“25 Mbps download/3 Mbps upload speeds is the current definition of broadband, but nowhere is 25/3 ever good enough for homework, business office, telehealth, entertainment all in one home,” said Dr. Christopher Ali, Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, when he spoke on my Gigabit Nation show. “We can’t keep thinking DSL and satellite are broadband. They’re not! They’re from the days of dialup and AOL!”
Andrew Johnson was anathema to the hallowed words that rang out from Gettysburg. According to Elizabeth R. Vardon of the University of Virginia, “Johnson’s strong commitment to obstructing political and civil rights for Blacks is principally responsible for the failure of Reconstruction to solve the race problem in the South and perhaps in America as well.”
The FDA has approved a new treatment for Parkinson’s disease that was tested at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
When HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) pills were first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2012, some states took a wait-and-see approach to offering it to their residents. They would watch the early adopters—states like Massachusetts and New York, Connecticut—and see how it panned out. Now, according to data compiled at UVA and published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, that decision has put its residents who could benefit from PrEP at risk.
(Press release) Faculty in the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have earned a $3 million grant to lead a network of Virginia universities, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Elections, in creating an innovative educational program to train future cybersecurity professionals to protect election infrastructure.
A new initiative from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Women’s Health aims to use in-patient data to address maternal and infant mortality. The HHS Perinatal Improvement Collaborative includes over 200 hospitals across the U.S., including some of Virginia’s most renowned health systems — UVA Health, Bon Secours, Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, and more.
More than 700 volunteers will be participating to help raise funds and awareness about the redevelopment without displacement of the Southwood Mobile Home Park in Albemarle County. The volunteers will be raking more than 100 lawns in exchange for donations to Habitat for Humanity. Teams of rakers are coming from local faith communities, primary schools, civic/social organizations, Habitat partner families, and the University of Virginia.
Two local nursing programs have been designated among the top programs in Virginia and the country. Piedmont Virginia Community College’s Associate Degree in Nursing and several programs at the University of Virginia School of Nursing are listed as top U.S. nursing programs in the Nursing Schools Almanac 2021 rankings.
As a joint project between the law schools of Duke University and the University of Virginia, the Corporate Prosecution Registry aims to maintain a comprehensive collection of information about federal organizational prosecutions in the United States. It could be even more comprehensive if Jon Ashley, a UVA School of Law librarian who helped create the project, wins a lawsuit he filed this month for access to the Department of Justice’s running list of corporate crime settlements. Ashley is also asking the department to release non-prosecution agreements that were never made public.
Kids lining up to get their COVID-19 vaccines at the UVA Children’s on Thursday got a big surprise. The University of Virginia’s Cav Man showed up to cheer on the kids and encourage them to get their shot.
The south tower at the University of Virginia Medical Center will be illuminated in white on Thursday night as part of Shine a Light on Lung Cancer.
The emaciated workforce left health care employers with no choice but to re-imagine how they take care of patients and employees. “We can’t do health care the way we did in the past, with COVID. Nurses used to do those 12-hour shifts, and they used to have those long nights. We have to rethink that, because there’s that work-life balance,” said Charles Bodden, senior director for talent acquisition and retention at UVA Health.
All that tech infrastructure isn’t just bringing in money. It could lead to Virginia hosting the flashiest component of the industry: space tourism. In fact, it’s already happening. Northern Virginia resident and UVA graduate Eric Anderson co-founded Space Adventures in Vienna in 1998. From 2001 through 2009, Space Adventures clients flew over 36 million miles in space on eight separate missions to ISS.
It has been a whirlwind of a year for the Weekley family. Fourteen months ago, Blakely Weekley was hooked up to cords in the University of Virginia’s NICU. “She was 56 days early, and we didn’t know what to expect,” said Erin Weekley, Blakey’s mom. “We were told she could be in the NICU for that whole two months.” Despite entering the world at only 2 pounds, 11 ounces, the busy “B” had plans of her own, going home from the NICU in only 26 days.
(Commentary) More than two decades ago, I queried William Lee Miller, the brilliant and now deceased UVA scholar, about presidential eloquence. Miller said that as far as he was concerned, to be considered truly eloquent a president had to do one of two things: say something no one has said before, or state something in such a stirring fashion that it gets Americans to look at an old problem in a new way. “It’s a high bar,” he said. “It was put there by Lincoln.”
Michelle Vittese, a two-time Olympian and three-time All-American at UVA, has been named the Temple University field hockey program’s head coach, the school announced on Wednesday. The Cherry Hill native was the interim head coach for the 2021 season and has been part of the Owls staff since 2019.
Hebah Fisher is the co-founder and CEO of Kerning Cultures Network, the first venture-backed, female-led podcast platform in the Middle East. An award-winning and independent podcast company, Kerning Cultures raises the bar for audio storytelling and journalism in the MENA region, producing podcasts in both Arabic and English. A journalist and entrepreneur, Fisher previously built microfinance and business education programs in the Gulf and the US. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Global Development Studies from the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) A wonderful candidate for any school, my sister’s a varsity athlete with strong academic motivation and a flair for the dramatic. If accepted, she will move to Charlottesville, make new friends and have an incredible time. In time, she may even come to love UVA in the same way I love Virginia Tech. But if I’m being honest, that idea has been a tough pill to swallow.
The union windfall that came from a 2019 pension bailout for coal miners is being cited as an example of why Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who supported organized labor then, should now accept an union-friendly electric vehicle tax credit as part of Democrats’ massive tax and social spending bill. Two years ago, Manchin viewed federal government investment in union pension plans as vitally necessary—standing up for what some view as a precedent-setting decision, according to James Naughton, an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School. “What was really, I think, most surp...
(Commentary) Dr. Christopher Ali, an associate professor in UVA’s Department of Media Studies, was a guest recently on my Gigabit Nation show helping to make sense of the government’s legacy of accountability. Ali’s latest book, “Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity,” examines the complicated rural broadband policies in the U.S. and analyzes the politics surrounding these policies. “Forty-seven billion dollars was spent between 2009 and 2017 specifically towards rural broadband deployment,” Ali said. “But the pandemic painfully and dramatically exposed the gaps in broadband...