“Viral variants arise by mutation of the virus’s genetic material,” said Daniel Engel, professor of microbiology, immunology and cancer biology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. “The overwhelming majority of the time, these mutations do not alter the virus. The mutations are silent. However, extremely rarely, a mutation or a set of mutations will occur in the population that gives the virus a significant advantage over the original virus from which it came.” Engel was a presenter at the CLL Society’s recent webinar on staying protected from COVID-19 and its Delta variant.
Dr. Bill Petri, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Virginia, discusses who is eligible for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster that was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Confusion over COVID-19 has been widespread since the pandemic began. Now, with booster shots, new variants and approvals and recommendations for vaccines varying by age group and medical history, some of us are more confused than ever. Dr. William A. Petri, an immunologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, is here to dish out answers to your COVID-19 questions in the Daily Progress.
(Co-written by Peg Burchinal, research professor in the School of Education and Human Development) It is time to change the narrative around social infrastructure investments for families. It is urgent that our country invest in high-quality care, family leave, and universal pre-K not only because it helps children thrive in high-quality early environments, but because it enables parents to enter the workforce—raising families out of poverty.
In the 24th issue of the “Debating Japan” newsletter series, the CSIS Japan Chair invited Leonard Schoppa, professor of politics at the University of Virginia, and Tobias Harris, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, to share their perspectives on whether Japan is entering a period of political instability.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Medical Center Hour returns this week. This week’s virtual session will be about improving clinician well-being, a topic that has been of big concern during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the scientific article written by Jonas Hedman, Otto Mønsted guest Professor Suprateek Sarker from the University of Virginia, Professor MSO Stefan Henningsson and Assistant Professor Thomas Jensen, both from the Department of Digitalization at CBS, which was published in the Journal of Management Information Systems, a CEO from the shipping industry shares his experience of corruption.
The University of Virginia is expanding its footprint in Northern Virginia, including its Rosslyn campus. The University currently operates a satellite location of its Darden School of Business in the top two floors of an office building at 1100 Wilson Blvd., one of the two Rosslyn “twin towers.” As part of the expansion plan, announced last week, the UVA Darden DC Metro campus will be renamed UVA|NOVA and will offer more courses from other schools within the University.
The Cavalier Daily reports the UVA Board of Visitors is talking about increasing in-state tuition by 4.5% for the 2022-23 academic year. And tuition would be going up another 3.5% for the 2023-24 academic year. This is in part due to the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has left UVA with more than $38 million in unrecovered expenses for fiscal year 2021-22.
As author of “Strategic Management, A Stakeholder Approach,” first published in 1984, R. Edward Freeman is one of the founders of the theory underlying the Stakeholder Capitalism movement of the 2020s. He’s a professor at UVA’s Darden School and author of the more recently published “Stakeholder Theory,” an update on the topic since the publication of his first book. ESM recently interviewed Freeman to learn his views on the state of the Stakeholder Capitalism movement.
In his forthcoming book “Autonorama,” UVA historian Peter Norton tells the story of British economist William Stanley Jevons, whose 1865 book “The Coal Question” addressed a debate about whether the United Kingdom risked exhausting its coal deposits. Jevons claimed that efficiency improvements in coal mining inevitably boost the demand for the fossil fuel, because a relative reduction in coal’s cost would compel people to find new ways to deploy it. His theory carried a powerful implication: When production costs for something fall, people will uncover new uses for that thing.
Srini Venkatramanan, a research assistant professor at UVA’s Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing division, and his team build statistical models that track the trajectory of epidemics to make short- and medium-term forecasts. Regarding the current COVID case data in the U.S., he said that from the latest set of updates, short-term forecasts are pointed downward, “hinting that we may have peaked as far as the Delta wave is concerned, at the national scale.”
When Natalie Wengroff and Paul Wiley met during their first year at Washington & Lee University’s law school, they found an easy conversation opener in the University of Michigan gear she regularly wore from her alma mater. “I noticed that she was a very vibrant New Yorker, somebody who had strong opinions, a big personality but was also funny, had a great sense of humor, and, most importantly, was a big Michigan football fan,” said Mr. Wiley, who graduated from the University of Virginia.
Lynchburg native Leland Melvin, an engineer and retired NASA astronaut, will be inducted into the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame this November. A Heritage High School grad, Melvin earned a football scholarship to University of Richmond, where he studied chemistry. He initially pursued dreams of a professional football career, but after repeated injuries, shifted gears to attend the University of Virginia and earn his masters in materials science engineering.
As a college freshman in 1994, Darby O’Donnell wasn’t sure what to major in — until he found the answer right in his own backyard. While helping his father build a deck at their Newport News house, they discovered an archaeological site. “We were digging new post holes and found old ceramics and handblown glass,” O’Donnell recalls. “I’d worked as a historical interpreter in the Jamestown glasshouse, so I knew it was old stuff.” O’Donnell began working toward a double major in archaeology and anthropology at the University of Virginia and was drawn back to his yard again and again to dig deeper...
With the release of her memoir, Kiara Whack is spreading awareness on how to make living a healthy lifestyle not just a diet. Through personal experiences and a psychology degree from the University of Virginia, the Hampton native realized her mental health recovery was directly tied to what she ate.
Millennials Akshita and [UVA alumna] Mrinalika M Bhanj Deo of Mayurbhanj, Odisha, make royalty relevant today by using their status to create positive change.
(Podcast) Mike Wells, a native of West Virginia, received his BA degree in history from the University of Virginia and his JD degree from Wake Forest Law School. He has practiced law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for 45 years. Over 15 years, he has written nearly 200 widely acclaimed essays collected as “On the Way to the Courthouse.” Several have appeared on NPR and in print across the state in newspapers and professional journals.
A few familiar places in and around Charlottesville have historic roots. Three UVA alums are now digging into how these staples in Charlottesville functioned years ago and the ways they impacted Black people. Catherine Ziph, Susan Hellman and Anne Bruder are the architectural historians on the project, mapping out safe havens for Blacks during the ’60s.
Hajjar Baban has a shy smile that flickers across her face when she speaks about her work. Her voice is confident, but interrupted by long, contemplative pauses. “I’m someone who just cares a lot, maybe too much sometimes, about everything.” Still in her early 20s, Baban has already earned international notice for her intense and sometimes harrowing poems. We spoke with Baban from Charlottesville, where she is currently pursuing a graduate degree from UVA, about her work and what wonder means to her.