Barbara Hunt Jones, 77, died March 30. She enjoyed a long career with the University of Virginia, first at the Architecture School and then with the Institute for Environmental Negotiation.
“There’s a shift in communication to togetherness, community, a spirit of union,” said Kimberly Whitler, assistant professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business. “What I find interesting are the direct company-to-consumer communications. What they are saying is shifting, and there’s a shift in who is saying it. More and more you’re seeing letters directly from CEOs to consumers – which is not typical – in email, or videos of CEOs talking to consumers.”
“The person comes in. They’re complaining of chest pain. They’re complaining of shortness of breath. They have a cough. I can’t quantify that,” said Ebony Hilton, an anesthesiologist at the UVA Medical Center. She’s also been raising concerns, for example, about the way drive-through testing has expanded. She notes that requires having a car. Hilton says the country can’t afford to overlook race, even during a swiftly moving pandemic.
(Commentary) Per Dr. Taison Bell, an expert in internal medicine, infectious diseases and critical care at UVA Health, the flu and the COVID-19 virus travel in the same method. An infected person sneezes or coughs or in some other way deposits the virus on a surface, usually in a wet droplet of some sort. Then another person happens along and touches the virus-packed wet spot.
In her new book, “Cool Town,” Grace Elizabeth Hale, a professor of history and American studies at the University of Virginia, describes how Athens found itself at Generation X’s artistic vanguard, birthing the glorious notes-on-camp party band the B-52’s, the jangly art-rock juggernaut R.E.M., and scores of other provocative and influential groups – along the way becoming “the model,” as Hale argues, “for the small, deeply local bohemias that together formed ’80s indie culture.”
Trump is certainly using the coronavirus briefings to advance his own re-election cause, said Larry Sabato o UVA’s Center for Politics. “The pandemic is a black hole – everything has to relate to it to get TV time, and Trump is aware of this,” he said. “He thinks that putting himself in this position, in the homes of Americans every day, will produce a rally-around-the-flag effect because he’ll be at the center of this ongoing pandemic.”
(Commentary by Cristina Lopez-Gottardi, assistant professor and research director for the Public and Policy Program at UVA’s Miller Center, and Raul O. Chao, associate professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business) The past few years have been difficult for Latin America, with stagnant economic growth, rising citizen dissatisfaction and ineffective governance. In more recent days, as the threat of COVID-19 infections move around the globe, there is growing alarm that Latin America’s existing troubles could combine to produce an untenable health and political catastrophe in t...
(Commentary by Raymond Scheppach, professor of public policy) Federal government officials are on television almost every day responding to the coronavirus pandemic. But it’s the nation’s governors who are taking aggressive action in the states.
The UVA Medical Center is set to open a new tower of the hospital early to boost capacity amidst the coronavirus pandemic. UVA Health will bring additional beds into the hospital expansion tower over the next six to eight weeks to provide additional resources if needed, according to a UVA Health spokesperson.
UVA School of Data Science researchers who created a pandemic modeling system for the federal Defense Threat Reduction Agency have also been working with the state government to produce a Virginia-specific model that will present the most accurate projection for what we can expect in the commonwealth, State Health Commissioner Dr. M. Norman Oliver said during the briefing.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Norm Oliver said while there are many different models out there, the administration is working with the University of Virginia’s Data Science Institute to craft one that is tailored to Virginia.
Wes Hester, a spokesman for the University of Virginia, said the default grading system for undergraduate schools and most graduate schools where work this semester isn’t done is credit or no credit. He added that students, like at other Virginia colleges, will have the option to receive a letter grade. “We are currently developing a way for students to make that selection in the Student Information System and we’ll be providing details to students directly within the next week,” Hester said.
Admissions officers are getting creative – they’re doing virtual tours and allowing prospective students to tune into the online learning experiences they’re offering. The University of Virginia actually had all of its campus tour guides make TikToks.
David Foster, a former two-term member of the Arlington School Board and former member and president of the Virginia Board of Education, will be honored with the 2020 Chairman’s Award by UVA’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.
(Commentary by Aniko Bodroghkozy, professor of media studies) Over the past few weeks, the coronavirus has turned the country’s cultural spigot off, with sports suspended, museums closed and movies postponed. But the virus hasn’t stopped Bob Dylan, who on March 26 released “Murder Most Foul,” a 17-minute long song about the Kennedy assassination. Many have pondered the timing.
Several floors within the new, gleaming, six-story tower at the UVA Medical Center will come online sooner than expected as hospital officials plan for an increase in patients related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first group of additional beds in the tower will be available later this week, a hospital spokesperson said.
When the pandemic came to the country’s shores, UVA Medical School researchers studying the life cycles of various viruses dropped their cultures and switched gears. Building upon studies by researchers across the world, they are working on possible vaccines, screening existing drugs for efficacy and studying the use of antibodies in fighting the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
It was a pretty normal night. Nathan Stewart and a couple friends were hanging out, soaking up senior spring at the University of Virginia. Then an email landed in their inboxes. Classes were moving online, and graduation was indefinitely postponed.
Stony Brook University has named a new president, Maurie McInnis, a cultural historian who serves as executive vice president and provost of the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a bachelor’s degree with highest distinction in art history from University of Virginia and a master’s degree and Ph.D., also in art history, from Yale University.
With more families and couples spending more time at home due to social distancing, it could lead to a baby boom. Dr. Donald Dudley, the director of UVA’s Maternal and Fetal Medical Clinic, said when people have extra time on their hands, a baby boom happens.