When Alexander Singh’s younger brother underwent spinal fusion surgery to correct his scoliosis, it was a painful case of history repeating itself. Years earlier, his mother received the same invasive surgery. A UVA student at the time, Alexander Singh felt called to action. Minimally Invasive Spinal Technology LLC – MIST for short – was born.
As a part of a series about business leaders who are shaking things up in their industry, a Q&A with UVA alumnus Spence Green, co-founder and CEO of Lilt, a company that uses machine learning for language translation.
UVA Cavalier Daily: The campus newspaper of the University of Virginia also called out Virginia Reps. Cline, Good, Griffith, and Wittman on Thursday and urged their removal.
A data analyst hailing from the human health world – where prospective, randomized, double-blind studies are the standard for research – has seen the data and thinks it needs to be disseminated. Wendy Novicoff, a professor of orthopedic surgery and public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine, said at first she thought it was the sort of study she might not accept as a peer reviewer for a human medical journal. "There are all kinds of problems with the data. It's going to be biased, etc.," she said. "But when you go from 100% fatal to not fatal, I can live with some bias in the data."
A UVA Health family physician is being appointed to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The Task Force is an independent, volunteer panel of 16 national experts. Dr. Li Li will be the only physician from UVA during this four-year term.
“Let’s see how long this ban lasts, and also whether other corporations follow their lead,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “At this point, it is mainly a symbolic statement. Still, some of these are household names, so the decision will grab some attention.”
J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, says if Trump is impeached a second time, it may not mean much. "Honestly, more than anything else, it is probably going to end up being something that's more symbolic, just because it's unlikely he gets convicted," he said.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, says a second impeachment attempt is actually not about removing Trump from office – because impeachment will not be concluded by Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 – it’s about what happens to him after he leaves the White House.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine spoke with UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato on Monday to talk about Wednesday’s events, from the floor of the U.S. Senate to the secure bunker where he and other lawmakers waited for hours until the Capitol building was cleared and they could return to the chamber.
The violence that took place in our nation’s capital last week stunned many. Now, the director of presidential studies at the UVA Miller Center, Barbara Perry, is weighing in on the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. “This is genuine insurrection, which is illegal attempts to overthrow the government,” Perry said.
(Podcast) This week's “Wall Street Week” features David Westin's interviews with former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard Kennedy School Senior Fellow Megan Greene, UVA Miller Center professor Barbara Perry and Operation HOPE founder and CEO John Hope Bryant. The conversations highlight the implications of the unrest at the U.S. Capitol, the economic fallout from the slow pace of vaccinations, and market reaction to the Georgia runoffs.
At UVA’s Center for Politics, Larry Sabato has built a global reputation for analyzing and explaining this country’s political trends. He thinks Democrats have done Joe Biden a great favor by winning two seats in the U.S. Senate. “Democrats have all three pieces of at least the elected branches that one needs to get things done," he explained at a recent forum on the web. As part of UVA’s new online talk show, “Democracy Dialogues,” Sabato invited several big names from political circles to join him in exploring the significance of Georgia’s vote.
(Podcast) Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center, discusses moves to remove Donald Trump, why impeachment is important even if it may not be achieved by Jan. 20, how recent events will change the Republican Party, and the risk of escalating violence.
Three UVA faculty members – Jessica Andrus, Jeffrey Grossman and Joel Rubin – are among the signatories.
(Commentary by Sabrina Mitchell of the UVA Cancer Center’s Office of Community Outreach and Engagement) Vaccine mistrust and hesitancy is not new. The World Health Organization named vaccine hesitancy as a top 10 global health threat in 2019, as vaccines are a cost-effective and successful way of avoiding disease.
Because of the rise in COVID-19 cases, the UVA Medical Center will ban visitors, with limited exceptions, effective Wednesday.
Within the first two years of the Kennedy administration, the Kennedy family became increasingly concerned about the prospects of Johnson in the Oval Office. They hatched a plan that would position Robert F. Kennedy, JFK's younger brother and attorney general, to take the White House following JFK's presidency, according to UVA’s Miller Center.
Faced with climate changes that are taking a toll on our shoreline, our forests and farms, Virginia has agreed to stop burning fossil fuels by 2050. To see if that’s actually possible and to explain what we’ll have to do over the next 30 years, UVA experts have produced a report called “Decarbonizing Virginia’s Economy.”
Following the 2000 election – about which, recall, there had been more than a little controversy – UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs conevenred the “blue-ribbon” National Commission on Federal Election Reform was convened to study and make recommendations about how to better administer the election process in America.
Rounding out the top five are the No. 2 UVA McIntire School of Commerce, No. 3 New York University’s Stern School of Business, No. 4 University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and No. 5 Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. McIntire was the only other winner of an individual category, taking first in academic experience, which is based solely on our student satisfaction survey of recent alumni. The school placed highly in our other two core metrics, earning third in admissions standards and sixth in employment outcomes.