There could be political repercussions for asking law enforcement to carry out the new order, said Raymond Scheppach, the former executive director of the National Governors Association and a UVA professor of public policy. “There’s very little enforcement, in terms of police, that the state really has,” he said.
The UVA Medical Center is once again ranked among the best hospitals in the country, according to Becker’s Hospital Review.
Jacqueline Novogratz, a 1983 UVA alumna, is an innovator in creative, human-centered capitalism, who recently published “Manifesto for a Moral Revolution.” She’s the founder of Acumen, a nonprofit impact fund that invests in poverty-alleviating projects around the world. In her conversation with Tippet, recorded in January, Novogratz said, "We have had a system that has put profit at the center. And what we need to do is shift that to put humanity and the Earth at the center.”
Allison Alston, a senior who is the current student member of the Howard County Board of Education, said it’s important for students to take the election seriously. Alston will serve on the board through the summer before heading to study at the University of Virginia. Her advice for her replacement is to “relax.”
Sanford Feldman, director of comparative medicine at the University of Virginia, has consulted with Moulton in recent years as Moulton tried to rid his facility of endemic Streptococcus zooepidemicus, a pathogen that causes conjunctivitis, abscesses, and other problems.
A shift in perspective may help move research forward, suggested Edward Bertram, epileptologist and professor of neurology at the University of Virginia. “In all of these carefully performed studies, the results are surprisingly similar, with the seizures stopping approximately half of the time with each of the drugs,” he said.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said: “His papers are much more voluminous than Hillary Clinton’s emails, so I would expect there would be even more stories. Republicans are going to say, ‘You just know there’s some interesting material at the University of Delaware.’ No, there really isn’t, but they know it’s a safe thing to say because it can’t be disproven before the election.”
Kyle Kondik and J Miles Coleman of UVA’s Center for Politics predicted that third parties would do worse in 2020 than in the last presidential election, in part because “voters generally feel better about their major party nominees this year than they did in 2016.”
Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said, “From the day this story broke, Burr’s case always seemed the most serious, and it was so treated by the press.”
By contrast, Trump is heavily supported by blue-collar white men, and “they regard the mask as a sign of weakness,” UVA political science professor Larry Sabato said.
“What’s crazy is, we’re three months in, and we’re still not able to calibrate our risk management. It’s a mess,” Brian Nosek, who runs the Center for Open Science at the University of Virginia, told columnist Joel Achenbach.
New research from the UVA School of Medicine is shedding light on the biological architecture that lets us hear – and on a genetic disorder that causes both deafness and blindness. Sihan Li, a graduate student in the lab of Jung-Bum Shin, of UVA’s Department of Neuroscience, has made a surprising discovery about how the hearing organ in mammals achieves its extraordinary sensitivity.
According to researchers, the findings of this study show that primary aldosteronism is much more common than previously recognized. To reach this conclusion, researchers from four academic medical centers (including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, University of Alabama, University of Virginia, and the University of Utah) studied patients with normotension (blood pressure that is within the normal range), stage 1 hypertension, stage 2 hypertension and resistant hypertension to determine the prevalence of excess aldosterone production and primary aldosteronism.
A team of researchers led by UVA chemistry professor W. Dean Harman has developed a new method for manufacturing pharmaceuticals that could reduce dosage amounts and side effects, leading to dramatic improvements in the safety and efficacy of new drugs.
UVA’s new Student Health and Wellness Center reflects a similar emphasis on preventative and wellness care, including a teaching kitchen to provide students firsthand experience with making healthy meals.
Patrick Jackson, a UVA assistant professor with the Thaler Center, which studies infectious disease, said he and his colleagues have been researching the coronavirus and treatments. “The science about masking suggests that there is a benefit to that and probably more a benefit to the people around you than there is to you directly from wearing a mask,” he said.
Some students at the UVA School of Law raised more than $20,000 for charity, despite this year’s major fundraiser being canceled. The 37th Annual North Grounds Softball League Invitational was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Commentary by Grace Elizabeth Hale, professor of history and American studies) William “Roddie” Bryan’s video of Gregory and Travis McMichael shooting Ahmaud Arbery is not the first image Americans have seen of whites killing African Americans.
While keeping social connections alive through Zoom happy hours and Skype birthday parties can help, they can’t fully substitute for the comfort we take in the physical presence of others, UVA psychology professor James Coan said.
“I think football will start in the fall," Virginia head coach Bronco Mendenhall said. "It’s too soon to tell whether it will start on time, and what it will look like.”