UVA is taking extra precautions to ensure a safe in-person learning environment ahead of the spring semester. Students returning to UVA Grounds will have to follow certain guidelines.
Dr. William Percy Arnold III died Dec. 30 at the University of Virginia Medical Center, where he had devoted his entire career as anesthesiologist caring for others. He was 80, and died of complications of a brain hemorrhage.
(Excerpt from a book by alumna Taylor Harris) Paul found him that morning. Our twenty-two-month-old boy, staring and still, awake without a sound. A twenty-pound toddler in blue pajamas, lying across the only thing we allowed in his crib—a taut cotton sheet.
To say that Katie Laning Niebaum’s route to the helm of Delta Solar was a scenic one is putting it nicely. The 40-year-old took over as president of the Little Rock-based alternative energy company in September, an office she never imagined filling coming out of Little Rock Central High, or the University of Virginia after that.
Pulsating lights, bottles of booze, and beautiful people gyrating on the dance floor; when one thinks of nightclubs, the mind likely conjures up debaucherous images such as these. Much less often does the word ‘responsible’ appear in the psyche in relation to nightlife, but when it comes to Washington D.C. club magnate [and UVA Law alumnus] David Chung’s mega-popular establishments, there’s no better way to describe the behind-the-scenes operations of his businesses.
(Commentary by Natasha Roth-Rowland, an editor and writer at +972 Magazine and a doctoral candidate in history) We are just about a week into 2022, and already the efforts to redefine antisemitism — or, rather, make the term so self-contradictory and amorphous that it is emptied of all meaning — are continuing apace.
(Editorial) Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center, puts a human face to the data. He played football and track at Bath County High School in Virginia, and learned to appreciate the tangible rewards that came from the hard work of practice. And then there were the cultural benefits. “Traveling around the state to different high schools,” he says, “… also gave me a richer understanding of the different regions of Virginia that helps me even today in my work as a demographer.”
(Podcast) Kyle Kondik is managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ authoritative, nonpartisan newsletter on American campaigns and elections. He is a frequently cited expert on American politics. “The Long Red Thread” examines each House election cycle from 1964 to 2020, surveying academic and journalistic literature to identify key trends and takeaways from more than a half-century of U.S. House election results in order to predict what Americans can expect to see in the future.
Bob Dylan’s devoted fans rallied behind the singer when the case was first filed, combing through archives to show that he was on tour away from New York when the alleged assaults took place. Ann Daniel, a lawyer for the University of Virginia, said he performed live in Berkeley, California on April 3, 1965, Vancouver on April 9, Portland on April 23, and Seattle on the following day.
When the European colonists made their way from the Virginian coast to what is now Louisa County, they found fields that had been cleared and other evidence of civilization, but not the survey markers they were used to. Missing were the traditional European territorial fences as well as European-style settlements. “That they [the colonists] entered an unoccupied place that people disappeared from is a convenient fiction,” said Professor Jeffrey Hantman, anthropologist and former professor at the University of Virginia.
After “Temps X” ended in 1987, the Bogdanoffs wrote “Dieu et La Science” (1991), about the relationship between religion and science. It was a best seller in France, but it drew a lawsuit by Trinh Xuan Thuan, an astrophysicist at the University of Virginia, who claimed they had plagiarized one of his books.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has approved PCR tests to be performed on oral samples, and Dr. Amy Mathers, associate director of clinical microbiology at University of Virginia Health, says it’s actually quite common, including at UVA Health. The practice stemmed simply from a shortage of the slim swabs needed for nasopharyngeal tests (easier to slot deep into the nose) early in the pandemic. Staff had to get creative. They did have the bigger swabs, used for nasal or throat swabs. Oropharyngeal tests became the go-to. “I was like, this is heresy—a respiratory virus that we’re...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams was adamant when he said, “Schools are the safest place for children.” With that in mind, Our Time Press had an opportunity to speak with Dr. Cameron Webb, a Senior Policy Advisor for the White House COVID-19 Response Team and asked about that policy. Dr. Webb said, “It’s a social and emotional imperative for us to keep kids in school and that’s what we are going to work to do no matter what. Whether that means more testing in schools, whether that means we’re really encouraging parents to get more kids vaccinated…and making sure teachers are vaccinated getting s...
“We’re certainly in a crushing spike right now, but the nature of a pandemic is to come in waves and so I do think at some point the omicron wave will pass, but we have to be wary that there can be further waves down the road,” Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia.
Doctors say it is important to remember to tell the VDH if you have COVID-19, even if you did your own swab. “You home test positive, you’re not reporting that to the Virginia Department of Health, and so this is a vast under reporting,” Dr. Bill Petri with UVA Health said. “It just makes the point that even more reason to be super careful right now.”
Nearly 132,000 Covid-19 patients were in US hospitals as of Friday, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. That's not far from the all-time peak (about 142,200 in mid-January 2021) and an increase from around 45,000 in early November. Because of staffing shortages in some health care systems around the country, through illnesses or people quitting because of exhaustion, the nation "cannot provide that same quality of care to 130,000 patients now like we did last year," Dr. Taison Bell, director of the medical intensive care unit at UVA Health, told CNN Saturday.
Taison Bell, critical care and infectious disease physician and professor at the University of Virginia, said on January 4, 2022 that he expects simultaneous Covid-19 and flu infections to become more common. "We can expect to see this more because we are having a more active flu season this year. This is because of less mask wearing and we're not in a state of lockdown in most places," Bell told AFP. "Get vaccinated for Covid (of course) but also for the flu since this can also cause people to get quite sick in and of itself," he added.
Each of the nine race teams received an identical vehicle — an IAC Dallara AV-21 — the most technologically advanced, fastest autonomous race car ever assembled. “There is no hardware advantage,” said University of Virginia Computer Science Professor Madhur Behl, who also served as principal for the Cavalier Autonomous Racing Team. “Each car has the same engine, the same tires, the same sensors. The only way you can beat another team is by having better software,” Behl said.
The Innocence Project said that someone gave Barnes’ name to King as the man who shot him. But though he initially picked Barnes out to investigators, he lacked an independent memory of the shooting. “As his memory came back, he became more and more unsure, and then ultimately became convinced that it was not in fact Mr. Barnes who was the shooter,” said Jennifer L. Givens, a University of Virginia law professor and director of the school’s Innocence Project Clinic. “He made repeated attempts before trial — and after trial — to right that wrong, and to make sure that Mr. Barnes got out of pris...
The spike in Omicron cases is leaving hospitals swamped with patients, including the University of Virginia Health System. However, local doctors say that not all of the people showing up to the Emergency Department need to be there. Many people who don't have symptoms of the virus are looking for a COVID test.