(Commentary) “New Money” examines money as a form of social media. Its author, Lana Swartz, isn’t an economist; she teaches media studies at the University of Virginia. There is a lot of specialized jargon here. But among all the academese are interesting histories of different nonstate payment systems and a glimpse into the networks that make the parts work, all presented upon an analytical foundation positioning money as an inherently communicative development.
(Video and transcript) UVA professor Grace Elizabeth Hale looked at the Cold War era and its influence on popular culture. The Georgia Historical Society and UVA Club of Savannah co-hosted the event and provided the video.
In this year of polarization and racial tension, Elizabeth Varon’s “Armies of Deliverance” shows how Northern leaders in 1861 didn’t believe that the United States was deeply polarized. They thought wealthy plantation owners were not only bossing slaves, but bossing poor whites as well, and the Civil War would be “a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination.”
Lee Ann Johnson, a nurse scientist and assistant professor at the UVA School of Nursing, is continuing her research on lung cancer and the stigma surrounding the diagnosis. Johnson says her research is inspired by her mom’s diagnosis in 2007.
The Milky Way has enjoyed a relatively quiet history in recent eons, but newcomers continue to stream in. Stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere can spot with the naked eye a pair of dwarf galaxies called the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Astronomers long believed the pair to be our steadfast orbiting companions, like moons of the Milky Way. Then a series of Hubble Space Telescope observations between 2006 and 2013 found that they were more like incoming meteorites. UVA astronomer Nitya Kallivayalil clocked the clouds as coming in hot at about 330 kilometers per second – nearly twice as fa...
It’s a tale of mice and mankind, of birth and breath and it could eventually lead to important research on breathing disorders including sudden infant death syndrome. The story is of infant lungs yet to be used suddenly inflating and changing pressure in the heart to alter blood circulation and stimulate the closing of holes between the left and right atria and pushing the baby, which heretofore lived off its mother, to live on its own. And it all begins with a breath.
America’s diversity has grown significantly over the last 30 years. Three faculty members from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service released research on America’s growing diversity.
Next year, the census bureau will release new numbers for the nation, documenting, among other things, the racial makeup of the United States. But UVA experts say there’s one big problem – the way the census counts multi-racial people.
UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute has launched a national COVID-19 Medical Resource Demand Dashboard that can project weekly COVID-19 hospitalization rates and the percentage of occupied hospital beds up to six weeks in advance.
Despite warnings from health officials, millions of people traveled for the holidays. Researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute say what happens next will be critical, with a wide range of possibilities in the model they curate for the Virginia Department of Health.
Even with two COVID-19 vaccines now approved for emergency use, UVA researchers are still working hard to find new treatments for the virus. Dr. Linda Duska, associate dean for clinical research at the School of Medicine, and other medical experts have coordinated a full-scale approach to finding COVID-19 therapies as safely as possible through several clinical trials.
(Commentary) UVA’s latest analysis of statewide data reveals that the post-Thanksgiving surge is likely to push the projected peak in weekly cases to 98,000 during the first week in February. That’s 13 times higher than this past summer’s peak of 7,550 cases. If this happens, we’ll no longer be talking about a “third wave” of COVID-19; we’ll be facing a tsunami of infections that will overwhelm our state’s hospitals and cause misery and grief throughout the commonwealth.
(Editorial) On Oct. 21, UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute projected 8,394 new COVID-19 cases in the state for the week ending Nov. 22. This predicted surge, about 1,400 new cases a day, seemed excessive at the time. After all, at the summer’s peak, the virus was infecting a few more than 1,000 a day. Today, 1,400 new cases would seem like a very good day indeed.
(Editorial) The consequences of not following COVID-19 precautions are reflected in a new model released this past Friday by UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute. Its projections foretell an even tougher test into the new year.
There’s now a way to track the risk of contracting COVID-19 based on where you are and how many people you’re around. A group of UVA data scientists are launching a new app that shows you the likelihood that someone at an event is unknowingly contagious with COVID-19.
A report released Dec. 18 on a University of Virginia COVID-19 model said the post-Thanksgiving surge led to a substantial spike in virus projections. The new estimated peak, according to the model, would occur the week of Feb. 8 with 14,000 new cases per day – nearly 14 times the summer’s peak of 1,079 daily cases and almost four times the current average of 3,564 new cases per day.
Now nasal swab tests are coming back consistently above 10% in Virginia communities, indicating the virus is becoming so prevalent, some cases are probably being missed, according to an analysis by UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute on Dec. 25.
George Will recommends ‘The Living Presidency,’ by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash. “Prakash, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, argues that the public would be less susceptible to extravagant expectations, and presidents would be more successful because they would be less vulnerable to the public’s disappointments, if a president would reverse the ‘creeping constitutional coup’ that has subverted the idea of ‘an executive subject to the Constitution and the law.’”
(Commentary) A recent report from the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Virginia describes how Los Pinares filed accusations against a total of 32 individuals after communities set up a peaceful encampment to protect their water from the company’s mining project, which lasted 87 days in 2018. Violence carried out at this time by security guards hired by the mine in collaboration with armed agents from the local municipality who are also linked to the company and that led to the injury of one of the protesters has never been investigated.
November marked the launch of Management and Business Review, a new journal that aims to bridge management practice, education and research. MBR will emphasize academic research conducted in real organizational settings and tied to concrete management practices. MBR is sponsored by 11 business schools, including UVA’s Darden School of Business.