George Kliavkoff, the president of entertainment and sports at MGM Resorts, was named the next commissioner of the Pac-12, the conference announced Thursday. Kliavkoff received a law degree from the University of Virginia.
(By Dr. William A. Petri, professor of medicine) An important question now arises: What happens if we don’t reach herd immunity? Petri, a UVA professor of infectious diseases, helps lead the global program to achieve herd immunity for polio as the chair of the World Health Organization’s Polio Research Committee. He answers questions here about herd immunity and COVID-19.
President Joe Biden unveiled his latest batch of judicial nominees on Wednesday, and in the mix is a woman who would be one of the nation’s few Native American federal judges. Biden nominated [2008 UVA Law alumna] Lauren J. King to a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. King, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation based in Oklahoma, is currently an attorney at the Seattle-based law firm Foster Garvey, P.C. She has served as a pro tem appellate judge for the Northwest Intertribal Court System since 2013 and previously taught Federal Indian Law at th...
When Niketas Koussis walks across the stage this week to accept his associate degree from Northern Virginia Community College, it won’t mark an ending, but rather the beginning of a life that he once dreamed of. He will graduate with a 3.98 GPA, a big change from the 3.0 student he was in high school. He is one of 20 people chosen out of 2,000 as a top U.S. community college student, and he has received prestigious scholarships. But grades alone don’t tell the full story. … In the fall, he’ll begin a new chapter at the University of Virginia, where he wants to study business.
The McGowan Fellows Program is celebrating its second decade of operation this year. A unique, highly prestigious scholarship established by the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, only 10 McGowan Fellows are named in a given year. Each one is an outstanding MBA student enrolled in and selected by ten of the nation’s leading business schools. The students in the 2020-21 cohort include Alexander Goot of UVA’s Darden School of Business.
The McGowan Fellows Program is celebrating its second decade of operation this year. A unique, highly prestigious scholarship established by the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, only 10 McGowan Fellows are named in a given year. Each one is an outstanding MBA student enrolled in and selected by ten of the nation’s leading business schools. The students in the 2020-21 cohort include Alexander Goot of UVA’s Darden School of Business.
At the Virginia State of Reform Health Policy Conference, behavioral health professionals and state legislators discussed the effects of COVID-19 on mental health and substance abuse, and how the state can better provide care services coming out of the pandemic. The conversation featured a panel including Bethany Teachman, professor and director of Clinical Training at the University of Virginia.
(Video) Kyle Kondik with UVA’s Center for Politics joined us now with the latest on Virginia’s upcoming elections.
Youngkin’s corporate pedigree and corresponding wealth is a double-edged sword, likely guaranteeing a high floor for his performance in November, but also surely a stab point for Democrats politically in an increasingly oligarchic economy. Not that McAuliffe is Huey Long. “My guess all along…was that Youngkin would win,” UVA’s Larry Sabato, the dean of the commonwealth’s political scene, told me. “He was swamping the others, even [his principal rival, Pete] Snyder, with rather lavish campaign spending of all sorts. … Republican sources have told me Youngkin will spend a minimum of $30 million ...
When President Joe Biden said in late March that he would nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to a federal appeals court some braced for an intense confirmation fight. After all, Jackson is also a top contender to be Biden's first Supreme Court nominee. But coordinated opposition to Jackson – a federal judge placed on the bench by President Barack Obama in 2013 – has yet to materialize. "I also don't think the Republicans have played as much hardball with nominees," said Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at the UVA School of Law. "I don't know if they have the stomach for a Bork-, Thomas-...
Dr. Costi Sifri, UVA Health’s director of hospital epidemiology, said that there really is no static number for how many people need to be vaccinated to get to herd immunity. “It’s reliant on virus factors and human factors, part of it relies on human behaviors,” he said.
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith and Dr. Cameron Webb extolled the importance of everyone getting fully vaccinated. “We see misinformation all of the time and folks ask questions that are rooted in disinformation,” declared Dr. Webb, the White House senior policy adviser for COVID-19 equity and a physician and professor at the University of Virginia. “As it gets spread from person to person, from family to family, and friend to friend, it’s so important for the Black Press to tell the story of what is happening on the ground. Grandmothers can spend time with their grandchildren again. These vaccines a...
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative is expanding its Mural Project from rooms in UVA Health’s Inpatient Psychiatry Unit to the hallways. In order to make this happen, the program needs muralists. It is looking for artists from Charlottesville to represent their neighborhoods through positive and vibrant murals.
UVA Health says parents can now begin making COVID-19 vaccine appointments for children between the ages of 12 and 15. According to a release, this announcement was made following federal government authorization of Pfizer's vaccine for children in that age group. The first appointments are available on Friday at the vaccination center at Seminole Square.
UVA Health announced on Wednesday afternoon that adolescents may receive their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine as early as Friday. The vaccination clinic will take place at the Vaccination Center at Seminole Square. Parents or guardians must schedule an appointment for their child and must accompany them to the vaccination event.
UVA Health announced on Wednesday afternoon that adolescents may receive their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine as early as Friday. The vaccination clinic will take place at the Vaccination Center at Seminole Square. Parents or guardians must schedule an appointment for their child and must accompany them to the vaccination event.
A breakthrough came 2013 when Nicolás Yunes of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Kent Yagi of the University of Virginia discovered the “I-Love-Q” relations. The relations vary depending on which model of gravity you subscribe to, but in general they show how three of a neutron star’s bulk properties relate to one another. Now Silva and Yunes, along with A Miguel Holgado of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have applied their model to real neutron stars with a little help from the ...
The Fontaine Streetscape Improvements Project team presented plans for the Charlottesville corridor during a virtual public hearing Wednesday night. The project seeks to improve pedestrian and bicycle facilities, safety for all users, transit access and facilities and traffic flow. Fontaine Avenue is a mixed-use residential/commercial gateway to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia.
Here are the 47 highest-ranked full-time MBA programs at public institutions. (UVA’s Darden School of Business is tied for second on the list with the Univeristy of Michigan-Ann Arbor.)
UVA professors are shedding light on the politics of food and how it impacts different social groups. UVA is in the process of expanding on this by opening an Indigenous studies minor in the near future. Wednesday, the professors talked virtually about the impacts on a Indigenous communities. “It’s really important to consider the ways that history has disrupted the food-ways for a lot of native people,” said Kasey Jernigan, professor in the anthropology department.