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Vashti Harrison, a 2010 UVA alumna with a double major in media studies and studio art, moved to New York City in December 2016. She has two books on the children’s middle grade hardcover list (“Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” at No. 2 and “Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History” at No. 7) and two on the children’s hardcover picture book list that she illustrated.

Emergency room doctor Leigh-Ann Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia, said fair and efficient health care has always been a problem for Black people in the U.S. "Our system in America is not built to serve everyone equally, and the health care system is not immune to that," she told CBS News. 

The NFL and Football Research, Inc. have awarded a total of $1.37 million in HeadHealthTECH grants as part of the NFL Helmet Challenge. Four recipients will use the funding to further develop their helmet prototypes. University of Virginia professor Matthew Panzer ($223,047) is designing energy absorbing layers from a foam metamaterial—an assembly of smaller components.

Voters who dislike both presidential candidates this year tend to be younger, more liberal than in 2016. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, said, “It makes some sense that these kinds of voters would prefer change to the status quo, and Biden is the change candidate in this race.”

Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said that he expected a good number of Republican candidates to enter the 2024 race for president without a dominant front-runner, and that Mr. Hogan’s record of criticizing Mr. Trump could make for a challenging path in a crowded primary race.

Researchers explored the results of no lockdown in Sweden, with analysis on how other measures helped the country have less initial deaths. Peter Kasson of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Sweden’s Uppsala University said: “Our study shows that individually driven infection-control measures can have a substantial effect on national outcomes, and we see Sweden as a good example of this case,” Higher levels of individual action would further suppress the infection, while a complete lack of individual action would likely have led to runaway infection, which fortunately hasn’...

(Commentary by Jim Miller, a family practice and sports medicine physician and associate clinical professor) Is improvement in performance and conditioning possible after you turn 60? YES! What are the keys to this seemingly daunting task? This answer is complex.

Doctors from the University of Virginia says people’s actions can have a profound effect on the spread of the coronavirus, that is even if the government does not call for tighter restrictions or lock downs.

There has long been an assumption that children's entertainment must feature light and innocent themes with uncomplicated storylines in order for them to be able to "handle" the content. However, there's a risk this type of programming may negatively affect children's development. A University of Virginia study led by Angeline Lillard showed that children who watched "fast-paced, fantastical" shows may become educationally handicapped.

According to UVA’s current reopening plan, students should have the option to stay home and participate remotely, defer admission or take a gap year. Larger classes will remain online, and the university has said that faculty with health concerns also will be able to keep classes online.

As universities considered thousands of applications, many found standardized testing helpful according to Greg Roberts, dean of undergraduate admissions at UVA. “It can be a useful tool to help us distinguish between students who come from so many different high schools with so many different grading scales and grade inflation,” he explains.

The Broadway star died from the coronavirus, despite being just 41 and in apparent good health. Cases like his, experts said, are growing. “A young person who has no real medical comorbidities, but gets super sick and ends up on multiple support machines” is a clinical portrait that doctors are now seeing “a lot,” said Dr. Taison Bell, a physician specializing in infectious disease and pulmonary and critical care at UVA Health.

Researchers have developed a model that uses social-media and search data to forecast outbreaks of COVID-19 well before they occur. “We know that no single data stream is useful in isolation,” UVA computer scientist Madhav Marathe said. “The contribution of this new paper is that they have a good, wide variety of streams.”

Recruiting during a pandemic has presented a world of challenges, but coaches at the University of Virginia say there have been some positives to come out of it.

The number of visitors in 2019 from January to September leaped by 237,000 – a 45% increase, according to the Ghana Tourism Authority. Most came from the United States. Officials are building on that upswing with a 10-year program, launched in June, to entice people to keep their talents (and money) in Ghana. After the country declared independence from Britain in 1957, the first prime minister, Kwame Nkrumah, received a series of American civil rights leaders. “He thought the independence of Ghana was meaningless without the total liberation of people of African descent everywhere in the worl...

Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, told Reuters that Kanye would win no more than a few percentage points. “He’s got a long way to go even to convince us that he’s serious,” said Sabato.

Hubble’s infrared eyes spotted the glowing, hot dust. It is seen in yellow and red. ALMA shows the clouds of molecular gas in purple, according to the researchers. What is more, these stars have different masses. And the dense molecular gas still has some mass, indicating that it needs to collapse inwards to form stellar bodies. “Overall, the process may take at least a million years to complete,” said Yu Cheng of the University of Virginia, lead author of two papers published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Gabrielle Adams, assistant professor of public policy and psychology and director of executive education at the University of Virginia, comments: “Knowing colleagues, feeling seen, and being able to find and identify people in an organization is critical. It contributes to a greater sense of belonging and elevates a team from simply completing set tasks to being motivated to support their whole organization in achieving its goals. If the future of work is indeed remote working, then companies must create an organizational climate and culture that facilitates this sense of belonging and bolster...

Having been stuck in lockdown for months, many of us have been reminded that, at the end, what really matters is family. We may only now being released from enforced contact with our closest relations, and even our roommates, and often painful separations from those who live farther away. “When society is facing a tremendous challenge or there’s a big uptick in suffering, people orient themselves in a less self-centered way and in a more family-centric way,” suggests Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.

Saikrishna Prakash, professor at UVA’s School of Law, notes that Congress is at a structural disadvantage. “Congress has two chambers composed of hundreds of people. The president and the executive branch are generally more unified.”