USA Swimming today announced that Anthony Nesty and [UVA coach] Todd DeSorbo will be the head coaches of for the U.S. men’s and women’s swim teams, respectively, competing at the 2022 FINA World Championships. The competition will take place June 18 through July 3 in Budapest, Hungary.
The UVA Medical Center is making changes to its visitation policy. Beginning Tuesday, additional visitation will be allowed at the inpatient units, emergency department, outpatient clinics and outpatient procedural areas. The relaxed guidelines come in response to lower COVID-19 case counts.
On 12 December 2021, John Hawley lost his brave two-year battle with colorectal cancer, and the field of numerical astrophysics lost one of its great trailblazers. John’s legacy continues to be felt strongly today by way of his work, and the many leading numerical astrophysicists who have been mentored and influenced by him.
Of 12 schools with a total of 555,372 student athletes and their 3,482,845 nonathlete counterparts, nine had lower COVID-19 test positivity among athletes than nonathletes. They were the University of Arkansas (0.01% vs 3.52%), University of Minnesota (0.63% vs 5.96%), Penn State (0.74% vs 6.58%), Clemson (0.40% vs 1.88%), University of Louisville (0.75% vs 3.05%), Purdue (0.79% vs 2.97%), University of Michigan (0.40% vs 1.12%), University of Illinois (0.17% vs 0.40%), and University of Virginia (0.64% vs 1.04%).
The Stukes family from Hampton Roads hopes to put themselves in the history books a second time with a Los Angeles Rams win on Sunday. Virginia Sports Hall of Famer and Chesapeake native Charles Stukes started his career at cornerback for the Baltimore Colts, which won Super Bowl V against the Dallas Cowboys in 1971, cementing his legacy for the family. Now, Charles Stukes’ son, [UVA alumnus] Dwayne Stukes [an assistant coach for the Rams], has an opportunity to be the second person in the Stukes family to win a Super Bowl — and he is focused on achieving that goal.
Getting funding from experienced entrepreneurs is excellent, but actually making money from stock options before an IPO is even better. That's what Velvet co-founders Carlos Naupari [a UVA alumnus] and Edouard de Montmort believe in, and they told LABS all about it.
Sneha Medappa Maruvanda grew up in India, and [UVA alumnus] Dr. Mark Ross Edelstein, in Virginia. But in getting to know one another, they discovered their backgrounds were strikingly similar.
Spanberger announced she was running for re-election after the new congressional maps were finalized. She's considered one of the more vulnerable candidates heading into the fall after redistricting slightly changed the political makeup. “She has a pretty clear shot at the Democratic nomination now under the new map and she’ll have no less than a 50/50 shot at the general election,” said J. Miles Coleman with UVA’s Center for Politics.
For the moment, experts see the Democrats losing ground in November. Republicans need a net gain of just five House seats to take control of that chamber, and only one seat to regain the reins in a Senate now split 50-50 between the political parties. “Ultimately the environment dictates so much,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a non-partisan election newsletter run by the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Democrats need something to change to hold one or both chambers.”
“The generalizability fails on both clauses in the end,” said Mark R. Conaway of the University of Virginia. “Even if this was a study that was done on [a] study population that matched the U.S. population – which it didn’t – the choice of the comparator group made it not generalizable to U.S. practice.”
Preparation is a key component of any crisis leadership strategy. According to Steve Soltis, a lecturer at University of Virginia Darden School of Business, it’s best practice for an organization to have annual crisis preparation meetings.
Some of the underlying reasons for the female protective effect could be purely social in nature, says Kevin Pelphrey, professor of neurology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. How girls tend to be raised — encouraged to socialize with peers, practice social graces and play with toys that resemble people — is “almost like an early intervention program for being highly social,” he says.
Dr. Christopher Holstege, chief of the division of toxicology at the University of Virginia, said he could find no ongoing clinical trials of cannabis as a treatment for cancer in humans. Studies also don't typically use cannabis in its raw form, he said. "Researchers tend to use more purified products as opposed to raw plant material in part because they want to know exactly what is being used in the study," Holstege said.
(Commentary) The good news is that one of the most influential staffers on the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, has already pulled together financing from foundations and formed a study group to examine the pandemic. Zelikow, a lawyer and professor at the University of Virginia with deep ties to the Bush administration, not only ran the day-to-day 9/11 Commission staff efforts, but he was the principal author of the best-selling Commission report. Zelikow was Tom Kean’s alter-ego with the 9/11 Commission — trusted by the Democratic and Republican members. Congress ought to look to him again to...
Kirt von Daacke, a professor of history at the University of Virginia specializing in the antebellum, American South, said UA is facing the same fate as other public institutions across the Mason-Dixon line. In Charlottesville, von Daacke and a group of historians, community members and experts have worked to excavate markers of slavery on Grounds, uncover information about the lives of enslaved people, and change the physical landscape that previously erased enslaved people’s work and contributions.
“Justice Breyer is both supremely analytical and very creative,” says Risa Goluboff, the dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, who clerked for him in the 2001-02 term. “When you are watching him work through those hypotheticals, he is working the problem. Some of it may be funny because he is coming up with funny hypotheticals. But it is deadly serious. You are watching his brain try to solve the problem.”
Who is your favorite celebrity? Chances are, they’re in a Super Bowl ad this year. While Super Bowl ads usually feature a bevy of big names, this year, advertisers have gone even further. “The vast majority of ads are including big starpower, from athletes to actors to chefs,” UVA marketing professor Kimberly Whitler said.
Advertisers are hoping to deliver a dose of escapism with light humor and star-studded entertainment amid the pandemic, high inflation and tensions between Russia and the Ukraine. “Marketers are recognizing Americans have had a very heavy, difficult two-year period and are responding by bringing some good old-fashioned entertainment for Super Bowl Sunday,” said Kimberly Whitler, marketing professor at the University of Virginia.
UVA’s latest COVID projection model shows most of the states' health districts have a declining trajectory. UVA says Virginia could get below 2,000 cases a day by mid-March, or they could pop in mid-February if mitigation measures were to stop.
A spotlight is being shone on mental health care for college students and the University of Virginia is facing a tall task. Many students are seeking help and, as a result, numerous resources need to be tapped into. With students back on UVA Grounds, and in-person classes back to the norm, the demand for other in-person services has also increased.