Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Wednesday that Greece’s government was finalizing the list of countries that will be allowed to resume flights to Athens on June 15 and regional airports on July 1 and has already stated that Germany will be included. “It is unlikely that the (U.S.) will be on our list, given the data that we currently have,” Mitsotakis told a web event hosted by the Brookings Institution and UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
UVA engineering students are proving they will be among the best cybersecurity professionals. For the third consecutive year, the student cyber defense team earned the national championships at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, held virtually earlier this week.
Meanwhile, a 2017 study by Benjamin Castleman of the University of Virginia and Joshua Goodman, then at Harvard University, showed the benefit of intensive, personalized counseling on college enrollment and completion among low-income students. But sadly our nation’s education system doesn’t always support this reality.
On May 1, In Solidarity Online released its mixtape, “Isolate.” The students are encouraging listeners to donate to Charlottesville Community Cares, an organization that helps provide food, transportation, prescriptions and other essentials for people facing food insecurity and financial hardships while their workplaces are closed.
Some experts in religion law see a difference between retail stores with pedestrian traffic and houses of worship where congregants sit in pews for lengthy periods. "The relevant category is not retail, but meetings or gatherings," said Douglas Laycock, one of the nation’s leading scholars in religious liberty at the UVA School of Law. "If movies, theaters, political rallies, and other secular meetings are still closed, then churches can be closed, too."
Once just a way of getting from one place to another, the car has been turned into a mini-shelter on wheels, safe from contamination, a cocoon that allows its occupants to be inside and outside at the same time. “They are like the ultimate P.P.E. – you can really seal yourself into them,” said Peter D. Norton, a UVA associate professor who studies the history of technology.
Coaches are creatures of habit, and finding new routines quickly became the goal. With the cancellation of athletic activity occurring a few months ago, the UVA football program has settled into its new routine.
There could be political repercussions for asking law enforcement to carry out the new order, said Raymond Scheppach, the former executive director of the National Governors Association and a UVA professor of public policy. “There’s very little enforcement, in terms of police, that the state really has,” he said.
The UVA Medical Center is once again ranked among the best hospitals in the country, according to Becker’s Hospital Review.
Jacqueline Novogratz, a 1983 UVA alumna, is an innovator in creative, human-centered capitalism, who recently published “Manifesto for a Moral Revolution.” She’s the founder of Acumen, a nonprofit impact fund that invests in poverty-alleviating projects around the world. In her conversation with Tippet, recorded in January, Novogratz said, "We have had a system that has put profit at the center. And what we need to do is shift that to put humanity and the Earth at the center.”
Allison Alston, a senior who is the current student member of the Howard County Board of Education, said it’s important for students to take the election seriously. Alston will serve on the board through the summer before heading to study at the University of Virginia. Her advice for her replacement is to “relax.”
Sanford Feldman, director of comparative medicine at the University of Virginia, has consulted with Moulton in recent years as Moulton tried to rid his facility of endemic Streptococcus zooepidemicus, a pathogen that causes conjunctivitis, abscesses, and other problems.
A shift in perspective may help move research forward, suggested Edward Bertram, epileptologist and professor of neurology at the University of Virginia. “In all of these carefully performed studies, the results are surprisingly similar, with the seizures stopping approximately half of the time with each of the drugs,” he said.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said: “His papers are much more voluminous than Hillary Clinton’s emails, so I would expect there would be even more stories. Republicans are going to say, ‘You just know there’s some interesting material at the University of Delaware.’ No, there really isn’t, but they know it’s a safe thing to say because it can’t be disproven before the election.”
Kyle Kondik and J Miles Coleman of UVA’s Center for Politics predicted that third parties would do worse in 2020 than in the last presidential election, in part because “voters generally feel better about their major party nominees this year than they did in 2016.”
Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said, “From the day this story broke, Burr’s case always seemed the most serious, and it was so treated by the press.”
By contrast, Trump is heavily supported by blue-collar white men, and “they regard the mask as a sign of weakness,” UVA political science professor Larry Sabato said.
“What’s crazy is, we’re three months in, and we’re still not able to calibrate our risk management. It’s a mess,” Brian Nosek, who runs the Center for Open Science at the University of Virginia, told columnist Joel Achenbach.
New research from the UVA School of Medicine is shedding light on the biological architecture that lets us hear – and on a genetic disorder that causes both deafness and blindness. Sihan Li, a graduate student in the lab of Jung-Bum Shin, of UVA’s Department of Neuroscience, has made a surprising discovery about how the hearing organ in mammals achieves its extraordinary sensitivity.
According to researchers, the findings of this study show that primary aldosteronism is much more common than previously recognized. To reach this conclusion, researchers from four academic medical centers (including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, University of Alabama, University of Virginia, and the University of Utah) studied patients with normotension (blood pressure that is within the normal range), stage 1 hypertension, stage 2 hypertension and resistant hypertension to determine the prevalence of excess aldosterone production and primary aldosteronism.