Biden keeping her outside job is significant, UVA political science professor Jennifer Lawless said. “It sends a very strong message to women: No matter how accomplished, powerful or important your husband, you don’t have to abandon your own career or play second fiddle.”
The state Department of General Services and Virginia Department of Health awarded three Virginia laboratories – including the UVA Medical Center – contracts to participate in the state’s new OneLab Network, aimed to expand the commonwealth’s COVID-19 testing capacity.
The first AP Poll of the 2020-21 season came out Monday, and the Virginia Cavaliers checked in at No. 4. Virginia is technically still the reigning national champion after the 2020 NCAA tournament was canceled as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and the Hoos will have a legitimate shot at keeping the crown for three straight years.
“This is extraordinary. It’s within less than a year from starting the vaccine development to having phase three trial results. It’s completely unprecedented. I think the earlier record was probably about four years or so with Ebola, so this is really fantastic,” William Petri, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Virginia, said.
Biden’s lead in Pennsylvania stood at more than 45,000 votes Monday afternoon, not including the late-arriving ballots at issue. “If those ballots couldn’t change the election to make any difference to how Pennsylvania will be decided, then he doesn’t have a claim he can bring,” said Deborah Hellman, a University of Virginia law professor.
Carolyn Engelhard, a UVA professor of health policy, said that nearly 80% of those who lost insurance during the pandemic are eligible for coverage under either the ACA or Medicaid.
(Radio interview) We wanted to talk about that more with someone who’s been on the front lines of battling COVID-19, so we called Dr. Taison Bell. He is the director of the medical intensive care unit at the University of Virginia.
John D. Voss, vice chairman for quality and safety at UVA Health, attributed part of the regional increase to fatigue with following protocols known to keep the virus from spreading.
UVA demographer Hamilton Lombard explained that as Virginia’s population densities increased and decreased in various areas throughout the southern, northern and southwestern parts of the state, its districts continuously had to stretch upward or outward to chase population growth.
“Previously we’d seen that as the wound started to heal, the MAP gel started to lose porosity, which limited how the tissue could grow through the structure,” says Don Griffin, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia who is a first author on the paper and a former postdoctoral fellow in the Segura Lab.
University of Virginia’s chapter of Girls Who Code approached Maxar with a mission to support a 48-hour hackathon focused on “action-oriented projects that reflect innovation, diverse perspectives and empowerment.”
“Usually when one-term presidents were defeated, there’s a graceful transition. You can look at Ford, you can look at Carter, you can look at George H.W. Bush, they were all very gracious,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics.
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All students who had the option to change from standard grades to a credit/no credit grading system will have that option again. UVA announced the move to students in a letter from Provost Liz Magill.
The goal was to bring together students, faculty, alumni and others to share new approaches to addressing global health disparities.
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia is one of the largest collections of its kind worldwide, but some of the gallery’s pieces might soon be going back to the descendants of the people who made them.
Based on local conditions and trends, the model forecasts new confirmed cases will peak at 17,187 per week during the week ending Jan. 17.
President Trump’s legal challenges are unlikely to impact the outcome of the election, but they could impact the future of mail-in voting, according to experts who spoke Monday during a virtual UVA panel.
UVA received 2,918 early decision applications and 28,884 early action applications for the Class of 2025, which are both increases over the previous year.
From offices to laboratories to the hospital floor, UVA Health officials dropped their sometimes competing interests to help place their COVID-19 patients in studies that had the potential of giving them a better chance of surviving the disease.