Season 33 of ‘The Amazing Race’ features longtime married couple Kim and Penn Holderness, among others. Known best for their family YouTube channel and incredible vlogs, Kim and Penn are quite new to the reality TV scene. … Penn Holderness was born in Durham, North Carolina, and earned a degree in p’hilosophy from the University of Virginia.
“I don’t know anyone who thinks politicians have done a great job in the last 20 years,” said Merritt Hale, who grew up in Loudoun County and graduated from Woodgrove High School. He studied systems engineering from 2012-2016 at the University of Virginia and served as a Naval officer from 2016-2020. “So I think it’s time we get rid of the career politicians and let an outside voice who represents the values of the 6th District be heard.”
Adding a Q. to his name, Thomas Jones, the all-time great Virginia and NFL tailback, set out on a second career, in acting, and now, a decade since he last broke a tackle, he’s one of the busiest actors in movies and TV.
COVID-19 cases are surging but it's not the only transmissible virus going around. The flu is coming on strong and it's creating a crossover virus. Health officials are calling it Flurona, which is when someone gets the flu and COVID at the same time. However, doctors say there's no need to panic as it's not a new disease and it's not a new variant. In Friday’s COVID-19 briefing at the University of Virginia Health System, Dr. Bill Petri said that with two viruses as common as these, it's normal to see people getting them both at the same time.
"'Success' is a tricky concept to measure," Sonal Pandya, associate professor at the University of Virginia, said in a statement. "Variation across states in racial equality reflects many factors that policymakers cannot change including historical legacies and geography. States with more elected black policymakers might be more likely to prioritize racial equity, both because of these policymakers’ talent, and voters placing greater importance on racial equality."
(Commentary) “Stakeholder capitalism,” coined by academic R. Edward Freeman at the University of Virginia’s School of Business in the 1980s, broadened the definition of whose interests corporations are meant to serve from solely their shareholders to others who may be impacted by their practices. Yet, capitalism remains about the bottom line and unless there are systematic ways to measure compliance to shared values across sectors, as well as ways to keep corporations accountable or reward positive behaviour, then ESGs could amount to little more than an exercise akin to putting lipstick on a ...
University of Virginia law school professor Thomas Frampton, who represented the Green family, was later accused by the Baton Rouge Police Department of improperly releasing those videos to the media and the BRPD asked that he be held in contempt. In a matter he says is filled with “astounding” hypocrisy, Judge de Gravelles said the BRPD acted “in bad faith and in retaliation” in seeking contempt sanctions against Frampton who committed no criminal wrongdoing. He ordered that the motion for contempt be withdrawn.
Scott Doney, a professor at the environmental change department of the University of Virginia, tells SciDev.Net, that climate change and ocean acidification from human emissions of carbon dioxide not only cause tropical fish to expand their habitat ranges into temperate regions but “fish physiology and metabolism may be altered by the simultaneous effects of seawater warming and chemical changes associated with acidification. This systematic lab study of multiple environmental factors is an important step forward in understanding possible climate change impacts on the ocean,” says Doney.
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It’s hard to say what’s driving Djokovic’s decision-making, said Bob Rotella, a professor of sports psychology at University of Virginia who has worked with top golfers such as Rory McIlroy. “There are athletes who think there is enough conflicting information out there that they are not sure if it’s a good idea or a bad idea,” Rotella said. “It’s not necessarily that they are being entitled; they are just not sure that this might not do something bad to their body. Some athletes feel they’re actually better off not getting the vaccine. Whether that’s accurate information or not, who knows?”
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On Monday night, the Blue Ridge Health District hosted a town hall to talk about what the area is facing. "We have like the most patients hospitalized at UVA with COVID ever right now, both in the ICU and in the COVID ward," said Dr. Bill Petri, a UVA Health infectious diseases expert.
(Commentary by Josh Mounds, postdoctoral fellow) After a four-day refusal to teach in-person, the Chicago Teachers Union is going back to school on Wednesday, where they wanted to be all along. The city’s lackluster pandemic safety made that impossible.
The 30-day duration is hoped to align with the peak of the Omicron variant outbreak, which is expected to occur in the next few weeks. Northam said University of Virginia scientists estimate hospitalizations will peak in early February.
The latest prediction modeling from the University of Virginia estimates the Omicron variant now makes up 94% of new cases in Virginia, overtaking the Delta variant. Models predict cases will continue to rise for several weeks before a decline.
A new study by scholars at Pennsylvania State University, Dartmouth College, the University of Virginia, and Brigham Young University finds that that “in simple day-to-day interactions, such as sending and responding to emails, the public discriminates against Black people. This discrimination is present among all racial/ethnic groups (aside from among Black people) and all areas of the country.”
Anton Korinek, an economist at the University of Virginia, and Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel economist at Columbia University, have written a paper, “Steering Technological Progress,” which recommends steps from nudges for entrepreneurs to tax changes to pursue “labor-friendly innovations.”
Other awards include nearly $45,000 to the University of Virginia, toward the creation of a database of 18th- and 19th-century North American weather records, including the detailed daily reports made by Thomas Jefferson between July 1776 and the week before his death in July 1826.
The NBER report is some of the first research that aims to explain the disproportionate enrollment drops at two-year schools. Its authors, professors at Northwestern University and the University of Virginia, found that two-year colleges with high concentrations of programs focused on assembly, repair and maintenance work experienced major enrollment declines. Community colleges often host programs with laboratory or hands-on work, which were more difficult to translate to online formats during the most restrictive months of the pandemic.
A man convicted of second-degree murder in 2001 has received an absolute pardon from Gov. Ralph Northam. The UVA School of Law's Innocence Project recently announced that Eric Weakley received the pardon. Weakley is a member of the so-called "Culpeper Three" who were charged for the shooting death of Thelma Scroggins in 1996.
Many people think it’s a violation of their rights to be required to share when they’re sick with COVID-19 or their vaccination status. A UVA law professor breaks down what can, and can’t, be asked: “The bottom-line way of thinking about this is the employer is required to only reveal the minimal amount necessary to protect other workers or the public,” Margaret Riley said. This means your employer is allowed to tell other employees if you have COVID-19.
A new working paper from UVA’s Sarah Turner and colleagues suggests male enrollment fell significantly at community colleges during the pandemic because they disproportionately enroll in hands-on technical courses more difficult to offer online.