Sanjay Suchak, the senior photographer at the University of Virginia, was in Charlottesville during the Unite the Right rallies on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017. Four years later, he was capturing the moment Confederate statues came down, saying it felt like closure for the community.
A mathematics major at the University of Virginia recently won $1 million in the state lottery, and it had nothing to do with his skillful use of numbers and logic. Mom picked the six winning numbers. Brian Donohue of Fairfax County got the ticket from his mother as a gift in his Christmas stocking, according to a Jan. 6 news release from the Virginia Lottery.
Shortly before he was set to travel to Las Vegas for the G League showcase, [former UVA star] Kyle Guy tested positive for COVID-19. The next day, four teams contacted him about signing a 10-day contract but, of course, he had to turn them all down. By the time he was out of quarantine, everyone initially interested had already filled their slots, so the 24-year-old guard had no choice but to wait by his phone, while his season with the Cleveland Charge was on pause. Then Guy got a call from his agent at 11 p.m. asking whether he could catch a flight to Texas the following morning.
Fred Missel, the director of design and development for the University of Virginia Foundation, was appointed to the AlbemarleCounty Planning Commission for the Scottsville District seat. Missel has been serving on the county’s Architectural Review Board. Luis Carrazana, the associate architect at UVA, who has also served as the non-voting UVA representative on the commission, was appointed to the at-large seat.
If rebuilding is the mission, Brian Pinkston could be the man. The newly elected member of Charlottesville City Council studied at a seminary and has a Ph.D. in philosophy, but he also has an engineering degree from Georgia Tech and oversees major construction, repairs and renovations at the University of Virginia. “The work that I’ve done, the way that I’ve made my living over the last 30 years involves being decisive.”
When it comes to achieving decarbonization at the least cost to ratepayers, “flexibility is king,” said William Shobe, an economist and director of the Center for Economic and Policy at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, which was charged with carrying out the least-cost study mandated by the Virginia Clean Economy Act.
If these staged systems could be rolled up into one engine, the huge efficiency gains would dramatically lower the cost of getting to space. “The holy grail is a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle where you just take off from a runway, fly into space, and come back and reuse the system,” says Christopher Goyne, director of the University of Virginia’s Aerospace Research Laboratory and an expert in hypersonic flight.
Kim fils, however, wanted to go another way. Shortly after taking power, he proffered the byungjinpolicy, or dual economic and military development, to move away from his father’s “military-first” strategy. He promoted autonomy and flexibility for agriculture and industry – limited but meaningful changes. A “new middle class” began to taste more of the good life. In early 2018, explained UVA’s Ruediger Frank, Kim “went a step further and declared that the goals of byungjin were achieved, and the new strategic line of the Party would be to concentrate all efforts on socialist economic construct...
Who qualifies and what to take is summed up perfectly with this tweet by University of Virginia Professor of Medicine Dr. Taison Bell.
Several antiviral pills recently received emergency use authorization from the FDA to help the fight against COVID-19. Local experts say the pills could change the way the illness is treated. “I think this is going to be a major player as to how we treat COVID-19 going forward,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson, a UVA infectious disease expert.
If “flurona” seems new, that may be because it isn’t always even worth looking for. Amita Sudhir, associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia, told me over email, “I don’t always test patients who are being discharged [after COVID treatment] for the flu because it often doesn’t change what they would do at home.” Things are different in the case of children, who if they are admitted to the hospital are tested for a long list of respiratory viruses all at once. “I did have one patient who was simultaneously infected with four,” Sudhir wrote, “but none of them were CO...
The most prominent of those conspiracies was QAnon, a sprawling series of beliefs that included accusations that celebrities and Democratic politicians were running a satanic pedophile ring. It helped propel many of those implicated in the attack to Washington on Jan. 6. To many Jews, its falsehoods seemed eerily familiar. “QAnon is, to a great extent, repackaged blood libel,” David Walsh, a UVA researcher, said at the time.
But the closer parallels to Jan. 6 could prove to be the aftermath of the Civil War. “There was no Pearl Harbor Day; there was no D-Day” to commemorate the first anniversary of the end of the Civil War, said Caroline Janney, director of the Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. One year after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, some in the North worried that celebrations would only exacerbate the nation’s wounds at a time they needed to mend.
Larry Sabato, director of the non-partisan UVA Center for Politics, warned that focusing too much on the amorphous threat to democracy meant Democrats ran the risk of neglecting the bread-and-butter issues that win elections. Although Jan. 6 might serve as a “motivator” for Democratic voters and some independents at the midterm elections, there is little prospect of persuading Republican or conservative-leaning voters, he added.
Among all Americans polled, 64% agreed that American democracy is in crisis and at risk of failing. That sense of alarm boosts Trump’s power, says Larry Sabato, a political analyst and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Jan. 6 has increased his rank and file’s anger and resentment,” he says. “It’s confirmation for them that everybody else is out to get them.”
“You don’t want a president and administration – current or former – to be seen as above the law by the people,” said Barbara Perry, presidential historian at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. “Politics will have taken precedence over law.”
Observers generally agree that Biden, whose own political standing has eroded since he took office, thus far has fallen short on his pledge to unite the country, especially under the ongoing pressure of the pandemic and high partisan tensions in Washington that have metastasized into the broader electorate. “We are terribly disunited and polarized on every facet of politics, of the economy, of public policy, of science,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “If we can’t even agree on facts, it’s going to be very difficult on substa...
According to a report from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, utility-scale solar is on track to become the state’s third-largest source of electricity this year, displacing coal.
“Don’t get me wrong, electric vehicles are an improvement on the status quo,” said Peter Norton, an urban mobility researcher at UVA. Norton’s book, “Fighting Traffic,” explores the social and physical transformation of the American city into a paradise for motorists. “[EVs] are an improvement like a filter was the improvement on a cigarette,” he says. “What we really need to do is stop smoking. The filter doesn’t solve that problem. Similarly, an electric car doesn’t solve car dependency.”
Over the next few weeks for our “24 Seconds” Q&A series, Pelicans.com plans to check in with New Orleans’ rookies to ask them about their adjustment to the pro level. First up is UVA product Trey Murphy, the No. 17 pick in last year’s NBA draft.