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(Commentary by Steven Johnson, Brent Kitchens and Peter Gray, information technology professors in the McIntire School of Commerce) When Mark Zuckerberg appears at a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, he will no doubt be asked about Facebook’s content moderation policies.
The number of undecided voters varies from election to election, and it looks like there are fewer undecided voters in 2020 than in 2016. “People probably have a better understanding of their options this time,” said John Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Food insecurity is rising in Charlottesville and that’s why one doctor at UVA Children’s is trying to make sure his patients have fresh food at all times.
Working at the molecular level, MIT chemistry professor Yogesh Surendranath harnesses electricity to rearrange chemical bonds. Although he was interested in all of the sciences, he narrowed his focus after taking his first college chemistry class at the University of Virginia, with a professor named Dean Harman.
The dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine has been given what is considered one of the highest honors in the field of health and medicine.
“Climate is a long-term concern, as opposed to joblessness, which is today, or a pandemic, which is today,” said political scientist Larry Sabato, who heads UVA’s Center for Politics.
Republican Joni Ernst seeks re-election as Democrat Theresa Greenfield challenges her image as political outsider. Nonpartisan political analysts with Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia this week shifted the Iowa race from “tossup” to “leans Democratic,” picking Ms. Greenfield, a 57-year-old businesswoman, as a narrow favorite and pinpointing Iowa as the seat most likely to tip the Senate to Democratic control.
(Co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor) “My marriage had preexisting conditions, and COVID killed it,” said Dan, a 44-year-old father of three living in Texas.
UVA researchers say doctors may need to rethink how they use a particular drug to treat patients with severe COVID-19 cases. According to a release, the way the body transports dexamethasone suggests that diabetes and other factors may reduce the drug's effectiveness.
A study by Dudley Poston of Texas A&M and Teresa Sullivan for the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics found that the exclusion of undocumented immigrants could cost California, Texas and New Jersey one House seat each, and similarly benefit Alabama, Minnesota and Ohio.
University of Virginia students can expect their spring semester to look much like the fall with a mix of online and in-person classes and restrictions on the size of student gatherings, face mask requirements and a regimen of regular COVID-19 testing, officials announced Thursday.
VAFF Director Jody Kielbasa talks about the options people have to still participate.
One of these is the documentary “Statecraft,” which was produced by the Miller Center and VPM, about President George H.W. Bush’s foreign policy team and the Cold War. The second involves the documentary “The Way I See It,” about former Reagan and Obama White House photographer Pete Souza.
Sibos Academy, facilitated by the SWIFT Institute, marked the fifth edition of the SWIFT Institute Student Challenge. Responding to this years’ challenge on how to mitigate and protect applications and data from cyberattacks, four final teams were selected representing Baruch College, New York University, George Mason University and University of Virginia.
A claim posted on Twitter says that most deaths in the 1918 influenza pandemic originated from bacterial pneumonia caused by face masks. This is false. Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA critical care and infectious disease physician, said that “there is no reputable study that has connected mask use with an increase in bacterial pneumonia.”
Louis P. Nelson, UVA professor of architectural history and vice provost for academic outreach, and two other experts joined a conversation about the history of white supremacy in the built environment and in architectural education.
How might the federal government legally get states to require the COVID-19 vaccine? Two words: ample incentives. “I think that the path of least resistance would be for the federal government to establish guidelines for the states,” says Margaret Riley, a UVA professor of law.
As one of the first women and African Americans to attend the University of Virginia, Reverend Brenda Brown-Grooms remembers a professor saying she’ll never get an A in class. “I have no idea what it is to be a white man in America. I've never been one,” said Brown-Grooms. “I know how to be a black woman in America, that's what I've been for 65 years.”
Born in India, Mehta came to the U.S. as a young child. He earned his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in 1993 and graduated from the University of Virginia’s law school in 1997.