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UVA is requiring all faculty and staff to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination by Friday, July 23. Those who aren’t vaccinated will have to wear masks at all times and be tested for the coronavirus on a weekly basis via PCR saliva testing.
The University of Virginia is reminding faculty and staff members of its Academic Division to report their COVID-19 vaccination status. They have until July 23 to submit their report if they have not already done so.
J. Miles Coleman, New Orleans native and associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA: “Was he perfect? Hell no. But I’ve said for years that you just don’t get governors like him in other states. He’s helped me explain that, even though we’re a ‘safe’ state most of the time, Louisiana politics is hardly boring.”
(Audio) The WDET Book Club is reading the U.S. Constitution this summer to understand how it still shapes our lives today, more than two centuries after its inception. Professors Kim Forde-Mazuri (UVA) and Michele Gilman discuss the idea of equality in the Constitution from a modern-day perspective, and how there is still a long way to go until all Americans are truly equal.
(Commentary) Top school: Virginia’s three ACC titles were less than half of Duke’s seven, and the Cavaliers finished south of North Carolina in the Directors’ Cup. But among ACC programs, only UVA earned multiple national championships (men’s lacrosse and women’s swimming).
Lifelong horseman, accomplished owner/breeder, and Eclipse Award leading owner of 1980 Bertram Robert Firestone died July 12 in West Palm Beach, Fla., following a rapid deterioration of his health in the past week, according to his family. Firestone would have turned 90 next month. Firestone's association with horses started in the show ring. He attended the New York Military Academy where he was on the jumping team and also attended the University of Virginia.
Kevin Wong and Sean Ro have been friends for over a decade. After graduating from UVA, the two moved to NYC where Wong started a career in finance before moving into tech startups, and Ro worked as a UX designer. The roommates eventually started homebrewing in their shared studio apartment. By 2019, they also shared Lunar, the hard seltzer brand Ro and Wong co-founded after realizing the American beverage industry lacked a product that captured their upbringing as Asian Americans.
“I think the only reason we’re here is because affluent families made a big fuss, rightfully so,” said Lucy Montalvo, a mother of a rising kindergartner and a former fifth-grade teacher, at the group’s June 17 meeting. “... I’m glad that we did get to this point because now we can talk for all families, but not all families are represented here. There’s a lack of Black families in this group, as well, so they don’t get to voice their opinions, either.” Montalvo, who works at the University of Virginia’s Equity Center, said in an interview that there wasn’t a similar outcry when the division wa...
Dr. Scott Bender, of the University of Virginia, raised doubts about the psychological tests utilized by the defense experts to arrive at their diagnoses of delusional disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and autism spectrum disorder. He said some of the tests lacked reliability checks, failed to differentiate between similar diagnoses or neglected to take into account the context of his pending trial.
Dr. Scott Bender, another psychological evaluator who also teaches clinical psychology at the University of Virginia, testified to the allegedly incomplete picture left by mental health experts called by Ramos' defense team.
Dr. William Petri, a UVA professor of medicine who is engaged in research on COVID vaccines as well as the virus’ effects on the immune system, suggested that, given the gender-specific nature of most of the adverse effects reported, recommending different vaccines to men and women in the affected age groups might be a wise approach. “These two side effects can be avoided if women do not receive the J&J and Astrazeneca vaccines and men do not receive the mRNA vaccines. By way of contrast, one in 500 Americans has died from COVID-19,” he said.
(Editorial) It’s election season in Virginia, where Republicans have been hemorrhaging support for more than a decade but have a shot at winning the governorship in November. What’s the state GOP up to? Tattling to the University of Virginia about a liberal professor’s anti-Donald Trump tweets.
(Podcast) Last week, the country of Haiti was rocked by the assassination of its controversial president, Jovenel Moïse – yet another shock for a Haitian political system that was already in a state of crisis. Some are calling for foreign intervention, a controversial proposal with which Haiti has a long and difficult history. To discuss these developments, Scott R. Anderson sat down with UVA professor Robert Fatton Jr., a native of Haiti and a widely published expert on Haitian politics.
Time after time, both policy roads — disorder through foreign inaction, or risky foreign intervention — though seemingly distinct, have led to the same destination for Haiti: an eroding political and economic order that many Haitians consider unbearable. “The state has literally almost completely vanished,” said Robert Fatton, a Haitian-born political scientist at the University of Virginia. “And to some extent this is because of the pattern of assistance that was given to Haiti.”
Statues weren’t the only symbols of white supremacy in Charlottesville. Jalane Schmidt, a UVA professor of race and religion, thinks a lot about this in her work. She is the director of the Memory Project at UVA, which aims to promote research, develop curricula and programming and create opportunities for public engagement to address issues of public memory, memory conflict and memory politics in the wake of the white supremacist violence that came to Charlottesville in August 2017.
(Subscription required) As sea levels rise, salt water pushes in from the ocean and permeates the ground, a process called saltwater intrusion. This process can cause the ground to shift, which can imperil the structural integrity of a high-rise building. Salt water also can deteriorate foundations not built to withstand it. That seawater slowly soaks into the concrete, bringing with it chloride ions that penetrate into reinforced steel bars inside. The steel corrodes and expands, effectively breaking the concrete from the inside out, said John Scully, a corrosion specialist at the University ...
Andrew Abbott became the first UVA baseball player to be selected in the 2021 MLB Draft on Monday. Later in the day, three of his teammates, including two more pitchers, also were drafted. Abbott was selected in the second round by the Cincinnati Reds, who picked him with the No. 53 overall pick. Pitchers Griff McGarry and Mike Vasil also were drafted Monday. Junior third baseman Zack Gelof moved closer to realizing his professional dreams as well, hearing his name called with the 60th overall pick.
That stagnation in federal spending contributed to the largest out-migration of residents Virginia has seen since the 1920s, with more residents leaving for other Southern states than coming in from the Northeast, according to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
COVID-19 cases are rising in Prince William County and across the state this week, likely because of the more contagious Delta variant, which is “likely dominant in Virginia or will be soon,” according to UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute.