If your child turns 5 before a second or third dose of the Pfizer vaccine, they would likely get bumped up to receive the higher dose for the rest of the series, said Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley, a pediatric infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia.
Your Child Is Almost 5. Here’s What Some Experts Say About Covid Vaccine Options for That Age Group.
UVA is the pick for Virginia: “Known as a ‘public Ivy,’ the University of Virginia offers in-state students an outstanding education at a reasonable price. The university boasts the highest graduation rate of any public college plus a beautiful campus, designed by founder Thomas Jefferson, that’s designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.”
Williams, who went on to lead her high school to a pair of state titles before starring at Georgia, became the first African American woman to be an athletic director of Power Five school when she took over Virginia’s program in 2017.
University researchers will pursue two avenues focused on environmental resilience and sustainability: researching and perfecting clean energy and helping local communities develop best practices for responding to climate-driven challenges.
The memorial was built just east of the UVA Rotunda to honor the lives, labor, and perseverance of the nearly 4,000 who built the university. Its design and peaceful setting evoke many emotions.
“They have taken people who are otherwise able to produce breastmilk and undermined their confidence and abilities to do so,” Ann Kellams, a pediatrician with the University of Virginia and president of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, said. “Women are failing because we as a society, as a health system, are failing them.”
The scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine found patients who go to such appointments will lower their risk of needing an amputation by 36 percent.
Ken Hughes, a researcher with the Miller Center, was 8 years old in 1972. He began studying Watergate seriously in the 1990s, and said, “I’m still learning new things about it.”
(Poem by Kiko Petrosino, director of UVA’s Creative Writing Program; subscription may be required) In this poem, the speaker ruminates on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson via a real or imagined tour of Monticello, Jefferson’s residence and plantation in Charlottesville. Notably, the word “slavery” is never directly stated, perhaps as a way to mirror the silence that often surrounds the more shrouded aspects of Jefferson’s legacy.
“This recommendation does fill a significant unmet need for a really ignored younger population,” said Michael Nelson, a professor of medicine at the University of Virginia, one of the 21 experts asked to vote for the milestone meeting.
Barbara A. Perry, a professor and director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said that Hinckley “would be maybe a ‘Jeopardy!’ question.” But his impact remains tangible in Reagan’s legacy. “For the president himself to have been so seriously wounded, and to come back from that – that actually made Ronald Reagan the legend that he became ... like the movie hero that he was,” Perry said.
Stuart Delery, a gay attorney who worked on Edie Windsor’s marriage equality case, will be the next White House counsel, the first out member of the LGBTQ+ community to hold that position, President Joe Biden announced Wednesday. Originally from Louisiana, Delery is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Yale Law School.
For the second year in a row, UVA Children’s has been ranked as the top children’s hospital in the commonwealth. U.S. News and World Report announced its 2022-23 Best Children’s Hospitals guide on Tuesday.
(Commentary by Elizabeth Varon, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History; subscription may be required) The story of Southern secession provides illuminating evidence that the Jan. 6 insurgency was rooted in long-standing efforts to preempt, delegitimize and suppress Black voting.
UVA Health is now the first hospital in the region to use a new state-of-the-art scanner to detect cancer. The new Biograph Vision PET/CT scanner from Siemens reduces the time needed to get an image, leading to clearer diagnoses in less time for patients.
Since algorithms can detect patterns humans can’t, therefore expediting a doctor’s assessment, AI systems could help enable broader national screening programs for lung cancer or heart disease. “It could be a great equalizer for health care,” says UVA urologist Dr. Kirsten Greene. “People without access to a top-20 medical center – it won’t matter, because technology will at least try to level the playing field.”
George Edward “Jed” Smock Jr., better known as evangelical pastor Brother Jed to college campus communities near and far, died June 6. Smock’s spirited confrontational style of preaching drew big crowds as he would incite heated debate – harangue – student “sinners” for what he considered as their alleged moral failings. “Unlike myself, many students in the amphitheater were offended by Smock’s claims,” Laura Parcells wrote in 2001 in the Cavalier Daily, UVA’s student newspaper. “They attempted to argue with him, and while these endeavors began in earnest or out of sport, they all inevitably l...
(Editorial; subscription may be required) The New York-based Henry Luce Foundation, named after and established by the founder of Time, Fortune, Life and Sports Illustrated magazines, has awarded the Fralin Museum a $250,000 grant that will support new research into its Native American collection, conducted in collaboration with indigenous scholars and artists.
(Commentary by Marlene Daut, professor of American and African Diaspora studies) Last month, The New York Times made headlines with its front-page series about the billions (in today’s dollars) that France forced Haiti to pay following centuries of slavery. Despite the terrors and tortures of French colonialism, the Haitian revolutionaries won their independence from France in 1804 to become the first modern nation to permanently abolish slavery. Yet, in 1825, the French returned to Haitian shores to demand 150 million francs in exchange for recognition of Haitian independence – 21 years after...
Sir John Wheeler-Bennett was the picture of an English aristocrat, without a hint of stuffiness. So genial, so approachable, we young University of Virginia students were thrilled by each of his lectures on diplomatic history – especially about anything on England and Germany in the interwar period.