“Safety is job No. 1 for a vaccine. It has to be super safe because we’re giving it to completely healthy people, so it’s very reassuring from this plug and play that we know from the background the basis of these vaccines is very safe,” said Dr. Bill Petri, professor of infectious disease at the University of Virginia.
Peabody has appointed Manuel Betancourt, Henry Goldblatt, Michael Isip, Aswin Punathambekar and Bonnie Turner to its board of jurors, which each year bestows the Peabody Awards for excellence in television, radio/podcasting, and digital media. Punathambekar is a UVA associate professor of media studies.
Chemists at the University of Virginia synthesized a radical that contains beryllium in the +1 oxidation state by oxidizing a previously reported compound containing Be(II) (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13777). Compounds with main-group elements with low oxidation states could participate in chemistry typically seen only in transition metals.
When a high-power laser boils molten metal, it often generates deep and narrow gaps. These gaps are known as keyholes, and it had long been suspected that they were related to defects in the finished 3-D-printed part. The exact relationship between keyholes and porosity was not, however, fully understood. Researchers led by Tao Sun of the University of Virginia and two colleagues have now used high-energy X-rays derived from the Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source to image how keyholes and pores form in a titanium alloy during laser powder bed fusion.
Increased sensitivity to vaccines that younger vaccine receivers may have compared with adults could be a positive, said Dr Steven Zeichner, professor, Department of Pediatrics and Microbiology, University of Virginia.
A research project is looking at the benefits of cryogenic freezing on cannabinoids found in industrial hemp, from the time of harvest through extraction and final processing. The research team is studying cryogenic processing profiles that will “address knowledge gaps and provide best practices to maximize value immediately transferrable to hemp growers and processors seeking to optimize their product yield,” said Bryan Berger, University of Virginia associate professor of chemical and biomedical engineering.
A UVA exercise researcher found that regular exercise may reduce the risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome, a major cause of death in patients with COVID-19.
An exercise research team at the UVA School of Medicine has started an effort to understand the whole-body benefits of exercise so that doctors can use that information to prevent and treat disease.
The Princeton Review recently released its annual law school ranking, covering the best 164 law schools in the country. We’ve focused on one of the 14 rankings categories that we thought people would be the most interested in: The law schools where graduates have the best career prospects. (The UVA School of Law ranked No. 4.)
Dr. Ebony Hilton, associate professor in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Virginia, said that she understands the mistrust of the medical system that exists in the Black community. However, Hilton believes African Americans shouldn’t hesitate to accept an approved coronavirus vaccine.
In a time of constantly unfolding political and public-health crises, the PRX series “LBJ and the Great Society,” hosted by Melody Barnes (professor pf practice at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs), transports us to a world in which an outsized American President and personality drew on his considerable dealmaking skills to bring about progressive structural change.
Gov. Gina Raimondo nominated two women Tuesday to the Rhode Island Supreme Court, including one who, if confirmed, would become not only the first Black justice, but also the first person of color on the state's highest court. Superior Court Judge Melissa Long was nominated to replace Justice Francis X. Flaherty, who announced his retirement in October. Long is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the George Mason University School of Law.
Davis is a renowned scholar in the field of products liability. She graduated from Wake Forest University School of Law, and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia.
“There’s a tension in corporate and government spaces,” said Laura Morgan Roberts of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, whose research focuses on identity in organizations. The racial justice protests this year had catalyzed changes like the Nasdaq proposal, but “to move the needle” on inequality there needed to be corporate and government leadership steeped in the issues, and candidates’ backgrounds do impact policy, she said. “We have to be intentional and proactive to eradicate patterns.”
Steel beams, old-growth pine flooring, and Jazz Age crown moldings lend historic hotels charm. They also cost more to keep up than new construction. “These older buildings could be quite fantastical, complex spaces with towers, murals, indoor pools, and other things that are expensive to maintain,” says Andrew Scott Johnston, professor of architectural history and director of the historic preservation program at the University of Virginia.
Stomach gurgling and flatulence can be unwelcome rewards for having healthfully upped your intake of fruits, vegetables and other high-fiber foods that produce gas in your intestines. These symptoms can also be a sign of lactose intolerance, even if you've never had it before. “We are all much more likely to become lactose intolerant after age 40 because as we get older, there's a marked decrease in the amount of lactase [the enzyme needed to digest the lactose in milk and other dairy products] that's produced in our intestines,” says Dr. Cynthia Yoshida, a professor of gastroenterology at the...
Those income streams can last a long time, another attraction for investors. “Dylan’s copyrights on his work before 1978 expire 95 years after publication,” says Dotan Oliar, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who focuses on intellectual property. So the earliest songs in Dylan’s catalog, from 1962 (“Blowin’ in the Wind,” for example), could produce income until 2057. Copyrights on songs written on or after Jan. 1, 1978, Oliar says, “will expire 70 years after his death.”
The school is a member of the Universities Studying Slavery consortium. Today, about 70 schools have signed on to be a part of this academic collaboration open to those considering or already examining how slavery is woven into their institution's legacy. "It started as a support group," said Kirt von Daacke, a history professor at the University of Virginia, which is one of the original members. "If there's a project trying to launch at a school, you can go to your administration and say, 'Look, here are all these other schools doing it. It's OK.'"
(Commentary by Jeff Bergner, adjunct professor in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) “Return to Normalcy” was a popular political slogan in the 1920s. The world war was an aberration and America would never again become entangled in European wars. The sentiment was understandable. But it was also wrong; in less than two decades America was at war again. One hears a similar sentiment today among our foreign policy elite: Donald Trump was an aberration and it is time to return to “normal” by which is meant the foreign policy outlines of previous decades.
People gathered together virtually Tuesday for the University of Virginia’s 53rd Annual Messiah Sing-In.