(Editorial) It should come as no surprise that Christianity remains the largest faith tradition in every state in the United States, including Virginia. What is surprising is that Islam is now the second largest religious group in the commonwealth, narrowly edging out Judaism, according to a new report by the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Bill Petri with University of Virginia Health believes mRNA vaccines are the best thing since sliced bread. That’s because this type of shot can be recreated to fight off other common viral diseases. “This ability to swap out like the latest variant is very real and that’s in clinical trials,” Petri said.
Exciting results are coming out of a University of Virginia and Virginia Tech labs. Researchers at both schools are developing a vaccine that could prevent not just COVID-19, but all coronavirus variants in one shot.
Wellness projects such as the Student Health & Wellness Center at the University of Virginia present a collection of strategies for merging outdoors and indoors. Large windows allow views of nature. Circulation, orchestrated to align with those views, brings a sense of nature and natural light inside. Transitions between outdoor terraces and gardens are seamless, with no change in floor level. With the pandemic, our thinking has shifted to emphasizing health and wellbeing in all buildings.
10. University of Virginia. There are four pillars to the UVA psychology studies in Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, and Clinical and Social Psychology. You’ll choose one psychology course from each of the four pillars. You’re also expected to take Fundamentals in Psychology and Research Methods and Data Analysis, along with electives. Among courses included in the curriculum are studies in Abnormal Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Child Development, etc. You may also opt to complete an internship through UVAs Internship Placement Program, y...
The library commemorated its 50th in a different way: by rolling out a new website devoted to telephone conversations recorded by LBJ during his years in the White House. Developed by the library in partnership with the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, the site lets visitors listen to calls in which the President spoke to Martin Luther King Jr., J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, Edward Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, and other national and international figures about important events of the times: the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, the War on Poverty...
Two Darden School of Business professors are teaming up to write a book to help UVA student-athletes properly market themselves. Under the working title, “Designing, Activating, and Monetizing Your Athlete Brand,” the book will walk student-athletes through brand management that comes with NIL (name, image, and likeness).
Former governor and current gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe said if he’s re-elected, he wants to mandate vaccines for everyone who is eligible to get one, especially college students. On Wednesday, McAuliffe visited the University of Virginia, applauding the school for requiring everyone on campus to be vaccinated.
Gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is calling on all Virginia colleges and universities to require students and staff to get vaccinated against COVID-19. He stopped by the University of Virginia on Wednesday to applaud the university for doing just that. “I’m here today to say thank you to the University of Virginia for the great work they’ve done, mandating vaccines for everyone one the students that are here. I congratulate them on that,” McAuliffe said while addressing students at the University.
Focusing on the president’s handling of Afghanistan holds some peril for Republicans, though: their longtime support for the 20-year war there and attempts to use the chaos in Kabul to their advantage could force them to defend the years the U.S. spent there. “This is a bipartisan albatross around the neck,” Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said.
Plexiglass barriers at grocery stores, nail salons and even classrooms have become the norm, but experts say they should not be relied on without other safety measures in place. “When we speak, we emit particles,” UVA Professor of Engineering Systems and Environment Andrés Clarens said. “Some of them are larger, and some of them are smaller, and the barriers are really intended to stop those larger particles from getting from me to you.”
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia is reopening Saturday. The museum has undergone renovations, including replacing the roof and working to make the building more energy-efficient. Staff members say they’re excited to welcome the public back into the galleries after being closed for 17 months.
Jen Lilley is a face you recognize. Her name is one you recognize. Whether you know her from her time on daytime television or you know her from her many Hallmark movies, you know Jen Lilley. … She graduated magna cum laude with honors from the University of Virginia. Of course, this intelligent young woman also graduated early.
Launched in May, the Revival Pasta truck is the third endeavor under the “Revival” banner by Jordan Robarge, a 28-year-old transplant from Falls Church, Va., who started the Revival Chili trailer in 2016 after coming here the year prior as a fellow with Venture for America, a nonprofit that encourages entrepreneurship in cities. His concept was a food business, making chili recipes he’d perfected while a student at the University of Virginia. The business’ unique mission is to hire people with barriers to employment and to get them practical business and job skills.
Max Muncy has been the Dodgers’ best hitter this season. Corey Seager was their best hitter last season. Justin Turner is their most consistent hitter. Mookie Betts is their most valuable position player. Trea Turner has been just as valuable as Betts since last season began. Cody Bellinger won an MVP not long ago. But utilityman [and former UVA star] Chris Taylor is the Dodger who plays the most, all over the diamond, all across the lineup. And if the Dodgers can chase down the upstart Giants in September, he will be a significant reason they do.
In an instant, the young foursome of pitchers selected at the top of the Kansas City Royals’ 2018 draft class came to represent hope, potential and expectation. Brady Singer, Daniel Lynch, Jackson Kowar and Kris Bubic became measuring sticks for the organization’s scouting and player development chops. Lynch, the 6-foot-6 left-hander out of the University of Virginia, stood out as the one of the four with the highest ceiling.
A point in favor of JUST is that it’s a practical and uncontroversial avenue for accessing some elements of stakeholder capitalism. As R. Edward Freeman, professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business and one of the godfathers of stakeholder capitalism, points out, there’s been some pushback when it comes to this investing style. “Even if all you care about is making money for shareholders, how are you going to do it? You’re going to have great products and services for customers, suppliers who want to make you better, employees who want to be engaged in the company, and communities who want you...
This summer, the governor of Serbia’s central bank is taking an aggressive position on a foreign currency: Trying to stop inventor Nikola Tesla appearing on Croatia’s coins. Though dead for 78 years, Tesla still raises temperatures between these two Balkan neighbors over which one has bragging rights to the pioneering electrical engineer, after whom Tesla Inc.’s electric vehicles were named. Two U.S.-based biographers contacted by The Wall Street Journal side with the Serbs. “When asked, Tesla would talk about being Serbian,” said Bernie Carlson, a professor at the University of Virginia.
The treatment is still not widely known or used as much as it should be, said Dr. Bill Petri, an infectious disease specialist who heads a COVID-19 research team at the UVA Medical Center. “Only about a third of patients who would benefit from getting an antibody infusion for COVID are actually getting it,” he said.
UVA Health is now offering third doses of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to patients with weakened immune systems.