Just when the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership signing has provided some modest hope that common economic interests might help moderate the rising security tensions in the Indo-Pacific, new modeling from UVA economists provides an insight into the alternative scenario.
In a new paper, Dr. Adam Lauring of the University of Michigan’s Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Division of Infectious Disease and a collaborative team describe an enterprising study that allowed them to view the evolution of the vaccine virus into a more dangerous form in real-time. This study, which was run by Mami Taniuchi of the University of Virginia and Michael Famulare of the Institute for Disease Modeling in Seattle, along with a team from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, followed households where children were vaccinated with t...
As the pandemic rolled in, Angela Reiersen, a psychiatrist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, came across early research suggesting that some people with Covid-19 got sicker not due to the virus itself, but because of an out-of-control inflammatory response that can produce severe respiratory and blood-clotting problems. Immediately, she recalled a paper she’d read last year that seemed to bridge the disparate realms. In that 2019 study, UVA researchers had injected fluvoxamine into mice to prevent complications and death from ER-driven inflammation.
Clostridioides difficile infection decreased in both proportion and number among hospital inpatients during the COVID-19 pandemic peak months compared to the pre-COVID era, while C. diff infection among outpatient visits remained stable, according to UVA Health researchers presenting at the American College of Gastroenterology 2020 conference.
Elliott White Jr. is doing post-doctoral research at the University of Virginia on the loss of coastal forests along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts. To illustrate the impact of coastal forest loss in these regions of the U.S., he refers to a NASA study of 16 years of data on the loss of mangrove trees, which are considered coastal defenders. “Just in the U.S. alone, over a similar time period, we’ve lost six times as much coastal forest as we’ve lost mangroves globally,” White says. “So that kind of, at least for me, paints a very vivid picture of the scale and magnitude of the problem that’s go...
Multiple items were recovered from a time capsule that sat enclosed in concrete under a Confederate solider statue in Albemarle County for more than 110 years. Over the years, the sides of the capsule were damaged and water got into the box, heavily damaging many of its contents. University of Virginia Library Special Collections Conservator Sue Donovan, who led the salvage effort, said from her perspective, she thought it was “quite surprising” that they were able to recover as much as they did from the time capsule.
A record eight schools reported women’s enrollment at 45% or higher, up from three schools last year and none five years ago. Among those schools is the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
A new survey by the Forté foundation has found that more MBA classrooms are coming closer to being gender balanced. Of the 52 schools surveyed, 22 had over 40% women enrolled in their 2020 intake. In the same survey taken 10 years ago, this was true of only one school. A record eight of these schools – including UVA’s Darden School of Business – reported 45% or more women were enrolled in their 2020 MBA programs.
UVA is preparing for students to leave the Charlottesville-Albemarle area next week ahead of the holiday season. Students are asked not to return until classes resume in February once they leave.
Though the development of COVID-19 vaccines is promising, Dr. Anthony Fauci urged listeners to maintain health safety protocols for the foreseeable future during a virtual lecture to the University of Virginia on Wednesday. Hosted as part of the UVa School of Medicine’s Medical Center Hour, Fauci gave an expansive virtual lecture on COVID-19 and the challenges it poses.
Dr. Anthony Fauci came to the University of Virginia Medical Center virtually on Wednesday with a mixed message, of hope for vaccines to immunize Americans against COVID-19 and concern that the pandemic will remain out of control unless people are willing to take the vaccine.
Donald Trump has fired a top election official for dismissing the outgoing president’s claims of voter fraud. Chris Krebs, who holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences from UVA and heads up the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was criticized by the president “highly inaccurate remarks” on voter fraud.
(Commentary by UVA Engineering professor Tomonari Furukawa) As a robotics expert, I’ve seen how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated advancements in science and technology, including the fast-tracking of vaccine development, enhanced testing capacity and drug research. I’ve also experienced this firsthand, having dedicated the past several months of my life to designing a robot that will sanitize high-touch surfaces more efficiently and effectively than human sanitation workers and the other robots on the market.
UVA students have created The Collegepedia, a website that aims to constantly update accurate and reliable information about the latest COVID-19 news at college campuses across the commonwealth.
The day after the 2016 presidential election, the editors of Sabato’s Crystal Ball declared, “The Crystal Ball is shattered.” The nation watched in disbelief as Donald Trump was elected president in an upset that political commentators had assured their audiences was highly unlikely to occur.
Gabrielle Adams, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia and an expert in interpersonal dynamics, believes that going into business with someone you already know well has advantages.
Researchers used different methodologies to examine the impact of adding ethnic diversity to school boards in California. Their conclusions were: School districts with at least one Hispanic member were more likely to make greater financial investments in district schools, and minority students saw academic gains in the years following such a change. ”I think the takeaway here is that one member seems to make a difference,” said Brett Fischer, a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia and the author of one of the California studies.
Johnson’s claims are rooted in research by Robert Epstein, a psychologist who studied arranged marriages and taught that couples could come to love each other. Siva Vaidhyanathan, a University of Virginia professor of media studies, director of the college’s Center for Media and Citizenship and the author of “The Googlization of Everything (and why we should worry),” described Epstein as “notoriously unqualified.”
“There’s a lot of evidence that the lower humidity allows the virus to be more efficient in transmission,” Bryan Lewis, a professor at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, said of the spread of influenza during the winter.
After winning in 2016 in what many viewed as a fluke, Trump mounted a registration and turnout drive in the counties of his white, blue-collar base that appears to have succeeded. “The Trump campaign worked on this for years, and pretty much kept it under wraps,” said Larry J. Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia.