Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, tweeted Tuesday night that Democratic results were not what the Republicans had hoped for. “GOP wanted (1) @TerryMcAuliffe embarrassed with under 50%. In fact he’s topping 60%. (2) A low-turnout primary. No exact % yet but turnout is clearly NOT low,” he observed.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and a critic of Trump, was more decisive. “The turnout was solid and a good sign for Democrats,” he said.
If you’re going inside, however briefly, wear the mask. Amita Sudhir, a professor of medicine at the University of Virginia, says at this point, she isn’t wearing a mask (purely) for safety purposes. Instead, “I’m doing it to make other people feel more comfortable. And I hope that soon, that won’t be necessary anymore.”
At first, Google’s founders saw its algorithm as an unbiased reflection of the internet itself. The philosophy was, “We never touch search – no way, no how. If we start touching search results, it’s a one-way ratchet to a curated internet and we’re no longer neutral,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Virginia. A decade ago, Professor Citron pressured Google to block so-called revenge porn from coming up in a search of someone’s name. The company initially resisted.
Overall, fewer married people (29%) reported feeling that their marriage was in trouble in 2020 than the year before (40%). This is common in major crises, Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia who served as an adviser on the survey, told the Deseret News. The Great Recession, for all its turmoil, had a similar impact on many couples.
“The more transmission, the more opportunity you have for variants to evolve,” says Dr. Steven Zeichner, an infectious disease expert and pediatrics professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. “From a U.S. perspective, getting everyone around the world vaccinated is not an altruistic thing. It protects us here in the U.S. The side effect is that it helps everyone else in the world.”
A mural project at the University of Virginia Health System’s Adult Inpatient Psychiatry Unit, also known as 5 East, has expanded outside of patient rooms. According to a release, the unit began a renovation project in 2018 in order to upgrade facilities and adhere to guidelines regarding patient safety, including removing all framed artwork.
Renowned astrophysicist and promoter of astronomy Neil deGrasse Tyson and University of Virginia professor of physics James Treville take us through the history of astronomical discoveries, write about observatories, recall the history of Galileo, and explain step by step what, for example, string theory, dark matter and energy, what happens in The Large Hadron Collider, they explain the types of elementary particles, but they also allocate a large area, for example, to natural selection and how life arose on Earth. In the following parts they write about the search for extraterrestrial life, ...
As researchers take a closer look at the long-term effects of COVID-19, two new studies funded by the National Institutes of Health found some people may develop diabetes after a COVID-19 infection. The studies found that the virus destroys cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, and that the decrease in insulin leads to high glucose. Dr. Ananda Basu, a professor of medicine at the University of Virginia, said the findings are early, but concerning. “It’s like a double-whammy,” said Basu.
There are still many unsolved mysteries about the human brain and its development. Now, a novel study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry sheds new light on the neurobiological origins of our individual traits. … The neural connections in our brains that determine human behavioral traits are already present from birth and are unique to each individual. “Our main findings show that soon after birth, greater connectivity between frontal and parietal brain regions is linked to improved behavioral regulation in human infants. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate that connectiv...
Dr. Bill Petri has been working at the University of Virginia since he was 20 years old. His dedication to helping the community through the coronavirus pandemic is now being recognized by the University. Petri risked his own health to care for patients inside the COVID ward, and now UVA is honoring his sacrifice with the Thomas Jefferson Award for Excellence in Scholarship.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine will have a new leader. Dr. Melina Kibbe has been selected as the 17th dean of the school and the chief health officer for UVA Health. She will be starting at UVA in September.
The head of the University of North Carolina Department of Surgery has been named dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and chief health affairs officer for the University of Virginia Health System. Dr. Melina R. Kibbe will serve as the 17th dean of the medical school, taking over for Dr. David S. Wilkes, who held the position for the last six years. Kibbe will take over Sept. 15.
The University of Virginia has named Dr. Melina R. Kibbe the next dean of its medical school and chief health affairs officer for UVA Health, the university announced in a news release Wednesday.
The researchers found no evidence that people are any more likely to start working when they lose SNAP benefits. “If the goal is to encourage people to work, then this is not a policy that is working as intended,” said Adam Leive, who worked on the study and is also a professor at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor) America is a big country, and an increasingly diverse one at that. This diversity extends to how we educate, socialize, and care for our children – including our infants and toddlers. Some parents prefer to rely on a stay-at-home parent, others day care, others grandma, and still others a mix of these arrangements. Unfortunately, the American Families Plan that President Joe Biden put forward to help parents did not take account of this diversity.
New York City has a forceful, yet poignant message to Kim Jong Un. The street where the North Korean regime’s mission to the United Nations is located could soon be named “Otto Warmbier Way,” after the 22-year-old UVA student who was brutally tortured and sent home to die by Kim’s regime in 2017.
On a day that the University of Virginia advanced to the super regionals, inching closer to the College World Series, former Cavalier Chris Taylor hit a two-run home run in the sixth, widening the Dodgers advantage. “I woke up early and watch that one,” Taylor said of the college baseball game that started at 9 a.m. ET. “That was a big one for us. I’m proud of them.”
Statistics reports that health care-related jobs were expected to grow by 15 percent from 2019 to 2029, adding 2.4 million new jobs, or “more jobs than any of the other occupational groups.” All of them need clothes for work. And though some doctors had been moving away from scrubs before the pandemic, the last year has made them even more important. “It’s the one way that everyone in the hospital can express themselves,” said [UVA alumnus] Chaitenya Razdan, the founder of Care+Wear, which he started in 2014 on the premise that people dealing with medical issues should feel like people, not pa...
(Commentary by Hanna Hassan, undergraduate student and intern at the High Atlas Foundation) August of this year will mark the one-year anniversary of the end of South Sudan’s civil war, yet recent surges of violence suggest that peace is far from being realized. These attacks by armed groups include instances of sexual violence against women and girls. Sexual and gender-based violence continues to be a significant characteristic in South Sudan’s conflict, threatening the livelihood and human rights of women and girls.