Douglas Laycock is the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and is a staunch supporter of religious exemptions. However, he does not support a religious exemption to COVID vaccine mandates for many reasons and he thinks the courts would agree.
A committee of scientific advisers to the Food and Drug Administration is meeting on Thursday and Friday to examine the available data on using additional doses of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines to boost immunity. The panel includes Dr. Michael Nelson, a professor of medicine at UVA and president of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology.
Landscape architecture has never quite gotten the adulation of capital-A architecture, but perhaps a new prize can help change that – especially since it’s being given to an innovative designer who’s been respectfully referred to as “the toxic beauty queen of brownfield remediation.” The inaugural winner of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize is Julie Bargmann, a professor at the University of Virginia and founder of a studio called D.I.R.T – Dump It Right There. The award, announced today by the Cultural Landscape Foundation, is intended to confer the statu...
(By Nicholas Sargen, lecturer in the Darden School of Business) Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, policymakers have had their hands full dealing with the fallout from global supply-chain shortages. More recently, they have confronted yet another challenge as global energy prices have surged to their highest levels in several years.
(By Michael Lenox, Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business, and Becky Duff, senior researcher for the Batten Institute) Forest fires in California. Drought in the Southwest. Hurricanes in the Gulf. Flooding in New Jersey. Recent months have been filled with the deadly impact of extreme weather. Weather that scientists tell us is increasingly driven by climate change. With each new calamity, calls increase to better prepare for a future of frequent deadly weather events. But while such adaptation is surely going to be needed, if we don’t mitigate the underlying problem, reducing the emissions of gr...
The University of Virginia Cancer Center has joined a national effort to increase racial and ethnic diversity in cancer treatment clinical trials.
A new discovery about osteoporosis suggests a potential treatment target for that brittle-bone disease and for bone loss from rheumatoid arthritis. The findings from University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators help explain why specialized bone cells called osteoclasts begin to break down more bone than the body replaces. With more research, scientists one day may be able to target that underlying cause to prevent or treat bone loss.
Spillmann reached out to researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which developed a data dashboard for state and local health officials soon after Virginia reported its first cases. The reports include information on mobility, drawn from anonymized cell phone data collected by a company called SafeGraph, showing where and when Virginians were traveling to help understand the impact of safety restrictions. “They were looking for new sites and thought this particular data offered something new and fresh,” said Madhav Marathe, director of the institute’s Network Systems Science and Advanced ...
A new study found a correlation between the location of Confederate monuments and the number of lynchings the area had. According to the University of Virginia study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, counties in once-Confederate states with numerous Confederate monuments and memorials were also discovered to have had more lynchings.
Researchers have discovered a ‘quantifiable connection’ between Confederate monuments and the prevalence of lynching. The study, conducted by a team at the University of Virginia, aimed to explore whether there was evidence to support claims that Confederate monuments were symbols of hate, by comparing the number of lynchings that have taken place in a given area with the prevalence of Confederate monuments in that same area.
If you are coming from a development background and responsible for setting up build and deploy pipelines or want to learn more about real-world, professional-grade CI And CD process then the Continuous Delivery & DevOps course by the University of Virginia on Coursera is also a great resource. You may be able to audit for free as well.
Last summer, in the wake of the George Floyd murder, UVA’s Darden Graduate School of Business dean convened two groups to assess and confront the issues surrounding social justice and equity on the Darden campus. One was the Working Group on Race and Equity and the other was a high-level cabinet of Black alumni that could propose recommendations to leadership and oversee their execution. From the groups sprouted a number of initiatives focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
PVCC has received support from its bigger sibling, the University of Virginia, several times this year, including a $300,000 donation announced earlier this month to expand its nursing program to graduate 150 nurses a year and work in cooperation with the UVa Medical Center.
Bonumose, a food technology company, is investing $27.7 million in its expansion in Albemarle County, which will add 64 employees over the next three years. The company, which specializes in “healthy sugar,” is relocating from University of Virginia’s North Fork research park to a 50,000 square feet section of the former State Farm building on Pantops. Ed Rogers, Bonumose CEO and co-founder, said the company wants to make healthy sugar affordable for the global mass-market and to have a positive impact on public health. “Central Virginia is a beautiful place,” he said. “UVA helps attract reall...
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced the 2021 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. Twenty early-career scientists and engineers working in fields including astrophysics, evolutionary biology, engineering, geosciences, nanotechnology, neuroscience and physics will each receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. The awardees include UVA chemist Robert Gilliard.