On Monday night, the Blue Ridge Health District hosted a town hall to talk about what the area is facing. "We have like the most patients hospitalized at UVA with COVID ever right now, both in the ICU and in the COVID ward," said Dr. Bill Petri, a UVA Health infectious diseases expert.
(Commentary by Josh Mounds, postdoctoral fellow) After a four-day refusal to teach in-person, the Chicago Teachers Union is going back to school on Wednesday, where they wanted to be all along. The city’s lackluster pandemic safety made that impossible.
The 30-day duration is hoped to align with the peak of the Omicron variant outbreak, which is expected to occur in the next few weeks. Northam said University of Virginia scientists estimate hospitalizations will peak in early February.
The latest prediction modeling from the University of Virginia estimates the Omicron variant now makes up 94% of new cases in Virginia, overtaking the Delta variant. Models predict cases will continue to rise for several weeks before a decline.
A new study by scholars at Pennsylvania State University, Dartmouth College, the University of Virginia, and Brigham Young University finds that that “in simple day-to-day interactions, such as sending and responding to emails, the public discriminates against Black people. This discrimination is present among all racial/ethnic groups (aside from among Black people) and all areas of the country.”
Anton Korinek, an economist at the University of Virginia, and Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel economist at Columbia University, have written a paper, “Steering Technological Progress,” which recommends steps from nudges for entrepreneurs to tax changes to pursue “labor-friendly innovations.”
Other awards include nearly $45,000 to the University of Virginia, toward the creation of a database of 18th- and 19th-century North American weather records, including the detailed daily reports made by Thomas Jefferson between July 1776 and the week before his death in July 1826.
The NBER report is some of the first research that aims to explain the disproportionate enrollment drops at two-year schools. Its authors, professors at Northwestern University and the University of Virginia, found that two-year colleges with high concentrations of programs focused on assembly, repair and maintenance work experienced major enrollment declines. Community colleges often host programs with laboratory or hands-on work, which were more difficult to translate to online formats during the most restrictive months of the pandemic.
A man convicted of second-degree murder in 2001 has received an absolute pardon from Gov. Ralph Northam. The UVA School of Law's Innocence Project recently announced that Eric Weakley received the pardon. Weakley is a member of the so-called "Culpeper Three" who were charged for the shooting death of Thelma Scroggins in 1996.
Many people think it’s a violation of their rights to be required to share when they’re sick with COVID-19 or their vaccination status. A UVA law professor breaks down what can, and can’t, be asked: “The bottom-line way of thinking about this is the employer is required to only reveal the minimal amount necessary to protect other workers or the public,” Margaret Riley said. This means your employer is allowed to tell other employees if you have COVID-19.
A new working paper from UVA’s Sarah Turner and colleagues suggests male enrollment fell significantly at community colleges during the pandemic because they disproportionately enroll in hands-on technical courses more difficult to offer online.
UVA is taking extra precautions to ensure a safe in-person learning environment ahead of the spring semester. Students returning to UVA Grounds will have to follow certain guidelines.
Dr. William Percy Arnold III died Dec. 30 at the University of Virginia Medical Center, where he had devoted his entire career as anesthesiologist caring for others. He was 80, and died of complications of a brain hemorrhage.
(Excerpt from a book by alumna Taylor Harris) Paul found him that morning. Our twenty-two-month-old boy, staring and still, awake without a sound. A twenty-pound toddler in blue pajamas, lying across the only thing we allowed in his crib—a taut cotton sheet.
To say that Katie Laning Niebaum’s route to the helm of Delta Solar was a scenic one is putting it nicely. The 40-year-old took over as president of the Little Rock-based alternative energy company in September, an office she never imagined filling coming out of Little Rock Central High, or the University of Virginia after that.
Pulsating lights, bottles of booze, and beautiful people gyrating on the dance floor; when one thinks of nightclubs, the mind likely conjures up debaucherous images such as these. Much less often does the word ‘responsible’ appear in the psyche in relation to nightlife, but when it comes to Washington D.C. club magnate [and UVA Law alumnus] David Chung’s mega-popular establishments, there’s no better way to describe the behind-the-scenes operations of his businesses.
(Commentary by Natasha Roth-Rowland, an editor and writer at +972 Magazine and a doctoral candidate in history) We are just about a week into 2022, and already the efforts to redefine antisemitism — or, rather, make the term so self-contradictory and amorphous that it is emptied of all meaning — are continuing apace.
(Editorial) Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center, puts a human face to the data. He played football and track at Bath County High School in Virginia, and learned to appreciate the tangible rewards that came from the hard work of practice. And then there were the cultural benefits. “Traveling around the state to different high schools,” he says, “… also gave me a richer understanding of the different regions of Virginia that helps me even today in my work as a demographer.”
(Podcast) Kyle Kondik is managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ authoritative, nonpartisan newsletter on American campaigns and elections. He is a frequently cited expert on American politics. “The Long Red Thread” examines each House election cycle from 1964 to 2020, surveying academic and journalistic literature to identify key trends and takeaways from more than a half-century of U.S. House election results in order to predict what Americans can expect to see in the future.
Bob Dylan’s devoted fans rallied behind the singer when the case was first filed, combing through archives to show that he was on tour away from New York when the alleged assaults took place. Ann Daniel, a lawyer for the University of Virginia, said he performed live in Berkeley, California on April 3, 1965, Vancouver on April 9, Portland on April 23, and Seattle on the following day.