Even with COVID-19 vaccine efforts accelerating and moving into the next phase in some parts of the state, UVA Health experts say prevention efforts in the next several weeks will have a much larger impact on the trajectory of the pandemic.
(Co-written by Dewey G. Cornell, Virgil Ward Professor of Education at the School of Education and Human Development, director of the UVA Virginia Youth Violence Project and faculty associate of Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy) For years, schools have implemented policies and procedures designed to support students who show signs of harming themselves or others. The current challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting remote-learning environments, however, have left many school administrators and teachers wondering how to respond when threats of harm come to the...
(Commentary by Gerard Robinson, Fellow of Practice at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) This year gives about 463,000 of the more than 2 million Americans behind bars — and President-elect Joe Biden — a chance at a fresh start.
(Commentary by Aynne Kokas, professor of media studies) In an environment of increasing U.S.-China tensions, China's dominance presents a significant challenge to Hollywood studios seeking to recuperate revenue after bleeding red ink during the COVID-19 pandemic. President-elect Joe Biden's experience negotiating the 2012 U.S.-China film agreement with then-Vice Premier Xi Jinping makes him uniquely well-prepared to help Hollywood studios consider the China challenge.
(Commentary by Harry Harding, University Professor, professor of public policy and senior fellow in the Miller Center of Public Affairs) In my previous interview with Juan Zhang and Shannon Tiezzi, published by The Diplomat, I used suits of playing cards as metaphors for understanding the importance that Beijing assigns to different types of national power. In so doing, I built upon Samuel Huntington’s insight many years ago in “Political Order in Changing Societies” that the military could seize power in uninstitutionalized and unstable developing countries because in such societies, “clubs a...
For Nixon, the writing was on the wall weeks earlier that his administration would not survive, when three Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee announced that they would vote for his impeachment. When Nixon informed his family on Aug. 2 of his decision to resign, they implored him to reconsider. Three days later, however, a transcript of a June 23, 1972 conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, was released. As UVA’s Miller Center relates, that transcript, which became the "smoking gun" investigators were desperate to discover, proved that Nixon had lied when he i...
UVA Health says phase 1-B of vaccination will begin in a week or two. The system started its efforts at 175 vaccinations a day. Now it is up to nearly 1,000. UVA Health has volunteers working around the clock, giving shots seven days a week.
The right colon appears to age faster in Black people than in White people, perhaps explaining the higher prevalence of right-side colon cancer among Black Americans, according to results from a biopsy study. “Our results provide biological plausibility for the observed relative preponderance of right colon cancer and younger age of onset in African Americans as compared to European Americans,” wrote the investigators, led by Matthew Devall, a research associate at UVA’s Center for Public Health Genomics a.
UVA School of Engineering assistant professor Liheng Cai is developing a new synthetic rubber that is not stereotypical of durable materials that are stiff, heavy, and bulky. Cai’s lab is heeding the challenge of coming up with a new soft material that is “soft as a Jello-O or ice cream, or even as soft as biological tissues – but that contains no water or solvents”, according to Cai.
A survey from Reuters/Ipsos and the UVA Center for Politics found that while about one-third of Americans agreed that “America must preserve its White European heritage,” twice as many Republicans (44%) agreed as Democrats (22%). And whereas 38% of Republicans felt that racial minorities were “under attack” in the United States, 63% said the same of white people.
UVA researchers have found that a scalpel-free alternative to brain surgery has the potential to benefit people with Parkinson's disease symptoms that are much more severe on one side of the body.
In 1957 and 1958, William Faulkner was a writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. During that time he held 37 conferences and answered more than 2,000 questions on a wide range of concerns. Almost every word uttered during these exchanges was recorded on tape, and the result is the classic “Faulkner in the University”, originally published in 1959.
Beginning Jan. 18, the University of Virginia’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is planning a series of virtual events lasting through Jan. 31, per a news release. The title of the Rev. Martin Lther King’s 1967 book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” is the theme of the 2021 Community MLK Celebration.
UVA and the Central Virginia Small Business Development Center are partnering to facilitate a community project-based learning program called Propel, which aims to address a wide range of business and technology problems, including market entry, marketing strategy and financial analysis. The initiative engages UVA student teams to support real-world project challenges faced by local small businesses, start-ups and nonprofit organizations.
Booker T. Washington died 105 years ago, but his ideas, thoughts and memories are virtually alive in 14 volumes at the University of Virginia, thanks to a digital offshoot of the University Press.
Amber D’Souza, a professor who studies infectious diseases and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, suggested at least 20% of students should be tested each week. Over the course of a 15-week semester, D’Souza’s suggested testing regimen would amount to 300 tests for every 100 students. Last fall, only UVA achieved such a testing capacity among the state’s 10 largest colleges.
Raheel Tauyyab, a UVA third-year student, said he learned about the flag from a professor who was monitoring the news about the riot on his computer during a virtual class Wednesday afternoon. Tauyyab, a Muslim American who said his goal was to one day work at the Capitol, said he could not forget the traumatized look on his professor’s face. “I won’t lie: I did shed a tear,” he said. “It was really stabbing to the heart to see something like that happen.”
When authors Laura Morgan Roberts [a Darden professor of practice], Alison Maitland and Rebekah Steele began working on their books about diversity, equity and inclusion several years ago, they could not have predicted that they would be contributing to one of the best-selling topics of 2020.
(Commentary by A.E. Dick Howard, professor of law) George Mason's famous Declaration of Rights for Virginia (1776) declares that government is "instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community." But when the declaration turns to the question of who in that community should have the vote, it is more qualified.
Born July 23, 1963, Evelyn McGee-Colbert is the daughter of prominent Charleston litigation attorney and politician Joseph McGee. The 57-year-old was born in Charleston, South Carolina. She attended the University of Virginia College of Arts & Sciences, where she majored in English and drama.