At the Virginia State of Reform Health Policy Conference, behavioral health professionals and state legislators discussed the effects of COVID-19 on mental health and substance abuse, and how the state can better provide care services coming out of the pandemic. The conversation featured a panel including Bethany Teachman, professor and director of Clinical Training at the University of Virginia.
(Video) Kyle Kondik with UVA’s Center for Politics joined us now with the latest on Virginia’s upcoming elections.
Youngkin’s corporate pedigree and corresponding wealth is a double-edged sword, likely guaranteeing a high floor for his performance in November, but also surely a stab point for Democrats politically in an increasingly oligarchic economy. Not that McAuliffe is Huey Long. “My guess all along…was that Youngkin would win,” UVA’s Larry Sabato, the dean of the commonwealth’s political scene, told me. “He was swamping the others, even [his principal rival, Pete] Snyder, with rather lavish campaign spending of all sorts. … Republican sources have told me Youngkin will spend a minimum of $30 million ...
When President Joe Biden said in late March that he would nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to a federal appeals court some braced for an intense confirmation fight. After all, Jackson is also a top contender to be Biden's first Supreme Court nominee. But coordinated opposition to Jackson – a federal judge placed on the bench by President Barack Obama in 2013 – has yet to materialize. "I also don't think the Republicans have played as much hardball with nominees," said Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at the UVA School of Law. "I don't know if they have the stomach for a Bork-, Thomas-...
Dr. Costi Sifri, UVA Health’s director of hospital epidemiology, said that there really is no static number for how many people need to be vaccinated to get to herd immunity. “It’s reliant on virus factors and human factors, part of it relies on human behaviors,” he said.
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith and Dr. Cameron Webb extolled the importance of everyone getting fully vaccinated. “We see misinformation all of the time and folks ask questions that are rooted in disinformation,” declared Dr. Webb, the White House senior policy adviser for COVID-19 equity and a physician and professor at the University of Virginia. “As it gets spread from person to person, from family to family, and friend to friend, it’s so important for the Black Press to tell the story of what is happening on the ground. Grandmothers can spend time with their grandchildren again. These vaccines a...
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative is expanding its Mural Project from rooms in UVA Health’s Inpatient Psychiatry Unit to the hallways. In order to make this happen, the program needs muralists. It is looking for artists from Charlottesville to represent their neighborhoods through positive and vibrant murals.
UVA Health says parents can now begin making COVID-19 vaccine appointments for children between the ages of 12 and 15. According to a release, this announcement was made following federal government authorization of Pfizer's vaccine for children in that age group. The first appointments are available on Friday at the vaccination center at Seminole Square.
UVA Health announced on Wednesday afternoon that adolescents may receive their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine as early as Friday. The vaccination clinic will take place at the Vaccination Center at Seminole Square. Parents or guardians must schedule an appointment for their child and must accompany them to the vaccination event.
UVA Health announced on Wednesday afternoon that adolescents may receive their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine as early as Friday. The vaccination clinic will take place at the Vaccination Center at Seminole Square. Parents or guardians must schedule an appointment for their child and must accompany them to the vaccination event.
A breakthrough came 2013 when Nicolás Yunes of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Kent Yagi of the University of Virginia discovered the “I-Love-Q” relations. The relations vary depending on which model of gravity you subscribe to, but in general they show how three of a neutron star’s bulk properties relate to one another. Now Silva and Yunes, along with A Miguel Holgado of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have applied their model to real neutron stars with a little help from the ...
The Fontaine Streetscape Improvements Project team presented plans for the Charlottesville corridor during a virtual public hearing Wednesday night. The project seeks to improve pedestrian and bicycle facilities, safety for all users, transit access and facilities and traffic flow. Fontaine Avenue is a mixed-use residential/commercial gateway to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia.
Here are the 47 highest-ranked full-time MBA programs at public institutions. (UVA’s Darden School of Business is tied for second on the list with the Univeristy of Michigan-Ann Arbor.)
UVA professors are shedding light on the politics of food and how it impacts different social groups. UVA is in the process of expanding on this by opening an Indigenous studies minor in the near future. Wednesday, the professors talked virtually about the impacts on a Indigenous communities. “It’s really important to consider the ways that history has disrupted the food-ways for a lot of native people,” said Kasey Jernigan, professor in the anthropology department.
In Virginia, a new law mandates the state’s five public colleges provide “tangible benefits” for slave descendants. Cauline Yates, a descendant of one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, said she hopes the law compels the flagship University of Virginia, which Jefferson founded, to provide academic scholarships and economic development projects for descendants. “It’s time for them to stand up and honor our ancestors,” said the 67-year-old Charlottesville resident, who works at the University and co-founded a group advocating for UVA's slave descendants. Brian Coy, a University spokesperson, said it'...
Charlottesville Albemarle Regional Airport Manager Melinda Crawford says air travel through Charlottesville will be strong as long at the University of Virginia, James Madison and Liberty Universities maintain normal calendars. “If you looked at our passenger traffic, you would see that we have peaks and valleys, and a lot of it is associated with the schools.”
UVA Health will offer COVID-19 vaccines for ages 12 through 15 beginning Friday, following the federal government’s authorization of the Pfizer vaccine for that age group.
The run on gas has not fueled changes to UVA’s plans to celebrate graduations over the next two weekends, but officials are watching the situation and preparing for possible disruptions. UVA spokesman Brian Coy said officials recommend anyone traveling to UVA monitor local conditions and make plans to ensure they have enough fuel.
Today The Narcotix shares its first official single, “John/Joseph” from the forthcoming EP Mommy Issues, which the band will self-release on June 11. Composers Esther Quansah (guitars, vocals) and Becky Foinchas (keys, vocals) met in an elementary school chorus class in the ghostly woodlands of Woodbridge, Virginia. The daughters of African immigrants (Quansah from Cote D’Ivoire and Foinchas from Cameroon), they soaked up influences as far-flung and varied as choral symphonies, African wedding music, and progressive math rock, distilling them through a unique lens. While attending the Universi...
(Podcast) Boy band One South Lark formed in high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. Now, away from each other at college, they still display a strong connection to each other and the music they make together, reminding listeners of youthfully blissful times. (The band includes UVA student Grayson Worley, a guitarist.)