“The public art that we had for so many years in our in our parks did not embrace inclusive, democratic values,” Jalane Schmidt with the Memory Project at the University of Virginia said. Schmidt says this is now a starting-over process. Step one of that is hearing the values of the community.
The journey to reinvent Charlottesville’s statue of Robert E. Lee has begun. The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center kicked off the process at a community engagement session Saturday, held at the museum. Center Director Andrea Douglas and Jalane Schmidt, director of the Memory Project at the University of Virginia, led a presentation about memorials in public spaces prior to asking participants to split into small groups to brainstorm. Schmidt asked participants to think about what public spaces makes people feel comfortable, what makes a public space inviting and how a public sp...
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School of Business) Since the onset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, investors have been fixated on the impact of the conflict on global economies and markets. In the near-medium term, the outcome will mainly hinge on the duration of the conflict and the magnitude of energy price increases, as Europe is heavily dependent on Russia for natural gas and coal.
(Commentary co-written by DJ Nordquist, a fellow at the Darden School of Business) Last year, the International Monetary Fund celebrated the largest allocation of special drawing rights in its history. This extraordinary act of money creation was equivalent to approximately $650 billion and provided all IMF members with additional access to hard currency.
(Commentary by By S. Deborah Kang, associate professor of history and member of the Democracy Initiative) Granting just temporary protected status to Ukrainians risks repeating a mistake from the 1930s.
(By Dr. William Petri, professor of medicine) In December 2021, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidelines for how long people should isolate following a COVID-19 infection. The agency shortened the isolation from 10 days to five, followed by five days of wearing a mask for those no longer symptomatic. The change came during the height of the omicron variant’s surge and related staffing shortages at hospitals, schools and businesses. Some critics suspected that the move was more practically motivated than science-based to allow workers, especially health care an...
The Outstanding College/Corporate Partnership award honors local, regional, and national collaboration between a college and a corporation that has achieved demonstrable, multi-year success in advancing the college’s mission. It also needs to help economic prosperity in the community, region or nation, and improve the learning excellence of students. In this category, PVCC highlights its partnership with UVA Health and work to address the shortage of nurses.
COVID-19 cases are on the decline in the greater-Charlottesville area, and hospitalizations are down at the University of Virginia Medical Center. However, there are many lingering questions about what this may mean as places drop mask requirements. Some of those questions concern if spring is going to be different than last spring in terms of case numbers now that more of the population is vaccinated against the virus. “I think we can anticipate that the spring and summer, COVID’s going to be much less of an issue for us on a day-to-day basis, but we should anticipate that it could come back,...
As the weather begins to warm, doctors at the University of Virginia Health System remain hopeful that COVID-19 case counts will continue to decline. Experts say the country is in a much better place than it was last spring, even Charlottesville and Albemarle County even though the transmission levels locally remain high. However, Dr. Costi Sifri says there is a counter-balancing issue. As society returns to a more normal level of functioning and people take off masks indoors, the risk of transmission will remain.
UVA Health is lit up in support of Ukraine this weekend. The upper floors of the South Town of the hospital are lit up in blue and yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
The drug ivermectin remains a flashpoint in the debate over the treatment of Covid-19. Labeled merely as a “horse de-wormer” by the Food and Drug Administration, the medication was once called a “wonder drug” and its developers won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015. In spite of the FDA’s apparent campaign against ivermectin, the remedy is now the subject of a national trial which includes research being done at the University of Virginia to find out how effective the “controversial” drug is against early stages of COVID-19.
(Commentary) In a study by the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project, researchers concluded: “The intact, biological, married family remains the gold standard for family life in the United States.” Children from cohabitating homes, they found, are far less likely to thrive socially, educationally, and psychologically than children who lived with their married biological parents. Additionally, the transitions required of a child because of cohabitation, divorce, and single parenthood “are linked to higher reports of school failure, behavioral problems, drug use, and loneliness.” Th...
Some hospitals have done a better job than others at mitigating the burnout that’s come with the two years of surging workloads. Those hospitals that have taken the time and expense to prevent burnout likely saved money, according to Jane Muir, a nurse researcher from the University of Virginia. For her doctoral research, she did an economic analysis of the costs of burnout to hospitals.
Economists found that legal, medical marijuana access has been linked to increased opioid-related deaths in a new study, contrary to earlier findings. Medical marijuana legalization was linked to 15% to 29% higher rates of opioid-involved fatalities from 1999 to 2019, two economists from the University of Virginia concluded in a new paper circulated in early March by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Scientists are celebrating positive results from an immunotherapy study, which showed success in making malignant tumors in mice disappear within a week. The startling findings were made by a group of scientists at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. The group collaborated with researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia community is working on non-violent crisis interventions. The University Networks of Care project at UVA has a goal to phase police out of non-violent crisis intervention calls, such as mental health and intoxicated personal crises. Members of the UVA Student Council and leaders at the Black Student Alliance explain how this works.
In this four-day, in-person program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, leaders learn how to use data analytics to inform key business decision making. The program is focused on forecasting, data visualization, and learning how to use data to enhance a company’s competitive advantage.
The world is on high alert following threats Russia has made towards using nuclear weapons as a result of its military invasion of Ukraine. “The risk of nuclear escalation is very small,” University of Virginia Professor of Politics Todd Sechser said Friday. Sechser says just because the risk is low right now, doesn’t mean it will remain that way.
A building at the University of Virginia is being renamed in honor of a Navy veteran and former U.S. senator. On Thursday, the UVA Board of Visitors Buildings and Grounds Committee approved a motion to rename Maury Hall in honor of John W. Warner.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was in Charlottesville on Friday on the Grounds of the University of Virginia. He addressed students of The Federalist Society, a conservative law organization, and had choice words for some key institutions.