COVID-19 cases that occur despite a person being fully vaccinated are called “breakthrough” cases. While they are rare, there is roughly a 5% chance of a person developing COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated. “When a vaccine is 95% effective for symptomatic disease, that is by definition meaning that 5% of people who have been vaccinated still can develop COVID,” said Dr. Costi Sifri, UVA Health’s director of hospital epidemiology. He said the breakthrough cases that do occur are rarely severe.
(Audio) Heather Maxwell dedicates this episode to recognizing mothers around the world. Every song in the playlist is related mothers in some way. All but two songs are presented by friends and contributors of Music Time in Africa: There’s Bill Odidi and his crew in Nairobi, Kenya; Samed Gaida and his gang in Tamale, Ghana; Maxwell’s crew of MTIA fans from Sierra Leone, Malawi, Kenya, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and a team of students and resident artist, Tholile X Mathinda, at the University of Virginia, led by Dr. Noel Lobley.
(Audio) Heather Maxwell dedicates this episode to recognizing mothers around the world. Every song in the playlist is related mothers in some way. All but two songs are presented by friends and contributors of Music Time in Africa: There’s Bill Odidi and his crew in Nairobi, Kenya; Samed Gaida and his gang in Tamale, Ghana; Maxwell’s crew of MTIA fans from Sierra Leone, Malawi, Kenya, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and a team of students and resident artist, Tholile X Mathinda, at the University of Virginia, led by Dr. Noel Lobley.
May is Stroke Awareness Month, and UVA Health wants to ensure the community knows about the signs and symptoms since timing is everything. The longer the delay in finding someone help following a stroke, the significantly worse the outcome.
A recent UVA study found kindergarten registrations across the state dropped an average of 13% in 2020.
A weekly Friday update from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which tracks the virus’ progression statewide, noted that “vaccination rates are the driving factor behind the wide regional variation.” UVA researchers said vaccine acceptance rates currently vary between 41% in the eastern part of the state and 87% in Northern Virginia. This makes the northern region more capable of weathering worst-case scenarios such as surges if residents relax behaviors and the number of cases linked to highly transmissible variants increases.
Virginia universities in the former heart of the Confederacy are reckoning with their past as students, faculty and staff call for the removal of Confederate symbols. Richmond housed the capital of the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. Over 150 years later, remnants of the commonwealth’s Confederate history remain, including in academia.
This year’s graduation ceremonies may look more like a masked ball, but the pomp and circumstance will be more poignant than ever, with schools hosting smaller, in-person and virtual ceremonies, to celebrate the new grads.
4. The University of Virginia offers extensive opportunities in Animal Law study. What makes the program different is it includes one animal law class every year. Also, students get additional opportunities to find internships and externships related to the course. Established in 2009 by Bob Barker, it is perfect for people who aim to carve a niche in this career.
(Podcast; subscription required) This week’s “Ahead of the Curve” breaks down the University of Virginia School of Law’s impressive hiring cycle, which has brought in nine new faculty members, including plenty of laterals with sterling resumes.
(By Daniel T. Willingham, psychology professor) Before the pandemic, the average American child between 8 and 18 played video games for an hour and 20 minutes a day, and if my kids are representative, that figure skyrocketed this past year. Like many parents, I gave in to increased gaming time but gravely told my children they should choose educational games. Unlike many parents, I knew my rule made no sense.
Longtime Virginia political observer Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said that even if the Democratic nominee is Terry McAuliffe, a powerful, well-connected fundraiser, Youngkin will pose a threat. “I think McAuliffe has to take him seriously. I’ve heard Youngkin can spend $30 million or more of his own money, in addition to state and national dollars. This is real money, and even McAuliffe will have a hard time competing with that kind of money,” Sabato said.
A new analysis done for Poets&Quants by PayScale shows that the MBA – even from schools that lack global or national cache – delivers hefty seven-figure income over a post-MBA lifetime. And if you were lucky enough to earn your MBA from one of five schools – Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Dartmouth or Virginia – your estimated median pay would surpass $8 million over a 35-year period. The bottom line: Despite the high costs of the degree, the long-term returns on the education are not in dispute. “Education should be a dream machine through which talented students come from anywhere – and go...
Dr. Ed Diener passed away Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Salt Lake City. After completing his doctorate in psychology at the University of Washington, Ed joined the psychology department at the University of Illinois in 1974. He was a Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology at his retirement in 2009. He continued to conduct research and teach at the University of Utah and University of Virginia. Known as “Dr. Happiness,” Ed is credited with being a pioneer of research into well-being. For 40 years, Ed investigated the psychological concept of happiness. His measure of life satisfac...
Last week, Jonathan Kuttab, a UVA Law alumnus, Palestinian-American lawyer and a leader among Palestinian activists, now residing in Virginia, spoke at a conference sponsored by overseas supporters of the Israeli Labor Party, and elaborated on his recently published book, “Beyond the Two-State Solution,” asking: “How about a state where any Jew, any time, no questions asked, can go and live where he doesn’t need to defend himself?”
(Commentary) Michael Bills is going long on Virginia politics. “There are voices that deserve to be heard,” said Bills, a UVA alumnus and a Charlottesville hedge fund guy. He, his political action committee and his wife, lawyer Sonjia Smith, collectively have given $6.7 million this campaign season to Democratic candidates who share their left-of-center, bright-green agenda, which includes shackling Dominion Energy.
William Scott lived an extraordinary life until someone took it from him earlier this week. Scott, 97, died after being shot to death. Two suspects, Mark Fleck and Devin Young, are accused of murdering him. “He was the smartest guy we ever knew,” his cousin Jeffrey Payne said. “He went to the University of Virginia got his master’s in engineering. Then went to Idaho Falls and worked with the nuclear research they were doing there after the war. Then back to Virginia, Newport News. He worked on the shipyard there and worked on nuclear reactors for aircraft carriers. Just incredibly smart.”
With her Hockney level talent, [UVA alumna] Uzo Njoku is the name to know in the art world right now. The buzzy newcomer has just opened her first exhibition, “A Space of My Own,” with Voltz Clarke Gallery in New York. She tells The Daily how she feels about being dubbed a breakout star and her unconventional path to success.
(Commentary) So how does Brooks Averell Ames – a St. Paul Prep School, University of Virginia, Boston Law School graduate, member of The Country Club, who was employed by a prestigious blue chip law firm in downtown Boston – become entangled in a lawsuit defending a Black firefighter’s civil rights against the Town of Brookline? Far too many lawyers I’m acquainted with in this Town drape themselves in “Civil Rights” banners across their chests, yet not one of them came within 10 miles of defending the Black firefighter who found the “N” word had been left on his cell phone by his white supervi...
(By environmental sciences student Shivani Lakshman, an intern at the High Atlas Foundation) Climate change is likely the most urgent crisis facing us in the 21st century. Rising temperatures are causing increasingly frequent and severe natural disasters, more droughts and heat waves, precipitation changes, and sea level rise. Consequently, this is leading to high levels of food insecurity, mass displacements, the spread of disease, and many other social, economic, and political challenges worldwide.