(Editorial) With computer hacks on massive scales now a frightening reality of modern life, the discovery by UVA researchers of a computer chip security flaw is a welcome piece of progress. That information can help designers correct the problem and potentially thwart hackers in the future.
A great deal of UVA alumna Kate Orff’s work addresses the inescapable fact that the Atlantic Ocean is rising, and coming for the land. She’s the founder of the design firm SCAPE, the director of the Urban Design Program at Columbia University, and the first landscape architect to win a MacArthur “genius” grant. She’s at the forefront of an emerging approach to climate resilience that argues we should be building with nature, not just in nature.
Virginia could be on the path to exceeding its worst months of the pandemic in September if cases and vaccination rates stay the same while the delta variant spread accelerates, according to projections from the University of Virginia’s weekly COVID-19 report.
Five new state historical highway markers that highlight Asian American Pacific Islander history will be displayed across Virginia. Gov. Ralph Northam announced that the new markers Tuesday, noting that the markers were submitted by Virginia students through a contest in May which is AAPI Heritage Month. Outside of Charlottesville “W. W. Yen” will be featured for being the first international student to earn a bachelor’s from the University of Virginia in 1900 and for being a leader in China during the early 20th century.
When Alexandre Soued and Helal Lootah left the UAE to study for their degrees abroad eight years ago, little did they know how central a role financial literacy would play in their lives. The high-school friends, who met at Dubai English Speaking College in 2011, admit they found it initially difficult to manage their money at university. Soued, who was attending the University of Virginia, turned to budgeting apps, such as Mint, to stay on top of his budget. Lootah, who was studying law at the University of Exeter in the UK, relied on a simpler way to manage his money, by tallying up receipts...
(Commentary) Just one week out of the University of Virginia, with a degree in economics and foreign policy, Gina Bennett started working at the State Department as a clerk-typist in June 1988. After a couple of months, Bennett’s boss told her, “Gina, you don’t belong here. I’m going to promote you so you can get a job as an intelligence analyst.” Today, 33 years later, as the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Bennett is a member of the CIA’s Senior Analytic Service working as senior counterterrorism adviser at the National Counterterrorism Center. No one in the US government has tracked al...
She’s a Sarasota native, and now an Olympic silver medalist. 19-year-old Emma Weyant is back home after finishing second in the Women’s 400m individual medley in the Tokyo Olympics. Weyant was greeted by her father and mother at Tampa International Airport Monday night. She describes everything that’s happened the last couple of weeks as a dream come true. Weyant is heading to the University of Virginia and working towards a shot in the Paris 2024 Olympics.
A victory by coal industry lobbyist Mike Carey would give Trump a chance to reclaim a large measure of influence within the Republican Party; a defeat would trigger more questions about the real value of an endorsement from the former president. “If Trump loses this one, going forward, I can see him being more cautious about handing out endorsements,” said J. Miles Coleman, an associate editor with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Using anti-discrimination laws “to force conscientious objectors out of the wedding business is a greater wrong. She must permanently surrender either her conscience or any opportunities in the wedding business.” —Douglas Laycock, religious liberty scholar at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Lou Bloomfield, fellow physicist and professor at the University of Virginia, has made a video on the physics of uneven bars.
The rate of COVID cases relative to population is higher in Florida, where 61% of the population is now vaccinated, than anywhere else in the country. Gov. Ron DeSantis has said “no to restrictions, no to mandates.” Dr. Taison Bell, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia and director of UVA’s medical intensive care unit, said he sees a connection between “high tourism, a lax approach to public health mitigation measures and low vaccination rates.” He said Florida fits into that category.
The article includes a Q&A with Malo A. Hutson, the new dean of UVA’s School of Architecture.
Amber McBride is the author of “Me (Moth),” a Summer/Fall 2021 Indies Introduce young adult selection and a July/August 2021 Kids’ Next List pick. McBride is currently a professor of English at the University of Virginia. Kelsy April of Bank Square Books and Title IX Books in Mystic, Connecticut, and Savoy Bookshop in Westerly, Rhode Island, served on the panel that selected McBride’s book for Indies Introduce. April called the book “incredible. Poetic. Jaw dropping,” and said, “It’s hard to find the words to describe how amazing this book is. Two lost souls finding each other and themselves, ...
Virginia Tech’s Feed the Future IPM Innovation Lab is celebrating the work of 27 students funded by one of its projects. The IPM Innovation Lab collaborates with Tribhuvan University and the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute to assess the spread of invasive weeds over the last 30 years — based on elevation and under different climate scenarios — in central Nepal. The project has found that as climate change events continue to occur, invasive weeds are spreading faster and higher than ever before.
People with Huntington’s disease who have had more formal education tend to be diagnosed earlier and have milder symptoms than those with less formal education, a new study indicates. In the study, researchers at the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University analyzed data from a global patient registry, called Enroll-HD, to better understand how education affects the disease’s course.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine say they’ve found the body’s natural blood-pressure barometers — a feat that has escaped scientists for more than 60 years.
COVID-19 modeling from the University of Virginia predicts a potential spike in cases in Virginia in September. “What the model is trying to tell us is that if we don’t change things, this is the potential path we could be on,” said Bryan Lewis, an associate research professor at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute.
The Delta variant could drive Virginia’s coronavirus case count past levels seen during January’s peak, but more than 60,000 cases could be prevented if vaccinations rise, the University of Virginia’s COVID-19 model projects.
UVA spokesperson Brian Coy says school officials are constantly checking data and are fully aware of the school recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Virginia Department of Health. “I don’t have anything to announce today, but if they decide there’s another step we need to take policy-wise, in order to keep this semester and this year safer for people at UVA, I think we certainly will,” Coy said. Coy adds 90% of students and 90% of staff are fully vaccinated.
Each university set a different cutoff for students to submit proof of vaccination. For the University of Virginia, the deadline was in July. As of Monday, a UVA spokesperson said 90% of students and staff are vaccinated. They said a handful of students that got exempt will be required to get tested weekly. The University said they are in contact with the remaining students to set up a plan to get the shot.