Depending on your age, you may have heard the old question, “How are you going to keep them down on the farm after they’ve seen Paire (Paris)?” When it comes to Wichita native [and UVA alumna] Micah Watson, we offer a more interesting, but less perplexing question: Are we going to get Micah back to Wichita after the rest of the world sees just how talented she is? Well at least for a weekend, the talented playwright, filmmaker and screenwriter will return home for the Wichita debut of her awarding play “Canaan.” However, after that, the sky isn't even the limit for this talented young fi...
(Posdcast) Former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears had to overcome multiple systemic barriers including racism and misogyny, but a personal setback – divorce – is something that profoundly shaped her. In this episode of Bouncing Back, Justice Sears shares with Rebecca Glatzer how she came to terms with her divorce and to accept that she could not control—or fix—everything in her life. Ms. Sears earned an advanced degree in appellate judicial studies from the UVA School of Law.
Dr. Danny Avula, the director of Richmond and Henrico County’s health districts and the state’s former COVID vaccine coordinator, has accepted Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s appointment to become commissioner of the state’s Department of Social Services, the health districts announced Friday. Avula received degrees in medicine and public health from Virginia Commonwealth University and Johns Hopkins University, and he completed his undergraduate education at the University of Virginia.
Ever since he was an assistant editor at the Mobile Press-Register, Steve Joynt has been a Mardi Gras connoisseur. “The idea of starting an annual Mardi Gras magazine rolled around in my head for a few years,” said Joynt, who runs the website with his wife, Nancy, a fellow UVA graduate. “By Jan. 6, 2012, I had the first Mobile Mask website up and running. I ‘covered’ Mardi Gras 2012, shooting as many photos as I could.”
A University of Virginia police officer has a big competition this weekend. Officer Percy Tassin is in Williamsburg for a body sculpting competition. He says it is a natural competition, which means no supplements. This is his fifth one.
J. Miles Coleman from the UVA Center for Politics said the special masters did a good job of drawing the lines. "Joe Biden won the state by 10 points, he won seven of the 11 districts on the new map," said Coleman. Governor Glenn Youngkin, who narrowly won the Virginia governor's race, would have carried six of the 11 new congressional districts.
Friday is National Wear Red Day to raise awareness for the No. 1 killer in women: heart disease. Heart disease and stroke cause one in every three deaths in women each year. But when people think of women and common diseases, most think of breast cancer. That's why Dr. Mike Valentine from UVA Health says this day is so important. "Making women and the entire population aware of the risk factors and the treatment that they'll need to prevent death and morbidity from heart attack and stroke is really critical,” he said.
Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we focus on Saras D. Sarasvathy from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
On the court documents, six attorneys from two separate law firms are listed that include J. Abraham Sutherland, who has been making a name for himself in cryptocurrency circles recently and also serves as an adviser to the Proof of Stake Alliance and as an adjunct professor to the University of Virginia School of Law.
Sensing a bit of weakness, some Trump critics have become even more vocal in their attempts to carve out an alternative path for the GOP — including Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, and Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor who helped coach Trump during the 2020 presidential debates. They believe that voters will be turning to moderate Republican candidates in the 2022 midterms — including the Republican primaries — and that will turn the political winds against Trump. Larry Sabato, the director of the non-partisan University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Trum...
Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, says growth in the region was slower than in the previous decade. “Most of the population in the city of Richmond grew more slowly than the metro area did during the 2000s,” he says. “The slower growth in Richmond’s urban core is in line with what we saw from census numbers all over Virginia, and to a certain extent nationally. Virginia had a really big slowdown in the population growth during the 2010s.”
“A small incident or miscalculation could unleash a sudden and unpredictable political confrontation,” said Fatton, who teaches political science at the University of Virginia. “As the saying goes, the center does not hold and things are falling apart. In short, the crisis continues with no clear outcome.”
Patrick Jackson, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at the University of Virginia, said medical researchers use mRNA technology to inject patients with instructions to create their own viral protein cell and develop an immunity to the viral cell. He said the mRNA technology in the HIV vaccine can produce the viral protein similar to how the body could create the actual HIV viral protein, allowing researchers to easily and quickly manipulate the mRNA itself to create antibodies. Jackson said he expects to see more vaccines with mRN...
Amy J. Mathers, an associate professor of medicine and pathology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, offered an analogy: When cooking an egg, you cannot undo it. Tests that researchers heated to extreme temperatures were less sensitive to positive samples. But, Mathers added, in the case of freezing, evidence suggests the tests are still usable at room temperature.
The current barriers, medical experts and ethicists said, only exacerbate a pandemic response in which only those who have time and money can respond to the virus and seek treatment. From the cost and availability of Covid tests to having access to vaccines, they said, the pandemic has increasingly stratified those who can afford the tools to fight the disease and those who cannot. “Through all this we’ve seen that communities that are in highest need are the ones that have the lowest access, and that certainly includes low-income people and communities of color,” said Dr. Taison Bell, the dir...
Kyle Enfield, medical director at the University of Virginia Medical Center’s intensive care unit, said the state’s southwestern and northwestern areas continue to struggle with new infections, leading to more hospitalizations that have placed a burden on local health systems. “I would say our health-care systems during this wave have been strained more than we’ve seen in the past,” Enfield said.
(By Jane Friedman, web editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review) When authors are putting together book marketing plans from scratch, I suggest that they start by making three separate lists: one of owned media, one of paid media, and one of “earned media.”
(Commentary co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project) It’s now marriage proposal season—the time between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day when nearly 40% of couples decide to get engaged. The holidays tend to put people in mind of marriage. So what’s the best age to put a ring on it?
UVA Health says COVID-19 rates have peaked and case numbers are finally starting to go down.
In the 1800s, most births were supervised by midwives, according to an article by Dr. Dominique Tobbell, a University of Virginia professor, while in the 1900s hospitals and physicians became responsible for more births, and midwives attended fewer births.