(Commentary) “Death is the most tangible and most painful of losses. In our reactions to death, we unwittingly coexist with the remnants of our deconstructed, imposed or rushed divisions in our past in our subconscious. Mourning is not just a response to death. Mourning is the psychological response we give to any subduction or change and the compromises we make so that we can adapt between our inner world and reality,” says Dr. Vamik Volkan, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) The trillion-dollar infrastructure bill passed by the Senate and now pending in the House that has an overreaching definition of ‘broker’ also contains an overlooked “digital assets” provision. If this bill becomes law, that would be a disaster, said Abraham Sutherland, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and an adviser to the Proof of Stake Alliance.
The constant flow of email, and expectations around responsiveness to emails, is a large distraction in my daily life. Several strategies I use to combat the distraction include: devoting specific times to email (and not first thing in the morning), blocking specific working times where email is closed and setting boundaries for answering emails past certain hours in the evening. - Ashley Williams, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Both GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin and former democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe claimed victory after the debate, but Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, says the answer is simple. “You don’t call a winner unless there was a big goof on one side or the other and there wasn’t,” he added.
Today’s urban-rural divide is decades in the making, the result of New Deal infrastructure projects, interstate highways, and government programs that attracted jobs to metro areas in the Mountain West and South, according to Guian McKee, associate professor in Presidential Studies at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.
(Subscription may be required) At the same time, he cut a cosmopolitan figure in world capitals. “He was young, very fashionably dressed, with boots, and he would typically smoke a large cigar,” said William B. Quandt, a professor emeritus of politics at the University of Virginia who was on the National Security Council under presidents Richard M. Nixon and Jimmy Carter.
(Subscription may be required) Sylla, unconvinced, was planning to sign up for another test date when Jessie arranged a Zoom chat with Jeannine C. Lalonde, associate dean of admission at UVA. Sylla peppered her with skeptical questions, saying she was sure the university would punish applicants without scores. Lalonde acknowledged her concerns. Then she explained that applying without a score wouldn’t put her at a disadvantage. She walked Sylla through UVA’s review process, describing how admissions officers emphasize an applicant’s transcript, the courses taken and the grades earned, far more...
(Commentary) Emerson Stevens owes his freedom to the efforts of two attorneys affiliated with the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia Law School, Deidre Enright and Jennifer Givens. Enright first started on the case in 2009. In addition to preparing and filing the numerous briefs, they, especially Enright, spent countless hours investigating the case and digging up the new evidence needed to prove his innocence.
mRNA vaccines’ positive safety profile is based on millions of deployed doses and experience shows it can induce an immune response that leads to protection from symptomatic disease, University of Virginia professor of pediatrics Dr Steven Zeichner added.
Seventeen medical professionals sued the state over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, citing religious objections related to abortion. Their attorney, Thomas More Society Special Counsel Christopher Ferrara, argues the mandate violates federal law. But Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, says the government can make a case against religious exemptions for an infectious disease.
Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia Law School states that “no major organized religious group has officially discouraged the [COVID] vaccine and many, like the Catholic Church, have explicitly encouraged them.”
(Commentary co-written by Corey Feist, co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation and Chief Executive Officer of the University of Virginia Physicians Group) Dr. Breen’s tragic death has shone a light on another epidemic that has long been in the making: The enormous mental and emotional burden placed on America’s physicians. Doctors in the U.S. die by suicide at twice the rate of the general population, with one, on average, losing their life every day. And countless more are suffering in silence.
(Co-written by Kevin Driscoll, assistant professor of media studies) Why is racial inequality perceivably so resistant to transformation? Some say it is because of a failure to acknowledge and confront white privilege.
(Commentary by Douglas Laycock, law professor) For Americans wary of COVID-19 vaccine mandates, like the sweeping requirements President Joe Biden announced Sept. 9, it seems there are plenty of leaders offering ways to get exemptions — especially religious ones. No major organized religious group has officially discouraged the vaccine, and many, like the Catholic Church, have explicitly encouraged them. Yet pastors from New York to California have offered letters to help their parishioners — or sometimes anyone who asks — avoid the shots.
(By Dr. Patrick Jackson, assistant professor of infectious diseases) Even with three highly effective vaccines available in abundance throughout the country, the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 continues to cause a large number of new infections, particularly in states where vaccination rates remain low. What’s more, as schools and businesses reopen and the holiday season approaches, another rise in infections may be on the way. There is, however, some good news.
Among the 252 children hospitalized with COVID last week, the majority of them were treated at six hospitals: Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk (73), Inova Fairfax (50), VCU Health (32), Carilion Roanoke (32), Chippenham (28) in Richmond’s South Side and the University of Virginia (12).
The number of COVID-19 patients at the UVA Medical Center is gradually increasing, which is putting a strain on the hospital system. Wendy Horton, chief executive officer at the UVA Medical Center, says elective procedures scheduled for next week will go on as planned, but that could all change depending on how many COVID-19 patients walk through the door. “The COVID patients take more resources from a nursing care perspective,” Horton said. “When we have more COVID patients, that’s different pressures on the health care system and that would be for any hospital in Virginia right now.”
Earlier this week, a UVA Health doctor tweeted that nearly 95% of the hospital’s ICU beds were taken and she said COVID-19 was a contributing factor. Wendy Horton, the CEO of UVA Hospital, says only about a third or less of ICU beds are being used by COVID patients.
Marlon Ross, professor of English at the University of Virginia, has written “Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness,” which is being published by Duke University Press. Ross is the author of “Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era” and “The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women’s Poetry.” In the new work, Ross explores the concept of the sissy to take a new look at the ways in which manhood and boyhood have been envisioned in the United States since the 1880s and examines such public figures as Booker T. Washington, George Washingt...
(By Pinelopi Goldberg, professor of economics at Yale University) Eliminating gender and other forms of discrimination could plausibly generate even larger gains in developing countries. In a recent paper, Gaurav Chiplunkar of the University of Virginia and I find that eliminating just the barriers to female entrepreneurship could produce sizeable aggregate productivity gains in India.