“What the heck did you do to my kid?” Cynthia Warmbier’s anguish erupted at a hearing in December 2018 as she testified about her reaction to seeing her comatose son, Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, when he returned to the U.S. from North Korea in June 2017.
The future of the historic Corner at the University of Virginia could be car free, according to one student. He claims it would be good for students, the school, and the community. Right now, the Corner is split off from the Rotunda and other UVA buildings by University Avenue. In an op-ed in UVA’s student-run paper The Cavalier Daily, third-year student Noah Strike argues that in the future, traffic could be routed around it, letting walkers and bikers fill the space.
For the first time ever a transgender Asian American candidate has won an election to become the student president at a major east coast university. Abel Liu made his hometown of San Anselmo in Marin County proud as he won with 80% of the vote to become the University of Virginia student council President.
When we acknowledge things as they are, especially in difficult situations, our resistance to them can lessen, says Dr. John Schorling, the director of the Mindfulness Center at the University of Virginia. We tend to expend a lot of energy worrying about life’s challenges, which can sometimes cause more suffering than the challenge itself.
A volunteer-led phone bank has been helping the Blue Ridge Health District get people 65 or older registered for vaccines. The phone bank, which kicked off this month, was organized Kelsey Cowger, with Kathryn Laughon from the University of Virginia School of Nursing and Dr. Paige Perriello, with the goal of doing proactive outreach that health district staff didn’t have the time to do.
Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia who has followed state politics for 50 years, said such large fields for governor and lieutenant governor are unprecedented in modern times.
Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, said it was notable that the White House enlisted both Jill Biden and Emhoff on its Help is Here tour. “Generally speaking, after Hillary Clinton was placed in charge of healthcare in 1993, we haven’t really seen first ladies or second ladies given any sort of role that’s directly linked to policy,” she said. Yet both spouses were dispatched across the country “to make the case for what will ultimately be one of the administration’s biggest legislative accomplishments – and that’s policy-rich.”
Biden put forth himself as the person who was “hired” to summon his prolonged experience to try to solve intractable problems. “The elder has the perspective of history,” Russell Riley, the co-chair of the presidential oral history program at the University of Virginia, said.
University of Virginia Political Science Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE where she said President Joe Biden is going to have “thread the needle” as coronavirus cases are rising — and states are racing to get vaccines distributed.
Naomi Cahn, director of the Family Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the pandemic has had a “disproportionate impact on families of color. … That’s a really, really important part of the story.”
It’s allergy season, and those who suffer take medication almost daily to stop all the sniffling and sneezing. But is it safe to take those meds while getting vaccinated for COVID-19? News 3 This Morning anchor Jessica Larché is getting answers from infectious disease expert Dr. William Petri from the University of Virginia.
“Each time the virus copies itself, it’s like gambling,” explains Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care physician and director of the medical intensive care unit at the University of Virginia. “Sometimes when it gambles and changes itself, it doesn’t cause much difference in the virus, but sometimes it hits the jackpot, and it finds a change that either enables it to spread or to be more deadly.”
Charles Mathewes, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, said there was nothing in scripture that leads to an interpretation about Covid-19 vaccines; rather, some people were simply projecting political beliefs through their biblical interpretations. “It’s very hard to figure out what kind of theological language would mobilize them to change their views,” he said.
Every year, the Blue Ridge Poison Center (BRPC) receives more than 21,000 calls from Virginians experiencing exposures to common — and not-so-common — poisons. For National Poison Prevention Week, March 21 through 28, the BRPC is asking people to make sure they keep the toll free number to the poisoning helpline near every phone: 1-800-222-1222.
The Charlottesville MSA would become a Micropolitan Statistical Area if it were to lose its metropolitan status. UVA Health said it didn’t know how it would be affected by the possible change. “At this point, we don’t have enough information ... to know how or if this impacts us,” said Eric Swensen, spokesman for UVA Health, in an email.
Kel represents this phenomenon by creating maps in which she adds the location of Trader Joe’s in a city with the racial dot map of the area. According to the Cooper Center’s Demographics Research Group at the University of Virginia — which is where Kel gets her maps from — “[their] racial dot map … provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in the entire country.”
“Although cases have dropped dramatically in the past several weeks, they are flattening a level higher than we might have hoped given Virginia’s high vaccination rates,” UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute wrote in its weekly modeling update, released Friday.
Some public health restrictions have been relaxed, and warmer weather, coupled with pandemic fatigue, have drawn more people out of their homes, according to the latest analysis from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute.
(Editorial) We are starting to see some demographic trends that finally work to parts of Virginia not named Northern Virginia. Not all parts, mind you, but enough to start making a difference. These trends come in the form of the latest population estimates from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. The latest estimates show a fascinating trend: We’re seeing an uptick in people moving into the Roanoke Valley and even some decidedly rural parts of Southside and Southwest Virginia. Not all, mind you, but enough to be noticeable.
(Editorial) The point is, we are starting to see more people moving to small towns and rural areas and this is a trend that is tentatively accelerating. Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia’s Center for Public Service, says the best way to analyze these trends is by looking over several years, so, with his help, that’s what we’ve done.