Virginia Humanities has new digs: 10,000 square feet of office and meeting space in Dairy Central, a multiuse complex centered on a former milk-processing plant in a vibrant, historically Black neighborhood near downtown Charlottesville.
Spectrum News 1 reporter Brianna Hamblin never expected that a social media post about being sexually harassed would gain international attention. Hamblin, 25, a broadcast journalist in Rochester, said she shared her thoughts about an uncomfortable encounter as she reported in the field on Friday morning on her Twitter account and put her phone away. While getting a manicure that afternoon, her phone started to explode with alerts. Hamblin, a Virginia native and University of Virginia graduate, joined the Spectrum news team last August. She’s been a multimedia journalist for about 3.5 years, s...
Sarah and Ronald Morton of Suffolk, who first met at the University of Virginia, have been involved in the growing cannabis industry across several states for the last decade. With Virginia’s new marijuana laws going into effect this year, the Mortons saw an opportunity to make it easy for drivers to not unknowingly violate the new legalization laws, which still prohibit open containers of the now-legal drug in a car.
The post-coronavirus future of healthcare is a hot topic of conversation. A panel of experts weighed in Wednesday, July 28, at an event hosted by a University of Virginia graduate and CEO of health-ware company Care+Wear. The conversation touched on how hospital workers have personally dealt with the pandemic, mental health challenges, and how healthcare is changing. Panelists included Doctor Greg Weingart, a UVA graduate now working as an emergency physician in the Tidewater area.
“I think if you’re vaccinated, especially if you’re someone who’s my age, your risk of getting sick and especially getting hospitalized is pretty low, so I think it would be pretty ridiculous to enforce masks. I hope that UVA doesn’t enforce a mask mandate,” said Joe, a University of Virginia third-year. UVA has not yet released any new information regarding a mask mandate decision, and neither has the Charlottesville City Council.
The University of Virginia’s Miles Coleman, though, did find evidence that it was Democratic voters who helped Ellzey turn his 2018 primary defeat against Ron Wright into his 2021 victory over Susan Wright. Coleman writes that in Tarrant County, which is the largest and most Democratic portion of the 6th District, the precincts Ellzey flipped this time “supported President Biden by a 56%-42% spread in last year’s general election.” The areas that supported both Wrights also went for Biden, but by a much smaller 52-47 margin.
“Historically, the commonwealth has had a strongly pro-employer legal environment. As in many other Southern states, that approach included right-to-work legislation, restricting the ability of unions to collect fees from non-members,” said University of Virginia Professor of Law and Director of UVA’s Program for Employment and Labor Law Studies Rip Verkerke.
Last December, Congress gave the FCC nearly $100 million largely for that purpose. The agency said it has started the process, although it hasn’t disclosed when the task will be completed or exactly how it will be done. “We have a better map of the Milky Way” than of who doesn’t have broadband, said Christopher Ali, an associate professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.
As consequential as the case might be, the Supreme Court “may be burned out on free exercise for awhile,” said Douglas Laycock, a scholar of religious liberty and law professor at the University of Virginia. “These anti-discrimination laws are important and address historic wrongs. But applying them to force conscientious objectors out of the wedding business is a greater wrong. She must permanently surrender either her conscience or any opportunities in the wedding business,” he added, referring to Smith. “Any same-sex couple that she refers elsewhere has a one-time incident. They may feel in...
Green infrastructure also has added benefits, Sedlak said. “One is that by growing more trees and vegetation in the city, you cool it and make it more livable. The other is, you infiltrate more of that water into the ground and you have a chance of getting that water back out later as a water supply.” That’s why China calls them “sponge cities,” said Shaw Yu, a retired University of Virginia civil and environmental engineering professor. They absorb water when it rains, “and then when water is needed, it could be pumped out, like when you squeeze the sponge.”
(Audio) The WDET Book Club is continuing its discussions about the U.S. Constitution to better understand how the document influences our daily lives. It is also looking at the ways the framers got it wrong. Bertrall Ross, a professor of law at the University of Virginia and a constitutional law expert who focuses on election law and voting rights, argues that the Reconstruction amendments marked the shift from thinking of the United States as a republic to being a democracy.
A doctor at the University of Virginia is sending out warnings that the Delta variant of COVID-19 is pulling us in the wrong direction as we all try to return to normal. Dr. Patrick Jackson says it is unfortunate we didn’t have enough people getting vaccines to prevent this summer’s surge in cases. However, by getting the shot and masking up, we can stem the tide. “I was hoping that it would not be this bad,” Jackson said.
Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious disease expert at UVA Health, says he’s fully vaccinated and wearing a mask adds an extra layer of protection even in places with low rates of transmission, like Charlottesville and Albemarle County. “I never stopped wearing my mask in public spaces,” he said. “People who are fully vaccinated, or live with people who are immune-compromised, are at high risk, should really think about continuing to wear masks in public spaces.”
UVA Health is increasing its collaboration with a Lynchburg-based health care organization to expand cooperation in cancer and transplant treatments, officials announced Wednesday. UVA Health will work with Centra Health to provide patients from Lynchburg to Danville expertise in blood cell disorders and kidney transplant processes and to combine physician recruitment efforts.
Among those listed is the UVA Founcdation’s Boar’s Head resort. The author writes: “The 600-acre property is a wooded escape in the confines of one of the most charming college towns in America. The in-room Pelotons are a nice upgrade feature for this price point.”
The report also cited the University of Virginia’s establishment of a $120 million School of Data Science, which will train students in data analysis, machine learning, statistics, computer science and communication.
Students interested in working in the public sector are getting hands-on experience thanks to the 22nd Century Scholars Program at the University of Virginia.
Add Paige Madden to the list of University of Virginia swimmers to take home a medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Madden competed Thursday morning in Tokyo as part of the United States’ 4X200-meter freestyle relay team. The group, which also included Katie Ledecky, Allison Schmitt and Katie McLaughlin, finished second to only China. Madden and company won the silver medal with a time of 7:40.73.
She’s gone from wondering why bridges stayed up in the air to studying pits of concrete in the ground. Sarah Besecker, a rising third-year UVA engineering student, is getting firsthand knowledge of the highs and lows of civil engineering while serving as a summer intern with Sweden-based contractor Skanska.
The students who research shows would benefit the most from mentoring – namely students from low-income families – are less likely to have access to iinformal mentoring relationships, according to a study by UVA’s Noelle Hurd and two Brown University colleagues.