A UVA associate nursing professor whose work focuses on intimate partner violence expresses the importance of tending to needs of potential victims during the “stay-at-home” order. A number of police departments report dealing with a spike in domestic violence incidents, and professor Kathryn Laughon wants people to know the Executive Order explicitly states anyone not safe at home can leave when they want or need. Laughon says it’s important to realize abusers thrive on isolating their victim, so it’s important friends and family reach out to each other. She says it’s not that you need to say...
UVA political scholar Larry Sabato noted that it’s odd for Trump – a relatively recent convert to the GOP – to be calling another Republican’s bona fides into question. “I’m always amused when Trump uses the term RINO,” he said. “He wasn’t even a RINO for most of his life since he described himself as a liberal Democrat. Hogan has a long pedigree in the GOP.”
Taison Bell, a professor of medicine at the UVA School of Medicine, said that in places where coronavirus testing is scarce for minority communities there’s been a spike in related ailments. “We see in states that aren’t reporting on racial demographics that there’s been a surge in patients dying from respiratory distress and respiratory failure. These are diseases that [COVID-19] causes but they’re not diagnosed as [COVID-19] because they’re unknown and aren’t tested,” Bell said.
“Effective policymaking is difficult. The ‘hardware’ of policymaking – the tools and structures of government that frame the possibilities for useful work – are obviously important,” writes Philip Zelikow, historian at University of Virginia. “Less obvious is that policy performance in practice often rests more on the ‘software’ of public problem-solving: the way people size up problems, design actions, and implement policy. In other words, the quality of the policymaking.”
According to reports, UVA researchers have developed a new high-temperature, low-cost alloy by combining nickel powder and graphene flakes. This modern metal matrix composite material can maintain integrity at 1000 degrees Celsius and will be widely used in industrial fields.
Michael Pittman created the Twitter account “@WahooBasketball” back in 2010 to retweet UVA news and interact with fans about the Virginia men’s basketball program. When he made the account, he figured it would be a fun way to discuss the Wahoos. The account has turned into something much more personal.
Aramark, UVA’s dining facilities contractor, is offering furloughed employees a free meal that comes ready to eat.
Technology entrepreneur Pete Snyder, and his wife, Burson, kicked off efforts today to provide Virginia-based small businesses with immediate financial assistance to meet payroll, preserve health care coverage for employees and save jobs while they await recently approved federal funding. The Virginia 30 Day Fund approval process is powered by volunteer MBAs from UVA’s Darden School of Business and some of the top business minds from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
(Editorial) That the University of Virginia is a wealthy institution sometimes provokes criticism. But the flip side is that the University is positioned to deploy financial resources to help people economically distressed by the COVID-19 crisis. The University announced this week that it is making available $2 million in aid to contract workers whose companies serve the school, and another $1million to the community at large.
As he approaches what could be the most consequential weeks of his presidency, Trump must fight the virus while holding together warring internal factions that have been a defining characteristic of his administration. “The Trump White House has been marked by chaos from the beginning, but in earlier days, it was mostly benign,” said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. “History will not judge this kindly.”
We spoke with Greg Fairchild, a research professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business and associate dean for Washington, D.C. Area Initiatives, who discussed the impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on the small business community.
Minority groups are also less likely to have health insurance, complicating their ability and willingness to seek treatment for illnesses. “If you look at pretty much any disease process, African Americans have higher rates or poorer outcomes for those diseases,” said Dr. Ebony Hilton-Buchholz, a UVA associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care. “We’re seeing that race literally is an independent risk factor for many of these disease processes. And it’s heightened [under COVID-19].”
UVA and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello announced the winners of the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in architecture, citizen leadership, global innovation and law Thursday. Typically, the medals are awarded on Jefferson’s birthday, April 13, at Monticello, but the foundation said they would be given in absentia this year due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, co-founders of a New York-based architectural design firm named one of North America’s “Emerging Voices” by the Architectural League of New York, are the 2020 recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello will present their highest honors, the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in Architecture, Citizen Leadership, Global Innovation and Law.
Pete Snyder and his wife, Burson, have donated $100,000 in “seed money” to create the nonprofit Virginia 30 Day Fund, which is intended to help businesses meet payroll, preserve health care coverage for workers and avoid layoffs while awaiting the federal aid expected to arrive in about a month. Applications will be evaluated by volunteers with MBAs from UVA’s Darden School of Business, as well as “some of the top business minds from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,” Snyder said.
The University of Virginia announced Monday it is providing $3 million to assist contract employees and local residents left furloughed and financially strapped by state-ordered stay-at-home measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kings rookie and former UVA star Kyle Guy is urging people to follow public health orders after losing a loved one to the coronavirus. Guy shared his grief in a moving tribute to his grandfather Saturday on Instagram.
Central Virginia residents are feeling the economic impact of the novel coronavirus as they follow social distancing guidelines, according to results of a new poll from UVA’s Center for Survey Research.
Many parents prefer independence if they’re still able in body and mind. But there are risks for older people if they’re isolated and social distancing. Dr. Laurie Archbald-Pannone, a geriatrician and professor at the University of Virginia, says it’s important to balance social distancing with self-isolation. “Both are critically important right now,” Archbald-Pannone said.