UVA is getting $44,570 in a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant toward creating a digital weather records resource for North America in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Treatment for high blood pressure, a condition that affects one billion people globally, may actually be damaging the kidney, new research from the UVA School of Medicine suggests. Scientists are urging studies to better understand the drugs’ long-term effects.
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reach record highs, Gov. Ralph Northam said his new State of Emergency declaration is aimed to help hospitals address bed and staffing shortages. However, the emergency declaration is only set to last 30 days based on modeling on how the current surge of cases could play out. The model has been developed by a team of UVA researchers throughout the pandemic.
UVA researchers have been producing forecast models of the COVID-19 picture in Virginia since the start of the pandemic, but have had to make some adjustments due to curveballs from the omicron variant. “Most recently with this omicron surge we are seeing unprecedented levels of cases,” Bryan Lewis, an associate research professor at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, said. That meant recently adjusting from a more conservative forecast to align with what Virginia is actually seeing.
(Press release) The Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 SAH IDEAS Research Fellowship, a new award intended to support a cohort of five emerging scholars per year who self-identify as members of marginalized groups. … Louis P. Nelson, vice provost for academic outreach and professor of architectural history, will mentor Dwight Carey, an assistant professor in the Department of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College, while UVA alumnus Robert Louis Brandon Edwards also was selected for a fellowship.
In the Blue Ridge Health District, there were nearly 360 new COVID-19 cases and more than 1,000 people in the hospital on Tuesday. UVA students will still be starting in-person classes on Jan. 19. “An in-person residential academic experience is a core part of what it means to live, learn or work at UVA,” said UVA spokesperson Brian Coy.
On Dec. 6, scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey released the largest-ever detailed census of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy, with the complete release of data from its Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment. “For the last decade we have been working to map the Milky Way, and measure extremely detailed properties of the stars within it,” said UVA’s Steven Majewski, who has been principal investigator of APOGEE since 2006.
(Commentary by Pamela Cipriano, dean of the School of Nursing) Nurses frequently run toward danger and crisis, but do we do that only when we see a crisis or the emerging symptoms of a threatening situation? Climate change is staring us all in the face, and we now have an opportunity to slow or stop the resulting suffering.
In the spring of 2018, a video landed on George Gelnovatch’s desk at the University of Virginia. That was not unusual. Gelnovatch estimates he receives up to 50 a day from young footballers keen to join his program in Charlottesville. But this one was different. Something on the tape looked familiar and Daryl Dike’s sporting journey was underway.
The bill was first introduced following a slew of pandemic-related insider trading scandals in 2020, emerging from a rare bipartisan friendship between U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D) and U.S. Rep. Chip Roy (R) based on their shared connection as alumni of the University of Virginia.
Axel Springer today announced that Goli Sheikholeslami [a UVA Darden alumna] has been appointed as the new CEO of POLITICO Media Group. She will start in February. Sheikholeslami currently serves as president and CEO of New York Public Radio.
Season 33 of ‘The Amazing Race’ features longtime married couple Kim and Penn Holderness, among others. Known best for their family YouTube channel and incredible vlogs, Kim and Penn are quite new to the reality TV scene. … Penn Holderness was born in Durham, North Carolina, and earned a degree in p’hilosophy from the University of Virginia.
“I don’t know anyone who thinks politicians have done a great job in the last 20 years,” said Merritt Hale, who grew up in Loudoun County and graduated from Woodgrove High School. He studied systems engineering from 2012-2016 at the University of Virginia and served as a Naval officer from 2016-2020. “So I think it’s time we get rid of the career politicians and let an outside voice who represents the values of the 6th District be heard.”
Adding a Q. to his name, Thomas Jones, the all-time great Virginia and NFL tailback, set out on a second career, in acting, and now, a decade since he last broke a tackle, he’s one of the busiest actors in movies and TV.
COVID-19 cases are surging but it's not the only transmissible virus going around. The flu is coming on strong and it's creating a crossover virus. Health officials are calling it Flurona, which is when someone gets the flu and COVID at the same time. However, doctors say there's no need to panic as it's not a new disease and it's not a new variant. In Friday’s COVID-19 briefing at the University of Virginia Health System, Dr. Bill Petri said that with two viruses as common as these, it's normal to see people getting them both at the same time.
"'Success' is a tricky concept to measure," Sonal Pandya, associate professor at the University of Virginia, said in a statement. "Variation across states in racial equality reflects many factors that policymakers cannot change including historical legacies and geography. States with more elected black policymakers might be more likely to prioritize racial equity, both because of these policymakers’ talent, and voters placing greater importance on racial equality."
(Commentary) “Stakeholder capitalism,” coined by academic R. Edward Freeman at the University of Virginia’s School of Business in the 1980s, broadened the definition of whose interests corporations are meant to serve from solely their shareholders to others who may be impacted by their practices. Yet, capitalism remains about the bottom line and unless there are systematic ways to measure compliance to shared values across sectors, as well as ways to keep corporations accountable or reward positive behaviour, then ESGs could amount to little more than an exercise akin to putting lipstick on a ...
University of Virginia law school professor Thomas Frampton, who represented the Green family, was later accused by the Baton Rouge Police Department of improperly releasing those videos to the media and the BRPD asked that he be held in contempt. In a matter he says is filled with “astounding” hypocrisy, Judge de Gravelles said the BRPD acted “in bad faith and in retaliation” in seeking contempt sanctions against Frampton who committed no criminal wrongdoing. He ordered that the motion for contempt be withdrawn.
Scott Doney, a professor at the environmental change department of the University of Virginia, tells SciDev.Net, that climate change and ocean acidification from human emissions of carbon dioxide not only cause tropical fish to expand their habitat ranges into temperate regions but “fish physiology and metabolism may be altered by the simultaneous effects of seawater warming and chemical changes associated with acidification. This systematic lab study of multiple environmental factors is an important step forward in understanding possible climate change impacts on the ocean,” says Doney.
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It’s hard to say what’s driving Djokovic’s decision-making, said Bob Rotella, a professor of sports psychology at University of Virginia who has worked with top golfers such as Rory McIlroy. “There are athletes who think there is enough conflicting information out there that they are not sure if it’s a good idea or a bad idea,” Rotella said. “It’s not necessarily that they are being entitled; they are just not sure that this might not do something bad to their body. Some athletes feel they’re actually better off not getting the vaccine. Whether that’s accurate information or not, who knows?”
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