For some of the city’s progressive activists, though, the trial is more of a hum in the background. Kathryn Laughon, a University of Virginia nursing professor involved with anti-fascist and anti-racist community efforts, told HuffPost that it’s “just one part of the larger work that’s gone on” in recent years.
(Commentary) Supreme Court advocate Douglas Laycock helped craft today’s First Amendment law. Yet in the COVID-19 cases, the Court’s conservative majority risks turning the free exercise of religion into something Laycock never imagined: a right to kill people. Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, was the victorious attorney in Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah (1993), persuading the Supreme Court to invalidate a ban on animal sacrifice. To understand where the law is now, one must understand that decision, and how the Court has abused it.
As Thanksgiving approaches, Dr. Costi Sifri, UVA Health’s director of hospital epidemiology, said there are ways you can reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 when at gatherings. “For example, even if you’ve been vaccinated, to be tested if you’re going to a family gathering, particularly a family gathering where there may be unvaccinated people,” he said. “So maybe some children who have not yet had a chance to complete their vaccine series or perhaps some family members who may be at more risk for COVID.”
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, experts at UVA Health are offering some advice before you gather around the table with friends and family. “If you’re high risk, if you’re older, if you have high risk medical conditions, I really strongly encourage those people to get a booster, especially as we head into the holiday season,” UVA Health’s Dr. Costi Sifri said.
(Co-written by Kerem Cosar, professor of economics) Paving dirt roads and building highway networks, unsurprisingly, have been shown to produce substantial economic gains, but what is the impact on domestic trade from improving existing road networks? Using spatially disaggregated data on major capacity upgrades of existing road networks and domestic transactions in Turkey, this column estimates a large positive impact of reduced travel times on trade and regional employment, and long-run aggregate real income gains of 2-3%.
(By Boris Kovatchev, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Diabetes Technology, and Anna Koatcheva, his daughter) The artificial pancreas is finally at hand. This is a machine that senses any change in blood glucose and directs a pump to administer either more or less insulin, a task that may be compared to the way a thermostat coupled to an HVAC system controls the temperature of a house. All commercial artificial pancreas systems are still “hybrid,” meaning that users are required to estimate the carbohydrates in a meal they’re about to consume and thus assist the system with glucose cont...
The University of Virginia has taken a long, circuitous path to NCI comprehensive cancer center designation, but it got there.
UVA Health says more than 99% of its team members have complied with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. A spokesperson says of the remaining 1%, 18 employees have been suspended without pay and 64 have been terminated. Another 39 employees resigned. Of those 121, two were doctors and 38 were nurses who refused to get vaccinated against the virus.
Is remote working the key to easing the outmigration of young workers on the Eastern Shore? According to an editorial by Dwyane Yancy, editor of Cardinal News, one opportunity for rural counties to obtain or retain workers going forward could be attracting those who want to enjoy living and working in a rural atmosphere. Yancy cites a study by Hamilton Lombard, a demographer for the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Lombard compares the wide per household income disparities in Virginia as a key factor in rural counties losing workers to the more affluent ar...
The Georgia Historical Society announced recently that Grace Elizabeth Hale has been awarded the 2021 Malcolm Bell Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award for the best book on Georgia history published in 2020 for her book, “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture” (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). The award was presented during a private luncheon hosted by Vince and Barbara Dooley at their home in Athens. Hale is the Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia.
Cameo Elementary Principal Nicole Hahn addressed board members about the University of Virginia’s Partnership for Leaders in Education, which serves Clovis and more than 100 other school districts in 25 states about finding best educational priorities and practices. Hahn said involvement with the UVA partnership has taught her various lessons about lifelong learning, mentoring, collaboration and having good state and national networking. “Most professional developments are a quick fix,” Hahn said, “but the University of Virginia has created something different that will endure for me.”
(Blog) An Introduction to Physics: This is one of the free online courses for young people offered by renowned University of Virginia physics experts. This course is designed to introduce interested students to the physics of ordinary things.
The UVA Police Department is getting four graduating officers but it still has 20 vacancies. It’s turned to incentives, the most recent of which is a $15,000 signing bonus.
Kanijah Brickhouse saw the horror of that weekend four years ago through social media posts. She was in high school on the Eastern Shore of Virginia at the time and remembers recognizing the city name as the same one that hosts the University of Virginia. “It was in Charlottesville. I was thinking about going there,” Brickhouse recalled at that moment. “It is such a good school, but would I be welcomed there?” Brickhouse, now a UVA senior majoring in cognitive science and member of the Black Student Alliance, said she has not given the trial much thought.
Some state agencies subject to the single-use plastic ban were already moving in the direction of phasing out plastics and otherwise attempting to reduce waste. The University of Virginia had in place a sustainability plan to reduce its total waste footprint 70% percent by 2030 and “had already been pushing towards zero-waste events,” said Director Andrea Trimble. “This was an additional push,” she said. With EO77, she said, “we’re able to mobilize and implement [those waste goals] faster than we would have otherwise.”
UVA Health’s transplant center is moving away from the traditional approach of transporting and storing donor hearts. Instead of using ice packs to keep the heart cool, it has now improved to Bluetooth technology to keep a more accurate temperature.
Dr. William A. Petri, an immunologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, answers this week’s reader questions on COVID-19.
University of Virginia: Far from just being a place of education, UVA has a rich and fascinating history that has led it to be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and at its center lies The Rotunda, a stunning 19th-century property modeled after the Pantheon in Rome.
Commenting on the findings, Randy Jones of the University of Virginia School of Nursing noted that the study underscores how important counseling and shared decision-making are in the management of prostate cancer patients. “There is a need for greater connections and better communication among patients, care-givers, and clinicians to allow open discussion, counseling and an understanding of realistic expectations and adverse effects that are possible during treatment,” he elaborated.
Sean Agnew, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Virginia, noted this Belkin screen protector features a material called lithium aluminosilicate, which is the basis of some glass-ceramic products like shock-resistant cookware and glass-top ranges. According to the brand, the material is double-ion exchanged, meaning it “allows for extremely high levels of residual stress [to] offer great protection against cracking,” Agnew said. However, he added that like most screen protectors, this is not an indestructible product.