Yet many epidemiologists, doctors and scientists have been surprised by the quick turnabout, concerned that removing masks now, with the virus spreading through more contagious variants, will lead to a resurgence of infections. “What I hope will happen is that a bunch of people will decide to go out and get vaccinated who were a little bit hesitant before,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson, UVA assistant professor of infectious diseases and international health. “What I fear might potentially happen is that, in communities where the rate of vaccination is particularly low, and where the rate of mask-w...
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics and the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball) Our hypothetical ratings of House 2022, if no district lines changed.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies) Tenure at American universities is not given. It’s earned. Those of us fortunate enough to have had a shot at earning it understand all too well the effort it takes to earn tenure, the costs of failing, and privilege it conveys.
Albemarle County is now leading the state in the rate of people who are fully vaccinated. It was the first county in Virginia to have more than half fully vaccinated. Doctors also shared more than 1,323 children aged 12-15 have gotten their shot with UVA Health already. “Now it’s really an all hands on deck approach, we’re doing to go clinics that are on the downtown mall, we’ve gone door to door in some locations, some of our vaccine team have walked down the street, looking for people to be vaccinated,” UVA Health epidemiologist Dr. Costi Sifri said.
Albemarle County is now leading the state in the rate of people who are fully vaccinated. It was the first county in Virginia to have more than half fully vaccinated. Doctors also shared more than 1,323 children aged 12-15 have gotten their shot with UVA Health already. “Now it’s really an all hands on deck approach, we’re doing to go clinics that are on the downtown mall, we’ve gone door to door in some locations, some of our vaccine team have walked down the street, looking for people to be vaccinated,” UVA Health epidemiologist Dr. Costi Sifri said.
The popular image of the atomic nucleus tends to depict protons and neutrons being packed together randomly inside a sphere – like gumballs in an old-fashioned glass dispenser. But in reality, heavier elements tend to distribute their building blocks more unevenly, with some neutrons nudged outward to form a thin “skin” that encloses the core of mixed neutrons and protons. “The protons in a lead nucleus are in a sphere, and we have found that the neutrons are in a larger sphere around them, and we call that the neutron skin,” study co-author Kent Paschke, a professor of experimental nuclear an...
For months UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute has forecast – among the worst-case situation – a peak of virus cases in the coming months that could rival or exceed levels in January. Last week, after introducing new formulas to the modeling mixture, researchers pulled back on that assessment. While the path exists for caseloads to grow, the dramatic numbers are no longer in the picture.
Worried brains can be retrained to respond to everyday situations in a less threatening way to reduce anxiety levels, according to new research published by researchers from The University of Western Australia and the University of Virginia.
Fifth year men’s tennis player Carl Söderlund was the ACC’s automatic qualifier for the NCAA Singles Championship beginning Sunday, but he has withdrawn due to injury, per release. Söderlund was named the ACC Player of the Year for the second straight year, as well as the Male Athlete of the Year at the University of Virginia for the second straight year.
Virginia senior women’s golfer Beth Lillie shot 2-over 74 during the second round of the NCAA Championships on Saturday and sits in a tie for 22nd place. Her two-day total stands at 2-over 146.
The year after Virginia won the 2019 NCAA men’s lacrosse championship, coach Lars Tiffany talked to his players about how rare it was for a team to repeat. After Saturday, the Cavaliers are going to have the chance to do just that. Redshirt freshman Connor Shellenberger scored a career-high six goals, junior Petey Lasalla dominated faceoffs, and fourth-seeded UVa’s defense stifled fifth-seeded Georgetown in a 14-3 win in the quarterfinals Saturday in Hempstead, N.Y., advancing the team back to college lacrosse’s final weekend.
Braithwaite edited numerous poetry anthologies over the course of his career. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia holds 40 boxes of manuscripts, correspondence, and other related materials related mainly to this editorial work, in three separate Braithwaite collections.
Georgia’s friend-of-the-court brief in the abortion case the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear calls on justices to “condemn” language used by the Black federal judge in his 2018 ruling against the abortion law passed by Mississippi’s legislature. The same judge took on President Trump’s criticism of the judiciary in the judge’s 2019 speech at the University of Virginia. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves said in prepared remarks, in accepting the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law: “[W]hen the Executive Branch calls our courts and their work ‘stupid,’ ‘horrible,’ ‘ridiculous,’ “inco...
(Editorial) Fortunately, with foundation support, much groundwork for such a probe has been laid by the Covid Commission Planning Group led by Philip Zelikow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing, but many women of color – and men – also made important contributions to the field. At the University of Virginia, experts at the Center for Nursing History are telling their stories.
The Class of 2021 was met with some pretty challenging experiences during their time at the University of Virginia, which makes Final Exercises all the more special on Friday.
Whether the University of Virginia’s Class of 2021 could graduate in person and in May this year was up in the air for most of this school year, but on Saturday, thousands of students in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences strolled down the Lawn and spilled into Scott Stadium to celebrate commencement.
While some UVA students got rid of their furniture during the move-out period, another group of students saw that as an opportunity to help others in need.
Margaret Riley, a professor at UVA’s schools of Law, Medicine and Public Policy, says businesses have a fair amount of leeway in how they can check if customers are vaccinated. “As long as they’re not engaging in discriminating behavior, they can actually determine who gets to come into their business,” she said. “They could require for example, proof of vaccination.”