The more infectious UK variant of the COVID-19 virus has been identified on the UVA Grounds, officials confirmed on Friday.
UVA on Friday announced the new U.K. variant of COVID-19 is present in the “University community.” The University did not immediately respond to questions regarding how many people have the new variant nor whether those people are students or staff.
UVA on Friday announced the new U.K. variant of COVID-19 is present in the “University community.” The University did not immediately respond to questions regarding how many people have the new variant nor whether those people are students or staff.
Casual displays of affection weren’t always so commonplace for first couples. According to Dr. Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, it was the sexual revolution of the 1960s that redefined standards for how all Americans – including commanders in chief – could interact with their spouses in public.
Jack Hamilton, UVA associate professor of media and American studies and author of “Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination,” said that American popular music and Black music are, and always will be, bonded together. “It’s literally impossible to imagine the music industry of today without the influence of Black artists and Black culture,” he said. “The history of American popular music and the history of Black American music are essentially inseparable – there isn’t a single genre of contemporary popular music that isn’t fundamentally rooted in Black musical traditions....
A trio of indicators show that the COVID-19 pandemic may be easing its grip on Virginia and Northern Virginia, according to new reports Saturday and analysis from the University of Virginia.
The history of social activism in sports runs deep, and players have used their platform to spotlight injustice. So when deadly protests erupted near the University of Virginia three years ago, Los Angeles Rams linebacker Micah Kiser felt compelled to answer the call.
Two UVA School of Law students recently found themselves in court. No, they weren’t in any type of legal trouble. Rather, the two ladies seized an opportunity to hone the skills they learned in the classroom.
“The crippling thing about telemedicine for glaucoma care is that it doesn’t enable IOP checks, visual fields and OCT scans that provide the critical information we need to follow,” says Dr. Peter Netland, Vernah Scott Moyston Professor and chair of ophthalmology at the UVA School of Medicine. “Without that, we’ll risk missing something important. What doctors are saying when they do home visits is that they’re willing to miss a certain amount of change in the patient’s status. For us, we decided early on, as a glaucoma group, that we were going to try to provide protection for ourselves and o...
Maryland’s tax also reflects the collision of two economic trends during the pandemic: The largest tech companies have had milestone financial performances as social distancing moved work, play and commerce further online. But cities and states saw their tax revenues plummet as the need for their social services grew. “They’re really getting squeezed,” said Ruth Mason, a professor at UVA’s School of Law. “And this is a huge way to target a tax to the winners of the pandemic.”
Last fall, physicians said the treatments Trump received were for patients who are much sicker than Trump’s team said he was. “If the president is more ill than the press conferences are letting on, then his treatment may well be reasonable,” Dr. Patrick Jackson, a UVA infectious disease specialist, said in October. “If the president is doing as well as the press conferences describe, then his treatment is very aggressive.”
Commission Vice Chair Andrew Block, a professor at the UVA School of Law, says that it was an eye-opening experience for the commission members and the UVA Law students that helped in the research. They were not naïve about the existence of structural racism, but seeing how interconnected the disparities were, and just how long-lasting the effects of centuries of the segregationist laws they studied in their first report were, they were shocked.
Health experts said it is not until two weeks after your second dose does the vaccine reach its full potential. “The drawback is that it is really good protection, but it does take some time in order to build up that immune response because your cells have to learn how to recognize it then they have to make antibodies to it and that all takes a little bit of time. After it has gone through that process, then the protection is quite good,” explains Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA critical care and infectious disease doctor.
Due to a 50-50 split vote in the Senate, and the need for a supermajority to convict, it may be tough to get a conviction. “Maybe best case, the Democrats can get like six defections from the Republicans, they need like 16 or 17,” said J. Miles Coleman, Associate Editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics.
“This is one of the most dynamic and compelling presentations I have ever seen,” said Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics. “If it was an impartial jury, we would all bet on a conviction.”
Rep. Joaquin Castro, Texas Democrat, noted the many examples of courage in the chamber – ranging from those who risked their careers to vote for civil rights legislation to those who risked their lives fighting for the United States in uniform. “Your country needs you one more time” to display political courage, Castro argued. “I think it’s a brilliant strategy. I’m not saying it will work, in terms of getting 67 votes” to convict the former president, says Barbara Perry, a presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center.
(Transcript) President Trump’s defense team will make their argument Friday in his impeachment trial. Elizabeth Chryst, the Republican Senate secretary during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, and Melody Barnes of UVA’s Democracy Initiative, helped broker that trial’s rules as chief counsel to Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy. They join Judy Woodruff to discuss Trump’s trial.
A new report shows UVA’s athletic department did not take as big of a financial hit as expected during its 2019-2020 season. UVA Athletics was still able to bring in $110.3 million, with football bringing in the most money at $43 million since in-person games were able to happen in 2019.
Localities that are considering going solar have a new tool to help them better understand the financial implications of solar development in their communities. The Virginia SolTax Model was developed by the Energy Transition Initiative at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service in partnership with the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have shed light on what causes herpes simplex virus to flare up, explaining how stress, illness and even sunburn can trigger unwanted outbreaks. The discovery could lead to new ways to prevent cold sores and recurrent herpes-related eye disease from reoccurring, the researchers report.