(By Rachel K. Alexander, a postdoctoral research associate and lecturer in the Department of Politics) As more Americans opt out of traditional burial, it’s worth considering the political significance of graveyards.
(Subscription may be required) Dr. William A. Petri, an immunologist at the UVA School of Medicine, answers this week’s COVID-19 questions from readers. And there’s big news: an FDA panel says that the benefit of the Pfizer vaccine for kids 5-11 is greater than the risks.
Naturally, some people are better at certain things than they are at others; this can be related to the differences in ability to process various types of information. However, learning styles are often treated as a superior way for people to understand content — and studies don’t support the prediction that leaning into them will help learners remember material better, says Daniel Willingham, a cognitive psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.
Spine implants do not have to be one size fits all any more. Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System are customizing to each patient’s unique spine shape to provide personalized care.
The findings from University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators help explain why specialised bone cells called osteoclasts begin to break down more bone than the body replaces.
“We’ll be screening over 85 films in that five-day period on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville and on the Grounds of the University of Virginia,” Festival Director Jody Kielbasa told WTOP.
Once the new data science center opens in early 2024, it will anchor a 14.5-acre parcel on the campus at Emmet Street and Ivy Road.
The civil trial that starts Monday will examine whether the far-right organizers had plotted to foment violence. “The trial will provide a detailed look into the world of far-right extremism and organization, but that world should not be understood as an outlier,” said Richard C. Schragger, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Prozac may not only help fight depression; it also could help you keep your eyesight. A University of Virginia Medical School review of insurance databases containing records from more than 100 million Americans shows that fluoxetine, best known as Prozac, may offer a first-line treatment for atrophic, age-related macular degeneration, also known as dry macular degeneration.
(Subscription may be required.) “The Catholic Church in this country has never been as divided as it is right now, and the meeting is going to be put in terms of this division in the American church,” said the Rev. Gerald P. Fogarty, UVA religious studies professor.
Siddhartha Angadi, professor in the UVA Department of Kinesiology, and Arizona State University professor of exercise physiology Glenn Gaesser reviewed 200 past studies and concluded that "a weight-centric approach to obesity treatment and prevention has been largely ineffective."
(Subscription may be required) Jefferson, for all of his blindness concerning the evils of slavery, championed religious liberty in Virginia and in the nation as a whole.
Chris Taylor, a 31-year-old University of Virginia product, has provided more drama for these Dodgers than just about anyone. He is the reason the Dodgers are here, still alive, after a postseason of looking like a team on the brink. He is the one who hit the walk-off homer in the wild-card game that allowed them to get here in the first place, the one who seemed to walk or single when his team desperately needed to start rallies late against the San Francisco Giants in the National League Division Series.
“It’s not enough for us to merely support things like ‘reusable straws’ anymore,” said Sadey Rodriguez, University of Virginia discus thrower and co-founder of Green Athletics, a UVA student-athlete organization. “It’s time to go big. Since I am privileged enough to have an athlete’s platform, I am happy to use it to urge the leaders of the COP to take real climate action to help people who don’t have a voice.”
The University of Virginia Center for Politics is keeping an eye on the races for the upcoming general election. J. Miles Coleman thinks Republican Jason Miyares is running a good campaign against Attorney General Mark Herring. “I’ve heard from some of my Republican sources that Miyares may be, if you look at the three campaigns, he may be running the best campaign on the Republican side,” he said. “So we’ll see if that can help him overperform the rest of the ticket.”
(Video) University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato joins Shep Smith to discuss the state’s gubernatorial race, which has tightened up significantly.
McAuliffe “needs a good turnout, and for Democrats that means a good turnout of Blacks,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center For Politics. “That’s why they’ve scheduled so many big hitters the last two weeks.”
“Most Americans believe that government should be helping solve our problems and that compromise is better than obstruction,” said Jennifer Lawless, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. “But the incentives for our elected leaders to do compromise has dissipated, creating a vicious cycle where we’re seeing less action on what the average American wants. By the same token, there’s also a very, very little incentive for the elected leaders to deliver moderation, because there’ll be a primary, and they’ll lose.”
David Nemer, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, also notes that Bolsonaro adopts a position close to Trump and Steve Bannon’s playbook. “It’s a tactic that works, as Bolsonaro has seen in the US,” he told Motherboard. “Not that Trump was put back in power, but it was enough for an insurgency on the Capitol, so he expects that the population will support a coup so that he can perpetuate himself in power.”
(Commentary) University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash argues (in “Imperial from the Beginning: The Constitution of the Original Executive”) that although there is no constitutional privilege of presidential privacy, neither is there a constitutional authority for Congress to demand information. In his “The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers,” Prakash says one purpose for the increasing frequency of executive refusals to comply with congressional demands for information and testimony is “stymieing congressional investigations of...