By late February, though, the virus had already spread to half the states. By focusing only on people with known links to China, the CDC testing strategy "was designed to miss community transmission," Dr. Taison Bell, an infectious-disease specialist and critical-care physician at the University of Virginia, said in the film.
“This is material that will be unfamiliar to anyone,” said the curator of the Gibbes Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, “Charleston Collects: Devotion and Fantasy, Witchcraft and the World’s End,” Lawrence Goedde. A professor at the University of Virginia, Goedde specializes in Northern Renaissance art, work that often prominently features religious subjects.
In this futuristic world of money run by machines, Lana Swartz, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia said access won't be a problem. It is more about how the terms of access are defined. “Machine learning will decide if identities in many forms are transactable,” she said. For example, can my fridge order my milk, and what basket of currencies will it use? “Machines [not humans] will be making most of those decisions,” says Swartz.
(Co-written by Dr. Taison Bell, School of Medicine) Academic medicine is beginning to realize that suffering acts of discrimination is par for the course for Black trainees and physicians. Although these acts may be subtle, they are rooted in systemic racism, a powerful force impeding progress.
Wednesday brought with it another sports schedule change for the University of Virginia. This time, women’s soccer joined the list of Olympic sports impacted by COVID-19 and injuries. It’s been a week of postponements and cancellations for the Cavaliers, but the programs are still navigating competition amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The UVA Medical Center hosted a Zoom webinar Wednesday on the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. It's part of the UVA's Pandemic Perspectives series throughout the fall semester. The panelists explored the scientific promise and challenges of fast-tracked vaccine development and ethical debates about equitable vaccine allocation.
UVA Health will open its new Breast Care Center on Monday, after more than five years in the making. The new space will be approximately three times the size of the current facility, offering a streamlined place for patients to visit.
A trio of professors are studying people’s emotional responses to “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman’s death in late August from colon cancer. Meredith Clark (of the University of Virginia), Jessica Myrick (of Penn State University) and Jessica Fitts Willoughby (of Washington State University) have teamed up on the project.
Questions have swirled about the quarantine process for University of Virginia students since many in the community learned students are being sent off UVA Grounds to isolate during the coronavirus pandemic. The University says the use of off-Grounds housing had been part of its plan since the early summer.
Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., the older of two surviving grandsons of the 10th president of the United States, John Tyler, and part of a genealogical marvel that in just three generations spanned almost the entire history of the United States, died Sept. 26 in Franklin, Tennessee. He was 95. He was born on Jan. 3, 1925. After graduating from William & Mary, he earned a law degree at the University of Virginia.
UVA Health is getting ready to open a state-of-the-art care center for those battling breast cancer. The UVA Breast Care Center will be a one-stop-shop for all breast imaging, scanning, infusions, lab testing, clinical trials, and more. It will also provide survivorship clinics, supportive care services, and a gift shop that sells items like wigs and head covers for those going through chemotherapy.
UVA researchers have been detecting the presence of the coronavirus through wastewater testing in dorms for months. Now, they’re looking to expand their efforts to people in high-risk categories.
Kyle Kondik, an election and campaigns expert at the UVA Center for Politics, said the escalating attacks on big tech’s moderation policies – particularly from the right – probably aren’t meant to sway voters. Instead, they’re meant to strike fear in the hearts of the platforms’ leadership. “I think it’s basically just a new iteration of working the refs, the way that politicians often do with the media,” said Kondik.
In almost every conceivable poll, the U.S. president is behind, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the political analysis newsletter Sabato's Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. "The question we need to ask ourselves all the time, it's not whether something will hurt him but whether it will help him," Kondik said. "This whole coronavirus situation — what's going to come out of this to help him? I just go back to the general sense of chaos, which certainly has been a feature of this White House and has been a feature of this latest episode. And if you feel like that's a problem for t...
The day to day duties of the position can vary widely, according to the Gerald L. Baliles Professor and director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center Barbara A. Perry, but they always include serving as a key adviser to and representative of the president, as well as acting as a governing partner. “[Vice presidents] are really engaged in the administration on a daily basis,” Perry said. “They’re in their offices, they’re in the meetings, and they’re constantly contributing their ideas, if a president is open to those ideas.”
UVA presidential historian Barbara Perry noted that, based on what’s happened to the 44 presidents the country has had, Harris or Pence would have a 1-in-5 chance of ascending to the Oval Office over the next four years, not factoring in the ages of Biden and Trump.
Jennifer Lawless, a UVA professor of politics who has studied gender dynamics, said that women generally had to show they were capable of standing up to “being bullied,” but that Ms. Harris faced an extra hurdle. “Because she is also a woman of color, she also has to walk that ‘Don’t look too angry’ line,” Lawless said. “These are cliché. But they’re cliché because they’re true.”
Tthe former vice president has a 16-point lead over Trump among likely voters nationwide, according to a CNN poll published on Tuesday. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said: “You’re going to have potentially his supporters getting more energetic on account of this. One of his big problems is getting blue collar whites who support him out to the polls; they don’t have a high turnout record and that’s where his vote is. So maybe this helps with them but you don’t win votes on this basis. He has been so irresponsible and everyone sees it. The whole year has been of a piece. I...
Even when the Joint Committee on Taxation was sifting through Trump's tax information, it should have remained beyond the grasp of the five Democrats and five Republicans on the committee. The reviews are performed by the panel’s tax experts and attorneys, typically working in dedicated space in an IRS facility. Lawmakers don't participate. “It is held quite tightly in the hands of just a few lawyers in the staff who are dedicated to doing this work. And they know not to communicate any of it to outsiders,” said George Yin, an emeritus UVA law professor who was JCT chief of staff from 2003 to ...
A group of scholars, including UVA politics professor James Ceaser, published a public letter to the Pulitzer Prize Board on Tuesday, calling on it to strip New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones of her 2020 prize for the 1619 Project. The “1619 Project” is an article series written by journalists and opinion writers that seeks to retell American history through the lens of slavery and its consequences. It has received criticism from many conservatives and historians for perceived inaccuracies.