The vast majority of Virginians have at least some immunity, said Bryan Lewis, a computational epidemiologist who leads University of Virginia’s COVID-19 modeling team.”That’s going to be a nice shield of armor for our population as a whole,” Lewis said. “If we do get to very low case rates, we certainly can ease back on some of these restrictions.”
UVA is garnering national attention for going green. If you walk around Grounds it may not seem obvious, but it may become more clear from a bird’s eye-view. Hundreds of solar panels sit atop six different buildings, hoping to curb the University’s electricity use.
These twin Cavaliers are fighting the uphill battle to encourage diversity in historically white sports.
UVA Health has unveiled one of the nation’s largest outpatient orthopedic centers. The ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday was the finish line of a project that was in the making for more than a decade.
(Commentary) He grew up here, right in front of us. When Ryan Zimmerman was 20 and played third base and the Washington Nationals made him the first draft choice in the history of the franchise, there were teenagers in the District who had no idea what it was like to have a Major League Baseball team at home. As he retires as a 37-year-old part-time first baseman – with all of his 1,799 games, his 1,846 hits, his 284 home runs in the same uniform – there are Washington teenagers who can’t imagine having no home team for which to root. That’s a career, in full.
Political analyst J. Miles Coleman with the University of Virginia Center for Politics says Biden is in a no-win situation. While Biden was criticized for the Afghanistan pullout, Coleman warns the American public isn’t eager to send troops to another war. But Republicans could find a way to paint him as weak if he doesn’t. “If he navigates things well, he might not get that much of a benefit, but if he screws it up, the consequences are much worse than the potential benefits could be,” said Coleman.
(Press release) Professor Saras D. Sarasvathy is now honored for her outstanding contribution to our understanding of how entrepreneurs handle uncertainty, something that has had a major impact on innovation and entrepreneurship education.
“[Thomas Morris] Chester effectively captured the frustration of black veterans who believed that their contributions to Union victory went largely unnoticed,” wrote Gary Gallagher, a history professor at the University of Virginia and the author of several books on the Civil War.
One easy way to become a more compassionate leader is by creating a firm culture and working environment that is nonjudgmental. According to University of Virginia Darden School of Business professor Sean Martin, “leaders inspire people to action.” Inspiring and encouraging members of the firm to communicate their thoughts and ideas about the firm operations creates an all-encompassing environment.
How an office’s limited bandwidth is allocated “is a million-dollar question, and probably a struggle for everyone; I’ll bet nobody feels well-resourced,” adds JoonHyung Cho, who just recently assumed the position of director of corporate relations and business development at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is no longer using the sewer to help it track COVID-19 outbreaks. It says it paused its wastewater testing late last year. Now, the commonwealth is using this practice to stay one step ahead of outbreaks across Virginia. It is testing at both a building and community level to stop asymptomatic outbreaks before they spread. “UVA has been doing wastewater testing, not so much at a community level to understand public health transmission, but more as an approach for pooled-surveillance testing on a group of people that live in a building,” Dr. Amy Mathers with UVA Healt...
This is a sign of what media scholar Siva Vaidhaynathan, the director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, has called “the Googlization of everything” and the “Facebook Disconnection.” In short, Vaidhaynathan explains technology platforms like Facebook assume that they deserve a user base measured in the billions of people. To be precise, 2.2 billion people have Facebook accounts. “But none of us can really communicate with 2.2 billion people,” even if we think we deserve such a following.
A.D. Carson, a professor of hip-hop at the University of Virginia, has a simple answer to the question of why conspiracy theories are so prevalent in hip-hop. “We understand that hip-hop is not a unique place that you go to for sexism or misogyny or for any of the phobias,” he says. And just like the world is sexist and misogynist, there’s this: “The world f---ing loves conspiracy theories!”
(Commentary) I reached out to Kevin Gaines, associate director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He’s also a history professor there. Gaines noted race complicates human interactions in the United States. Layering politics on top of that heightens tensions. Maybe Youngkin “meant well in complimenting a speech on Black history,” Gaines told me Tuesday, “but it hasn’t been long since he signed an executive order on critical race theory. “He’s really pandering in a cynical way to a vocal minority of White Virginians.”
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Brad Wilcox, executive director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, told the Register that most demographic surveys show U.S. women want “two or more kids,” but the fertility rate is 1.6 children per woman, which is far below desired expectations and what a country needs for stable population replacement. “I would attribute that in part to people not marrying in their 20s, when they have higher opportunities to get pregnant,” he said.
Kenneth Abraham, a law professor at the University of Virginia, said it’s uncommon for settlements to include the release of company documents and for gun manufacturers to be held liable in situations like the Sandy Hook massacre. “This is unusual. It may well provide a basis for suits against firearms manufacturers in similar situations in the future,” Mr. Abraham said.
It’s too much to argue that cancel culture is canceled, but it is perhaps on notice. And that may not be a bad thing, argue a range of cultural experts and scholars scrutinizing this topic. “In its early stages, cancel culture, whether on #MeToo or racial matters, went too far and in ways that were not ethically sustainable,” says James Davison Hunter, a University of Virginia sociologist whose 1991 book, “Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America,” cemented that two-word term into the vernacular. “The extremism of the activists discredited many of the legitimate concerns of these movements...
Prosecutors also called use-of-force expert Timothy Longo to the stand Monday. Unlike most expert witnesses, Longo testified that he had declined to be paid for his testimony, although the judge wouldn’t let him specify why he made that decision. Longo, a former Baltimore Police Department colonel and current vice president of security at the University of Virginia, testified that the three defendants had not complied with acceptable police practices in their conduct on May 25. He said they should have both intervened with Chauvin and provided medical aid to Floyd.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School of Business) Financial markets have turned volatile this year as investors have been reassessing the prospects for higher inflation and tightening by the Federal Reserve. Lurking in the background is the added uncertainty about whether Russia will invade Ukraine and the response it could elicit from the United States and NATO. The announcement by national security advisor Jake Sullivan that an invasion could occur “at any time” triggered a stock market sell-off on Friday.
(Commentary by Russell L. Riley, White Burkett Miller Center Professor of Ethics and Institutions and co-chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program) With several weeks to go before President Biden’s self-proclaimed deadline for nominating a new justice to the Supreme Court, any shortlisted prospects will have to exercise considerable patience before they learn the outcome. The experience of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggests, however, that good things come to those who wait – and wait.