Former Virginia football All-American Jamshid “Jim” Bakhtiar died Sunday at the age of 88. A native of Tehran, Iran, Bakhtiar came to the United States as an 11-year-old in 1946. He began playing football as a youngster growing up in Washington, D.C., first at Wilson High School and then at the Bullis School. Recruited to UVA, Bahktiar starred as a fullback and linebacker during his college career from 1955-57.
The UVA Medical Center says it is dealing with a blood shortage that could cause issues with patients needing major surgeries. The Red Cross says the Jan. 3 snowstorm caused a major hit to its supply.
More than any other state, Georgia was the linchpin of Democrats’ fortunes in 2020 – the Republican stronghold that not only flipped for President Biden, but delivered the Senate to him, said Larry Sabato, the veteran political analyst and director of the UVA Center for Politics. “That’s why the new voting rules in Georgia and elsewhere matter so much,” he said. “Will they shave just enough votes from the Democratic column to put Republicans firmly back in the driver’s seat?”
In an unexpected turn, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC roster for the upcoming season lost one valuable veteran, as midfielder Todd Wharton announced his retirement through a club statement and via his Instagram account on Tuesday. Wharton was a 2014 NCAA champion at the University of Virginia and finished his four-year career with the Cavaliers in 2015.
A summer internship at American Express in 2021 not only led to an offer for a full-time job at the company’s New York City office when Mausam Mehta graduates from UVA in May, it also taught her the importance of presenting her authentic self to her employer and advocating on her own behalf. Mehta, who is legally blind, had wrestled with whether to disclose her disability to recruiters when applying for internships.
It doesn’t take much for those kinds of temperatures to cause harm to a person. “The cause of death with hypothermia would just be a cardiac arrest, the heart eventually stops,” said Dr. Bill Petri at UVA Health.
Dr. William Petri, professor of medicine and vice chair for research at UVA’s Department of Medicine, said that both the flu and COVID-19 infect the epithelial cells in the lungs, and that infection could worsen as more cells get involved. He stressed that with vaccines and boosters, along with mask wearing, social distancing, and COVID-19 testing, the “individual has some ability to chart their own course.”
“WhatsApp worked as an ecosystem [where Bolsonaro’s supporters] produced and circulated their news, which is basically fake news. But because WhatsApp has been working to slow down misinformation, they then migrated to Telegram,” said David Nemer, a Brazilian professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
“The whole idea here is to push the frontiers of robotics and artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles in general, and we do so by demonstrating how stable our cars are, that they can really go safely at 150 mph.” said UVA computer science professor Madhur Behl, who also serves as principal for the Cavalier Autonomous Racing Team.
“I think that it’s just harder to make Trump an issue when he is not actually president. Biden is president now and particularly in off-year, midterm elections, those elections are often a referendum on the sitting president,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Law professor Deirdre Enright, founder of the UVA Innocence Project, helped investigate Johnson’s case and confirm the real robber. She said she was mystified about why the Northam administration couldn’t act on the request for an absolute pardon in four years when the facts McAuliffe had remain the same. “It’s a slam dunk on innocence,” she said. “We’ve solved the crime, we got an affidavit from the guy who did it. ... I just don’t understand what the problem is.”
(Co-written by Katherine Basbaum, clinical dietitian at UVA Health) As a registered dietitian, I’ve always promoted and followed the “all foods fit” mentality. This means that, as long as the majority of your meals and snacks are prepared with nutritious foods, then small indulgences are fine. For as long as I can remember, chocolate has been one of the tiny indulgences I allowed myself.
Among Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2022,” is UVA English professor Lisa Russ Spaar’s novel, “Paradise Close,” coming out in April. A poet who has published seven books of poetry and edited five anthologies, this is her first novel.
Apioneer of medical care who treated all of his patients with the same kindness, Culpeper native Robert “Bobby” Lee Wilson passed away Jan. 5 at the UVA Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was 76. Wilson was the first male nurse to ever work in the Culpeper hospital – now the UVA Culpeper Medical Center – and helped set the standard for care.
The American Red Cross likes to keep a five-day supply on hand to support area hospitals like UVA Health and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital in case of emergency, but right now, it’s down to less than a day’s supply.
On Monday, the UVA Medical Center admitted 20 new patients with COVID-19, a record for the medical center since it started publicly tracking the data, and the medical center has 106 COVID-19 patients overall. That increase has ripple effects to other parts of the hospital system, said Dr. Michael Williams, a surgeon at the medical center and director of UVA’s Center for Health Policy.
According to UVA Health and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, the majority of their admitted COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated. “I think it’s very reasonable to say that between 65% and 80%, and the number varies, of the patients that are admitted with symptomatic COVID infections have not been vaccinated,” Dr. John Voss, a UVA general internist, said.
UVA is getting $44,570 in a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant toward creating a digital weather records resource for North America in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Treatment for high blood pressure, a condition that affects one billion people globally, may actually be damaging the kidney, new research from the UVA School of Medicine suggests. Scientists are urging studies to better understand the drugs’ long-term effects.
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reach record highs, Gov. Ralph Northam said his new State of Emergency declaration is aimed to help hospitals address bed and staffing shortages. However, the emergency declaration is only set to last 30 days based on modeling on how the current surge of cases could play out. The model has been developed by a team of UVA researchers throughout the pandemic.