"[Donmald Trump] didn’t just hijack the party – and I use the hijack term very deliberately because he’s obviously not a party regular, he had been a Democrat and he wasn’t viewed as being a Republican or part of the party – he hijacked or appealed to a whole segment of the population who were obviously open to those messages," says Barbara Perry, professor and director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. "And that part of the population is still open to those messages."
Attorney and former Democratic U.S. Rep. Brad Carson has been selected as the University of Tulsa’s 21st president, university officials announced Monday. Most recently, Carson has been a professor at the University of Virginia since 2018.
The Chinese government may be concerned about a platform for filmmaker Chloe Zhao, whose “Nomadland” is a front-runner for best picture and director. While the Frances McDormand-starring movie focuses on itinerant workers in the modern American West, it comes from a Chinese-born director who once made comments critical of China. “I think if she says something about China it will be interesting, and if she doesn’t that will be interesting for an entirely different reason,” said Aynne Kokas, a University of Virginia professor and author of “Hollywood Made In China,” about their relationship. “Th...
Led by Dr. Brian Werner, a team from UVA Health sought to assess trends and variations in hospital charges and payment relative to surgeon charges and payments for surgical treatment of hip fractures using data from the PearlDiver database, which contains data related to fee-for-use administrative claims and provides a nationally representative sample of 51 million patients covered by Medicare parts A and B.
A UVA historian argues Woodrow Wilson blundered away a chance to bring the Great War to a negotiated end in 1916, long before the first Doughboys stepped foot in Europe. Philip Zelikow, a former diplomat who worked in five presidential administrations, wants us to fundamentally reassess the reasons why the U.S. entered the war in April 1917.
An accompanying commentary referenced the ongoing debate about whether schools can reopen safely and the impact on community spread of Covid-19. Infectious disease specialists Dr. Andrea Ciaranello of Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Dr. Taison Bell of the University of Virginia School of Medicine wrote that emerging data from the fall semester in the United States suggests a low rate of in-school transmission in schools which have followed recommended mitigation protocols.
Residents of high poverty or more remote counties were 1.6 to 1.8 times more likely to die from the virus across the U.S., according to a Friday update from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which monitors the state’s COVID trends.
The University of Virginia’s COVID-19 Model is predicting another peak in virus cases in late spring or early summer, largely aided by the variant first discovered in the United Kingdom. “The timing and size of the peak depend on how well Virginians maintain prevention measures,” according to the UVA model’s latest weekly update.
Virginia is in a race between two opponents on the opposite ends of the health spectrum: vaccines and virus variants. The race winner will determine if COVID-19 cases – already growing statewide – will explode to a peak higher than the January surge or eventually fade to a controllable level. This particular match-up has been predicted for weeks by a COVID-19 model specifically geared to Virginia’s part of the pandemic. A report released Friday by UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute has dropped an optimistic tone it had in early March when infections were down and vaccines were up.
New research from UVA leads doctors one step closer to treating solid tumor cancers such as ovarian, colon and breast cancer. New findings could allow doctors to treat cancer patients with safer therapies than chemotherapy, which is extremely tough on cancer patients.
Dr. Jogi Singh and others at the UVA Cancer Center are speaking on new research that could help rescue immunotherapies for solid cancer tumors that failed in human clinical trials, including ovarian, colon and triple negative breast cancer.
Bonds said the district’s percent positivity rates have remained very low, at 2.7%, but that it is important to note that this is just a ratio and that the rate is low partially because the University of Virginia performs such a large number of PCR tests of its students on a regular basis.
The UVA Medical Center is wrapping up its 2020-21 series of health care discussions Wednesday. The last Medical Center Hour will feature surgeon and author Dr. Atul Gawande and three UVA physicians. They will be talking about health care in the United States after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the last two decades, bachelor’s degrees have become standard for entry-level jobs in nearly every occupation, and as more workers went into the job market with a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree became more valuable as a way to specialize and stand out from the competition. Fortunately for busy professionals, online education also evolved during that time, making a master’s degree more convenient and accessible for adults who want to advance in their career. (UVA ranks No. 5.)
An online Ph.D. or professional doctorate is the real deal. Working professionals who want to earn the highest degree in their field – along with the expertise, respect, and career advancement that comes with it – no longer have to take time away from their career to go back to school. The revolution in online learning over the last decade means that many of the most prestigious, reputable and influential universities in the nation offer fully online doctoral programs in a wide variety of fields. (UVA ranks No. 4.)
(Commentary by Jalane Schmidt, associate professor of religious studies) Charlottesville has finally received the green light to remove our spurned Confederate statues. After enduring years of legal delay and violent white supremacist attacks, on April 1 the Supreme Court of Virginia decided in favor of the city’s effort to rid its downtown parks of Jim Crow-era propaganda art.
(Commentary by Christine Mahoney, professor of public policy and politics and director of social entrepreneurship at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) What if you could grow your money by investing in companies whose missions align with your own? Whether that means improving the environment, housing, education or health care, “impact investing” is appealing because it combines the traditional ideas of investing and philanthropy, allowing investors to make social impact as well as financial return.
An online nonprofit directory aims to be a one-stop shop for Central Virginians looking to volunteer their time or resources. The website, called ReImagine CVA, launched March 30. The Center for Nonprofit Excellence partnered with The Equity Center at the University of Virginia and other community partners to create the website.
Wearing a sash bearing the phrase “100 and fabulous,” Elizabeth Overton waved at her friends and fellow church members as they drove past her at Commonwealth Senior Living on Sunday afternoon. The drive-by parade was a special celebration in honor of a special lady on her 100th birthday. At a time when few women finished high school, Overton earned a degree in home economics from Virginia Tech in 1943. Overton eventually earned a master’s degree in special education from the University of Virginia in 1974 and began a career in teaching.
Innovative, clean, prestigious hair care was a white space in the market Nancy Twine recognized in 2010. Founder of Briogeo, Twine created a clean product line up that combined non-toxic and safe ingredients. She was a true visionary, such that, at the time there were very few options for people who wanted luxury and clean hair care. Twine attended the business school at the University of Virginia, and graduated with a degree in finance.