Oat milk company Oatly ran a surprise ad that showed its CEO singing with a keyboard in a field of Oats that its product is like milk but not milk. But Kim Whitler, a UVA marketing professor, said the ad “is likely to stand out because it is so starkly different,” She added, “It will drive awareness because of the size of the Super Bowl audience and is clear about what it is -- and it is quirky. That might work for the target.”
The committee consulted several outside sources during its deliberations, according to the report. That included Kevin McDonald, former vice chancellor of inclusion, diversity and equity at MU who now serves in a similar role at the University of Virginia. McDonald said that his new campus was “struggling with that same issue,” having been founded by Jefferson, and that the UVA president had not yet appointed a task force.
During the drafting process, Warner, Hirono and Klobuchar’s staff consulted with civil rights groups like Color of Change and Muslim Advocates, as well as experts in online harms, including University of Miami School of Law professor Mary Anne Franks and UVA law professor Danielle Citron, who together run the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative.
The binge raised the eyebrows of campaign finance experts who said campaign funds are strictly prohibited for any personal use by the Federal Election Commission. “It appears to not be a legal use of campaign funds,” Ann Ravel, a former Obama-appointed chairwoman of the FEC, told The Post. Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist, agreed. “It does warrant some scrutiny,” Sabato said.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s nonpartisan Center for Politics, has concluded after events of the past three months that America’s two-party system now has one normally functioning entity and another that appears “insane.” “The Republican Party is unsalvageable as a center-right party,” says Sabato. “You can’t treat the situation as normal.”
“In the 20th century, few would have thought this was likely to happen at all, much less that Virginia would be the first in the South to eliminate capital punishment,” said Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. “This is a watershed moment. It shows dramatically how different the new Virginia is from the old.”
Presidential historian Barbara Perry says that despite Trump’s reputation for norm-breaking, racism and online bullying, the former president fulfilled many of the main promises he made on the campaign trail in 2016. ”Maybe more than most presidents, he made good on his promises,” says Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
Vivian Riefberg, a UVA professor studying the economics of health care, noted that the federal government distributes the vaccine based on state populations. States then dole out the vaccine to counties and localities. When people receive a shot in a state that isn’t theirs, Riefberg said, “it confuses the allocation system.” It can also create the perception that people from other states are jumping the line and taking the vaccine from in-state residents. “It could create some ill-will,” Riefberg said.
The concept is called “passive immunization,” said Dr. William Petri, an infectious disease specialist at the UVA School of Medicine. Doctors have used antibodies in this way for years, Petri said, so patients might benefit from temporary immunity against a number of ailments. Patients bitten by a potentially rabid animal, for example, receive antibodies for near-term protection against developing rabies as well as a vaccine for long-term, active immunization.
Should we be wearing two masks? “If all of us could do the common sense thing of wearing a mask just to start out, that will go a long way,” Dr. William Petri with the University of Virginia explained. “The double masking may be a good idea because of these new variants that are more transmissible.”
Physicians with UVA Health say they are not expecting a spike in cases as students of all ages return to the classroom. UVA Health Director of Hospital Epidemiology Dr. Costi Sifri says national research suggests returning students to a K-12 classroom setting with proper health and safety measures – such as mask-wearing, social distancing and temperature checks – does not pose a significant risk, especially as teachers get vaccinated for the coronavirus.
Four members of the UVA faculty have been selected by their peers to be recognized for their teaching. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation announced the winners of 2020-21 faculty awards this week.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, people are spending more time outdoors. The pandemic has also sparked an increased interest in foraging for wild foods. This can lead to accidentally eating something poisonous. The Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVA Health announces the publication of a reference guide to poisonous plants native to Virginia. It is now available on their website listed as the Socrates Project.
A Charlottesville nonprofit is shining a light on heroes in Virginia every Friday,, and now the organization is recognizing frontline workers at the UVA Medical Center.
UVA is hosting clinics for people who are over the age of 75 and workers who qualify under Phase 1A and 1B.
Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel on Tuesday made a visit to Children’s National Hospital, and a virtual visit to the University of Virginia, to emphasize the agency’s goals of investing in telehealth strategies, with a specific emphasis on serving marginalized communities, veterans, and low-income patients.
The UVA School of Law reported that “a small number” of students tested positive in the fall semester. The school continued with in-person instruction. “Our continued ability to offer in-person classes and services is a significant achievement, one that has taken enormous effort from every member of our community, and one that will continue to require vigilance and care,” wrote Stephen T. Parr, senior associate dean for administration, to the Law School community.
All told, 20 of the schools that had shunned The Economist cooperated with this ranking, including the Chicago Booth, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Yale, and UVA’s Darden School of Business. (Darden ranked No. 11)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the first of his fireside chats in March 12, 1933, on the banking crisis, according to UVA’s Miller Center.
In her critical biography of Ghalib, Mehr Afshan Farooqi, associate professor in UVA’s Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, and daughter of late Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, analyses and interprets Ghalib’s Persian as well as Urdu oeuvre to understand why he didn’t publish half of his Urdu compositions.