With many people still hesitant about getting their COVID-19 vaccine, even with the delta variant surging across the country, health experts like Justin Vesser, a manager of ambulatory pharmacy services with UVA Health, says to get it as soon as possible. “[The delta variant] makes you sicker, it makes you more contagious,” Vesser said. “Delta is so virulent and it multiplies so fast that even a fully vaccinated person can have pockets of it in your nasal cavity. You can actually have enough in your bloodstream so you can actually shed enough to cause another person to be infected. That’s real...
Bob Pianta will step down as dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development at the end of the 2021-22 academic year.
Nurses at the University of Virginia Medical Center are making sure their colleagues have a chance to take a mental break during their day. Nancy Farish, Jane Muir and Jeanell Webb-Jones created a toolbox for their colleagues. Each box contains noise-cancelling headphones, virtual reality goggles, and guides to make typical tasks more reflective and thoughtful.
A Q&A with Dr. Maria Luisa S. Sequeira Lopez, Harrison Distinguished Professor in Pediatrics and Biology.
The Milky Way has enjoyed a relatively quiet history in recent eons, but newcomers continue to stream in. Stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere can spot with the naked eye a pair of dwarf galaxies called the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Astronomers long believed the pair to be our steadfast orbiting companions, like moons of the Milky Way. Then a series of Hubble Space Telescope observations between 2006 and 2013 found that they were more like incoming meteorites. Nitya Kallivayalil, an astronomer at the University of Virginia, clocked the clouds as coming in hot at about 330 kilometers ...
Many educators hope to use dialogue to help students bridge differences, especially moral and political ones. How can they best achieve these goals, especially for students who bring strong religious commitments into the classroom? Recent research by Rachel Wahl, a UVA associate professor of education, provides valuable insights into the challenges and surprising successes of dialogue across differences – religious and otherwise – in a higher-education context.
(Podcast) Darryl Brown, a professor at the UVA School of Law, discusses bail, a part of the criminal justice system where deals are often made behind closed doors and which critics say favors the rich.
If Americans were facing what many anticipated would be the largest financial slump since the Great Depression, or at least the Great Recession, why were their spending and debt accumulation habits so … healthy? UVA sociologist and demographer Teresa Sullivan has some ideas.
The location-data broker X-Mode Social Inc., which was kicked off the Apple and Google platforms last year over its national-security work with the U.S. government, is being acquired, the company told The Wall Street Journal. X-Mode will become part of the Atlanta-based IP intelligence company Digital Envoy Inc., both companies are set to announce this week. As part of the merger, X-Mode will be rebranded as Outlogic and its chief executive, Joshua Anton, will join Digital Envoy as chief strategy officer. X-Mode had its genesis on the University of Virginia campus in 2013, when as an undergrad...
Slovenia’s men’s basketball team demolished Germany 94-70 in the Olympic quarterfinals Tuesday in Tokyo. Luka Doncic, who stars for the Dallas Mavericks, is the team’s unquestioned top player, but Mike Tobey has proven to be an extremely valuable team member.
The first international student to graduate from the University of Virginia will be honored with a highway historical marker, one of five new markers announced by Gov. Ralph Northam on Tuesday. Yan Huiqing, who was known to classmates as Weiching William Yen, or W.W. Yen, was both the first international student and first Chinese student to earn a degree from UVA, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1900 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
(Commentary) State law is murky about whether lawmakers may raise funds during a special session. Even the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato isn’t sure, according to a story earlier this year in the Times-Dispatch: “Maybe they technically can raise money” during a special session, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, noting that he is not “100% certain” on the issue. “But doing so is clearly against the spirit of the law, since this so-called special session is just a sleight-of-hand maneuver around the GOP’s refusal to have the normal lengt...
(Video) One of the top political scientists in the United States, Jennifer Lawless, joined GoLocal LIVE on Tuesday to discuss Andrew Cuomo’s controversies, President Joe Biden’s challenges, and the potential gubernatorial campaign of Helena Foulkes in Rhode Island. Lawless chairs the political science department of the University of Virginia.
That margin of victory was a boon to Trump's sway in congressional races and could help his allies to cast the Texas race as a fluke, said J. Miles Coleman, an associate editor for Sabato's Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. "I think to some extent the Trump base can tell when an endorsement seems genuine or not," Coleman said.
In another crowded primary race for a vacant U.S. seat in the Democratic enclave of Ohio’s 11th District, progressive Nina Turner conceded to local establishment Democrat Shontel Brown. “Establishment Democrats likely feel that Brown would be more a team player and reliable vote for leadership than Turner, whereas progressives see Turner as someone who could help pull the Democratic House caucus a bit more to the left,” said Kyle Kondik, an election analyst at the University of Virginia.
As a child growing up in the Chicago suburbs, Stephanie Bajo fell in love with competitive horse riding and its inherently rugged way of life. “The equestrian community is pretty tough,” she said. “We’re getting up in the dark and cold and crushing ice in buckets because our horse’s drinking water has frozen. Serious riders are pretty stubborn and if they get injured, they just grin and bear it. Horse riding makes people extremely resilient, but it also puts them at risk when they experience a concussion and say, ‘I’m fine,’ and want to keep riding,” the UVA neuropsychologist told UVATod...
"All mediocre novelists are alike," Andrew Kaufman, a professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Virginia, once told The Millions. "Every great novelist is great in its own way." This is, in case you didn't know, an insightful spin on the already quite insightful opening line from another of Tolstoy's novels, “Anna Karenina”: "All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Dr Karen Rheuban, a medical director of UVA’s Office of Telemedicine, in one of her videos describes their cancer center being without walls, where they not only provide patient evaluation and follow up, but help the communities get together and have the patient education program broadcast by the health providers to their patients in their respective settings. She adds that the provision of care away from a hospital or clinic at the comfort of the patient’s house or community makes them engaged and accountable for their own care.
While many people are putting face masks back on, testing for the coronavirus may also be making a comeback. “If you do get infected with a Delta variant, you’re just as likely to transmit it as somebody who’s not vaccinated,” UVA infectious disease physician Dr. Amy Mathers said. “So that was really the new finding and why a lot of the movement and recommendations have changed around universal masking.”
The New York Times reported on per-mile fee programs in 2010, saying road usage charges raise “Orwellian questions.” Two former secretaries of transportation joined a group of experts in 2010 to propose the vehicle miles traveled tax as a long-term solution for transportation funding, according to the Times. The two secretaries, Norman Mineta and Samuel Skinner, “urged Congress to phase in the VMT over a decade.” The Times continued: “In a report from the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, they acknowledged that the public will have privacy concerns about the tax, b...