In a virtual town hall on Monday evening, University of Virginia leaders spoke with community members from Charlottesville and surrounding areas and answered their questions about the upcoming fall semester.  

To start, UVA President Jim Ryan acknowledged the close ties between UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville and regional community, ties that have become even more important during this pandemic.

The University of Virginia’s Racial Equity Task Force today released its report, titled “Audacious Future: Commitment Required,” outlining 12 key initiatives to improve racial equity at UVA.

UVA President Jim Ryan established the task force June 3 amid nationwide demonstrations against racism and police brutality sparked by George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police, a string of other traumatizing cases of police brutality and racism and ongoing discontent with race relations in the country, as well as discussions about UVA’s history of racial inequity.

In a virtual town hall Friday morning, University of Virginia President Jim Ryan and his leadership team answered questions from students, faculty and staff and covered a variety of topics related to the approaching fall semester.

Ryan opened the meeting by thanking students, faculty and staff for their hard work and cooperation thus far, and acknowledging the challenges ahead.

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Words made famous by the late tennis great Arthur Ashe.

But for former University of Virginia football player Ian-Yates Cunningham, they are much more than that.

Cunningham was a second cousin of Ashe, and as a young boy grew up with many of the values that the pioneering tennis great championed.

Right at the heart of everything is the well-known quote.

This summer, University of Virginia student leaders have been working hard to create a safe and welcoming environment as the University prepares to begin the fall semester amid a global pandemic.

A video, released this week, is one piece of a new student-to-student message campaign with the hashtag “#YOUva,” designed to urge everyone to take seriously their personal responsibility to keep Grounds safe while also enjoying the fall semester.

The socioeconomic gap between Black Americans and non-Black Americans hasn’t changed considerably in a half-century, fueling assertions that many social institutions disproportionately exclude Blacks and are structurally racist, Hamilton Lombard said.

Lombard, a researcher at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, recently explored why the income gap between Black Virginians and other Virginians exists. In a new report, he examines a wide range of factors, including education.

UVA Today caught up with Lombard to hear about his findings.

Dr. Jeffrey Young just spent a week of his summer in California, but he wasn’t on vacation.

Young, a University of Virginia alumnus and a trauma surgeon at UVA Health, traveled there with a team of medical professionals organized through the National Disaster Medical Service Trauma Critical Care Team to help treat COVID-19 patients at overflowing hospitals.

Young and his team spent eight days at El Centro Regional Hospital in Imperial County treating patients and running an exceptionally overwhelmed intensive care unit. The team had its work cut out for it.

Undergraduate students at the University of Virginia have a big decision to make in the coming days: to stay at their current residence and take courses online or opt for in-person instruction on Grounds.

Either way, this fall semester promises to be quite different from more typical UVA academic semesters.

The South, the U.S. region with the most HIV infections each year, also has the greatest barriers to obtaining drugs that can prevent the disease for people who rely on Affordable Care Act insurance plans, research reveals.