When the COVID-19 crisis began in early 2020, [UVA alumnus] Dr. Danny Avula was the joint director of the Henrico County and Richmond health departments, a big job placing him in charge of public health for more than 560,000 residents. However, in early January, the scope of Avula’s responsibilities widened considerably after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam tapped him to become the state’s vaccine coordinator.
The roots of the Division of Perceptual Studies stretch back to the 1920s, when Dr. Ian Stevenson was growing up in Canada. … His academic career flourished in the U.S. and he was named chair of UVA’s Department of Psychiatry in 1957, while still in his 30s. Around that time, he revived his childhood interest in the paranormal.
Harrison “Chief” Nesbit II passed away on February 24, 2021, at home. Chief graduated from the Greenbriar Military Academy and then attended the University of Virginia. As a co-captain of UVa’s football team, assistant coach, and long-time president of the Virginia Student Aid Foundation (now the Virginia Athletics Foundation), Chief loved UVA, especially its football and basketball programs.
D.C.-based software engineer Taylor Poindexter has worked in tech for eight years, starting out as an IT consultant and working her way to different roles before coming to a crossroads that’s experienced by many Black women — and many Black people who enter tech: Is the juice worth the squeeze? Is this career in tech worth all the hurdles and setbacks that only seem to happen to them? Fresh out of the University of Virginia in 2013, Poindexter got a job at an IT consultancy as an automation engineer. It was the job nobody wanted to do. For Poindexter, that meant it was the job she was gunning ...
The Philadelphia Phillies on Monday made an important roster decision in advance of Opening Day as they sent veteran outfielder Odubel Herrera to the alternate site. In turn, that means [UVA alumnus] Adam Haseley and Roman Quinn will make the active roster to start the season, and they’ll likely form a platoon in center field.
On a bright sunny day, Mary Johnston can catch a glimmer of light. [The UVA alumna] is very matter of fact about the fact she is blind, as it is a process that has been taking place since she was very young. She feels blessed, particularly when she thinks about others who have the same set of circumstances she does but don’t have the finances to take their lives to a higher level of comfort, or education. Most sighted people truly don’t know how expensive books and computers for the blind are, or that having those things makes all the difference in the world. That is why Mary and her husband D...
The most successful spies will always be a mystery to people, especially those they interact with daily. They keep their head down, do their jobs well, but not fantastically. And they never show their hands. Ana Montes knew this well. Montes (a 1977 UVA graduate) worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency as an analyst. She rose in the ranks and proved to be the agency’s most senior Cuban researcher. But she had a secret: She was spying for the Cubans.
“What the heck did you do to my kid?” Cynthia Warmbier’s anguish erupted at a hearing in December 2018 as she testified about her reaction to seeing her comatose son, Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, when he returned to the U.S. from North Korea in June 2017.
The future of the historic Corner at the University of Virginia could be car free, according to one student. He claims it would be good for students, the school, and the community. Right now, the Corner is split off from the Rotunda and other UVA buildings by University Avenue. In an op-ed in UVA’s student-run paper The Cavalier Daily, third-year student Noah Strike argues that in the future, traffic could be routed around it, letting walkers and bikers fill the space.
For the first time ever a transgender Asian American candidate has won an election to become the student president at a major east coast university. Abel Liu made his hometown of San Anselmo in Marin County proud as he won with 80% of the vote to become the University of Virginia student council President.
When we acknowledge things as they are, especially in difficult situations, our resistance to them can lessen, says Dr. John Schorling, the director of the Mindfulness Center at the University of Virginia. We tend to expend a lot of energy worrying about life’s challenges, which can sometimes cause more suffering than the challenge itself.
A volunteer-led phone bank has been helping the Blue Ridge Health District get people 65 or older registered for vaccines. The phone bank, which kicked off this month, was organized Kelsey Cowger, with Kathryn Laughon from the University of Virginia School of Nursing and Dr. Paige Perriello, with the goal of doing proactive outreach that health district staff didn’t have the time to do.
Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia who has followed state politics for 50 years, said such large fields for governor and lieutenant governor are unprecedented in modern times.
Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, said it was notable that the White House enlisted both Jill Biden and Emhoff on its Help is Here tour. “Generally speaking, after Hillary Clinton was placed in charge of healthcare in 1993, we haven’t really seen first ladies or second ladies given any sort of role that’s directly linked to policy,” she said. Yet both spouses were dispatched across the country “to make the case for what will ultimately be one of the administration’s biggest legislative accomplishments – and that’s policy-rich.”
Biden put forth himself as the person who was “hired” to summon his prolonged experience to try to solve intractable problems. “The elder has the perspective of history,” Russell Riley, the co-chair of the presidential oral history program at the University of Virginia, said.
University of Virginia Political Science Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE where she said President Joe Biden is going to have “thread the needle” as coronavirus cases are rising — and states are racing to get vaccines distributed.
Naomi Cahn, director of the Family Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the pandemic has had a “disproportionate impact on families of color. … That’s a really, really important part of the story.”
It’s allergy season, and those who suffer take medication almost daily to stop all the sniffling and sneezing. But is it safe to take those meds while getting vaccinated for COVID-19? News 3 This Morning anchor Jessica Larché is getting answers from infectious disease expert Dr. William Petri from the University of Virginia.
“Each time the virus copies itself, it’s like gambling,” explains Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care physician and director of the medical intensive care unit at the University of Virginia. “Sometimes when it gambles and changes itself, it doesn’t cause much difference in the virus, but sometimes it hits the jackpot, and it finds a change that either enables it to spread or to be more deadly.”
Charles Mathewes, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, said there was nothing in scripture that leads to an interpretation about Covid-19 vaccines; rather, some people were simply projecting political beliefs through their biblical interpretations. “It’s very hard to figure out what kind of theological language would mobilize them to change their views,” he said.