The University of Virginia reported a slight uptick in the number of active COVID-19 cases on Thursday. According to the UVA COVID Tracker, there were five new cases of the virus reported on Wednesday, all but one of which were students. The number of active cases among students, faculty, staff and contract employees sits at 54, up from 50 on Tuesday.
The University of Virginia announced Thursday it is relaxing some of the toughest COVID-19 restrictions it placed on its students following a surge in cases in February.
March 11, 2020 was a day filled with cautious optimism for the University of Virginia's student-athletes. The date turned out to be the last day of athletic competition for six months, but it started with hope and excitement.
Virginia’s ACC tournament championship aspirations were dashed – and the Cavaliers’ NCAA tourney hopes put in jeopardy – after the conference announced a positive COVID test within the program Friday.
The University of Virginia’s men’s basketball team, the 2019 national champion, pulled out of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament on Friday after someone inside the program tested positive for the coronavirus. Virginia’s withdrawal was the second in 24 hours for the conference tournament — Duke dropped out on Thursday — because of the virus. And it immediately put into some doubt whether Virginia (18-6) will be able to compete in the N.C.A.A. tournament, which is scheduled to begin next week.
(Commentary by Dr. Amy Mathers, infectious disease physician at UVA Health and associate director of clinical microbiology, and Lisa Colosi-Peterson, associate professor of engineering systems and environment) When we first began welcoming students back last fall, none of us really knew what to expect – nor could we anticipate what additional obstacles might remain ahead. But one thing we all learned is how critical flexibility, collaboration, creativity and out-of-the-box solutions are when trying to manage multilayered safety risks. Here in Charlottesville, we took to the sewers. Literally.
A story “about today. That started yesterday. And impacts tomorrow.” That’s how UVA’s Religion, Race & Democracy Lab introduces its new “God $ Green: An Unholy Alliance” 19-minute, publicly available, “eye-popping” video. The video addresses decades of what it calls “religious polarization, political propaganda, corporate deal-making, and environmental injustice based on systemic racism.”
The past 12 months have tested local health systems in ways they had never before been tested. With limited knowledge – and sometimes limited resources – hospitals accommodated an influx of patients suffering the new disease.
Two University of Virginia graduates are creating inclusive practices in the workplace. They say the country’s reckoning with racial justice in 2020 sparked their decision to start PIP! The company leads diversity, equity, and inclusion training.
Florida's overall population has grown steadily for decades, but over the past 20 years, the state has also seen large numbers of people depart each year, with many returning to their home states, said Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia. “A lot of people go down there and realize that they don't like hurricanes,” said Mr. Lombard.
“I think gamers are going to have to really start making some hard choices,” said Anthony Palomba, media researcher and assistant professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, in a phone interview with Lifewire. “Google Stadia has really forced, I think, Microsoft and Sony to start thinking about being platform-agnostic, not having a console. If I can't get excited about the hardware, then I think it becomes a conversation about intellectual property.”
Dr. Cynthia Yoshida, a gastroenterologist and the medical director of the UVA Cancer Center’s Colorectal Cancer Screening Program, received the 2021 80% in Every Community National Achievement Award from the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable.
Gregg Nome told a support group in 1985 he almost died after being trapped beneath a waterfall. His near-death experience was shared by Dr Bruce Greyson, professor emeritus in psychiatry at the University of Virginia, in an interview on Sunday.
Reaching herd immunity will require kids to be vaccinated, too, noted Vivian Riefberg, professor of practice at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. At this point, with studies still underway, adolescents might be eligible for vaccination sometime in the spring or early summer, and younger children this fall or even later.
Congress invented reconciliation in 1974 to reduce budget deficits, but more recently lawmakers have used the process to get around the usual 60-vote requirement for major legislation. For example, Republicans used the process in 2001, 2003 and 2017 to pass tax cuts, all of which actually increased the deficit, explains Raymond Scheppach, a public policy professor at University of Virginia.
A University of Virginia Health physician is blasting the state COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Dr. Ebony Hilton says when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines, Black and brown communities are being denied access due to the phase’s rollout structure put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Virginia Department of Health.
For one health care system, the pandemic went so far as to prompt a major change of direction in the middle of a construction project. When the University of Virginia Medical Center began the design of its University Hospital Expansion, the plan called for expanding its emergency department and surgical suite and adding a six-story inpatient tower.
A new brain sensing tool developed by scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is allowing researchers to observe inter-brain communications in great detail for the first time ever. Consequently, this new technology is providing answers to Alzheimer’s questions that have puzzled scientists and doctors for decades.
A few new cases of COVID-19 were reported at the University of Virginia on Tuesday, but the number of active cases overall continues to decline. According to the UVA COVID Tracker, there were seven new cases reported on Tuesday and all but one were students. Among the students, faculty, staff and contract employees, there are currently 50 active cases of the virus.
On March 10, 2020, fans of the Virginia Festival of the Book learned that the COVID-19 pandemic had closed the book on that year’s gathering. A year of creative thinking and experimentation later, the 27th annual festival will be presented in an all-virtual format from Saturday through March 26 that promises to be one for the books.