(Podcast) Co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with professor E.D. Hirsch Jr., founder and chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation, UVA professor emeritus and acclaimed author. They discuss his newest book on how policymakers, teachers, and students can use our country’s complicated, shared past to educate for common civic purposes.
Books in digital format lose a lot more than you might think. For one, according to Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, reading a physical book is much better in terms of understanding the narrative. It’s also much better for the brain when it comes to narrative orientation. This is simply an understanding of where you are in the book. When you go digital or audio, you lose that. When it comes to traditional print, we also seem to remember it better. This is likely due to the fact that the text is in a specific place and will not move. Your brain is thus...
As the number of coronavirus cases in Virginia go up, more people are doing research on vaccines. Data from Google shows searches for vaccines, their possible side effects, and how to get a shot are on the rise. Over the last month, vaccine searches in Charlottesville and Albemarle County have doubled. “As folks are seeing friends and loved ones become sick, and realizing what the pandemic is – you know, that what the delta variant is doing into the communities – there’s more interest in vaccination, and you’re seeing more searches for that reason,” Dr. Taison Bell with the UVA Medical Center ...
Some immunocompromised people can now get a third COVID-19 vaccination shot, but it can be confusing to figure out if you fall into this category or how soon you can make an appointment. The Blue Ridge Health District says this third dose applies to people who are recipients of organ or stem cell transplants, people with advanced or untreated HIV infection, and active recipients of treatment for cancer, or people who are taking certain medications that weaken the immune system. “CVS, for example, is giving booster doses today and so you should go ahead and contact CVS, contact the health depar...
Margaret Foster Riley, a public health sciences and UVA law professor, said: “Often these disputes with police and fire unions are more about their insistence that such terms be negotiated with the unions as employment issues as much as they are substantive objections to the policies. That said, I don’t think the objecting city employees have a strong case.”
Dr. Cameron Webb spent the first part of the pandemic on the front line treating patients at the University of Virginia hospital. He now serves as a senior policy adviser on the White House COVID-19 Response Team. The Wake Forest School of Medicine graduate says more than 95-percent of new cases are tied to the highly contagious Delta variant, that it spreads faster, and is more unforgiving. And according to Dr. Webb, people who haven’t been vaccinated make up the overwhelming majority of new and severe cases.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at UVA’s Darden School of Business) With the U.S. economy in the throes of a powerful expansion, the main uncertainty is whether the pickup in inflation this year will prove temporary or ongoing. Amid the debate, economists are questioning how to interpret incoming data and the macro framework for assessing the inflation outlook.
The UVA Medical Center reported a seven-day average of 5.29 patients per day admitted for COVID-19 as of Sunday and listed 33 patients currently being treated in its COVID care units. The hospital registered as few as five COVID patients being treated through much of June and early July.
In ”Permanent Crisis,” just out from the University of Chicago Press, Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, professors of German, respectively, at Ohio State University and the University of Virginia, suggest that today’s preoccupation with crisis in the humanities is historically and conceptually overdetermined, less a response to current material realities than baked into the modern humanities’ self-conception.
A project at the University of Virginia is getting money from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The NEH announced $28.4 million in grant funding for 239 projects across the country on Tuesday. The release says several of the projects will focus on the intersection of the humanities and technology, while others will go toward editorial projects, including the one at UVA. At UVA, John Stagg is working on “The Papers of James Madison,” which is preparing for publication of two volumes of Madison’s papers and working toward finishing three more volumes.
For the first time this year, 33 of Virginia’s 35 health districts are experiencing rapid growth in COVID infections. Ten of them were last week, according to data from the UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which has developed and analyzed infectious disease models for decades. Daily vaccinations have increased slightly to almost 15,000 after plateauing for weeks at figures below 12,000. If vaccination rates pick up, UVA’s model – which projects what could happen, not what will – estimates over 60,000 cases could be avoided.
A study coming out of the University of Virginia suggests common blood pressure drugs may help colorectal cancer patients. After reviewing outcomes of nearly 14,000 patients, researchers found ace inhibitors, beta blockers, and thiazide diuretics were associated with decreased mortality. More research is needed to change existing treatments.
A new public transportation service has been given the green light in the Shenandoah Valley. After years of planning, the Afton Express bus service is launching Sept. 1. According to the Afton Express website, the service will connect communities to the west of Afton Mountain, such as Waynesboro, Staunton and Fishersville, to Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, this fall, will have more women beginning their MBA candidacy than men. Seven U.S. schools – including UVA’s Darden School of Business – reported women made up 45% of incoming classes.
On a sunny morning in May, a crowd gathered before the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, a monument constructed last year on the University of Virginia’s campus, to celebrate a historic moment. Gov. Ralph Northam (D) was in attendance for the ceremonial signing of HB1980, which requires five state colleges and universities to grant scholarships to qualified students whose ancestors were enslaved on their campuses.
In the neonatal intensive care unit at UVA Children’s, Dr. Brooke Vergales noticed that many babies who were nearly recovered had to overcome one more hurdle: feeding. These babies were often fitted with a nasogastric tube to help them take in nutrients as they are bottle-fed around-the-clock to ultimately move them off the tube. Vergales, an associate professor of pediatrics and neonatology, suspected that babies would do better at home, where their parents could care for them.
Local hospitals say they are extremely busy, but there is still bed space available for people who need it. UVA Health spokesperson Eric Swensen says the hospital normally is very busy, and some delays are possible. “We can experience delays in a patient’s admission if this specialty bed is not immediately available while we wait for a patient to be discharged,” he said in a statement.
Afghanistan is about 6,000 miles away, but students at the University of Virginia are mourning for their home country. UVA organizations like the Afghan Student Association and Persian Cultural Society are taking action and raising awareness for Afghanistan.
When former All ACC wide receiver Canaan Severin set aside his NFL dreams he started writing, and that writing turned into his newest short film "Lean In."
Ben Kohles is back on the PGA Tour. The former University of Virginia golfer earned his PGA Tour card for the second time in his professional career on Sunday after finishing in the top 25 of the Korn Ferry Tour’s 2020-21 regular season points standings.