In the first month of life, one in 4,000 babies will have a stroke, but new research from UVA’s School of Medicine is looking into the development of the brain’s immune defenses and how they respond to stroke.
83 positive COVID-19 cases in UVA students, 115 total positive cases at UVA; 2,475 cases across TJHD
The UVA COVID Tracker was last updated on Monday morning. Since Aug. 17, there have been 83 positive cases reported in students; 115 total positive cases in faculty, staff, students and contract employees.
The number of COVID-19 cases at the University of Virginia continues to grow, but the number of cases reported among the pre-arrival tests remains low. On Grounds, the number of COVID-19 cases between faculty, staff, students and contract employees is 115. Among students, there are 83 cases.
(Commentary by Laurie Archbald-Pannone, associate professor of medicine and geriatrics) The number of cases of dementia in the U.S. is rising as baby boomers age, raising questions for boomers themselves and also for their families, caregivers and society. Dementia, which is not technically a disease, but a term for impaired ability to think, remember or make decisions, is one of the most feared impairments of old age.
A commission on African American history education created by Gov. Ralph Northam released its final report Monday, including over 30 pages of proposed edits to the state’s history curricula. The commission is co-chaired by Derrick Alridge, director of the Center for Race and Public Education in the South at the University of Virginia.
A police stop could have cost former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin his career in space before he ever got started. Melvin, a UVA alumnus who was never afraid launching into space on two Space Shuttle Atlantis missions, never knew what was going to happen when the cops pulled him over.
The University of Virginia football team held a virtual “Meet the Team Day,” on Saturday. During an hour-long question-and-answer session, fans were able to submit questions for players on offense and defense, as well as head coach Bronco Mendenhall.
As the Philadelphia 76ers search for a new head coach, many potential candidates are expressing interest in the job. Count Philly native Dawn Staley as potentially one of them. According to a televised report, Staley “would be open to having discussions with her hometown team if they were to reach out to her.” Staley, University of South Carolina’s head coach of the women’s team, is well known in the sport of basketball. After competing for the University of Virginia for four seasons from 1989 to 1992, Staley became the ninth-overall pick of the 1999 WNBA Draft.
Devan Coombes, a third-year student at the University of Virginia, said: “I vote because I can. One hundred years ago, women didn’t have that opportunity. In some countries today, women still don’t. We live in an amazing country that is free where we have the opportunity to have our voice heard every election cycle. I believe I should practice that right; we all should.”
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“The private schools can be much more nimble,” said Bob Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia. “They’re smaller by almost all scale. They deal with a more homogenous population, typically more resourced.” The renewed interest in private schools doesn’t surprise Pianta. He said the University of Virginia has been inundated with calls from parents looking to organize small pods, home-based classes with a few parents pitching in to pay a teacher for private lessons.
The complete pseudo-verse soon grabbed the attention of John F. Kennedy, who – as UVA Italian studies scholar Deborah Parker explains – copied it into his book of quotations in 1945. He first cited it publicly at an event hosted by the National Conference of Jews and Christians in 1956 to praise U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and other men for taking strong stands against religious and racial bigotry. JFK repeated the line over the years as one of his favorite sayings when denouncing inaction at times of moral crisis.
The Supreme Court’s decision in June striking down a Louisiana restriction on abortion clinics is giving abortion opponents an unlikely opportunity in other states. University of Virginia School of Law Professor Richard Re, a scholar on court rulings that produce no majority opinion, said those arguments are likely to persist. “This is the latest round of debate about what counts as precedent and how you evaluate precedent,” Re said. “The debate will rage on.”
These signs all show that North Carolina’s purple electorate again is a critical prize for both major parties as they strive for control of the White House and Congress. “Without North Carolina, Trump doesn’t have many feasible routes to 270 electoral votes,” wrote J. Miles Coleman and Bennett Stillerman in an analysis of the state for Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a blog published UVA’s Center for Politics.
An artificial pancreas originally developed at the UVA Center for Diabetes Technology safely and effectively manages blood sugar levels in children ages 6 to 13 with type 1 diabetes, a national clinical trial has found. Data from this and other studies has prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve the device for use by children ages 6 and older.
Trump has argued mail-in ballots would favor the Democrats, but a recent study co-written by political scientists at the University of Virginia and Brigham Young University showed only a small increase in Democratic voter turnout. After analyzing presidential and midterm general elections between 1996 and 2018, states that had switched to all-mail voting saw increased voter turnout of 1.8% to 2.9%, but only a 0.7% uptick in the shares of votes cast for Democratic candidates.
UVA classes started, virtually, on Aug. 25. The University had delayed the return to Grounds by two weeks to buy more time to evaluate the coronavirus. In a statement sent out Friday, the University announced plans to bring students back to Charlottesville.
In UVA’s statement on Friday, the University explained its rationale for bringing students back. It says that concerns about supply chain readiness have been addressed, and that the virus prevalence in Virginia is in a range the University feels comfortable with.
In a statement posted on the school’s website, UVA officials said they had initially delayed the start of in-person undergraduate classes by two weeks to allow for more assessment of the spread of COVID-19. They also said they delayed the decision in order to take a look at how other schools have fared since opening. UVA said it is now proceeding with plans to welcome students to residence halls starting Sept. 3 and to begin in-person instruction for undergraduates on Sept. 8.
The University of Virginia announced Friday that it is moving ahead with plans to offer in-person instruction for the fall semester, after delaying the start of classes for two weeks to assess the spread of COVID-19. “We know some will be delighted to hear this news and others will be disappointed,” a university statement said. “To be frank, it was a very difficult decision, made in the face of much uncertainty, and with full awareness that future events may force us to change course.”