Research conducted at the UVA School of Medicine may help find ways to treat high blood pressure caused by obesity. The researchers discovered why obesity causes high blood pressure, and they have already confirmed their discovery in human tissue samples.
No cases have been reported in the Charlottesville area, but the city is meeting weekly with partners at the Virginia Department of Health's Thomas Jefferson Health District, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia to prepare. More frequent planning and coordination meetings will occur if needed.
Connecticut’s legal community is saying farewell to John Merchant, a man known for breaking barriers, and regarded as a trailblazer among civil-rights lawyers and black attorneys. Merchant died Thursday. He was 87. In 1958, he became the first black student to graduate from the University of Virginia Law School.
As more cases of the coronavirus are confirmed throughout the country and world, the University of Virginia is prohibiting university-related travel to China, Iran, South Korea and Italy. Staff members who have traveled to those areas are being asked to self-isolate for two weeks.
The University of Virginia today announced its goals to support the development of between 1,000 and 1,500 affordable housing units in Charlottesville and Albemarle County on parcels owned by the university and the UVA Foundation.
A packed town hall Monday evening at Charlottesville High School focused on how Virginia can become more inclusive, as state leaders unveiled a draft strategic plan about diversity, equity and inclusivity. Within the framework of “Inclusive Excellence,” improving diversity, equity and inclusivity becomes everyone’s job, said Kevin McDonald, UVA’s vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion.
Hugging the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville is the college town equivalent of everyone’s overachieving older sister.
UVA forward Mamadi Diakite occasionally lets himself read online comments about teammate Kihei Clark. They’re often unflattering, and they typically reference Clark’s height (listed at 5-foot-9) or limited offensive repertoire. Diakite shakes his head and laughs at the criticism. “Kihei is the heart of the team, but people don’t realize that,” Diakite said.
The Building Goodness Foundation hosted a continental breakfast in honor of International Women’s Day at CitySpace early Friday. Guest speaker Danielle Hopkins, founder of Inclusive Finance Consulting and a lecturer at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, spoke about her work with women in developing countries.
As Liberation and Freedom Days winds down, and with the future of Confederate statues in Charlottesville and Albemarle County up in the air, one event is taking a look at the historical context behind the monuments. Jalane Schmidt, a professor of race and religion at the University of Virginia, regularly leads walking tours of the city’s Confederate monuments with Andrea Douglas, the executive director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.
Sanders lost the delegate lead as a result of Biden’s Super Tuesday romp last week. If the self-declared democratic socialist doesn’t reclaim his momentum in Michigan, his campaign might not be able to catch up, analysts say. "I would say the onus is clearly on Sanders," said Larry Sabato of the UVA Center for Politics. "He’s got to win Michigan. If he does not win Michigan again, no matter how close it may be, his candidacy goes into the long fade."
Jennifer Lawless, who studies women in politics at the University of Virginia, cited research indicating that some voters have a baseline gender preference. Lawless said women, to the extent that they are stereotyped as more cooperative and empathetic, might see a boost in judicial races from voters who want judges with those qualities. And the “electability” concerns that seem to doom women competing, for example, for president, come into play less in races voters view as lower stakes.
Sanders’ rise struck fear in the Democratic establishment, which worried about the down-ballot impact of a contender who embraces some tenets of the socialist agenda, even if some of the senator’s plans are popular, like universal health care and free education. That worry has ebbed to some degree as Biden surged after Super Tuesday and now leads in the delegate count toward the nomination. “That sound you hear from coast to coast is the exhaling of Democratic Party moderates,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
If President Donald Trump wins re-election, Democrats would need to net a fourth seat because the vice president’s party would break a 50-50 tie. “Democrats will need to win the bulk of competitive races, but the seats are there,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.
There hasn’t been a poll conducted of Ohio voters since last fall, long enough ago that the results page feels like a historical artifact. Emerson reported that 1% of Ohioans supported candidates John Delaney and Steve Bullock? And just who is Joe Sestak and Wayne Messam? “We’re flying a little bit blind right now,” said Kyle Kondik, an Ohio native who works for UVA’s Center for Politics. “There’s not really much fresh polling.”
The 26th iteration of the festival is set to kick off in Charlottesville on March 18. Right now, organizers say they still plan to hold the festival. The festival is developing “parallel” plans for various situations alongside UVA’s Emergency Management Department.
A University of Virginia Board of Visitors committee on Thursday approved the next step for a new residence hall on Brandon Avenue. The dorm, with an estimated $114 million budget, will provide about 350 beds for upper-class students, a dining hall, gathering spaces and about 100 parking spaces, according to a schematic design.
The city will meet weekly with partners at the Virginia Department of Health's Thomas Jefferson Health District, Albemarle County and UVA to prepare for COVID-19 if a case comes to Virginia. Additional and more frequent planning and coordination meetings will occur if needed.
Meredith Strohm Gunter of UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service warned Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam in a January memo that data on the sub-state level “will be sacrificed” for privacy, which could lead to “misallocation of funds, poor capacity for planning … and a competitive disadvantage in economic and workforce development.”
First-generation college students at UVA’s Batten School for Public Policy spent Saturday getting the next generation prepared for higher education, teaming with Charlottesville High School for a day of service.