Lawrie Balfour, a UVA political theorist working on a manuscript about reparations for slavery and Jim Crow, said reparations can take many forms, from reexamining the place of Confederate statues to putting in place strong affordable housing policies.
Juan Jones is a Virginia teen who last month found out he needed a heart transplant to survive. "It was very severe," said Dr. Thomas L'Ecuyer, a pediatric cardiologist at the UVA Medical Center, which has the only pediatric heart transplant program in the state.
Overtraining syndrome mostly happens to elite athletes, said Joe Park, an orthopedic surgeon with the UVA Health System. But it can also strike dedicated amateur athletes, such as long-distance runners.
Now, a student at the University of Alabama has been expelled after she posted videos to Instagram rife with racial slurs, also earning her national condemnation. The same arguments arise again; did the university, a public institution operating as a government representative, break the law? Robert O’Neil, a First Amendment expert, former president of the University of Virginia and senior fellow with the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, offered a dissenting opinion. He said that given the intensity of Barber’s offense, he could see justification for her expulsion. ...
Ibad Pathan is a fourth-year student at UVA studying computer science. With help from the protections DACA offers, he paid his way through community college and later transferred to UVA with the dream of a career in computer science. But now he's beginning to feel uncertain about his future again now that DACA's fate is unknown.
“Ask Me Another” goes to the Virginia Arts Festival with former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. This episode originally aired Aug. 25.
New recommendations have been developed for the prevention, detection, evaluation, and management of high blood pressure (BP). The recommendations are summarized in an article published online January 23 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr. Robert M. Carey from the University of Virginia Health System and Dr. Paul K. Whelton from the Tulane University School of Public Health in New Orleans, summarized the major recommendations of the new American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association clinical practice guidelines relating to high BP in adults.
“Who’s getting money from the hotel industry can probably tell you who is doing the most on behalf of the hotel industry to make it more cumbersome for Airbnb to operate,” said Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics. “For example, (Senate Majority Leader) Tommy Norment has gotten a lot of money from the hotel industry.”
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the newsletter Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, believes Kasich might well have a plan. “As somebody who ran for president, and as governor of a prominent state and someone who has been very critical of Trump, he continues to be in demand” among the TV pundits, Kondik said.
Any legislation to protect Dreamers, even if it makes it through the Senate, could easily stall in the more conservative House of Representatives, unless Democrats manage to win back seats in the 2018 elections and exert more pressure, UVA political analyst Larry Sabato said.
The UVA Medical Center says 111 patients were reported with flu symptoms at the hospital last week.
For 12 years, Dr. Adam Goldfarb’s lab at the University of Virginia has studied the causes of iron-restricted anemia. Now, a discovery in Goldfarb’s lab is helping to shed light on how red blood cells are created and how anemia can be treated.
Teenagers who regularly fall out with friends age faster than their peers, according to a 15-year study. UVA researchers monitored 127 volunteers from the age of 13, asking how they got on with friends and others. When the volunteers turned 28 they were given blood tests, which found that those who’d experienced the worst social conflict had the highest level of interleukin 6, a protein associated with cancer, arthritis and other problems associated with ageing.
In Virginia, 108 localities have a meals tax higher than 4 percent, according to a UVA study. The highest meals tax is in Covington, a small city in the western part of the state, where diners are charged 8 percent.
Iron-restricted anemias – which are characterized by a lack of red blood cells – leave millions of people weak, tired and unable to concentrate. New research by the UVA School of Medicine sheds light on the process that causes the body to create insufficient numbers of these vital red blood cells, and could lead to new treatments for the condition.
Sen. Ben Chafin, R-Russell, and Del. Terry Kilgore, R-Scott, introduced budget amendments requesting more than $10 million for a proposed expansion of UVA-Wise.
UVA psychologist Tim Wilson has found that the best way to change our identity is to change our behavior first. “If we want to become a little more extroverted, then act that way for a while. Force ourselves to act in an extroverted way,” he said. “If we want to become better, more pro-social, helpful people, well then go out and do some volunteer work. Often, the story follows the behavior change.”
"Maintaining a healthy, sustainable fishery in southern New England into the future will be increasingly challenging with further climate change and ocean warming," said Scott Doney, UVA’s Joe D. and Helen J. Kington Professor in Environmental Change and a co-author of the new study.
(Commentary) Other than our people themselves, Virginia’s single greatest asset — the one that produces the strongest economic return for our commonwealth — is our stand-out public and private higher education system.
Charlottesville's Champion Brewing Company and Brasserie Saison have raised more than $4,600 to support rural communities in east Africa. Champion Brewing Company raised most of the money through the sale of its Waterboys IPA - a beer brewed in collaboration with former UVA All-American Chris Long.