Sensing a bit of weakness, some Trump critics have become even more vocal in their attempts to carve out an alternative path for the GOP — including Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, and Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor who helped coach Trump during the 2020 presidential debates. They believe that voters will be turning to moderate Republican candidates in the 2022 midterms — including the Republican primaries — and that will turn the political winds against Trump. Larry Sabato, the director of the non-partisan University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Trum...
Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, says growth in the region was slower than in the previous decade. “Most of the population in the city of Richmond grew more slowly than the metro area did during the 2000s,” he says. “The slower growth in Richmond’s urban core is in line with what we saw from census numbers all over Virginia, and to a certain extent nationally. Virginia had a really big slowdown in the population growth during the 2010s.”
“A small incident or miscalculation could unleash a sudden and unpredictable political confrontation,” said Fatton, who teaches political science at the University of Virginia. “As the saying goes, the center does not hold and things are falling apart. In short, the crisis continues with no clear outcome.”
Patrick Jackson, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at the University of Virginia, said medical researchers use mRNA technology to inject patients with instructions to create their own viral protein cell and develop an immunity to the viral cell. He said the mRNA technology in the HIV vaccine can produce the viral protein similar to how the body could create the actual HIV viral protein, allowing researchers to easily and quickly manipulate the mRNA itself to create antibodies. Jackson said he expects to see more vaccines with mRN...
Amy J. Mathers, an associate professor of medicine and pathology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, offered an analogy: When cooking an egg, you cannot undo it. Tests that researchers heated to extreme temperatures were less sensitive to positive samples. But, Mathers added, in the case of freezing, evidence suggests the tests are still usable at room temperature.
The current barriers, medical experts and ethicists said, only exacerbate a pandemic response in which only those who have time and money can respond to the virus and seek treatment. From the cost and availability of Covid tests to having access to vaccines, they said, the pandemic has increasingly stratified those who can afford the tools to fight the disease and those who cannot. “Through all this we’ve seen that communities that are in highest need are the ones that have the lowest access, and that certainly includes low-income people and communities of color,” said Dr. Taison Bell, the dir...
Kyle Enfield, medical director at the University of Virginia Medical Center’s intensive care unit, said the state’s southwestern and northwestern areas continue to struggle with new infections, leading to more hospitalizations that have placed a burden on local health systems. “I would say our health-care systems during this wave have been strained more than we’ve seen in the past,” Enfield said.
(By Jane Friedman, web editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review) When authors are putting together book marketing plans from scratch, I suggest that they start by making three separate lists: one of owned media, one of paid media, and one of “earned media.”
(Commentary co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project) It’s now marriage proposal season—the time between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day when nearly 40% of couples decide to get engaged. The holidays tend to put people in mind of marriage. So what’s the best age to put a ring on it?
UVA Health says COVID-19 rates have peaked and case numbers are finally starting to go down.
In the 1800s, most births were supervised by midwives, according to an article by Dr. Dominique Tobbell, a University of Virginia professor, while in the 1900s hospitals and physicians became responsible for more births, and midwives attended fewer births.
(Commentary) As noted in this column last year, a study by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service shows the deep digital disconnect in Virginia. Plotted on a locality-by-locality map of Virginia, those with the best high-speed Internet access such as fiber-optic, cable or DSL lines show up in ever-darkening shades from the least (tan) to the most (burnt umber). Those where fewer than half of the households have such access show up as beige. This interactive image shows vast pale-shaded digital deserts in rural areas, especially the Southside and Southwest Virginia...
On Jan. 20, a report on the relationship of the health of the thyroid to cardiovascular health was published by the American Heart Association. Referencing endocrinologists from the medical schools at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia, the report noted that damage to the cardiovascular system can be caused by both overactivity and underactivity of the thyroid.
The biggest enrollment declines were seen among men. According to a working paper published last month by Northwestern's Schanzenbach and Sarah Turner, a professor of economics and education at the University of Virginia, the drop was likely due to the disproportionate disruption that the pandemic had on skilled trades courses. While most lecture courses were able to go virtual, it was nearly impossible for on-site labs and workshops, where students learn by working with tools, machinery and equipment.
According to an analysis by the law professors David Fontana, of the George Washington University, and Micah Schwartzman, of the University of Virginia, Trump’s nominees to the federal courts of appeals—bodies that, like the Supreme Court, confer lifetime tenure—were the youngest of any president’s “since at least the beginning of the 20th century.”
Individual investors are more likely to support activist campaigns that target female-led companies than those that target male-led companies, according to an experiment done for a new study. “It can be difficult to detect those stereotypical influences when you ask people to make a subjective judgment,” says Amanda Cowen, professor of commerce at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and a co-author of the new study. “But it becomes more visible when you’re asking them to make a choice—for example, in the proxy voting context.”
The Senior Statesmen of Virginia will hold a meeting on equity in the community on Wednesday.
Officials with The Nature Conservancy, the University of Virginia and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science under William & Mary are working with the state to launch the first carbon credit program linked to seagrass. It would allow anyone to purchase credits to offset carbon emissions, with the money feeding back into research and management.
When Charles Dickens sat down to compose the Tavistock letter, he would have been amused to consider that, almost 165 years later, it would be pulled to pieces, endlessly analyzed and ultimately deciphered by, among others, a 20-year-old University of Virginia student from Ohio named Ken Cox. “I thought it was mind-boggling that there was something he’d written that nobody had read yet,” says Cox, who studies cognitive science.
15. Rita Dove: In her collections of poems, Dove combines historical writing with an intimate expression of language. In 1993, she became the youngest person and the first African American to hold the title of U.S. poet laureate. She now serves as a University of Virginia’s Commonwealth Professor of English.