The CDC is expected to release new guidance for vaccinated people. Dr. Taison Bell, critical care and infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia, cautions on taking that vacation just yet even if fully vaccinated. He says there is still much to learn about the vaccine’s ability to lower the risk of infecting others.
Lesley Lokko’s career has been characterised by her enduring commitment to exploring the links between culture, identity and architecture – an interest that spans several decades in which she has been many, sometimes simultaneous, versions of herself, across three continents. Lokko is currently holding visiting professorship at the University of Virginia.
On Thursday, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) hosted a virtual panel, announcing the reintroduction of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act. The act was named after Dr. Lorna Breen, a physician from Charlottesville, who took her own life after fighting the pandemic head-on in New York last year. Dr. Taison Bell, a physician at the University of Virginia, said the virus’s toll on already marginalized communities is hard to face.
As an off-year gauge of national political trends, the Virginia governor's race is set to take center stage again this year. As Biden did last year, Democrat Terry McAuliffe starts off as the front-runner. McAuliffe "is being opposed by three Black candidates, plus a socialist," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "If that doesn't change by June, it's a set-up for a McAuliffe plurality."
Governor Ralph Northam signed it into law in October, House Bill 5058, which says in part that law-enforcement officers are prohibited from stopping pedestrians for jaywalking or entering a highway where the pedestrian cannot be seen. “This is a very long, overdue recognition of the fact that these laws in every state, including Virginia, were huge in problematic in Virginia,” said Peter Norton, an associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia.
(Written by W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology) Parents crave policies that help them raise their kids, rather than funneling them into day care.
(Co-written by Gerard Robinson, fellow of practice at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) Amid a presidential transition and covid-19 relief efforts, recent legislation has brought about a monumental, generation-defining shift to help incarcerated people successfully reenter society. The federal stimulus package, signed into law in the final days of 2020, eliminates barriers that had prevented incarcerated students from accessing federal financial support for higher education.
After four years of extensive planning, Inova Health System and the University of Virginia School of Medicine this week opened the UVA Inova Campus, welcoming its first class of 36 UVA medical students. An additional 36 students will join the campus next year to complete a full complement of students for two years of clinical training.
Elder Research, a global leader in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence, is teaming up with the Link Lab at the University of Virginia School of Engineering. According to a release, Elder Research will have discussions with UVA computer scientists and engineers who are leading research on new ways to use technology to solve complicated problems.
U.S. and Vietnam have almost “completely aligned” interests over regional security and stability while tensions over human rights and trade and economic relations exist, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel Kritenbrink said during an online talk sponsored by the Miller Center, an affiliate of the University of Virginia.
More colleges are turning to as they try to make their cultures more inclusive for people who find themselves marginalized within academia. Programs for applied theater at institutions including University of Michigan, University of New Hampshire, University of Virginia and Florida International University bring to life higher ed troubles and tensions through original sketches, shows and the occasional musical number.
Virginia’s getting nearly $1 million to study how the pandemic has impacted public school students and teachers. Researchers with the Virginia Department of Education and the University of Virginia will use the federal grant to look at pre-pandemic and post-pandemic trends, like grades, absenteeism and teacher retention.
The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) has received a three-year, $999,912 federal grant to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the public schools in the Commonwealth. Officials say the grant will support researchers from the VDOE and the University of Virginia while they analyze pre- and post-pandemic trends through the 2022-2023 school year involving student absenteeism, grade-level retention, enrollment in advanced courses and career and technical education programs, identification of students with disabilities and English learners, student mobility, and teacher retention...
The University of Virginia School of Law’s library is documenting the history of UVA during the antebellum period with the creation of a new digital archive. The website launched in January and was built by the library staff.
The University of Virginia is weighing options on how to hold graduation events in May amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The school is consulting with the 2021 graduating class about two possible choices: holding commencement events in the spring with only the students, no guests; or postponing a ceremony and other events with family and friends at a future date.
Cornell’s J. Meejin Yoon, B.Arch. ’95, and composer Roberto Sierra have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States in their respective fields, the academy announced March 5. Yoon is co-founding principal of Boston-based Höweler+Yoon Architecture. Her most recent project was the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia.
Keswick Hall first caught Molly Hardie’s eye in 1995, when she attended an event at the sprawling Charlottesville hotel thrown by the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where her now-husband, Robert, was a student.
When local author Julia Claiborne Johnson wanted to start her second novel, she decided she needed an impetus. “What am I going to do to get myself in the mood to write?” she wondered, deciding that “I’m not gonna cut my hair till I’m done!” When she put pen to paper she sported a short bob; when she finished writing three years later, she could practically sit on her mane. The resulting book, “Better Luck Next Time,” is a fictional account of the real Reno divorce camps which flourished in the 1930s and ‘40s. Women of means from across the country would vacation on a western-style ranch while...
India Pinkney is the first Black woman to be general counsel at the National Endowment for the Arts, making her part of a small cohort of women of color in the role at other federal agencies. Though Pinkney pursued Middle East and Foreign Affairs in undergrad, followed by earning a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, as she told us during a Zoom interview, she has also been a creative writer since childhood, using poetry and short stories as a way to help make sense of the world around her.
(Commentary by Jacqueline Skalski-Fouts, undergraduate student) North African pastoralism, an agricultural method used for centuries by nomadic people in the steppe highlands, is on the decline. Facing limited grazing land due to overuse and drought, pastoral nomads are favoring more sedentary farming methods like growing fruit or nut trees and crops.