Tuesday was an historic day in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, providing hope in the battle against the coronavirus. It’s being called ‘V-Day,’ the day UVA Health administered the first COVID-19 vaccines to health care workers on the front line of the pandemic.
Theresa Payton [who earned a M.S. in management information systems at UVA] remains the cybersecurity and intelligence operations expert that people and companies turn to regard efforts to strengthen their privacy and cybersecurity. She is one of America’s most respected authorities on security and intelligence operations.
(Commentary by R. Edward Freeman, University and Olsson Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School) There are many reasons for the ascendency of stakeholder-thinking in business. Some have even argued that “stakeholder capitalism” is the new narrative that better describes how businesses can be successful. While there has also been a great deal of skepticism around this proposed change in narrative, it is worth a more careful look at why the ideas of Milton Friedman seem to fall short in today’s world, on this occasion of the 50th anniversary of his essay “The Social Responsibil...
(Commentary by Rachel Augustine Potter, assistant professor of politics, and Craig Volden, professor of public policy and politics) Although the dust on the 2020 election has barely had time to settle, it’s already become clear that rulemaking will be central to the success of the 46th president’s policy agenda. With a likely divided government or at least very slim congressional margins, much lawmaking will be mired in gridlock, making rulemaking an attractive pathway for accomplishing policy change.
This selection of paintings and prints from a major private Charleston collection of Northern Renaissance art – guest curated by Lawrence Goedde, UVA professor of art history – introduces a world of intensely, and sometimes disturbingly, vivid imagery.
Pence will preside over the joint session in Congress on Jan. 6, but federal law stipulates his role is to open and count electoral votes, not weigh in on whether they are valid. There is “zero chance such a maneuver by Pence or the Republicans will succeed if they are bold enough to try this,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told the AP.
“The Trump White House’s own cybersecurity practices were notoriously bad, and its unwillingness to acknowledge Russia’s hostile cyberoperations sent a terrible message to U.S. states, localities, and citizens,” said Ashley Deeks, a former State Department official and professor at the University of Virginia Law School.
Scientists have not previously documented such organisms exerting the kind of influence purple marsh crabs do over the way an ecosystem functions, from its actual shape to the interplay between predators and prey. “I have no reason to doubt that climate change will alter species' interactions such that new keystone species emerge,” says Linda Blum, an ecologist at the University of Virginia, who was not involved in the study. But, she adds, the team's conclusion that sea-level rise creates new crab habitat by softening marsh soil is built on “a lot of circumstantial evidence.” She suggests it ...
On the safety of dining in tents, Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care physician at University of Virginia Health, said there’s a spectrum of factors that make some tents safer or less safe than others. He noted the tents he’s seen that are not totally enclosed to allow for airflow comparable to being totally outside. “I’ve seen a few tents that did not have walls and air was able to circulate freely through,” Bell explained. “I think something like that is essentially equivalent to the outdoors because your ventilation is about the same as it would be outside.”
Astate organization has recognized two University of Virginia physicians and a Piedmont Virginia Community College English professor and writing instructor as outstanding faculty members. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia named Dr. Taison Bell and Dr. Andrew Wolf, of UVA’s Medical Center and School of Medicine, as well as PVCC’s Jennifer Koster as among the dozen faculty members to win the state’s highest honor for faculty at Virginia’s public and private colleges and universities.
Dr. Peter Dean, a pediatric cardiologist who is the team cardiologist for University of Virginia athletes, noted, for example, that at the beginning of the epidemic, as it became clear that Covid infection could cause inflammation of the heart in adults, no one in pediatric cardiology knew what the implications were for children and adolescents. … His colleague Dr. James Nataro, the chairman of pediatrics at the University of Virginia, who is a pediatric infectious diseases expert who studies emerging infections, said that the university, which had students on campus and held in-person classes...
Not all edible crops are destined for the food shelf—almost 600 million hectares of land is used to grow crops for ethanol, for instance. That means vast quantities of corn, wheat, rice, sorghum, sugar cane, cassava, and sugar beets are going into cars’ fuel tanks instead of people’s mouths. The move toward electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles could take a significant chunk out of this market. If all of that land were converted back to food production—a big assumption, but go with it—we could feed 280 million more people, according to one study from the University of Virginia.
In addition to Verdant Power’s riff on wind turbines, some new and unusual forms are taking shape. The University of Virginia, for example, has come up with a system based on bio-inspired pairs of oscillating hydrofoils.
One of every nine men in Virginia will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in his life. If caught early, the disease can be treated, but Black men are more than twice as likely to die from it. The University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth Universities are testing a new approach to treatment decisions – hoping to enroll new volunteers in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
University of Virginia Medical Center officials say they expect the first doses Tuesday morning. Both organizations hope to begin with a few vaccinations Tuesday and then increase the number of employees who get the shots beginning Wednesday.
The University of Virginia Medical Center expects to receive its first shipment of Pfizer’s newly approved COVID-19 vaccine around noon Tuesday. Medical Center officials say they will begin vaccinating healthcare workers immediately that afternoon.
Among this group of flagship state universities in states with large Black populations, the smallest racial gap in graduation rates was at the University of Georgia. There, 83 percent of Black students graduate within six years of entering, compared to 87 percent of White students. At the University of Virginia and the University of South Carolina, the racial gap is only 5 percentage points.
The University of Virginia is outlining its plans for the upcoming spring semester as officials closely monitor the progression of the coronavirus. The University said in a new release Monday that it plans to welcome undergraduate students back to Grounds Feb. 1.
Dr. Tom Marshburn will serve as pilot for the commercial mission to the International Space Station, NASA announced Monday. The six-month mission will be his third to ISS, with his last trip ending in 2013. Marshburn, 60, earned a master’s degree in engineering physics from UVA.
Fifty years ago, Virginians voted to revise the state’s Jim Crow-era constitution, a colossal effort led by UVA Law professor A.E. Dick Howard. As executive director of the Commission on Constitutional Revision, Howard led the successful referendum campaign for the new constitution’s ultimate ratification in 1971.