She arrived hours after a key group of international diplomats on Saturday appeared to snub the man currently running Haiti by urging another politician, the designated prime minister, to form a government following Moïse’s killing. Robert Fatton, a Haitian politics expert at the University of Virginia, said the statement is very confusing especially after the U.N. representative had said that Joseph was in charge. “More confusion in a very confusing and bewildering situation,” he said.
“We have a very deep crisis, probably as pronounced as the one we had immediately after the [2010] earthquake,” Robert Fatton, an expert on Haitian politics at the University of Virginia, and a native of Haiti, told Yahoo News. “But it’s a different type of crisis. Virtually all the institutions in the country are essentially being eviscerated.”
(Commentary) When Karen McGlathery used to swim in the coastal bays off Virginia’s Eastern Shore, the water would quickly turn cloudy and brown as sediment swirled around her. Now, 25 years later, for as far as she can swim the water remains clear. The sediment is anchored in place by lush green seagrass meadows, teeming with fish, scallops and crustaceans. McGlathery, an environmental sciences professor at the University of Virginia, is part of a team running the largest seagrass restoration project in the world in these coastal bays — and one of the most successful.
Dr. Costi Sifri with the University of Virginia says, nationally, only 30% of school-aged children are fully vaccinated. “It is a more susceptible population,” Sifri said. “The Delta variant, being more transmissible, it’s like gravity: It’s going to seek areas where there are vulnerable populations, and children are potentially that group.”
Coronavirus infections are on the rise in every state for the first time since January. As Lilia Luciano reports, experts warn the pandemic has entered a dangerous stage. Then, Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at the University of Virginia, joins CBSN’s Lana Zak with more on what lies ahead.
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, communications director and senior researcher at UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service) Ninety-seven years ago, in 1924, when Charlottesville dedicated its Robert E. Lee statue, the Ku Klux Klan threw a giant parade in celebration. This July 10, when the city took down the Lee statue, local residents in attendance cheered its removal.
(Commentary by Anna Mendez, executive director of Partner for Mental Health and a fellow at the UVA Equity Center) Virginia’s mental health crisis system was teetering on the edge of failure prior to the pandemic, and the challenges of COVID-19 accelerated its collapse. For hospitals, this meant too many patients and too few staff; therefore, the recent order halting admissions to five state hospitals was unsurprising.
(Commentary by Gerard Robinson, fellow of practice at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) We began 2021 with the promise of bipartisan movement to address our nation’s civic education crisis. Two high profile initiatives provided a roadmap and potential funding for drastically improving how we teach civics in our country. However, a volatile debate over how to discuss issues of race within the classroom has threatened to derail these efforts. It is imperative that we work across party and ideological aisles to chart a path forward.
(By Justin Vesser, manager of ambulatory pharmacy services at UVA Health) While the COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the U.S. have been proved to be safe and effective, recent reports of rare adverse events, or side effects, have raised concerns. While reports like these can be scary, they’re a sign that the vaccine safety reporting system is working. They also highlight how the relative risks of rare side effects like these need to be put into context.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia is opening The Little Museum of Art at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, July 16. This exhibit is inspired by the little free libraries and the idea of take a book leave a book. Once this exhibit ends, the artwork will move to the free museum store, where the public can take or leave an art piece of their own. The art is from Charlottesville and UVA artists.
Asthma-related emergency room visits are down significantly at the University of Virginia Medical Center and across the country. Nationally, ER visits related to asthma are down 80%. Dr. Monica Lawrence with UVA Health says this trend could be due to more people washing their hands, social isolation, or other pandemic-related restrictions.
Mask mandates and the Delta variant were discussed at UVA Health’s COVID-19 briefing Friday morning. Nationally, cases are beginning to rise and a lot of that has to do with the highly infectious Delta variant. Many states across the country are bringing back masking rules, regardless of vaccination status. UVA Health doctors say there is a small increase in cases and hospitalizations locally. However, it will not be necessary to restore previous mask rules.
UVA Health recognizes the negative turnover trends and is trying to help. It was announced Friday nurses will be receiving bonuses. “UVA is facing challenges and recruiting and retaining nurses and that’s really because the pandemic, COVID, we’ve been 18 months, you know in a very stressful situation,” CEO of UVA Medical Center Wendy Horton said. “It’s really important that we make sure that we’re caring for nurses.”
In 2014, psychologists at the University of Virginia conducted a simple experiment to showcase the power of the human mind. They placed subjects in a room by themselves with no distractions for roughly 10 minutes, letting them be alone with their thoughts. Given the infinite possibilities that our imaginations hold, it aimed to promote the sheer pleasures we can derive from just thinking. It turns out that people hated it.
(Podcast) Hosted by Andrew Keen, “Keen On” features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by [UVA professor] Leidy Klotz, the author of “Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less,” to discuss why we overlook subtraction, and how we can access its true potential.
Amyloid beta and tau are two toxic molecular substances that accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, creating plaques and tangles and destroying nerve cells. Pew Latin American fellow Guillermo Eastman – who is conducting research at the University of Virginia under the mentorship of George S. Bloom – is investigating how these substances alter the production of different proteins in brain cells and examining how these changes affect neurons’ survival, structure, and function.
New models from the UVA Biocomplexity Institute indicate infections are likely to climb because vaccination rates are well below herd immunity. “With many Virginians returning to normal, the virus has room to run,” researchers wrote in the latest UVA report released Friday.
The UVA Biocomplexity Institute, which produces a weekly COVID-19 model report, noted how the Crater Region is on an “In Surge” trajectory, or currently experiencing sustained rapid and significant growth of 2.5 cases per 100,00 or higher. UVA predicts the Delta variant will grow more dominant as the time comes, according to the report, with unvaccinated individuals and communities with low vaccination rates.
Several other examples demonstrate blended learning in practice, as provided by my colleagues. The Integrated Core Experience program at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce in Charlottesville operates in similar fashion, but it’s far more ambitious: more than 300 undergraduates within one course tackle real client problems presented at the beginning of the semester. To help students build the foundational skills needed to solve these unstructured complex problems, commerce professor Keisha Lashley and her colleagues utilize the case study method and take students on a seme...
Back in March, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed an executive order requiring all state agencies, including universities, to pull back on plastic. There are two phases: cut out certain single-use plastics by July 21, then slowly phase out all other single-use plastics by 25% each year until they’re entirely eliminated by 2025. To meet orders, University of Virginia is going green.