David Nemer, a Brazilian professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, said the suspension was “a little extreme. … Given the size of Telegram [in Brazil], it is not just about misinformation, it is a social media platform, where you have access to work groups, where people do their business, school work, get their information. But the courts have been trying to work with Telegram and . . . it’s hard to be flexible with someone who doesn’t show any flexibility and willingness to talk.”
South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has gone as far as stating his plans to deploy an additional U.S.-made Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System to counter growing provocations by North Korea. This plan is posing uncertainty for the detente that has been unfolding recently, enabling the increased release of Korean cultural content in China. “I anticipate that any additional deployment of THAAD will lead to a crackdown on Korean products, including Korean cultural products, in China,” said Aynne Kokas, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
“I know of no academic research that concludes there is a strong systemic bias — liberal or conservative — in how social media platforms identify what to show to users or in how they enforce their terms of service in content moderation decisions,” said Steven L. Johnson, an associate professor of commerce at the University of Virginia who has studied social media.
(Podcast) There’s a big question over whether Russia will be able (or willing) to make payments on billions of dollars it’s borrowed from investors given its current situation. Not only does the country have a history of previous major defaults, but some of its outstanding bonds are also structured kind of strangely. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal speak with University of Virginia law professor Mitu Gulati and University of North Carolina's Mark Weidemaier. They describe how odd some Russian bonds are and what might happen after default.
Senate hearings for Supreme Court nominees have become an acrimonious partisan battleground over the past few years between Republicans and Democrats. "Every court appointment is significant because so many vital matters are decided there," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Plus, many of these matters are hot-button social issues that move votes or motivate voters" such as abortion or gun rights, Sabato told AFP.
Even if she is likely to be confirmed, some Republican senators could use Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearing as an issue to “gin up the base” ahead of midterm elections in November, or to further their own presidential ambitions, said Barbara Perry, Supreme Court and presidency scholar at the University of Virginia.
Judge Jackson was among those who believed the law review should try to make sure that many voices were represented, recalled Richard C. Schragger, who worked alongside her at the review and is also a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. “She is a principled person but didn’t particularly go out of her way to try to foist agendas on anybody, or the institution in any particular direction,” he said.
(Podcast) In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Natasha Sheybani, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia and a senior scientist with the Focused Ultrasound Foundation. Dr. Sheybani is recognized as one of the “next generation’s scientific superstars,” trailblazing the way for a disruptive technology called focused ultrasound.
Morse noted that recent correspondence in the New England Journal of Medicine showed neutralizing antibody levels for BA.2 were just slightly lower than for BA.1 in a small group of mostly vaccinated and boosted people than for BA.1, though they were very similar. But that doesn't mean BA.2 will drive a similar surge. Bryan Lewis, MPH, PhD, of the University of Virginia's Biocomplexity Institute, uses sequencing data and other information from COVID-19's past trajectory to model and project various scenarios for case rates, variants, and more. "Given that we just had, like 30%, 40% of the popu...
As the tools to monitor and track variants have evolved, their shortcomings have been revealed, experts said. "These systems weren't necessarily existing, thriving, or necessarily set up for this kind of a job," Bryan Lewis of the University of Virginia's Biocomplexity Insitute, said of sequencing before the pandemic. "It was more of a research project, so timeliness wasn't important."
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School of Business) The Federal Reserve’s decision to raise the federal funds rate this week by 25 basis points to 0.25 percent - 0.5 percent was anticipated by investors, as the action had been telegraphed by Fed officials in advance of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The looming question now is how it will proceed in tightening policy while avoiding stagflation or a recession.
(Commentary by Anna Mendez, a felowo at UVA’s Equity Center) The inevitable has happened: Virginia’s behavioral health system has been sued.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise is readying for a move into graduate-level education as it implements the Your College for a Lifetime eight-year plan. The initiative’s first year coincides with a new governor and a politically split General Assembly, but Chancellor Donna Henry said the region’s legislative delegation appears united on the college’s value and role in Southwest Virginia.
The Virginia Festival of the Book is holding events throughout the weekend. A panel on Saturday, March 19 allowed readers to ask questions and have a discussion with a board of panelists. Author and University of Virginia professor Amber McBride was one of the panelists who spoke about her new book. “I’m going to be talking about my book “Me (Moth),” which is a novel in verse. It’s a young adult novel about a girl named Moth and a boy named Sani, who end up going on a road trip together,” McBride said. The book was a finalist in the 2021 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
The University of Virginia Health System says COVID-19 case numbers are holding steady compared to last week. Officials say the hospital has a total of 26 COVID patients, 18 of whom are acute cases. Seven are in ICU and there is one pediatric patient.
Dr. Reid Adams, University of Virginia Medical Center’s chief medical officer, said Friday that the hospital had 26 COVID-19 patients as of Friday morning with 18 acute cases and seven people in intensive care. One patient with COVID-19 is a child.
If you are obese and you want to try to lose some weight to boost your chances of getting pregnant, a new UVA study suggests it might not help. What did the researchers find? There was no significant difference in rates of healthy births among obese women with unexplained infertility who had lost weight and those who had not.
Pre-K’s positive effects fading over time, or, in the case of the Tennessee study, pre-K attendance resulting in poorer student outcomes, led a group of researchers including Peg Burchinal, a professor at the University of Virginia’s school of education and human development, to ask why.
The impact is harsher on single women than married women, who can get the benefit of a husband’s earnings and savings. Married Americans have twice the average assets as divorced or never-married people as they near retirement, according to research by University of Virginia sociology professor W. Bradford Wilcox. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in 2016, he contrasted the average assets of $640,000 for 51- to 60-year-old married people with $167,000 for divorced or never-married singles.
Jim Tucker and Jennifer Kim Penberthy spend a lot of time thinking about the afterlife. They're psychiatry professors at the University of Virginia. Tucker studies near-death experiences and young children who report memories of a past life. Penberthy studies both near-death experiences and after-death communications, or people who say they were visited by a deceased loved one. Their research has convinced them there's a consciousness beyond our physical reality, they said at a South by Southwest panel in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday.