(Commentary co-written by law professor Deborah Hellman) With over 13 million coronavirus cases in the country and another surge on the way, overburdened health care systems could soon face difficult decisions about who has access to lifesaving care.
Norfolk Councilwoman Andria McClellan is officially running for Virginia lieutenant governor in 2021. McClellan, a Democrat, is a Hampton Roads native and University of Virginia graduate.
There’s no doubt that the pandemic has brought months of isolation for many, including 82-year-old Dr. Daryl Dance. Dance studied English at Virginia State University and the University of Virginia before becoming a professor of English at the University of Richmond and VCU. So, it’s no surprise that Dance turned to what she knew best during this pandemic – writing. In 11 months, she has written and published four books.
The team includes UVA alumna Kate Bedingfield, President-elect Biden’s communications director.
“The reality is there’s going to be a lot of solar going in — like, a lot,” said Jonah Fogel, a program manager with the University of Virginia’s Environmental Resilience Institute who has studied the overlap between the state’s renewables goals and local land use concerns. “For the average person driving down the roads, they’re going to be seeing energy in their life in a way that hasn’t happened before.”
Shifting toward renewable energy sources is in Dominion’s interest because its retail electricity sales have been flat and non-data center commercial facilities are seeing demand decrease, according to Prof. Bill Shobe of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
A further spike in the coronavirus may be on the way due to the Thanksgiving holiday. "Unfortunately I think that's what we all expect, that there will be a surge on top of the surge because of Thanksgiving and getting together," said Dr. Bill Petri, professor of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary by Jennie S. Knight, vice provost for faculty development) At this time of racial reckoning, when many white Americans are waking up to the realities of racial injustice and inequities in the United States, faculty members are no exception. The University of Virginia and the city of Charlottesville were pushed to reckon systematically with local and national histories of racism and contemporary racial inequities in the summer of 2017, when white supremacists attacked both the campus and the city, leaving Heather Heyer murdered, dozens of people injured and thousands in our communit...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will be providing 1,000 free, self-administered COVID-19 tests this weekend. The department is partnering up with UVA Health and the Blue Ridge Health District to offer the tests between noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, December 5, and Sunday, Dec. 6. Tests will be available in the back parking lot at Albemarle High School on Hydraulic Road. You must arrive in a vehicle to receive a test. Pre-registration is required.
The day Sue Donovan, the conservator for special collections at the University of Virginia, watched Albemarle County unearth its Confederate time capsule from beneath the ‘Johnny Reb’ statue in Court Square, she knew the contents would be damaged. “But I wasn’t prepared for the extent of the damage to the paper-based items,” she said.
Predicting patient outcomes to improve care is the goal of a project created by a team of UVA Health data scientists, and now they’re competing for a $1 million prize. Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched a health outcome challenge for scientists across the country to create a patient prediction plan in order to better their outcomes. Scientists with the University of Virginia are one of seven finalists for their artificial intelligence model that they created.
17. Seven Society: The Seven Society at the University of Virginia is cloaked in secrecy. Members’ identities aren’t revealed until after their death, when a wreath of black magnolias shaped like a “7” is put at the deceased’s grave. Despite the mystery, members are known for their gifts to the university. The society hands out an annual award of $7,000 to teaching assistants and it established a student loan program in the 1990s.
UVA students who remain in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County region must be tested for COVID-19 by the University every week. UVA spokesperson Brian Coy says this is just one of the ways the University is attempting to prevent the spread of the virus.
The University of Virginia is more than halfway through the annual Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, Virginia’s largest workplace giving drive. The Haven and the United Way of Greater Charlottesville say the campaign plays a critical role.
A UVA team is one of seven finalists in a national competition focused on improving health care with help from artificial intelligence.
(Commentary by Lucy Bassett, professor at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and co-director of the Humanitarian Collaborative) Over the past four years of the Trump administration, thousands of migrant children were separated from their parents, stuck in squalid tent camps on our southern border, and made victims of violence, trafficking and exploitation during their journey and in U.S. custody. These traumatic experiences inflicted grievous psychological damage that can have lifelong consequences.
(Editorial) The partnership center and its West Main headquarters ultimately are the product of UVA President Jim Ryan’s long-term goal of improving University-community relations and addressing real-life social and economic problems. Establishment of the Center for Community Partnerships is a major milestone in that effort. It is tangible evidence that the University is serious about local partnerships.
For Chris Farley it was “mission” accomplished yet again. For the 22nd straight year, the 1998 UVA graduate ran a 26-mile marathon in fewer than 3 hours. Farley’s most recent achievement came Nov. 15 at the Upstate Classic Marathon in Guilderland, N.Y., near Albany, finishing the race in 2:55.19.
Jonathan Gordon sometimes wishes his college buddies would talk about more serious topics. The group of four men, who all met on their freshman floor at the University of Virginia and are now in their 30s, have all been groomsmen in each other’s weddings. They have gone on international trips together. They all consider the other men in the group their closest friends. So why don’t they ever actually talk about their feelings?
Due to a series of mini-strokes starting in 2012, Harrison Ruffin Tyler lives almost without time. It would be quite a change for anyone, but it’s particularly so for someone like him, who grew up steeped in family history. Harrison was raised in his grandfather’s hunting lodge; his grandfather — John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States — was born in 1790.