UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute is predicting a surge of COVID-19 cases across the state beginning in August and lasting into the fall, largely because of the Delta variant, which is 2½ times more contagious than the original COVID-19 virus, according to the institute’s latest report.
Until recently, it was thought that the lymphatic system did not reach as far as the brain. But in 2015 a team of researchers at the University of Virginia discovered in the central nervous system lymphatic vessels that drain cerebrospinal fluid into the cervical lymph nodes below. Knowing that the brain interacts with the immune system could open possibilities for new research into neurological diseases, including Alzheimer’s.
Our design thinking approach was impacted greatly by Professor Jeanne M. Liedtka of the University of Virginia, who, by her instruction, has enabled our staff to grow in our ability to adapt to new opportunities such as expanding mobilization from the Majority World. She also taught us to respond to church-planting opportunities among the largest movement of people in our lifetime by asking four questions.
(Editorial) We have some summer reading for you. It’s not exactly light beach reading, unfortunately, but maybe it ought to be required reading for anyone interested in the future of American democracy. The first was an article in Politico ominously headlined: “How the ‘Culture War’ Could Break Democracy.” It’s a Q-and-A with James Davison Hunter, a sociologist at the University of Virginia and author of a seminal book that turns 30 years old this year: “Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America.”
The University of Virginia’s current plan is to return to “in-person residential, educational and research experience[s].” Gathering and travel limits will be significantly relaxed. UVA is planning for all libraries, dining facilities and recreational spaces to be open this fall.
Some questions in jazz music, such as why Charles Mingus named a song “All the Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother,” may never be answered. Officials with eclectic local radio station WTJU are hoping that a module-based jazz curriculum they are developing will answer many of the others.
(Commentary) James B. Murray ended two eventful years as rector of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors on Thursday and handed the gavel (maybe there’s a secret handshake, who knows) to the new rector, Richmond attorney Whitt Clement. Bonne chance, Whitt.
Part of Emmet Street will be shut down near Ivy Road for a few nights this week and later this month as a contractor relocates a natural gas pipeline from the west side of Emmet Street to the east side to accommodate UVA’s Ivy Corridor Project. Emmet will be completely closed between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. July 7 through 9 and again on July 20.
Former UVA baseball star Chris Taylor will play in his first All-Star game next week. The Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder received the nod on Sunday afternoon after being selected as part of the players’ vote.
New research from UVA and Colgate University provides evidence that Black women are less likely than their White counterparts to be afforded the protection that can often come with perceptions of femininity. This, in turn, can make police violence against Black women seem more justifiable.
“Science!…” opens a poem started in the late 1820s by a youthful Edgar Allan Poe and revised throughout his life. “Why prey’st thou upon the poet’s heart, Vulture! Whose wings are dull realities!” Poe, a former University of Virginia student, goes on mournfully: “How should he love thee — or how deem thee wise…?”
Atul Keshap took charge as India’s Charge’d Affairs in Delhi today. The appointment of the Indian-American career diplomat, an old India-hand at the US state department, will help reinforce the close US partnership with the Government and people of India, demonstrated by our collaboration to overcome global challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic, the US State Department had said. Keshap, who is from Charlottesville, Virginia, has lived in Nigeria, Lesotho, Afghanistan, Zambia, and Austria. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Virginia. He studied economics, inter...
Michaela Meyer came one spot and 0.16 seconds away from qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics in the 800-meter run. In the same race, she also set an ACC and University of Virginia record with a personal-best time of 1:58.55. Meyer chose to take a glass-half-full view of becoming an alternate for the Olympics.
UVA women’s basketball head coach Tina Thompson will team up with another WNBA legend, Lisa Leslie, to coach the WNBA side in the upcoming WNBA All-Star Game. The game will take place on July 14 in Las Vegas and can be seen live on ESPN. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.
Nurses and doctors can trade in their scrubs for swimsuits this summer, and it's all for free thanks to the return of the James River Relief program. The program is providing more than 100 free paddle trips and rental options to hospital workers. "It's critically important for them to engage in some physical activities because there are numerous physiological and psychological that can be derived from either incidental and regular participation in physical activity in addition to that being one with nature has a cathartic effect," said Joseph Giandonato, employee well-being coordinator for UVA...
(Analysis) Back in Georgia, a video three months ago of state Rep Park Cannon, a black woman, being arrested for knocking on the door of Governor Brian Kemp, went viral. "If I wanted to turn out black voters, I would show that scene," Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, tells The New Arab.
"I do wonder if that is the right approach in a place like Northern Virginia, a rapidly changing area that has become a lot more Democratic in recent years and where hard-edged Republican cultural messaging may very well go too far," Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told the Examiner. "Youngkin faces the challenge of trying to identify and critique progressive excesses in schools but not sounding like Dick Black while he’s doing it."
Professor of politics at the University of Virginia, Larry Sabato, said that polling shows that Democrats – including President Biden – ‘are not rated highly on the US immigration issue and are seen as too soft.’
(Commentary) Jefferson’s belief in the liberating power of education is something that we are presently in serious need of restoring. In reference to the University of Virginia, he wrote, “This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is left to combat it.”
The University of Virginia athletic department finished 11th in the annual Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup standings, which were released on Friday. The Directors' Cup standings, which serve as a ranking system for the top athletic departments in college sports, award points based on a school’s postseason finish in 19 sports, four of which must be men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and volleyball.