Tuesday night's announcement about UVA canceling final exercises as planned is affecting local businesses, particularly in the hospitality industry. Local hotels are seeing cancellations for May, but the problems are coming sooner than graduation.
Among other things, U.S. News’ data shows that the average salaries and sign-on bonuses of Harvard MBAs last year of $164,872 trailed six other rivals: Wharton ($172,016), NYU Stern ($168,291), Stanford ($168,226), Dartmouth Tuck ($166,251), Virginia Darden ($165,292), and Columbia Business School ($164,945). That data point is a standard measure of the market worth of a school’s MBAs, even though it is also influenced by industry choice and geography.
UVA has announced that the default grading system for all undergraduate classes this semester will be credit/no credit. Students will have the option to get a letter grade if they want for any undergraduate classes that have not yet completed their work.
A second employee with the University of Virginia has tested positive for COVID-19. UVA made the announcement in a tweet sent out a little after 3 p.m. Wednesday.
The University of Virginia announced Tuesday night that its 2020 graduation was canceled as currently planned. Jim Ryan, UVA’s president, made an additional statement Wednesday to clarify that a graduation ceremony could still occur at a later date. For a few of Virginia's athletes, this May’s graduation ceremony would’ve been the second time walking across a graduation stage.
(Commentary by Ashley Deeks, E. James Kelly, Jr.-Class of 1965 Research Professor of Law) Companies working for the U.S. military invented duct tape. And Silly Putty. And undershirts. Military necessity drove these and other technological advances, which were tailored to the enemies the military was fighting and the nature of conflict at the time. The endless war against al-Qaeda and its associates has similarly fostered a range of technological inventions or advancements, driven by the nature of the foes America has been fighting for two decades.
An expert at UVA’s Center for Politics says the coronavirus may impact the presidential election in ways this country has never seen.
As Virginia faces a shortage of respirator masks, the UVA Medical Center has recommended its staff use ear-loop masks to in order to conserve respirators.
The UVA Athletic Department officially cancelled all spring sports and activities on Tuesday. UVA had suspended all athletics activities March 12 due to the spread of COVID-19, but in accordance with the Atlantic Coast Conference’s announcement, everything has now officially been cancelled.
Each variable is being evaluated further by a working group that will build consensus about how to define and measure them those factors, said Bart Epstein, the president and CEO of the Jefferson Education Exchange, which is leading the project. JEX is a nonprofit affiliated with UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development.
At Tufts University in Massachusetts and the University of Virginia, mutual aid Facebook pages have been set up, so students and community members can help each other with money, housing, frequent flyer miles or anything else they need. Isabella Liu, a 19-year-old Student Council member at UVA, runs her school’s page, which is called Hoos Helping Hoos. She told NPR that in the first 48 hours, they raised $3,700 of aid and fielded $4,500 worth of requests.
The University of Virginia is not going to hold Final Exercises this spring. Instead, a team is currently working on coming up with alternatives to mark the occasion, and updates on that will be provided as they come out.
The University of Richmond is postponing its commencement ceremony, and the University of Virginia said late Tuesday that its Final Exercises have been canceled “as currently planned.” UVA also announced that online classes will remain in place for the rest of the semester – and that “all events on Grounds are canceled, no matter the size, until at least May 15.”
In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Virginia on Tuesday night announced that all classes will be held online for the remainder of the academic year and Final Exercises are canceled.
UVA President Jim Ryan announced on Tuesday that classes will remain online for the rest of the semester and that Final Exercises will not proceed as planned. Ryan also says all events on UVA grounds, no matter the size, are canceled until at least May 15.
Tuesday was St. Patrick's Day, and normally it's a very different scene on the Corner at UVA than what was seen this year. UVA students were heeding Gov. Ralph Northam's order to limit crowds at bars and restaurants, even on what would normally be a busy night.
The University of Virginia will keep classes online through the rest of the spring semester. It has also canceled Final Exercises, the University's series of commencement events. It said it would seek out alternatives for graduating students.
For the first time, the editors of the Cavalier Daily – UVA’s student newspaper – were having to plan out their issue via webcam. Just a few days ago, this week’s print edition was going to be a special issue on March Madness. Now, suddenly, it had turned into a special issue on a global pandemic.
A UVA research team says it might have found a new way to detect COVID-19. Dr. Ben Orsburn’s team is using a device nearly every lab in the world has on hand, and could potentially diagnose patients within hours of them becoming infected.
“The upticks in activity in some regions may be related to COVID-19 infections as they would be captured by the same surveillance systems as influenza,” Dr. Bryan Lewis, a professor at the Biocomplexity Institute, told AccuWeather. “As we are starting to see, this pandemic has the capability of causing significant morbidity and mortality.”