The team therefore hopes for rapid translation of their D-methionine findings for diagnosis in human patients. “I don’t anticipate any difference between the mice and humans, since the tracer only targets bacteria,” said Dr. Javier Villanueva-Meyer, assistant professor of clinical radiology at the University of Virginia, who did the PET experiments as a postdoc in Wilson’s lab.
UVA professors hosted a conversation that put the events of Aug. 11, the torchlit rally at UVA, and Aug. 12, into historical context. It focused on the ongoing struggle for social justice and racial equality.
The Miller Center at the University of Virginia has been documenting the first year of each of the last six administrations, offering some lessons and guidance on what should be avoided. The radio piece quotes Miller Center director William Antholis, and UVA historians Melvyn Leffler, William Hitchcock and Philip Zelikow, who was a top State Department official in the George W. Bush administration.
(Commentary by Richard Schragger, Perre Bowen Professor of Law) The question before the court, however, is a fairly straightforward one: Does a Virginia statute bar Charlottesville from taking down or moving a statue of a Confederate general erected in 1924? There are certainly some ambiguities in the law, but this central question can easily be answered in the negative.
(Commentary by psychology professor Angeline S. Lillard) Pretend play is a charming activity. Children pretend that their living room is a restaurant where they prepare and serve food, or they imagine the tree outside is a castle. American parents serve this activity by purchasing toys to support it ($20 billion worth last year), and most think pretending is very important to children's development. But the evidence on the latter point is actually quite weak.
“Anecdotally, it seems to be growing. But how much it’s growing and what percentage of people who are basically full-time, gig-economy people, I think, is less clear,” says Chris Lu, a deputy secretary of labor under then-President Obama who now is a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center.
In 2014, election officials across Virginia began implementing a new voter ID law aimed at combating voter fraud, even though studies show that voter fraud is incredibly rare. Statewide, it’s unclear if the law has impacted voter registration, but that’s due to a lack of research on the topic, said Geoffrey Skelley, media relations coordinator at UVA’s Center for Politics.
“As a demographic category, race is the strongest predictor of vote choice,” says Geoff Skelley at the UVA Center for Politics. “Nonwhite voters tend to be strongly Democratic, while white voters are more likely than not to be Republican.”
“None of these polls are perfect, to say the least. But they all have one common thread: Moore is leading in all of them. That should be disturbing for Strange and his supporters,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a UVA political analyst.
Kyle Kondik is an Ohio native who’s now the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the newsletter of the UVA Center for Politics. “The governor, I think, is trying to keep his name out there and stay relevant as his time as Ohio governor ends,” Kondik said.
The 30th annual Virginia Film Festival, presented by the University of Virginia, once more will bring big-name filmmakers and an assortment of film world celebrities to the UVA campus, Nov. 9-12, and will offer more than 120 Hollywood releases, small independent films and cutting-edge documentaries, as well as special film events and lectures designed to educate and enlighten the festival’s loyal audiences.
As the city of Charlottesville and the nation as a whole continues to grapple with the violent racial strife that erupted earlier this month, the Virginia Film Festival announced on Tuesday that it will host filmmaker Spike Lee as a special guest at the upcoming festival as part of a program around the legacy of slavery.
Spike Lee will bring two of his films to this year’s Virginia Film Festival as part of a broader project with the festival and James Madison’s Montpelier to explore the ways in which slavery continues to affect the way black Americans are seen and treated.
Years of research and consideration led Davis to take the plunge and get a cochlear implant, which was installed in late July and turned on in time for his 80th birthday Tuesday. The two-day process was completed at the UVA Health System on Monday.
Once again, the Page family – that’s Marshall and Kim and daughter Lindsey – were the hosting force at their Uptown home at the send-off party for the University of Virginia. Approximately 80 students, alumni and friends mixed and mingled. Alumna Ashbrooke Tullis thanked the Pages for hosting the party and offered congratulations and encouragement to the five new Wahoos in attendance.
(Commentary by Jeff Goldsmith, associate professor of public health sciences at the University of Virginia) It is possible that this is just the beginning of a campaign to re-advantage independent practitioners at the expense of hospitals.
But what happens when we cut out those innocuous, fleeting moments with the person behind the counter or in the driver’s seat? Allison Pugh, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia, says it amounts to placing ourselves in social bubbles that consist only of like-minded people.
Scott C. Beardsley has been the dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business since 2015. Previously, he was a senior partner at the global consulting firm McKinsey & Co., where he worked for 26 years. Now Beardsley has written a book about his experience and his outlook, “Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia.”
The UVA football team, along with other sports programs at the university, will pay respect to the civil unrest in the hometown of the University this season by wearing a special patch on their uniforms.
UC Berkeley’s chief lawyer, Christopher Patti, 59, died in a hit-and-run accident while cycling over the weekend in Sonoma County, and police are hunting for the driver, officials said. He graduated from Dartmouth College and earned his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School.