In early May, UVA Health launched a mobile vaccination effort called “Dose On-The-Go.” It brings pop-up clinics to areas around Charlottesville and into people’s homes. With the clinic already on wheels, Justin Vesser, manager of ambulatory pharmacy services at UVA Health, took it one step further by bringing it to food workers.
According to the American Cancer Society, nearly 2 million cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed this year but there’s promising news. A team of University of Virginia scientists and students has developed new tools to help fight the disease.
Joyner said the department has consulted with other agencies, including the New York City police department, Baltimore County and the University of Virginia’s police department to develop strategies.
Georgetown expert says claims of vaccine requirements infringe on constitutional rights are not true
In Virginia, the commonwealth’s attorney general previously announced individual schools could make their own decisions. The University of Virginia announced a July 1 vaccination deadline to return to campus. Other public schools, Virginia Tech for example, are still only recommending vaccinations. A UVA spokesperson said while the school is still finalizing exemption guidance, they expect it to be similar to exemptions they currently offer for the MMR vaccine.
Most days, Charlottesville artist Edward Thomas could be found with his folding easel, set up on a sidewalk, by the river, or at a construction site, engaged in capturing “what the world looks like from where I stand,” he’d say. Thomas died May 8, 2021, at the age of 49. A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Thomas was an inveterate builder and tinkerer, creating and adapting with constant inventiveness.
John W. Warner, a Republican U.S. senator for 30 years who led Virginia’s congressional delegation and whose marriage to actress Elizabeth Taylor brought a dash of glamour to Virginia politics, has died. He was 94.
Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, the genteel former Navy secretary who shed the image of a dilettante to become a leading Republican voice on military policy during 30 years in the Senate, died on Tuesday night at his home in Alexandria. He was 94. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1949 and enrolled at the University of Virginia Law School before leaving to join the Marines during the Korean War. He returned to law school to obtain his degree in 1953.
With increasing numbers of Virginians vaccinated for COVID-19 and social restrictions dropping, UVA cancer experts are joining other health organizations in promoting vaccinations for another epidemic: the human papillomavirus.
In 1991, with America gripped by a struggle between an increasingly liberal secular society that pushed for change and a conservative opposition that rooted its worldview in divine scripture, James Davison Hunter wrote a book and titled it with a phrase for what he saw playing out in America’s fights over abortion, gay rights, religion in public schools and the like: “Culture Wars.” Thirty years later, Hunter, a UVA sociologist, sees America as having doubled down on the “war” part.
According to a newly published report in JAMA, mental illness is a significant health problem facing coal miners. Conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Virginia, the study is said to be the largest of its kind.
Ackerman’s career has spanned and touched just about every aspect of the game, from the 1977 salutatorian at Hopewell Valley Central High School, to a 1,755-point career with the Bulldogs, to a stellar college career at the University of Virginia under Hopewell native Debbie Ryan and to an incredible career in sports administration.
Some people on the fence about getting the COVID-19 vaccine are turning to their church congregation for advice, especially from those who have a background in health and medicine. “They’re not going to let us take a vaccine that’s not been tested, that’s not been proven. It’s appropriate and the time is now,” Chapman Grove Baptist Church Pastor Xavier Jackson said. That’s where his background in medicine comes in handy: the pastor has a biology degree from the University of Virginia and practiced clinical medicine for 14 years.
There is little as gratifying as a 5-year-old’s deep breath and mighty blow to snuff birthday cake candles, or as mortifying as child saliva spewing across the frosting surface like water through a garden hose mist nozzle. That’s why University of Virginia graduate and Richmond resident Mark Apelt invented the Blowzee, a sanitary way of extinguishing birthday cake candles without extinguishing adult appetites.
[UVA alumnus] Jim Irving kept notes from his days as a private eye. Forty years later, he published his first novel.
Thomas Marshburn, a 60-year-old medical doctor, will fly as pilot on the Crew-3 mission. He was born in Statesville, North Carolina, and graduated from Davidson College with a bachelor’s degree in physics and earned a master’s degree in physics from the University of Virginia.
Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., are recommending three candidates to the White House to fill a vacancy at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a letter Monday the senators recommended U.S. District Court judges Arenda Wright Allen and M. Hannah Lauck and Virginia Solicitor General Toby J. Heytens. Heytens, the solicitor general of Virginia since 2018, represents the state in state and federal courts and has done so in three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he was a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, from 2010 to 2018. He also served a...
In the long term, practices developed to support students with interrupted education during the pandemic could be used to help students with an even wider array of classroom disruptions, from migrant and homeless students to those who experience a school closure, according to Chris Chang-Bacon, an assistant education professor at UVA’s School of Education and Human Development.
Restarting the global economy in bits and pieces means we can expect shortages across various sectors, says Vidya Mani, a professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business. She uses the process of manufacturing a car as an example. Your car might contain parts that come from 10 different countries, she says, but that doesn’t mean that any of those 10 countries can produce all the components needed to build the car. Companies in each of those countries specialize in making just a few of those essential pieces, and if they can’t deliver on time, production slows to a crawl.
Brad Wilcox, a sociology professor at UVA and visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said Republicans who do not see urgency around the issue fail to realize that “we are in a new moment here with record lows in fertility, record lows in marriage. And I think a lot of ordinary Americans have concerns about how they afford to have kids, raise kids and juggle work and family in the 21st century,” he said.
The City of Baton Rouge has quietly agreed to pay $35,000 to the Clarence Green family of Baton Rouge to settle a civil rights lawsuit against a team of Baton Rouge police officers, according to attorney Thomas Frampton, who represented the family in their legal action against the city. Frampton is a UVA associate professor of law.