(Commentary co-written by Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project) Progressives are calling into question even the kids-benefit-from-fathers argument Obama made so powerfully and poignantly. This month, for instance, The Harvard Gazette ran an article entitled, “Why living in a two-parent home isn’t a cure-all for Black students.” Written by Harvard sociologist Christina Cross, it spotlights her research showing that poor Black kids with two parents do not do better on a few educational outcomes compared to their peers with single parents.
“The Delta variant, which has ravaged India, is gaining traction in the U.S. and Virginia,” says the latest weekly report from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. “Unvaccinated individuals, including those with a previous COVID infection, remain at risk from this variant.”
About 60% of the state’s ZIP codes reported no new cases of the coronavirus over the past week, University of Virginia pandemic researchers say. Under the worst-case scenario, with lax behavior and more contagious variants spreading, the state could expect a small peak of eight daily cases per 100,000 people during the week of July 25, according to a recent forecast by the UVA Biocomplexity Institute. For perspective, the peak in January was 68.
Most of the developed countries are averaging close to 100%, said Dr. Rajesh Balkrishnan, a social epidemiologist at the University of Virginia focused on medical care access. He was among the public health researchers who released an infant immunization report in April that found between 2009 and 2018, disparities widened by income, education level, and race.
No one deserves a cancer diagnosis, yet some patients feel stigmatized by their diagnosis, explained Lee Ann Johnson, an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. Stigmas can be associated with a wide variety of cancer types including lung cancer and a possible association with smoking; human papilloma virus-related cancers such as oral, cervical and anal cancers; male breast cancers; and male-specific cancers such as testicular, prostate and penile cancer.
More recently, the migration has been mainly triggered by people escaping the high cost of living in Northern Virginia, according to Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. They are largely young professionals seeking to buy first homes and raise families. Many are heading South to growing regions in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Texas. Lombard also said that Virginia is losing retirees, mostly to Southern states.
Fewer people are attending religious services across the country. But new data from the University of Virginia shows a surprising amount of diversity in rural parts of the Commonwealth.
Zach Messinger never carried himself as if he towered above the crowd, never mind that he stands 6-feet-6. He was humble enough to carry the equipment bag to the bus for away games when he was pitching for Castle High School. As his velocity has crept up each year at the University of Virginia, now touching 97 mph – creating tons of interest among MLB scouts – Messinger first hopes to help carry the Cavaliers deep into the College World Series.
Pitching at the University of Virginia, 2020 was looking to be Griff McGarry’s breakout season. The Menlo School graduate had finally realized his potential on the NCAA Division I stage, earning the ace distinction as Virginia’s Friday night starter, delivering a 3-0 record with a 1.35 ERA through four starts. Then came the closure of the 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic. And upon McGarry’s return, his redo junior season in 2021 quickly went south.
A Vanderbilt University baseball fan site assesses UVA’s College World Series prospects.
Logan Michaels, catcher for the University of Virginia, hit his first home run of the season in front of his dad for Father’s Day. The dinger kicked off a four-run seventh inning for the Cavaliers as they defeated Tennessee 6-0 in the College World Series. Michaels said that the person in the stands who caught the catcher’s second career home run in 343 at-bats was able to get the ball over to his dad, a three-year pancreatic cancer survivor, which made the moment even sweeter.
UVA Health is making some changes to its COVID-19 vaccination efforts. It will be ending its pop-up community vaccination events on July 31. This includes the weekly vaccination events that have been taking place on the Downtown Mall. The last of these is scheduled for June 25.
UVA Health officials will shutter their Seminole Square COVID-19 vaccine center and close down the pop-up clinic on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall to shift the University’s public vaccination focus to its pharmacies and Medical Center.
President Joe Biden’s Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall will be talking with people at the University of Virginia next week. UVA’s Karsh Institute for Democracy will be hosting her for an online conversation about the threat of domestic terrorism.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine made a stop at the University of Virginia on Friday while he was visiting Charlottesville. He met with UVA President Jim Ryan and other representatives from the University at the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers.
The case brought by Catholic Social Services was aimed squarely at overturning a 1990 Supreme Court decision, called Employment Division versus Smith. Smith was authored by the iconic conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, himself a devout Catholic. He wrote that when the government has a “generally applicable” law or regulation and enforces the law neutrally, the government’s action is presumptively legitimate, even if it has some “incidental” adverse impact on a religious group or person. “There’s six votes to overrule Smith,” said UVA law professor Doug Laycock, “or at least to think seriousl...
The famed “Green Book” advised Black Americans throughout the Jim Crow era where it was safe to travel, eat and sleep without fear of harm or harassment. A new project from a small team of historians seeks to document every site in Virginia – and eventually, the country – that was listed in the “Green Book.” UVA has come on board recently and will serve as the new home of the data, not just for Virginia but eventually nationwide when enough volunteer historians can be recruited to do the same for their states.
Tears and revenge are not the only things that may come from a bad romance; teens in intense relationships may find themselves battling high blood pressure as adults. Data from an ongoing study of 184 Buford Middle School students that began in 1998 shows a direct, self-reported correlation between intense teen romantic relationships and high blood pressure as adults.
Former U.S. National Team soccer player and Olympic gold medalist Angela Hucles Mangano [a UVA alumna] has been hired as Vice President of Player Development and Management at Angel City FC.
From now on, June 14 will be known as Janae Profit Day in the city of Dunwoody, Georgia. During a June 14 City Council meeting, Mayor Lynn Deutsch recognized Profit, a recent graduate of Dunwoody High School, for her outstanding achievements in athletics. Profit will continue her studies and athletic career at the University of Virginia.