For nearly two years, readers have been sending me heartbreaking notes about how the pandemic is tearing apart their families. To help us navigate these COVID-strained relationships, I spoke to Claudia Allen, director of the Family Stress Clinic and director of behavioral science in UVA’s Department of Family Medicine.
(Press release) Linktree, the market-leading linking platform, today announced its inaugural class of collegiate athlete partners (including Alana Walker of the UVA volleyball team) as the organization continues to build out its sports offerings and resources to help college athletes fully utilize their newfound name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights. As Linktree partners, the five athletes will create and share content that showcases who they are on and off the court, using Linktree to connect their audiences to their content, brand deals, causes, playlists, communities and NIL ventures.
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Next Wednesday, the University of Virginia (Cavaliers will be playing Southern Methodist University Mustangs in the first ever Fenway Bowl in Boston. It will also be the last game for at UVA for Bronco Mendenhall as he will step down as head coach after the game. Mendenhall has been trying to keep things as normal as possible in preparing for the game, but when he went into his office on Wednesday, one thought did hit Mendenhall.
NJ/NY Gotham FC announced Wednesday that it had signed midfielder Taryn Torres from the University of Virginia to a one-year contract with the option for an additional year. Torres was selected 23rd overall in the 2021 NWSL Draft by Gotham FC (then Sky Blue FC) and opted to return for a fifth year at UVA.
(Transcript) Dr. Ebony Hilton, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, talks about COVID-19 developments and a new anti-viral pill.
Since Leqvio doesn’t have a long safety record, some doctors may be reluctant to choose it over its competitors because patients could end up taking the drug for years. “The question is going to be always in terms of long-term safety, and the answer is we don’t know about that yet,” University of Virginia cardiologist Eric Rembold said. “That’s going to be harder to sell to people, even if it may be more convenient.”
(Commentary) A new survey shows that more Americans don’t plan on ever having children. Why? Fifty-six percent say that the reason is that they “just don’t want to.” Compare that to finances being the reason (17%), or the “state of the world” (9%), or climate change (5%). “Anti-natalism is on the march,” said W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.
“For decades, we had exactly the kind of inflation that former Chair Greenspan used to say we sought,” says Eric Leeper, a professor of economics at the University of Virginia. “But suddenly, when you see an overall inflation jump [from 1% or 2%] to 6%, and prices of things that you’re buying go up fantastically, people get unsettled.”
(Photo caption) Sue Donovan, conservator for Special Collections at the University of Virginia, works on an envelope that was removed from a time capsule that was removed from the pedestal that once held the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue.
On Wednesday, Dec. 22, around 10 a.m., Virginia Department of Historic Resources conservators Kate Ridgeway and Chelsea Blake, along with Sue Donovan, who is conservator for special collections at the University of Virginia, began the detailed process of opening the time capsule discovered inside the Robert E. Lee monument pedestal.
Sue Donovan, a paper conservator from the University of Virginia, slowly picked apart the papers, careful not to damage them. Chelsea Blake examined the coin, which began to tarnish after it was exposed to the air. This was normal work for the conservators. Except this time, there were 25 or so members of the media watching.
Dr. Judith White at the University of Virginia is part of an international team working to speed up the production of “COVID cocktails.” Drug cocktails are combinations of different medicines that are used to attack multiple different symptoms.
Omicron is predicted to fuel “rapid case growth” in Virginia over the holidays and could lead to “a severe surge in February 2022 that is likely to exceed that of winter 2021,” according to the latest report by UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which has been tracking the course of the coronavirus in Virginia and modeling its future spread.
UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute – which has tracked COVID-19 trends during the pandemic and conducted infectious disease modeling for more than 20 years – predicted in its Friday update the potential for omicron to fuel a surge that exceeds the devastation seen last winter. This is the worst-case scenario, if Virginia stays on this path while omicron courses through communities. Researchers emphasized how the impact can still be prevented through masking, social distancing and receiving a booster when eligible, which applies to anyone 16 and over who is six months post-second dose of Pfizer or M...
1. University of Virginia. About the program: UVA’s online programs include a 15-credit online leadership in human resources management certificate. Course topics include organizational performance management, staffing and career management, and strategic compensation.
University of Virginia alumni Donna and Richard Tadler made a gift of $5 million that will be used to create a professorship of entrepreneurship at their alma mater, UVA President Jim Ryan announced earlier this month.
The dressage team at UVA, part of the University of Virginia Eventing & Dressage Team, is looking to raise $3,000 to bring the team to the Intercollegiate Dressage Association Nationals.
(Commentary by James Loeffler, Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History) Charlottesville in August 2017 offered a preview of the America that we would become: a country in which violently racist sloganeering freely mixes with absurd, carnival antics; a culture in which constitutional principles are treated as cudgels with which to crush political opponents; a society in which gun-toting extremists parade openly in the streets in search of enemies to strike, and then claim self-defense if anyone is injured; and an online ecosphere in which virtual hate escalates before spilling over into real-...
In 2014, at the height of the Ebola epidemic, UVA biologist Judith White and her colleagues began working on a way to fight that disease with a drug cocktail. They figured it should be possible to combine medications for various viral groups. As the risk of Ebola fell, so too did funding for this approach, but with the arrival of COVID, White and her collaborators began feeding key information into a computer, allowing them to develop models for crafting different drug cocktails for each viral family.
The whimsical work of acclaimed photographer Rodney Smith is celebrated this month in both the fashion and corporate worlds, coinciding with the 5th anniversary of the artist’s death. Smith first found inspiration while visiting the permanent collection of photography at The Museum of Modern Art during his junior year at The University of Virginia.