This summer, communities across the country are putting in place measures to restrict beach and pool access amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But this isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. Places of public recreation, including pools and beaches, have long been flashpoints of race and class conflict. We spoke to Andrew Kahrl, professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Virginia and author of “Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline.”
Last year, Democrats’ path to at least a 50-50 split, according to Dr. Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, was a “possibility” but not necessarily the “probability.” “Now, I still wouldn’t call it the probability, but I would say, at worst, for Democrats is 50-50 – and I don’t mean 50-50 Senate seats – I mean that it’s a coin flip as to which party will control the Senate,” he said.
(Video) Claire Kaplan, an advocate against sexual assault and violence, is retiring from UVA’s Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center.
More than a dozen new interactive chalkboard murals will be painted by a local artist at UVA Health’s Department of Inpatient Psychiatry.
The new analysis from researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden and the UVA School of Medicine confirms this simplistic storyline, but also finds both silver linings and a potentially darker explanation for the pandemic’s death toll in the country.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School of Business) With the U.S. stock market recovering from the coronavirus pandemic, investors are wondering what, if anything, can halt its run. One thing they are wary about is the prospect of a renewal of the U.S.-China trade conflict, because it could jeopardize prospects for a global recovery.
“The notion of separation of church and state is dead, and the PPP loan program is the evidence of that,” UVA law professor Micah Schwartzman said. “The money is going to fund core activities of many organizations, including religious organizations. That’s something we’ve not seen before.”
College towns like Charlottesville are likely to take a hit during this year’s census, says Spencer Shanholtz at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. “Most colleges went online, and those students – many of them – went back to their home communities,” he said. “And therefore they were not necessarily counted where they would normally have been on April 1.”
Vashti Harrison, a 2010 UVA alumna with a double major in media studies and studio art, moved to New York City in December 2016. She has two books on the children’s middle grade hardcover list (“Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” at No. 2 and “Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History” at No. 7) and two on the children’s hardcover picture book list that she illustrated.
Emergency room doctor Leigh-Ann Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia, said fair and efficient health care has always been a problem for Black people in the U.S. "Our system in America is not built to serve everyone equally, and the health care system is not immune to that," she told CBS News.
The NFL and Football Research, Inc. have awarded a total of $1.37 million in HeadHealthTECH grants as part of the NFL Helmet Challenge. Four recipients will use the funding to further develop their helmet prototypes. University of Virginia professor Matthew Panzer ($223,047) is designing energy absorbing layers from a foam metamaterial—an assembly of smaller components.
Voters who dislike both presidential candidates this year tend to be younger, more liberal than in 2016. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, said, “It makes some sense that these kinds of voters would prefer change to the status quo, and Biden is the change candidate in this race.”
Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said that he expected a good number of Republican candidates to enter the 2024 race for president without a dominant front-runner, and that Mr. Hogan’s record of criticizing Mr. Trump could make for a challenging path in a crowded primary race.
Researchers explored the results of no lockdown in Sweden, with analysis on how other measures helped the country have less initial deaths. Peter Kasson of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Sweden’s Uppsala University said: “Our study shows that individually driven infection-control measures can have a substantial effect on national outcomes, and we see Sweden as a good example of this case,” Higher levels of individual action would further suppress the infection, while a complete lack of individual action would likely have led to runaway infection, which fortunately hasn’...
(Commentary by Jim Miller, a family practice and sports medicine physician and associate clinical professor) Is improvement in performance and conditioning possible after you turn 60? YES! What are the keys to this seemingly daunting task? This answer is complex.
Doctors from the University of Virginia says people’s actions can have a profound effect on the spread of the coronavirus, that is even if the government does not call for tighter restrictions or lock downs.
There has long been an assumption that children's entertainment must feature light and innocent themes with uncomplicated storylines in order for them to be able to "handle" the content. However, there's a risk this type of programming may negatively affect children's development. A University of Virginia study led by Angeline Lillard showed that children who watched "fast-paced, fantastical" shows may become educationally handicapped.
According to UVA’s current reopening plan, students should have the option to stay home and participate remotely, defer admission or take a gap year. Larger classes will remain online, and the university has said that faculty with health concerns also will be able to keep classes online.
As universities considered thousands of applications, many found standardized testing helpful according to Greg Roberts, dean of undergraduate admissions at UVA. “It can be a useful tool to help us distinguish between students who come from so many different high schools with so many different grading scales and grade inflation,” he explains.
The Broadway star died from the coronavirus, despite being just 41 and in apparent good health. Cases like his, experts said, are growing. “A young person who has no real medical comorbidities, but gets super sick and ends up on multiple support machines” is a clinical portrait that doctors are now seeing “a lot,” said Dr. Taison Bell, a physician specializing in infectious disease and pulmonary and critical care at UVA Health.