Dr. Cameron Webb could soon add “U.S. congressman” to his already impressive résumé. Last week, the 37-year-old internal medicine physician won the Democratic primary election in Virginia’s fifth congressional district. Alongside running a highly contested congressional campaign, Webb has also been conducting local COVID-19 testing at the UVA Medical Center.
(Commentary by Richard Schragger, Perre Bowen Professor of Law) The U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been at best fragmented and incomplete. At worst, it is incompetent and disastrous. Critics say the fault lies largely in the lack of a unified competent national response to the crisis, though some are thankful that states and cities have some independent authority, for at least it means that governors and mayors can act when the federal government fails to do so. The big picture, however, reveals a mostly dysfunctional federalism.
UVA researchers examined the reactions of gut microbes to medication and a patient’s ability to tolerate chemotherapy drugs and found different microbes react to the chemicals in different ways, including some generating toxins. That, they say, may explain why the same dose may work for one patient and make another sick.
This summer, about 500 UVA students will take part in the Propel program, working as consultants to start-up companies and small businesses in rural Virginia counties hurt by the pandemic.
(Editorial) Students at the UVA Career Center are helping real businesses. A new collaboration has been formed between the center and the Central Virginia Small Business Development Center. Called the Propel Management Consulting Program, it assigns students to help businesses transition more of their activities online.
University of Virginia’s College at Wise Chancellor Donna Henry announced June 18 that the school has the intention to move back to on-campus classes starting in the fall of 2020.
Yeardley Love was cherished by the Virginia lacrosse community for her fun-loving attitude and contagious energy. Earlier this month, a statue of the joyous Love was built outside the U.S. Lacrosse national headquarters in Maryland to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of her tragic death.
Each year since 2013, Carrie Heilman, a professor in UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, asks students in her yearlong Promotions course to participate in a national competition of the American Advertising Federation. And, recently, a team of McIntire students won the competition, even amidst challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Starting on July 4, 24 teams will compete in a $1 million winner-take-all basketball tournament. Dubbed “The Basketball Tournament” and also known as “TBT,” the event will be fully quarantined and take place in Ohio. Originally, UVA alumni planned to form a team to compete in the event. It would’ve been the first UVA alumni team to participate in the competition, which began in 2014. Due to COVID-19, the Cavaliers’ squad dropped out at the beginning of the month.
(Commentary by Zachary Rosenthal, a student double majoring in media studies and in leadership and public policy) For some people, the weather is more than a conversation starter. An American Meteorological Society survey found that most meteorologists developed a passion for the weather in their late elementary school years. As an elementary schooler, I read every piece of weather literature that I could. That said, it is never too late to discover your passion, learn about the weather and become the go-to weather geek for your friends and family.
A UVA Health epidemiologist says that while there are a slew of data points and statistics released each day, there are a few that are more important to keep track of. Dr. Bill Petri says the goal is to keep the percent positive of people tested below 10%. Right now, Virginia is trending down and is currently at 7%.
“We have about two-thirds of residents who are concerned at the pace of growth – they consider it either a little too fast or much too fast,” Kara Fitzgibbon, the director of the Center for Survey Research at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, told the Board of Supervisors earlier this month.
Five UVA students found themselves with some free time last year and created Arbitrage, an internet-based clothing business fueled by savvy social media use and sharp focus on the trends and proclivities of their customer base of UVA students.
(Commentary by Andrew W. Kahrl, professor of history and African American studies) History is repeating itself as pools, beaches and clubs open – but mostly for the privileged few.
Eric Houpt, head of the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at UVA Health, said it could take another month to fully understand the effects of the loosened restrictions in Virginia, Maryland and the District – and the mass street protests and demonstrations this month in the nation’s capital, Richmond and elsewhere.
John Swofford, the most transformative and longest-serving commissioner in ACC history, is retiring next June.
Aaliyah Pitts, the Virginia 6A player of the year at Woodbridge High School in 2019, is one of seven women’s basketball recruits announced by the University of Virginia on Thursday.
The University of Virginia announced its football players may return to campus for voluntary workouts beginning July 5, and released a timeline for team practices this summer.
The Oklahoma City Thunder announced that the club signed guard Luguentz Dort to a multi-year contract on Wednesday and followed it up by setting plans in motion to fill the two-way slot on their roster with UVA graduate Devon Hall. By rule, each NBA team is allowed to have 17 players under contract, 15 of whom are under “standard” NBA contracts and two players on “two-way” contracts, which essentially allow them to split time with a G League affiliate.
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced his intent to nominate Indian-American Vijay Shanker as a judge to the highest court in the nation’s capital. He earned his BA, cum laude, from Duke University and his J.D. from the UVA School of Law, where he served as a Notes Editor for the Virginia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.