Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a project of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, changed Iowa’s 2nd District race from a toss-up to “leans Democratic.”
When well-traveled writer and accomplished musician Paul Bowles began his college years by attending University of Virginia, his main reason for choosing the university in particular was that Edgar Allen Poe was an alumnus.
(Podcast) White actors have recently been stepping down from voicing characters of color. UVA professor Shilpa Davé explains the harmful stereotype she calls “brown voice” and recommends a Netflix show that captures the Indian-American coming-of-age experience.
Researchers found the virus that causes COVID-19 in the middle ear and mastoid during autopsies of patients with COVID-19, prompting a recommendation to health care providers to take precautions when treating ear conditions. Dr. Bradley Kesser of the University of Virginia trumpeted the findings as “News flash!” in his accompanying editorial.
(Commnetary by Cale Jaffe, associate professor of law and the director of the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at UVA) The Supreme Court appears inconsistently enthusiastic about federal regulation and state-centric environmentalism.
(Commnetary by Cale Jaffe, associate professor of law and the director of the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at UVA) The Supreme Court appears inconsistently enthusiastic about federal regulation and state-centric environmentalism.
Good health and a happy outlook on life may seem like equally worthy, yet independent goals. Over the course of six months, Kostadin Kushlev and his colleagues at the University of Virginia and the University of British Columbia examined how improving the subjective well-being of people who were not hospitalized or otherwise undergoing medical treatment affected their physical health.
Every year since 1993, Dairy Queen has partnered with The Children’s Miracle Network to raise money for 170 children’s hospitals in the United States and Canada. In Virginia, Dairy Queens raise money specifically for UVA Children’s, usually through an annual Miracle Treat Day. This year, because of the coronavirus, Miracle Treat Day could not happen, but that has not stopped DQ from raising money.
As Virginia moves into its third stage of reopening and local cases of COVID-19 rise again, there have been new and growing outbreaks of COVID-19 in local long-term care facilities. Dr. Laurie Archbald-Pannone, a UVA geriatrician and the lead physician of UVA Health’s GERI-Pal program – an interprofessional team of physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses who are working to support local long-term care facilities in preparation for and outbreaks of COVID-19 – explained how the living configuration and demographic of long-term care facilities impacts viral transmission.
As part of UVA’s fall return to Grounds, students will leave Charlottesville before the Thanksgiving holiday and won’t return until after the New Year.
Architecture is defined by its humanity. This is especially true in a year defined by the coronavirus pandemic and global calls for social justice. The impact has been felt across sectors, including in higher education. As architect for the University of Virginia, Alice Raucher advises the University on capital planning and design guidelines. Working to address unique design challenges, Raucher is acknowledging the University’s past while planning for the future.
Pushing to include the stories of a wider swath of people and endeavoring to reinterpret historical spaces does not equate to erasing history, a panelist said Monday during a discussion of Albemarle County’s property in Charlottesville’s Court Square. Elgin Cleckley, a UVA assistant professor of architecture and design thinking, said that the moment to rethink public spaces is now.
Black history is integral to American history, but not a requirement to earn a degree in teaching, nor is it a required subject area for teacher certification exams such as the Praxis, said Valerie Adams-Bass, an assistant professor in UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development.
(Commentary by Aniko Bodroghkozy, professor of media studies) One of the remarkable features of the era’s media environment, dominated by the relatively new medium of television news, is how quickly certain events could roil the conscience of the nation. Confrontations between police and protesters happened frequently during the 1960s. But a particular set of circumstances ensured that the images coming out of Selma galvanized politicians and citizens with remarkable speed and intensity.
Two students at the UVA School of Medicine started the trivia game as a fun, safe way to see friends during the coronavirus pandemic.
On a recent summer morning, a group of UVA students gathered in Chantilly to sort and sanitize handheld devices ranging from smartphones to tablets. The equipment was given to a local medical clinic and then distributed to seniors who don’t have the means to purchase their own, but need to stay connected to health care providers, family and friends.
(Commentary by Andrew Kahrl, professor of history and African American studies) With the weather getting hotter and many indoor activities limited because of the pandemic, a trip to the water is a great way to cool off. But not every Connecticut community has a beachfront or river in town, and many wealthy communities with waterfronts have a history of limiting water access to residents only. Some of those restrictions have reappeared this summer in response to COVID-19.
New research suggests that antibodies the immune system makes to fight the new coronavirus may only last a few months in people with mild illness, but that doesn’t mean protection also is gone or that it won’t be possible to develop an effective vaccine. What we need to know is if and how people remake antibodies if exposed to the coronavirus again and if they protect against another infection, Alison Criss, an immunologist at the University of Virginia, wrote in an email. “We also need to know if there is a protective T cell response” that reappears.
Interleukins are a type of protein that stimulate your immune system’s B- and T-cells to help fight off infections. A recent study at the University of Virginia Medical Center showed that preexisting high levels of interleukin-3 have been associated with a poor outcome in COVID-19 infections.
An international nonprofit consortium of health care institutions dedicated to developing and evaluating therapies to support failing organ systems has honored UVA Health.