(Book review) “To write the life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others,” James Boswell said, referring to the great 18th-century person of letters, Samuel Johnson, “may be reckoned in me a presumptuous task.” Exactly thus do I approach, with humility not unmixed with awe, Lisa Russ Spaar’s “Madrigalia: New and Selected Poems.”
Curated by Hannah Cattarin, assistant curator at The Fralin, the new “Alternate Futures” exhibition will bring in four different video projects to prompt deeper consideration of people who often get excluded from power and autonomy, and to encourage envisioning circumstances in which everything could change.
UVA doctors and researchers \ are seeing patients with long COVID-19 showing symptoms that differ from traditional responses. Long COVID-19 is a condition that can be a continuation of COVID-19 symptoms, and can also present new ones. Muscle aches, nerve pain, respiratory issues, and neurological memory loss are all things on the list. These ailments can last a year after initial exposure. “There can also be things like changes in your skin, rashes, hair loss, things like that. So it’s a very broad category and typically it’s seen within a three-month period after you were diagnosed with COVID...
Dr. Bobby Chhabra has been planning the new center for 11 years. He could see that demand for orthopedic services would grow. “When I started as chair we did 58 surgical cases through orthopedics,” he recalls. “Last year we did 9,000.”
UVA Health is opening what it says is one of the nation’s largest outpatient orthopedic centers. UVA says the new facility along U.S. 250 combines all aspects of orthopedic care under one roof. “One can come to this facility and have comprehensive musculoskeletal or orthopedic care,” UVA Health Executive Officer Dr. Craig Kent said. “It was designed in an incredible way so that we’d be able to move patients through it efficiently and with great patient satisfaction, and also satisfaction for all the people that work here.”
Middlesex County is among those counties that lost population between the April 1, 2020 census figures and the “July 1, 2021 Population Estimates for Virginia and its Counties and Cities” published last month by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, Demographics Research Group, at the University of Virginia.
The vast majority of Virginians have at least some immunity, said Bryan Lewis, a computational epidemiologist who leads University of Virginia’s COVID-19 modeling team.”That’s going to be a nice shield of armor for our population as a whole,” Lewis said. “If we do get to very low case rates, we certainly can ease back on some of these restrictions.”
UVA is garnering national attention for going green. If you walk around Grounds it may not seem obvious, but it may become more clear from a bird’s eye-view. Hundreds of solar panels sit atop six different buildings, hoping to curb the University’s electricity use.
These twin Cavaliers are fighting the uphill battle to encourage diversity in historically white sports.
UVA Health has unveiled one of the nation’s largest outpatient orthopedic centers. The ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday was the finish line of a project that was in the making for more than a decade.
(Commentary) He grew up here, right in front of us. When Ryan Zimmerman was 20 and played third base and the Washington Nationals made him the first draft choice in the history of the franchise, there were teenagers in the District who had no idea what it was like to have a Major League Baseball team at home. As he retires as a 37-year-old part-time first baseman – with all of his 1,799 games, his 1,846 hits, his 284 home runs in the same uniform – there are Washington teenagers who can’t imagine having no home team for which to root. That’s a career, in full.
Political analyst J. Miles Coleman with the University of Virginia Center for Politics says Biden is in a no-win situation. While Biden was criticized for the Afghanistan pullout, Coleman warns the American public isn’t eager to send troops to another war. But Republicans could find a way to paint him as weak if he doesn’t. “If he navigates things well, he might not get that much of a benefit, but if he screws it up, the consequences are much worse than the potential benefits could be,” said Coleman.
(Press release) Professor Saras D. Sarasvathy is now honored for her outstanding contribution to our understanding of how entrepreneurs handle uncertainty, something that has had a major impact on innovation and entrepreneurship education.
“[Thomas Morris] Chester effectively captured the frustration of black veterans who believed that their contributions to Union victory went largely unnoticed,” wrote Gary Gallagher, a history professor at the University of Virginia and the author of several books on the Civil War.
One easy way to become a more compassionate leader is by creating a firm culture and working environment that is nonjudgmental. According to University of Virginia Darden School of Business professor Sean Martin, “leaders inspire people to action.” Inspiring and encouraging members of the firm to communicate their thoughts and ideas about the firm operations creates an all-encompassing environment.
How an office’s limited bandwidth is allocated “is a million-dollar question, and probably a struggle for everyone; I’ll bet nobody feels well-resourced,” adds JoonHyung Cho, who just recently assumed the position of director of corporate relations and business development at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is no longer using the sewer to help it track COVID-19 outbreaks. It says it paused its wastewater testing late last year. Now, the commonwealth is using this practice to stay one step ahead of outbreaks across Virginia. It is testing at both a building and community level to stop asymptomatic outbreaks before they spread. “UVA has been doing wastewater testing, not so much at a community level to understand public health transmission, but more as an approach for pooled-surveillance testing on a group of people that live in a building,” Dr. Amy Mathers with UVA Healt...
This is a sign of what media scholar Siva Vaidhaynathan, the director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, has called “the Googlization of everything” and the “Facebook Disconnection.” In short, Vaidhaynathan explains technology platforms like Facebook assume that they deserve a user base measured in the billions of people. To be precise, 2.2 billion people have Facebook accounts. “But none of us can really communicate with 2.2 billion people,” even if we think we deserve such a following.
A.D. Carson, a professor of hip-hop at the University of Virginia, has a simple answer to the question of why conspiracy theories are so prevalent in hip-hop. “We understand that hip-hop is not a unique place that you go to for sexism or misogyny or for any of the phobias,” he says. And just like the world is sexist and misogynist, there’s this: “The world f---ing loves conspiracy theories!”
(Commentary) I reached out to Kevin Gaines, associate director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He’s also a history professor there. Gaines noted race complicates human interactions in the United States. Layering politics on top of that heightens tensions. Maybe Youngkin “meant well in complimenting a speech on Black history,” Gaines told me Tuesday, “but it hasn’t been long since he signed an executive order on critical race theory. “He’s really pandering in a cynical way to a vocal minority of White Virginians.”
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