffection with the island’s 62-year old communist regime.
Across the country, colleges and universities are coming to grips with their racist histories by launching new education programs, creating research committees, removing Confederate iconography, and considering reparations. The University of Virginia was established by Thomas Jefferson, the third American president, who was an enslaver. In 2014, UVA founded the Universities Studying Slavery consortium as part of its commitment to confronting racial injustice.
Food insecurity is a big concern in Charlottesville, especially as the area begins to recover from the pandemic. UVA Health is opening a food pantry in the Battle Building where it will provide fresh produce to families who are without enough food.
Parsing out the reasons for demographic change can be complicated, but some local and regional trends might offer clues to why some Virginians are starting families – and where. “No one has a clear answer, but I think part of it can be traced to a change in priorities,” said Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center. “And it is unbelievably complicated, but I think there is something to be learned from looking at certain regions of the state.”
If there’s anyone maybe even more excited than [UVA alumnus] Mike Tobey for his first-ever participation in the Olympic Games, that’s Mrs. and Mr. Tobey back in the States – his parents, who are now also fully geared up with the proper equipment to cheer for their son.
Tim Shields remembers the spring breakers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, heckling him for bringing his prototype basketball hoop onto the beach. It was spring break in March 2019, and the former UVA student had driven 15 hours with his transportable basketball hoop.
Nineteen-year-old University of Virginia student Natalia Marshall wanted to buy a handgun for protection from an abusive ex-boyfriend. When she was turned down by a dealer, she sued to challenge the law.
The case was filed in 2018 on behalf of plaintiffs Tanner Hirschfeld and Natalia Marshall, who were both then University of Virginia students. Hirschfeld, then 20, and Marshall, 18, had both tried unsuccessfully to purchase handguns from licensed dealers. Marshall reportedly wanted a gun to protect herself from an abusive ex-boyfriend.
A federal law that for more than 50 years has banned licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults between age 18 and 21 is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Tuesday’s ruling was prompted by a lawsuit by 19-year-old Natalia Marshall, a University of Virginia student who said she wanted a handgun as protection from an abusive ex-boyfriend.
Tina Thompson, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a Hall of Famer, has been a mentor for Atkins since she was an assistant at the University of Texas when Atkins played there. The relationship has endured and now both are in the same region again, with Thompson coaching the University of Virginia. Thompson — a co-head coach for the WNBA all-stars along with Lisa Leslie for Wednesday night’s matchup with the women’s national team — knows Atkins, 24, belongs on the Tokyo-bound squad. “I reminded her [that] she’s in this space because she deserves to be there,” Thompson said. “Being in this pos...
“It’s pretty clear that Youngkin is trying to avoid getting pinned down on specific issues,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “This makes sense as a candidate who belongs to a party that has been on the wrong side of recent trends in Virginia.”
For many public health experts, the upcoming school year is a looming reminder that children remain one of the most vulnerable populations for catching and spreading new cases of COVID-19. “It’s going to depend so much on the local context of the school system,” said Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA infectious disease specialist. Children under 12 aren’t yet eligible for a shot, and likely won’t be until later this fall. But growing research shows that vaccinations among adults can be key to protecting younger age groups.