Acocktail of COVID-19 antibodies tested at the University of Virginia appears to not only help patients already suffering from the disease but offers long-lasting protection against the virus for those who have been exposed.
Attending preschool also reduces the percentage of children repeating a grade by 15%, according to a study done by researchers at the University of Virginia that appeared in the Education Finance and Policy journal’s spring 2019’s issue.
Who counts as a scientist? In an effort to answer that daunting question, Caitlin Wylie (a UVA associate professor of science, technology, and society) focuses on one group of professionals that often goes unrecognized: fossil preparators. The result is her newly released book “Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes,” which takes her to 14 museums across the country.
(Book review) Andrew D. Kaufman’s biography “The Gambler Wife” is not only a much-needed act of justice; it is also profoundly entertaining, sometimes funny, and sometimes intolerably sad.
Mount Zion First African Baptist Church held a supply drive on Saturday, November 13, but they also had some help from the community. Volunteers at the site say other churches participated in the same event, in order to give back. They were also joined by the University of Virginia Police Department, who donated some of the items.
Brown’s public reckoning inspired a national dialogue about how institutions have benefitted from slavery, and approximately 100 schools embarked on their own similar projects. Brown’s work also inspired the creation of the Universities Studying Slavery Consortium at the University of Virginia, an international group of over 75 schools devoted to addressing slavery and racism in institutional histories.
A senior American faith leader said Friday during a landmark address at the University of Virginia that the nation’s believers should respect legal efforts to protect people from discrimination as much as they desire to protect religious liberty. The best way to resolve “the current conflict between two great values” is to seek public policy solutions that protect both, said President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is urging that a better approach be used in dealing with current conflicts, without compromising an individual’s core values. President Oaks made the point as part of his speech at the University of Virginia’s 2021 Joseph Smith Lecture on religious liberty on Friday night.
Though he dedicated most of his professional career to the courts, Latter-day Saint apostle Dallin H. Oaks argued Friday that when disputes arise between religious freedom and nondiscrimination, the best remedies are found not through litigation, but through legislation. “Courts are ... ill-suited to the overarching, complex and comprehensive policymaking that is required in a circumstance like the current conflict between two great values,” Oaks, a former attorney, law professor and Utah Supreme Court justice, said in a speech at the University of Virginia.
The pandemic forced many colleges to address their students’ lack of access to the internet, but experts say most schools still don’t have good data on their students’ home connections. You can’t fix a problem if you don’t know the extent of it. “There is this presumption of connectivity when you get to college, like, ‘Oh, you’ll just have it.’ Well, that’s not the case,” says Christopher Ali, who studies internet access at UVA.
“Yes, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is a big deal,” said Peter Norton, a history professor in UVA’s Engineering School. “But the bill is not transformational, because most of it is more of the same.”
COVID-19 cases are rising in a number of U.S. states ahead of the holiday season, and it’s prompting warnings of a coming winter wave, as health care officials point to rising cases in Europe as a sign of what’s to come in the United States. “Sadly, I do think that we’re at the beginning of a wave,” said Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in UVA Health’s divisions of Infectious Diseases and International Health and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. “Unfortunately what we’re seeing are cases rising in Europe, driven by areas that are unvaccinated. We tend to run behind them by...
The Shenandoah County man who grew a rural telephone company into a regional telecommunications enterprise is being remembered this week not only as a visionary businessman but also as an active community member, a passionate farmer, and a devoted family man. Warren Ballinger French Jr., of Edinburg [a UVA Engineering alumnus], died Nov. 4 of natural causes. He was 98.
John Freeman is no stranger to broadcasting, and he’s especially no stranger to the University of Virginia community. “I was going to Virginia basketball games when I was a kid back in U-Hall, and here I am walking into JPJ [John Paul Jones Arena] waiting to call a game and there’s a microphone sitting there for me that I get to talk into,” he said. “It’s been a surreal experience.” Freeman grew up in Crozet, and now he’s the first ever UVA graduate to be named the “Voice of the Cavaliers.”
A cybersecurity company founded by an alumnus of the University of Virginia has grown and is taking aim at suicide prevention. Tom Miller founded ClearForce in Vienna in 2016.
On Thursday night, the University of Virginia Center for Politics debuted its newest documentary: Common Grounds. It all started with a simple question from fourth-year student Raed Gilliam: “Is there common ground?” The answer took Gilliam and other interns at the center to an unlikely place.
Evangelicals tend to be more suspicious of public education, and Youngkin successfully grabbed hold of the topic, said J. Miles Coleman, an analyst for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Coleman said that he looked at the 13 counties in Virginia that the PRRI identifies as 50% or more White evangelical. Largely clustered in the southwest part of the state, those counties cast 33% more votes this year than in 2017, while the number of votes cast statewide increased by 26%. “Everyone keeps talking about how Youngkin made suburbs a little redder, which he did,” he said. “To me the bi...
A report by Abraham Sutherland, an adviser to Proof of Stake Alliance and an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, charged that the 1984 law “is such a mismatch with still-nascent 21st century digital asset technology that it is difficult to catalog its consequences or even to list the scenarios that might give rise to a duty to report financial information to the government.” “I also leave to others the important task of assessing this surveillance and reporting regime against every American’s 4th amendment right ‘to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and eff...
(Podcast and transcript) Think critically about what makes a good piece of legal writing, not what do I like, not what does the judge that I clerked for like but what writ large makes a good piece of writing and what is a good process on how to do that. There’s a great professor, a guy named Joe Fore at the University of Virginia, who wrote a whole article about how we convey certainty in legal memos. He compared it to a bunch of different other professions. What does the phrase probably mean? Is that 50%, 60% or 70%?