The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation is a recipient of the “Truist Promise” award. Brennan Gould, CACF’s CEO, says this wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for all 800 donors. The Bama Works Fund of the Dave Matthews Band, the University of Virginia, and Wells Fargo are some of the donors.
Former Department of Homeland Security Secretaries Michael Chertoff (2005-09) and Janet Napolitano (2009-13) talked about the peaceful transition of power between administrations and the danger in delaying that transfer.
A text messaging program that aims to help people with Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes has selected its first drawing winner of a participant who gained better control of his disease. This program is currently being offered to Charlottesville are residents for free thanks to a grant from UVA Health and the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation.
Research from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service is showing that the coronavirus is becoming one of the leading causes of death in the United States.
(Commentary by politics professor Brantly Womack) One of the few certainties facing President-elect Joe Biden is the prospect of an enduring rivalry with China, and casting the task as a new cold war has a certain allure.
Online gaming “assembled a very large group of generally hard-to-reach voters. So, gaming allowed politicians to ‘go’ where voters are,” Bruce A Williams, a UVA professor of media studies, said. “As long as increasing the turnout of younger voters is a priority, politicians will continue to experiment with using online gaming to reach younger voters.”
Students at UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy are diving into the problems of police and community relations and what can be done to resolve them.
Emily Murphy, 47, leads a 12,000-person agency tasked with managing the government’s real estate portfolio and serving as its global supply chain manager. The University of Virginia-trained lawyer and self-described “wonk” had spent most of the last 20 years honing a specialized knowledge of government procurement through a series of jobs as a Republican congressional staffer and in senior roles at the GSA and the Small Business Administration.
(Podcast) Andrew Kahrl, associate professor of history and African American sStudies, joins the discussion.
Dr. William Petri, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Virginia, says this is the news people needed as cases continue to spike across the country.
Former cabinet officials and analysts alike took to a webinar hosted by UVA’s Miller Center for Public Affairs to express their concerns about President Trump delaying the start of the transition.
Dr. Bill Petri, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia, said people might need to reconsider large in-person gatherings for the upcoming holiday season.
Patients who have obesity are at increased risk of developing problems including co-morbid conditions like diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea and heart disease. “Being overweight there is a detriment to your immune function,” said Dr. Pete Hallowell, director of bariatric surgery at UVA Health.
The researchers admitted that there were still “major gaps” in their knowledge of the virus – including where it originated. Frederick Hayden, an infectious disease specialist and emeritus professor at the University of Virginia, who co-wrote a Lancet editorial accompanying the Chinese study, said he first heard about the new illness when he spotted the ProMED Posting on Dec. 30, 2019.
A new biomaterial significantly reduces scar formation after wounding, leading to more effective skin healing, researchers report. “Previously we’d seen that as the wound started to heal, the MAP gel started to lose porosity, which limited how the tissue could grow through the structure,” says first author Don Griffin, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will speak on “COVID-19: Public Health and Scientific Challenges” from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, according to a news release.
With just under two weeks left in the in-person portion of the University of Virginia’s fall semester, Dean of Students Allen Groves says a couple of mistakes serve a reminder that students need to be more careful.
The Ridley, a new restaurant concept in development from Thompson Hospitality, is slated to open Jan. 1 on West Main Street. The Ridley is committing to giving back to students with an interest in diversity and inclusion through the Walter N. Ridley Scholarship Fund at the University of Virginia in an effort to support academic journeys and career development.
Imagine tossing your carry-on into the overhead bin of an airplane in Washington, then disembarking about 90 minutes later in London. That’s the focus of hypersonic research at the University of Virginia.