In 1991, with America gripped by a struggle between an increasingly liberal secular society that pushed for change and a conservative opposition that rooted its worldview in divine scripture, James Davison Hunter wrote a book and titled it with a phrase for what he saw playing out in America’s fights over abortion, gay rights, religion in public schools and the like: “Culture Wars.” Thirty years later, Hunter, a UVA sociologist, sees America as having doubled down on the “war” part.
According to a newly published report in JAMA, mental illness is a significant health problem facing coal miners. Conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Virginia, the study is said to be the largest of its kind.
Ackerman’s career has spanned and touched just about every aspect of the game, from the 1977 salutatorian at Hopewell Valley Central High School, to a 1,755-point career with the Bulldogs, to a stellar college career at the University of Virginia under Hopewell native Debbie Ryan and to an incredible career in sports administration.
Some people on the fence about getting the COVID-19 vaccine are turning to their church congregation for advice, especially from those who have a background in health and medicine. “They’re not going to let us take a vaccine that’s not been tested, that’s not been proven. It’s appropriate and the time is now,” Chapman Grove Baptist Church Pastor Xavier Jackson said. That’s where his background in medicine comes in handy: the pastor has a biology degree from the University of Virginia and practiced clinical medicine for 14 years.
There is little as gratifying as a 5-year-old’s deep breath and mighty blow to snuff birthday cake candles, or as mortifying as child saliva spewing across the frosting surface like water through a garden hose mist nozzle. That’s why University of Virginia graduate and Richmond resident Mark Apelt invented the Blowzee, a sanitary way of extinguishing birthday cake candles without extinguishing adult appetites.
[UVA alumnus] Jim Irving kept notes from his days as a private eye. Forty years later, he published his first novel.
Thomas Marshburn, a 60-year-old medical doctor, will fly as pilot on the Crew-3 mission. He was born in Statesville, North Carolina, and graduated from Davidson College with a bachelor’s degree in physics and earned a master’s degree in physics from the University of Virginia.
Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., are recommending three candidates to the White House to fill a vacancy at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a letter Monday the senators recommended U.S. District Court judges Arenda Wright Allen and M. Hannah Lauck and Virginia Solicitor General Toby J. Heytens. Heytens, the solicitor general of Virginia since 2018, represents the state in state and federal courts and has done so in three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he was a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, from 2010 to 2018. He also served a...
In the long term, practices developed to support students with interrupted education during the pandemic could be used to help students with an even wider array of classroom disruptions, from migrant and homeless students to those who experience a school closure, according to Chris Chang-Bacon, an assistant education professor at UVA’s School of Education and Human Development.
Restarting the global economy in bits and pieces means we can expect shortages across various sectors, says Vidya Mani, a professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business. She uses the process of manufacturing a car as an example. Your car might contain parts that come from 10 different countries, she says, but that doesn’t mean that any of those 10 countries can produce all the components needed to build the car. Companies in each of those countries specialize in making just a few of those essential pieces, and if they can’t deliver on time, production slows to a crawl.
Brad Wilcox, a sociology professor at UVA and visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said Republicans who do not see urgency around the issue fail to realize that “we are in a new moment here with record lows in fertility, record lows in marriage. And I think a lot of ordinary Americans have concerns about how they afford to have kids, raise kids and juggle work and family in the 21st century,” he said.
The City of Baton Rouge has quietly agreed to pay $35,000 to the Clarence Green family of Baton Rouge to settle a civil rights lawsuit against a team of Baton Rouge police officers, according to attorney Thomas Frampton, who represented the family in their legal action against the city. Frampton is a UVA associate professor of law.
Noting that largely unvaccinated workers may be expected to come together in large groups to serve vaccinated tourists, Mami Taniuchi, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Virginia, said, “The [infection] risks among vaccinated travelers are significantly reduced, but I worry about the risk of transmission among the people who are working around them.” She added, “In a situation where there’s a mixing of people who are vaccinated and unvaccinated, most of the transmission events are going to be among those who are not vaccinated.”
(Audio) Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, co-founder and medical director of Goodstock Consulting and a UVA associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, joins CBSN’s Elaine Quijano to discuss the day’s coronavirus headlines.
(Statement signed by eight UVA faculty members) We, the undersigned, believe this country stands at a crucial moment that will define the democratic expression and exchange of ideas for our own and future generations. State institutions across the country are attempting to ban frank and rigorous conversation about our history in the classroom. Few single works have been threatened with more restrictions than the 1619 Project, a landmark exploration of America’s deep roots in enslavement. And now, the 1619 Project’s founder, Nikole Hannah-Jones, has had her appointment as the Knight Chair in Ra...
Scientists at the UVA School of Medicine say they have developed new tools to help fight cancer. The new approach looks at chromosome folding in 3-D. Researchers believe this can help unravel the genetic cause of cancer and other diseases, which could have big implications for the future of drug development for precision medicine.
Further experiments in collaboration with professor David Parichy from the University of Virginia confirmed that duox is important for developing iridophore pigment cells. When the duox gene is inactivated in mutant zebrafish, development of the iridophore pigment cells is delayed, the study found.
“Inclusion,” “purpose,” “community,” “perspective,” “support”—these words appear prominently and often in the essay questions for UVA’s Darden School of Business this year. Although Darden has pretty much always focused on the strength of its community, the way students collaborate both inside and outside the classroom to learn and grow, and the value of bringing people from diverse backgrounds and with differing mind-sets together, the school’s updated prompts seem to emphasize these ideas even more than usual.
On Thursday, more than 100 UVA students and community members gathered at the George Rogers Clark statue, which has been a point of contention in recent years for its depiction of Clark’s slaughter of Indigenous people, and then marched to the Rotunda in protest of violence that has increased over the past month between Israel and Palestinians living in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
On Sunday, UVA held its last Final Exercises of the academic year. The celebration wrapped up the highs and lows students endured during the pandemic. Over the course of three days, UVA conferred 7,494 degrees to the class of 2021.