Dr. William Petri, a UVA professor of infectious disease, and five other scientists had been working on a vaccine to treat amoebic dysentery, an infection that damages the intestines. The vaccine causes robust production of antibodies in the gut – lined with a mucosal membrane similar to the lining of our lungs – the first target of the new coronavirus.
Transitions: U. of North Carolina at Charlotte Selects New Chancellor; 2020 Guggenheim Fellows Named
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced this year's fellows. Of the 175 fellows named this year, 124 are in academe. Among them are Lawrie Balfour, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, "Imagining Freedom: Toni Morrison and the Work of Words."
Hundreds of colleges and universities have pushed back decision deadlines to June 1. Some prestigious schools that held to May 1 nevertheless gave more time to those who asked. Greg W. Roberts, dean of admissions at the University of Virginia, said the school gave about 100 extensions. “We were very accommodating,” he said.
Healio Primary Care spoke with Dr. Randolph Canterbury, the senior associate dean for education at the UVA School of Medicine, and Patrick A. Carr, assistant dean for medical curriculum at the University of North Dakota’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences, to learn more about how institutions are adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two UVA researchers have been recognized with one of the highest honors for a scientist. According to a release, James N. Galloway, Sidman P. Poole Professor of Environmental Sciences, and Timothy D. Wilson, Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology, have been elected to the National Academy of Science.
“I live in Powhatan and commute to Charlottesville, three days a week, for 12-hour shifts. I wear a mask now 24/7 [at work]. Working in the ER is stressful in itself. [With the coronavirus], it adds another component – especially with my family and children. I’m always terrified that I could be exposed and bring it home. I think everyone in health care feels that way,” says Cameron Walker, a nurse in the Emergency Room at the University of Virginia.
We Understand Why We Have to Miss Commencement. But Here's What We Lost in the Abrupt End to College
(Commentary) While virtual commencements are all many of us can have in this time, watching these moments through two-dimensional screens, thousands of miles apart will be different. Postponed ceremonies will be different, too. We won’t all be in the same era of our lives: excited, scared, hopeful during the bittersweet end of college. But that doesn’t mean they won’t mean anything. “For some campuses like ours, students were away on spring break,” UVA President James Ryan said. “They didn’t have four or five days to say goodbye. So, for many of them, this will be the first time they’ve seen e...
“I wish I could say that the Facebook review board was cosmetic, but I’m not even sure that it’s that deep,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies and author of a book on Facebook. “If Facebook really wanted to take outside criticism seriously at any point in the past decade, it could have taken human rights activists seriously about problems in Myanmar; it could have taken journalists seriously about problems in the Philippines; it could have taken legal scholars seriously about the way it deals with harassment; and it could have taken social media scholars seriously about...
The University of Virginia announced Wednesday that Nicole Thorne Jenkins will be the dean of the McIntire School of Commerce, effective July 1. Jenkins is currently vice dean of the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky, where she is also the Von Allmen chaired professor of accountancy.
(Commentary by Barbara Perry, Gerald L. Baliles Professor and Presidential Studies director at UVA’s Miller Center) Presidential campaigns, as we know them up to the current pandemic, are primarily 20th-century phenomena. Before that, few candidates or, heaven forbid, incumbent presidents, sullied themselves by rubbing elbows with the hoi polloi. But as presidents and aspirants for the office realized that their power could be augmented by direct appeals and outreach to the electorate, they embraced in-person campaigns. Nationwide train, and then plane, travel made them possible.
An event the aims to honor the work of some UVA students looked very different on Wednesday night. Interim Director of Bands Andrew Koch hosted a virtual spring banquet for Cavalier Marching Band members and their families.
Members of UVA’s Class of 2020 will not get to walk the Lawn as part of their Final Exercises celebration, but the University has some surprises planned to celebrate the class’s achievement.
When he was in the Navy, UVA nursing professor Richard Westphal began studying the problem we now call stress injury – changes in behavior and attitude caused by trauma or threat to life, loss or grief, moral dilemmas and fatigue.
For UVA’s Cavalier Marching Band, spring usually means a chance to get dolled up and celebrate the year’s achievements at “band prom,” the group’s annual awards banquet. This year, though, the global coronavirus pandemic threatened to bring the celebration to an abrupt halt.
On March 18, William Guilford received an email request from an intensive care nurse at UVA Health. Could UVA’s Engineering School produce PPE – from N95 masks to face shields – using 3D printing? “I always tend to put on my engineer hat first, and I wasn’t sure that creating an N95 mask was a realistic goal,” says Guilford, assistant dean for undergraduate education and associate professor of biomedical engineering. “But my non-engineer hat was just, ‘Whatever you need, you tell us, and we’ll make this happen.’”
Matthew Pottinger, the U.S. deputy national security adviser, offered a more veiled critique of Beijing on Monday as he delivered remarks to a University of Virginia symposium. Praising the May 4 anti-imperialist protests in China more than a century ago, Pottinger suggested China could benefit from “a little less nationalism and a little more populism.”
The University of Virginia announced Tuesday it has received a $1 million commitment from Charlottesville-area businessman and investor Paul Manning to establish The Manning Fund for COVID-19 Research, which will support the University’s efforts to develop COVID-19-related research projects.
Scott Darrah is an advanced practice nurse at the UVA Medical Center, where he tends to COVID-19 patients in an acute care setting. And he is a leader in developing three acute care units to handle coronavirus patients as special pathogens units.
Some UVA students may be able to find a way to better predict the spread of the coronavirus.
(Commentary by William Petri, Professor of Medicine) As researchers try to find treatments and create a vaccine for COVID-19, doctors and others on the front lines continue to find perplexing symptoms. And the disease itself has unpredictable effects on various people. Dr. William Petri, a professor of medicine at the UVA Medical School, answers questions about these confusing findings.