The Virginia Film Festival has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects Award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the 2021 Virginia Film Festival.
There’s a new antibody drug infusion available at UVA Health for high-risk COVID-19 patients, but it is only available for certain groups. Currently, UVA can provide this drug for 20 patients a week. The goal is to keep more high-risk patients, like those with heart or kidney disease, out of the hospital.
Researchers from UVA, Lehigh University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are pooling their respective labs’ expertise to unlock the mysteries of a protein that plays a critical regulatory role in human health and disease. Knowing how the protein works could lead to improved therapies for cancers and other diseases.
A new antibody cocktail being tested by UVA researchers was able to block 100% of all symptomatic coronavirus infections when people were exposed to the virus.
According to research conducted at UVA Health, among 186 individuals who received Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ antibody cocktail and were subsequently exposed to COVID as part of the company’s phase 3 clinical trial, none developed symptomatic cases of COVID; eight members of a placebo group who were exposed to COVID developed symptomatic infections.
Woodson’s accomplishments also are remembered through the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
UVA’s “Foundations of Diversity and Inclusion” explains how power and privilege play out in organizations, how companies can turn Black Lives Matter calls for action into new policies, how to have difficult conversations around race and power at work, and how to begin to root out bias in hiring practices.
(Commentary) Students are often thrilled to hear the news of the latest college to join the “test optional” list that currently includes UVA and other elite institutions. Students may assume that gaining acceptance to these colleges and universities will now be easier, with one less hoop to jump through. However, the past admission cycle has demonstrated just the opposite.
UVA’s Board of Visitors will consider tuition and fees next month, but first, there will be a workshop. The BOV will be discussing 2021-22 tuition and fees for UVA and the UVA College at Wise during a meeting on March 5. A workshop and public comment period will take place Feb. 17.
UVA President Jim Ryan addressed a glaring issue for any student trying to learn online. On Thursday, Ryan talked with telecommunications leaders to get a handle on making virtual classes available to everyone.
Del. David Reid, D-Loudoun, has sponsored a bill to address the five public colleges in Virginia built and maintained on the backs of enslaved workers. Titled the Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship, the bill calls for Longwood University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Military Institute, and the College of William & Mary to offer scholarships to the descendants of the enslaved. The House on Thursday passed the measure 61-39.
Five public colleges and universities in Virginia, including UVA, would be required to detail as much as possible their ties to enslaved Black individuals who worked on their grounds and to establish scholarships or economic development programs to benefit communities descended from those people under a bill the Virginia House passed Thursday.
UVA Health is now offering monoclonal antibody infusions to prevent those with COVID-19 from developing severe symptoms, not only helping to save lives, but also relieve a burden on health care workers.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School of Business) A key priority of the Biden administration is to lessen the disparity in income between the wealthiest U.S. households and the rest of the populace: The top 10% today account for one half of pre-tax national income.
“If we’re thinking about them acting unilaterally, they have very few tools,” said Bill Antholis, at UVA’s Miller Center. He said that’s especially true when the economy is in crisis. “Their ability to perfectly correct the crisis is extremely limited,” Antholis said.
With James Harding joining Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving to form the NBA’s latest Big 3, Brooklyn Nets small forward [and UVA alumnus] Joe Harris’ importance to the team’s title aspirations should not be minimized.
Few of the anchors who lead news shows on live-streaming services or social-media outlets are typically part of a TV network’s biggest broadcasts and special reports. Since 2019, however, UVA alumna Linsey Davis has appeared alongside George Stephanopoulos and David Muir to help anchor presidential debates, election coverage and other critical news events, placing a spotlight on the company’s streaming efforts at a time when rivals are also working furiously to lure new viewers to their own broadband offerings.
In May, [UVA alumnus] Dr. Francis Collins, the longtime head of the National Institutes of Health, was called to the White House to meet with Jared Kushner, the then-President’s son-in-law and adviser, and Dr. Deborah Birx, the head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. A few weeks earlier, Congress had given the NIH $1.5 billion to try to speed up the process of developing new diagnostic tests for COVID-19, and the White House, which was dubious about increasing the rate of testing, wanted to know more about what the NIH was doing.
For the first time in its history, the Virginia Law Review has a Black editor-in-chief. Tiffany Mickel is a second-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law.
On Jan. 26, the Fluvanna Chapter of the NAACP hosted a forum on Zoom with medical experts from UVA and the Blue Ridge Health District, associated with the Virginia Department of Health, discussing questions regarding the COVID-19 vaccines and vaccinations. The panel included Dr. Taison Bell, an assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of Infectious Diseases and International Health and in pulmonary and critical care medicine at UVA, and Dr. Cameron Webb, who is a practicing internist, assistant professor, the director of health policy and equity at UVA’s School of Medicine.