The new study focuses on a limited slice of time in a remote region, but there is a growing body of science suggesting that pre-industrial climate impacts started earlier and were more significant than previously thought, said William Ruddiman, a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. And it’s not just fires. Deforestation before 1850 – a date often used to demarcate the start of the industrial era – resulted in 300 million tons of carbon going into the atmosphere, Ruddiman said, but only about half as much since then.
The Southside Health District – an area that includes Halifax County – is the only region of Virginia not seeing a drop in COVID-19 daily cases. Instead, infections are slightly increasing. Known as a slow-growth trajectory, UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute reports cases may not start to fall locally until the end of the month.
Last year’s flu season was very subdued likely because of strict public health measures in place to slow the spread of the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. In addition to more mask wearing, influenza shots set a record according to the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. However, this year could be different, experts fear. “Most public health restrictions have been lifted, and surveys suggest prevention efforts have declined,” UVA researchers wrote in a Friday report. “We are also unlikely to repeat the record vaccination rates seen last flu season.”
Local epilepsy research is revealing unknown triggers for seizures and it could help treat the condition. Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have discovered how one type of brain cell called somatostatin interneurons can cause seizures when they go haywire.
(Commentary) Efforts to rapidly expand our reliance on wind and solar generation for electricity, while at the same time closing baseload natural gas generation with similar haste, makes no sense economically. “The only explanation for that policy is you want to shut down the economy.” Another voice of reason has emerged to challenge the climate alarmist orthodoxy, a Virginia voice, Professor Jason S. Johnston at the University of Virginia School of Law. He brings to the discussion the experience and analysis of a regulatory law expert and economist, distilled into a somewhat daunting 65...
Brigham Young University was one of four schools to partner with the NFL on a $4 million study that could play a significant role on the NFL draft, specifically the treatment of hamstring injuries in both college and the professional league moving forward. Researchers from BYU, along with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia, have partnered on a first-of-its-kind NFL-funded study on hamstring injuries that will seek to determine common signs of recurring impacts of the most common injury suffered by NFL players, one that has seen nearly...
University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato discussed the politics of space at a Tuesday afternoon virtual event with NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson. The event, hosted by the UVA Center for Politics, highlighted space travel as a public-private partnership and the goals of NASA as an organization.
The UVA Police Department is receiving a $2,500 grant from the Life Enrichment Center. The grant will be given to the Ebenezer Baptist Church on behalf of the police department to fund community outreach events and work to improve the relationship between law enforcement and the community. “Community service and community-oriented policing are at the heart of what we believe in,” UVPD Capt. Bryant Hall said.
(Commentary by Cristina Lopez-Gottardi Chao, assistant professor and research director for public and policy programs at UVA’s Miller Center; subscription may be required) President Joe Biden has a unique opportunity to pressure the Cuban government on human rights reform, as his administration continues its review of Cuba policy and prepares for the possible resumption of consular services at the U.S. Embassy in Havana.
After an 18-month absence due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court returned this fall to an “explosive” term that experts say will likely influence voter turnout in the 2022 midterm elections. “The chances of this term being a blockbuster term is very high,” UVA law professor A.E. Dick Howard said. “This may well be the most explosive term since 2000, since the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore.”
The University of Virginia is No. 25 in the Associated Press Top 25 men’s basketball preseason poll, which was released Monday. UVA returns just two starters from an NCAA Tournament team but has added transfers Jayden Gardner and Armaan Franklin.
Muriel-Theresa Pitney has been appointed the clerk of the Supreme Court of Virginia effective immediately. Pitney began serving as chief deputy court of the Supreme Court of Virginia in January 2019. She began serving as acting clerk in April. Pitney earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and her law degree from the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law.
The Lakers have now filled that remaining two-way contract, as they announced Monday that they had signed Jay Huff (Dave McMenamin of ESPN first confirmed the team’s release). Jay Huff comes to the Lakers after spending a small amount of time with the Washington Wizards. He played in two preseason games for the team, but only at the end of a couple of games with little-to-no statistics coming from the 7’1” center. Huff played all four years of his collegiate career at the University of Virginia, entering the 2021 NBA Draft as a senior. He will more than likely play nearly all of his time on th...
The Indiana Pacers have secured guard [and UVA alumnus] Malcolm Brogdon to a two-year contract extension worth $45 million that will pay him a total of $89.3 million over the next four years, Brogdon’s agent tells ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Brogdon’s original deal would’ve ended after the 2023 season, but this new extension won’t make him an unrestricted free agent until 2025.
Nine teams comprising students from 21 universities – including UVA’s Cavalier Autonomous Racing – are headed to Indianapolis Motor Speedway this week to compete as finalists in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. The teams’ autonomous open-wheel cars will compete for $1 million in prize money care of a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
A pair of professors from the University of Virginia School of Law have become members of the American Law Institute. The ALI announced on Oct. 15 that professors John Duffy and Ruth Mason have been elected members of the institute. Their election means 28 members of the UVA law school faculty are now affiliated with the ALI.
“Biden’s dip in popularity has made this trickier for McAuliffe, and McAuliffe likely believes that Democrats getting something done before the election helps Biden, which by extension helps him,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Subscription may be required) Despite McAuliffe’s effort to tie Youngkin to Trump — especially on opposition to vaccine and mask mandates and on the former president’s false allegations of election fraud — an analysis by Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics last week concluded that “Youngkin has done at least a passable job of straddling the various wings of the Republican Party, giving clear nods to the Trumpier wing by talking about so-called ‘election integrity’ while emphasizing less hot-button issues in his advertising, like repealing a sta...
In every Virginia governor’s race since 1969, the candidate from the president’s party won a smaller share of the vote -- usually a much smaller share -- than the president did in the race for the White House just the year before, according to calculations by Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, published by UVA’s Center for Politics.
Aynne Kokas, faculty senior fellow at the Miller Center and associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia: “U.S. foreign policy with regard to China needs greater nuance in areas of potential engagement. China is a strategic competitor, and that presents risks to the United States. At the same time, the United States still benefits from cooperation in important aspects of climate, education, and health. By painting ‘China policy’ with a broad brush, valuable opportunities for collaboration get lost.”