UVA was about to confront the biggest threat yet to its audacious plan to bring thousands of young adults back to Charlottesville and resume in-person schooling mid-pandemic. There appeared to be an outbreak of the coronavirus in Balz-Dobie residence hall, a first-year dorm with a handful of positive cases and concerning signs pointing to even more.
(Editorial) UVA President Jim Ryan’s statement that UVA “will not walk away from Thomas Jefferson” as long as he is president has received widespread coverage and social media comment – and with good reason.
Despite playing in the ACC, UVA and NC State will meet for just the sixth time over the last 17 seasons when they square off at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville. It will mark the Wolfpack’s first trip to UVA since 2011.
President Donald Trump’s behavior while battling COVID-19 is concerning to some infectious disease experts. “We're still talking about a really risky virus,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious disease expert at the University of Virginia who helped develop treatments the President is taking like remdesivir and dexamethasone.
(Commentary) The Virginia Retirement System, which provides retirement benefits for hundreds of thousands of teachers, state judges, police officers, firefighters and other government employees throughout the commonwealth, reported a dismal 1.4% rate of return on its investment portfolio in fiscal year 2020. UVA economics professor Ed Burton, a former member of the VRS Board, said Virginia’s pension system should have earned closer to 8% based on the S&P 500 and Barclays Aggregate Bond indices.
Doctors are warning parents that it is critical this fall to make sure your child is up to date with their vaccinations, including a flu shot. Dr. Irène Mathieu, a pediatrician at the University of Virginia, stressed the importance of making sure children are properly vaccinated right now.
It was not yet 7 a.m. and the leader of the free world, still hospitalized with the coronavirus, was thinking about Virginia, an increasingly blue state where his campaign hasn’t been willing to bankroll ads on TV. “There have been some flashbulb moments in Virginia that have come up a lot,” said Kyle D. Kondik, who analyzes elections at UVA’s Center for Politics.
The White House physician, Dr. Sean P. Conley, predicted in a memo released Thursday that President Trump could safely “return to public engagements” on Saturday, based on the date on which he tested positive for the coronavirus and his response to treatments. Such vague wording could be interpreted to mean a definitive test for infectiousness, which “to my knowledge, doesn’t exist,” said Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care physician at the University of Virginia. “I wish I could learn from Dr. Conley what they’re doing.”
In the month since the first debate, the Senior Statesmen Forum on Sept. 9, Cameron Webb and Bob Good have not taken the virtual stage together again, despite attempts from both campaigns to do so. The Webb campaign says they were willing to move forward with the Liberty debate if the Good campaign agreed to a debate at the University of Virginia, where Webb works. They say the Good campaign has not responded to that request, and now time is running out.
The reintroduction of seagrass into Virginia’s coastal bays is one of the great success stories in marine restoration. Now, a long-term monitoring study shows this success extends far beyond a single species, rippling out to engender substantial increases in fish and invertebrate abundance, water clarity and the trapping of pollution-causing carbon and nitrogen. Scheduled for the Oct. 7 issue of Science Advances, the study was led by scientists of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science; joining them are Karen McGlathery, Lillian Aoki, and Matthew Oreska of the University of Virgini...
The FDA received 47 clinical trial grant applications that were reviewed and evaluated for scientific and technical merit by more than 90 rare disease and clinical trial experts, including members of academia. University of Virginia, Owen O'Connor, phase 2 study of oral azacytidine plus romidepsin for the treatment of peripheral T-cell lymphoma – $3.2 million over four years.
The University of Virginia is at the forefront of researching that very cocktail, which was given to the president along with Remdesivir and Dexamethasone.
UVA researchers want to find out whether the “antibody cocktail” that was administered to the president can prevent COVID-19 infection in people that share the same household.
Over the next five years, researchers from the University of Virginia's Arctic Research Center, in partnership with local entities, will be designing and monitoring environmental sensors throughout Utqiaġvik that will collect data that can be used to design future buildings.
Dr. William Petri of UVA Health said Thursday the cocktail appears to be effective, lowering the number of days a patient is sick from about 13 to eight.
Research conducted by Yale Law School professor Ian Ayres and UVA law professor Quinn Curtis suggests that most 401(k) participants don’t allocate their investments efficiently, meaning that for any degree of risk, 401(k) savers are getting sub-optimal returns out of expensive funds dominated by offerings from fund sponsors.
The watch is on at UVA’s Blandy Experimental Farm, a 700-acre property about two hours north of Charlottesville. It’s the home of a giant stand of gingko trees, at least 300 of them, and photographers come from around the world to see their leaves turn.
(Commentary by William Hitchcock, history professor) The decision by President Trump’s physician, Sean Conley, to release only partial information about Trump’s condition raises two urgent questions for all Americans: What obligation do the president’s doctors have to tell the public what they know about an ailing president? And who takes charge when the president falls ill?
(Editorial) John Conover’s passing will leave a huge gap in Charlottesville’s civic life and in the lives of his family and friends. But, oh, the gaps he filled during his long career of public and professional service. Conover had arrived in Charlottesville in the early 1970s to attend the University of Virginia, and he was part of the protest culture of the time. He and his wife, Virginia Daugherty, worked with a company called Black Flag Press. “If you wanted to print a protest flyer or a newsletter, you went to Black Flag,” recalled Jim Heilman, now secretary of the Albemarle County Electo...
Arizona Diamondbacks prospect Pavin Smith was selected No. 7 overall out of the University of Virginia in 2017. Smith entered the Diamondbacks organization with high expectations due to his lofty draft status, and he lived up to the billing with a steady progression through the minors.