(Editorial) We’ve been rooting through Virginia’s latest population estimates, produced annually by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at UVA. Today we’ll look at how these demographic trends ought to prompt some local governments — and in some cases, the state government — to consider the policy implications.
(Editorial) How should the U.S. respond to this crisis? Former U.S. ambassador Robert Blackwill and University of Virginia professor of history Philip Zelikow last month co-wrote a policy paper for the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations titled “The United States, China, and Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War.”
In their 2020 paper “The Participatory and Partisan Impacts of Mandatory Vote-by-Mail,” co-authors Barber and John B. Holbein, of the University of Virginia, compared the rollout of universal vote-by-mail elections in several states where the transition happened on a county-by-county basis. The analysis found no partisan impact on election results. Using mail voting as the primary method for participation only increased turnout by about 2 percentage points overall.
Outside of COVID-19, heart attacks are the leading cause of death and a University of Virginia professor’s research reveals a potential way to prevent heart attacks and strokes.
Researchers are calling for the development of an “advanced information system” to better prepare for the next pandemic, according to research led by the University of Virginia. The system would make it easier for researchers from across the globe to communicate the molecular makeup of the next pathogen that poses a biological threat to the world.
A group of 12,000 students from 21 institutions [including UVA] have started a groundbreaking trial that will look at whether recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine can in fact be carriers of SARS-CoV-2 and spread it unknowingly to other individuals. The students, who will be given the Moderna vaccine, will be taking part in the Prevent COVID U study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle that also involves robust nasal-swab testing to determine the potential likelihood of spread from those who are asymptomatic and have been vaccinated.
The University of Virginia is participating in a national study examining infection and transmission risks among college students who receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. UVA hopes to enroll approximately 600 student volunteers in the national Prevent COVID U study, launched by the COVID-19 Prevention Network.
Most college students are low on the priority list for vaccination against COVID-19, but UVA is offering them a chance at inoculation and planning to pay each volunteer nearly $600 to take part in a national study.
Robyn S. Hadley was appointed vice president and chief student affairs officer at the University of Virginia, effective June 1. She has been serving as associate vice chancellor and dean for scholar programs at Washington University in St. Louis.
In Charlottesville, the University of Virginia has taken steps since the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017 to address its past as a university built by enslaved people and that it had been supportive of the Confederacy. The University created a committee in February to rename two buildings. It will also remove two Confederate monuments and add historical context to a statue of Thomas Jefferson, who owned slaves.
We are living through history, and the University of Virginia Library has been documenting hundreds of websites since the first COVID-19 case in the commonwealth. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library is partnering with the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library to capture websites related to this pandemic. They hope to synthesize everything into one historical resource: From initial mask mandates, to the current vaccine distribution process, and the overall effect to the Charlottesville area.
Now that the U.S. is back in the Paris Climate Accord, the University of Virginia wants to jump start America’s role in addressing the global emergency. Starting Wednesday, the University will host a virtual conference on how to prevent the natural disasters that accompany climate change: extreme droughts, extreme floods, heat waves in cities, heat waves in the ocean – all of these things that affect people and the planet.
Gov. Ralph Northam recently signed an executive order aimed at keeping plastics out of landfills across Virginia. Executive Order 77 requires higher education institutions like the University of Virginia to eliminate single-use plastics, like plastic bottles or bags.
University of Virginia students enrolling in Summer Session will have to prepare for more Zoom classes, but there’s an opportunity for students to take one in-person class at no additional cost.
Several lawyer-presidents pointed to COVID-19 as a crisis in which their legal training has been invaluable to addressing a wide spectrum of challenges. UVA President James E. Ryan, who was a Supreme Court clerk and public interest lawyer before moving into higher education, noted his experience making sure laws are applied “both equally and equitably” has helped amid the public health emergency.
A college student from San Anselmo in Marin County is making news for being the first transgender and Asian American to win election to lead the student body at an Eastern school. Abel Liu is gaining national attention for winning election for Student Council president at UVA, becoming the first transgender and Chinese American to do so.
Financial technology company SmartAsset looked at five factors to determine the best-value colleges and universities including tuition, student living costs, scholarship and grant offerings, student retention rate and starting salary for new graduates. UVA takes the top spot in Virginia and ranks 12th nationally.
Why a state would abolish their insanity defense seems initially puzzling. However colored by public myths, the insanity defense underpins our very ideas of justice and personal blame. Proponents of abolition claim that doing away with the defence “improves the criminal justice system’s public image”, and ensures trust by holding “the mentally ill accountable for their actions the same as everyone else.” But for Richard Bonnie, a Professor of Medicine and Law at the University of Virginia, such a claim marks a contradiction in terms. The defense prescribes precisely the limits of how we judge ...
One of the top research journals in the United States has placed its editor in chief on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation into a controversial podcast episode that critics labeled as racist. … Academic physicians of color have lost their jobs for less, said Dr.Ebony Jade Hilton, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at University of Virginia. Hilton cited an incident involving Dr. Aysha Khoury, an internist, who said she was fired from Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in Pasadena after a discussion with her students on racism.
“Elon Musk is a techno-optimist so it makes sense he’s going for carbon capture,” said Andres Clarens, an environmental engineer at the University of Virginia who has researched carbon capture options. “You could create a new widget but scaling it up is the real challenge; also, Musk also doesn’t touch on what to do with the CO2 once you get it. But if we can solve these things our toolkit to deal with climate will become far more powerful.”