Kristen Musselman always has been a big believer in the wellness benefits of spending time outside. A Northern Virginia native, Musselman spent most of her life enjoying nature. She grew up with easy access to the nearly 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail and rediscovered her love of nature while she was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. This summer, Nelson-based Devils Backbone introduced Musselman as its chief hiking officer, a six-month job that involves hiking hundreds of miles of trails along the East Coast.
Sustainability. Body butter. Self-care. You must be wondering what these words all have in common. I would like to introduce you to Koree’s Kare. This company sells body butter, lip balms and candles to help you take care of your body in a clean and natural way. In fact, the body butter is completely made in Jaylah’s own house. Now that you have a better idea about the organization, let me introduce you to the fabulous female entrepreneur who is responsible for this entire vision: Jaylah Webb. Jaylah is currently a second-year student at the University of Virginia.
When a student of English truly embraces the culture and isn't shy about using the language, the experience of studying overseas can be highly rewarding. A case in point is Phyl, another student from China, who went to study at the University of Virginia in August 2019. She found the transition relatively easy. "I guess it was my love of English fiction like the Harry Potter series and ‘Tess of the d'Urbervilles,’ and chatting with the English teachers in high school from English countries, that made me feel easy in the very new environment at UVA college life," she explains.
A COVID-19 passport may be the key to returning to normalcy, and insight from a University of Virginia law professor says that’s definitely within the realm of possibility. “People might have an argument as lockdowns continue that people who are fully vaccinated should be free from some of these restrictions,” UVA Law associate professor Kevin Cope said.
Dr. Robert M. Carey, professor of medicine and dean emeritus of the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, said the next question to be answered is how the higher pulse pressure might affect heart disease in smokers. "I don't think there's any question that consistent smoking reduces diastolic blood pressure and increases pulse pressure," said Carey, a cardiovascular endocrinologist who was not involved in the new study. "The issue is whether the increase in pulse pressure from smoking induces a significant cardiovascular disease risk," and if so, "whether quitting smoki...
(Commentary) A pair of New York residents brought the challenge to state rules requiring applicants to show a specific self-defense need or “proper cause” to obtain a concealed carry permit. If the high court does overturn the New York law, then it would open the door to ending similar restrictions in other states. Pro-gun activists have been frustrated over the justices’ ducking Second Amendment cases in recent years, reasoning that it has been more than a decade since the Supreme Court handled a major gun rights case. The court declined to review 10 cases on the Second Amendment last year, s...
Ohio native Kyle Kondik is at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. He noted Ohio’s delegation has been shrinking since a high of 24 seats in 1973. And he also finds the timing of the decision of a Democratic Congressman to join Ohio’s open US Senate race matches up with this Census announcement. “If you gave Tim Ryan a truth serum, he probably would admit that part of the reason he’s running for Senate is because his district won, frankly, isn’t all that Democratic anymore, and too, is seems likely to be dismantled as part of this redistricting process,” Kondik said.
Kyle Kondik, an elections analyst with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, also projected that Republicans could see most of the gains under the new lines. GOP officials will control the map-drawing process in Texas, Florida, and North Carolina, and will be favored to gain in Montana and Oregon as well, for an edge in six of the seven new seats being drawn, he said. “On balance, Republicans should benefit from these changes — not necessarily by doing better in the states losing seats, but rather by potentially picking up the lion’s share of the new seats in the states gaining dis...
Joe Biden's presidency has come as advertised: more calm and less chaos after the 1,461-day roller-coaster presidency of Donald Trump. "Biden is often called boring," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Congress passed a massive and far-reaching $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief and economic stimulus bill and appears poised to approve a jobs and infrastructure spending measure later this year, fulfilling key campaign promises by Biden. “Biden was a focused candidate in that regard,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “He talked about the pandemic a lot, talked about the economy a lot,” Kondik told Al Jazeera.
With semiregular speeches, few news interviews and no unscripted tweets, Biden has fashioned himself the foil of the previous president. “He’s a fairly calm, rational person and he is a thoughtful person and he just is the antithesis, I think, of Donald Trump in terms of persona and style,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. “I think that has come across and calmed the country.”
"I'm usually a hard grader, but I give Biden an 'A,' a full 'A,' said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia Center of Politics. "It is important and significant that President Biden has been able to get support among Independents and even a sliver of Republicans because it's a big country. It's a controversial country and we all have to live together."
Over 5 million people scheduled to get the COVID-19 vaccine did not show up to their appointment for the second dose. “The mRNA vaccine is incredibly effective after even just one dose, but even more protection is available after both doses.” Dr. Petri, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia said. Petri says he thinks some people have been hesitant to get the second dose of the vaccine after Johnson and Johnson was paused.
When the University of Virginia Medical Center set out on the design of its University Hospital Expansion project in November 2013, the plan called for expansion of its emergency department, surgical suite and a new six-story inpatient tower. But when the new inpatient tower was only months from completion, the pandemic hit, prompting UVA to rethink the project’s design and make some last-minute changes, according to Health Facilities Management.
Dr. Steven Zeichner and others at the University of Virginia have been studying when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. “We thought if we have these technologies that we think can be beneficial, we really should re-tool and re-orient and see if we can do something,” Zeichner told News 3. He and others across UVA and Virginia Tech have been working on a new COVID-19 vaccine. “We wanted to come up with a vaccine that would be appropriate for the whole world,” he said.
Scientists at the University of Virginia report what may be an important medical breakthrough. Laboratory testing shows the use of two cheap oral drugs can treat a common form of anemia.
The answer to why some patients die unexpectedly following an epileptic seizure may finally have been answered in new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Through looking at a certain type of seizure in a mouse model of epilepsy, researchers found that death occurs only when the seizure induces failure of the respiratory system.
Teasing out the measurement was a lot like “knowing you got this tiger by the tail,” Kent Paschke, a physicist at the University of Virginia and co-author of the new study, said. It took three months of intense runs of the laser, enduring power outages and round-the-clock monitoring of the system. The team wasn’t sure if they’d be able to complete the work in the three months they were given. But ultimately, the atomic-scale marathon turned up an exact measurement, one that redefines our understanding of the size of the neutron skin.
The University of Virginia has eased limits on indoor and outdoor gatherings due to the lower number of COVID-19 cases in the area and increasing vaccination rates. Students in the UVA community can now gather in groups of up to 25 people indoors, which is up from six.
Blowing out birthday candles is a tradition that has been around for centuries, but this celebratory ritual may be going away, as one UVA alum is debuting a cleaner way of making a wish. “Nobody’s handing you the hamburger and blowing on it and being like, ‘Here’s your hamburger. I just blew on it for you,’” Mark Apelt said. When Apelt was out with friends before the pandemic, he had an idea.