School officials partnered with Novant Health/UVA Health Prince William Medical Center to vaccinate 2,500 teachers in preparation to return all children to in-person learning early next month.
At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has been a constraining and limiting factor for many artists, the music on [UVA alumnus] Will Overman’s new album is reflecting expansion and growth. Overman released his first solo LP, “The Winemaker’s Daughter,” on Feb. 12.
Last summer at the Alexandria vigils for George Floyd, Audrey P. Davis, director of the Alexandria Black History Museum, collected history as it happened. She said she field-collected at vigils across Alexandria, including one that occurred in front of the Alexandria Black History Museum and the Charles Houston Recreation Center. The UVA alumna wanted to tell Alexandria’s social justice story and capture the historic events occurring following the deaths of Floyd and other Black Americans who had been killed by police officers.
Dr. John B. Gordon III strives daily to live up to the example of excellence set by the two men in his family of educators that he is named after. Those men are his father, a mathematician who was one of the first African Americans admitted to UVA, and his grandfather, who was a well-known pastor who led Bethlehem Baptist Church for 30 years in Church Hill. [Gordon III is a UVA alumnus.]
NASA’s acting chief Steve Jurczyk, 55, personally received congratulations from President Joe Biden an hour after the Perseverance rover successfully landed on the Red Planet. “His first words were ‘Congratulations, man,’ and I knew it was him,” Jurczyk said. “He talked about how proud he was of what we had accomplished.” Jurczyk earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UVA in electronic engineering and began his NASA career in 1988.
In recognition of Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, the One Love Foundation is sharing a PSA to spread the message that “love is learned.” The One Love Foundation was launched in memory of Yeardley Love, a former UVA lacrosse player. She died May 3, 2010 after being beaten by her ex-boyfriend, George Huguely.
To be allowed back on campus after winter break, UVA student Jessica Terry said she had to use a COVID-19 test kit that was authorized for at-home collection by the FDA.
Former Fifth District U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman and Dr. Cameron Webb may no longer be on the campaign trail, vying for the seat in Congress, but they are still plenty busy. Webb serves on the White House COVID Task Force as the White House senior policy adviser for COVID-19 Equity, as well as continuing to take shifts at UVA Health.
Regional economist Dr. Terance J. Rephann of UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the says the rise in assessments has likely come from a combination of factors. “Federal Reserve policy has reduced mortgage interest rates to historical lows,” he said. “People who would ordinarily sell their houses are keeping them off the market because they are afraid of being exposed to COVID-19, and (there is) an increased preference for single-family homes in more suburban and rural locations with sufficient space for leisure, recreation and setting up home offices because of being cooped up lo...
Dr. Christopher Kramer at UVA Health will be honored this spring with the American College of Cardiology’s 2021 Distinguished Mentor of the Year award.
A UVA infectious disease doctor says there are still misconceptions surrounding how the COVID-19 vaccines work because the science is not yet settled, but recent data suggests these medicines can be the key to ending the pandemic.
J. Miles Coleman, an associate editor at UVA’s Center for Politics, says candidates with more extreme ideological views have historically favored conventions because they’re usually held by party insiders and loyalists.
J. Miles Coleman with UVA’s Center for Politics says the party’s decision to hold a convention matters. “These conventions you have to keep in mind that a lot of the time they are decided by the party’s insiders. Who has the most big-name endorsements? That would be Kirk Cox,” he said.
Telecoms have the power to throttle internet service in one state and not another, according to the state’s regulations. But just because it’s technically possible, doesn’t mean it’s not a big headache. “State law compliance is a cost of doing business and they do it all the time,” UVA law professor Thomas Nachbar wrote by email. “The problem, though, is that, in order to make these rules effective, many of them would reach beyond the state.”
Longtime congressional aide Shalanda Young’s track record as someone who can work with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle would not only further Biden’s pledge to pursue bipartisanship. It would also set her up for a much smoother confirmation hearing than Tanden’s, which has been controversial since its announcement. “I think [Biden] will try and pick somebody who’s not going to be a lightning rod,” UVA political science professor David Leblang said.
UVA law professor Ashley Deeks noted that China’s drive for total information awareness could hamper U.S. intelligence collection. “If the Chinese government can recognize every person on the street and easily track a person’s comings and goings, this will make it even harder for foreign intelligence agencies to operate inside the country,” she stated on the blog Lawfare.
(Commentary) UVA law professor Douglas Laycock spoke about this unbalanced impact of the Equality Act as well: “It protects the rights of one side, but attempts to destroy the rights of the other side,” he said. “We ought to protect the liberty of both sides to live their own lives by their own identities and their own values.”
(Commentary) Perhaps even more to the point, evangelicals are simply out of step with emerging American values on two key issues: race and sexuality. A recent study from UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture found that white evangelicals are now far outside the mainstream of American opinion on a cluster of issues that pertain to race, racism, and white supremacy.
(Editorial) preliminary results from a new study from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute suggest that vaccinating possible super-spreaders is the most efficient and effective way to control COVID. These super-spreaders are “those individuals with the greatest number social contacts and ‘social proximity time’ with others,” the University reports.
(Commentary) Wrote author Siva Vaidhyanathan, who supervises the Virginia Quarterly Review, a UVA literary journal: “Some white people just can’t stand the idea that they should be respectful and refrain from using one, single six-letter word in their adult lives.”