Meredith D. Clark, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, said Phylicia Rashad’s original reaction to Bill Cosby’s release shows that “she’s untrustworthy.” Her apology was predictable, while her original tweet reflected her views, Clark said. Clark said she could understand why a university would want to hire an acclaimed actress to lead its arts school. “But I’d want someone who had studied higher education as well,” she said. “And she likely hasn’t.”
“The major change is that we have vaccines, of course, but also we have a sense of how to treat patients with COVID-19,” said Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of infectious disease and pulmonary/critical care medicine. “I wouldn’t say that we completely feel comfortable taking care of patients, because this still is a relatively new disease, but we still have a sense of what we should do.”
(Audio and transcript) NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro and historian Marlene Daut discuss parallels between the Haitian Revolution and the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. for NPR’s series, “We Hold These Truths.”
“Over the 10 years we have been doing this in health care, we’ve seen people start to use the language of ‘I’m in the orange zone’ or ‘I know I’m in the orange zone when I feel like I’m one sleep-deprived moment away from a bad decision.’ We’ve seen people’s increased ability to recognize when they’re significantly stressed, and they are far more likely to recognize the signs of a colleague experiencing a stress injury,” said Richard Westphal, director of Alliance for Compassionate Care at the UVA School of Nursing, a co-creator of the stress first aid toolkit.
The county government acted early to set the tone for how the county would face the pandemic, she said. Meanwhile, the local Blue Ridge Health District, the University of Virginia and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital all played important roles in delivering both the vaccine and information.
UVA Health held its weekly COVID-19 briefing Friday morning. The Latino community has one of the highest hospitalization rates as well as one of the lowest vaccination rates in Virginia. But in the Blue Ridge Health District, 57% received their first dose.
Dr. Max Luna joined the University of Virginia’s roundtable Friday to discuss coronavirus vaccination rates in the Latinx community. Officials say more than 50% of Latinx in Charlottesville and Albemarle County have received their first dose, making them one of the most vaccinated groups in Virginia.
UVA Health’s move to buy out Novant Health and become the sole owner of Prince William Medical Center, the 130-bed hospital in Manassas, will provide more opportunities for local residents to access specialists and participate in clinical trials while expanding the University of Virginia’s health care footprint and teaching mission across the state, officials said Thursday.
UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute is predicting a surge of COVID-19 cases across the state beginning in August and lasting into the fall, largely because of the Delta variant, which is 2½ times more contagious than the original COVID-19 virus, according to the institute’s latest report.
Until recently, it was thought that the lymphatic system did not reach as far as the brain. But in 2015 a team of researchers at the University of Virginia discovered in the central nervous system lymphatic vessels that drain cerebrospinal fluid into the cervical lymph nodes below. Knowing that the brain interacts with the immune system could open possibilities for new research into neurological diseases, including Alzheimer’s.
Our design thinking approach was impacted greatly by Professor Jeanne M. Liedtka of the University of Virginia, who, by her instruction, has enabled our staff to grow in our ability to adapt to new opportunities such as expanding mobilization from the Majority World. She also taught us to respond to church-planting opportunities among the largest movement of people in our lifetime by asking four questions.
(Editorial) We have some summer reading for you. It’s not exactly light beach reading, unfortunately, but maybe it ought to be required reading for anyone interested in the future of American democracy. The first was an article in Politico ominously headlined: “How the ‘Culture War’ Could Break Democracy.” It’s a Q-and-A with James Davison Hunter, a sociologist at the University of Virginia and author of a seminal book that turns 30 years old this year: “Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America.”
The University of Virginia’s current plan is to return to “in-person residential, educational and research experience[s].” Gathering and travel limits will be significantly relaxed. UVA is planning for all libraries, dining facilities and recreational spaces to be open this fall.
Some questions in jazz music, such as why Charles Mingus named a song “All the Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother,” may never be answered. Officials with eclectic local radio station WTJU are hoping that a module-based jazz curriculum they are developing will answer many of the others.
(Commentary) James B. Murray ended two eventful years as rector of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors on Thursday and handed the gavel (maybe there’s a secret handshake, who knows) to the new rector, Richmond attorney Whitt Clement. Bonne chance, Whitt.
Part of Emmet Street will be shut down near Ivy Road for a few nights this week and later this month as a contractor relocates a natural gas pipeline from the west side of Emmet Street to the east side to accommodate UVA’s Ivy Corridor Project. Emmet will be completely closed between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. July 7 through 9 and again on July 20.
Former UVA baseball star Chris Taylor will play in his first All-Star game next week. The Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder received the nod on Sunday afternoon after being selected as part of the players’ vote.
New research from UVA and Colgate University provides evidence that Black women are less likely than their White counterparts to be afforded the protection that can often come with perceptions of femininity. This, in turn, can make police violence against Black women seem more justifiable.
“Science!…” opens a poem started in the late 1820s by a youthful Edgar Allan Poe and revised throughout his life. “Why prey’st thou upon the poet’s heart, Vulture! Whose wings are dull realities!” Poe, a former University of Virginia student, goes on mournfully: “How should he love thee — or how deem thee wise…?”
Atul Keshap took charge as India’s Charge’d Affairs in Delhi today. The appointment of the Indian-American career diplomat, an old India-hand at the US state department, will help reinforce the close US partnership with the Government and people of India, demonstrated by our collaboration to overcome global challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic, the US State Department had said. Keshap, who is from Charlottesville, Virginia, has lived in Nigeria, Lesotho, Afghanistan, Zambia, and Austria. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Virginia. He studied economics, inter...