It’s been about a year since the University of Virginia’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers was completed. The COVID-19 pandemic canceled plans to dedicate the monument last spring, but UVA is going forward with a dedication this year. A virtual ceremony will be held on Saturday to honor the legacy of the estimated 4,000 enslaved people who built and maintained the University between 1817 and 1865.
(Commentary) As the commonwealth marks the 50th anniversary of the Virginia Constitution, we recognize A.E. Dick Howard, a professor at the UVA School of Law and a principal drafter of the 1971 constitution, which enshrined hard-won civil rights protections and voting rights, constitutionally committed the state to educational equality and included stewardship of natural resources as a constitutional obligation.
Toni Irving, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, knows the feeling all too well. She started her current position last June and says her remote orientation and first few weeks on the job were “a little disorienting and frustrating.” Without opportunities to spontaneously meet new colleagues while walking to a meeting or grabbing a cup of coffee, those who’ve started new jobs remotely are automatically at a disadvantage socially, she says. Instead, they’ve had to make connections in a more formal way, scheduling time on coworkers’ calendars. While initially daunting, this may actual...
The White Spot, located on The Corner, has been serving up its famous Gus Burgers since 1953. Now it’s under new ownership, headlined by UVA basketball legend Ralph Sampson. “Most people say it’s a hole in the wall, which it is, but it’s a good hole in the wall that has tradition,” Sampson said.
Dr. Vivian Pinn, a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, is the winner of the Emily Couric Leadership Forum’s annual Women’s Leadership Award. Among other accomplishments, Pinn founded the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health. Pinn will address the scholarship recipients and other attendees at the April 14 virtual awards event.
A pair of students – one at the University of Virginia, the other at Virginia Military Institute – have made history at their schools this spring.
"[Donmald Trump] didn’t just hijack the party – and I use the hijack term very deliberately because he’s obviously not a party regular, he had been a Democrat and he wasn’t viewed as being a Republican or part of the party – he hijacked or appealed to a whole segment of the population who were obviously open to those messages," says Barbara Perry, professor and director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. "And that part of the population is still open to those messages."
Attorney and former Democratic U.S. Rep. Brad Carson has been selected as the University of Tulsa’s 21st president, university officials announced Monday. Most recently, Carson has been a professor at the University of Virginia since 2018.
The Chinese government may be concerned about a platform for filmmaker Chloe Zhao, whose “Nomadland” is a front-runner for best picture and director. While the Frances McDormand-starring movie focuses on itinerant workers in the modern American West, it comes from a Chinese-born director who once made comments critical of China. “I think if she says something about China it will be interesting, and if she doesn’t that will be interesting for an entirely different reason,” said Aynne Kokas, a University of Virginia professor and author of “Hollywood Made In China,” about their relationship. “Th...
Led by Dr. Brian Werner, a team from UVA Health sought to assess trends and variations in hospital charges and payment relative to surgeon charges and payments for surgical treatment of hip fractures using data from the PearlDiver database, which contains data related to fee-for-use administrative claims and provides a nationally representative sample of 51 million patients covered by Medicare parts A and B.
A UVA historian argues Woodrow Wilson blundered away a chance to bring the Great War to a negotiated end in 1916, long before the first Doughboys stepped foot in Europe. Philip Zelikow, a former diplomat who worked in five presidential administrations, wants us to fundamentally reassess the reasons why the U.S. entered the war in April 1917.
An accompanying commentary referenced the ongoing debate about whether schools can reopen safely and the impact on community spread of Covid-19. Infectious disease specialists Dr. Andrea Ciaranello of Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Dr. Taison Bell of the University of Virginia School of Medicine wrote that emerging data from the fall semester in the United States suggests a low rate of in-school transmission in schools which have followed recommended mitigation protocols.
Residents of high poverty or more remote counties were 1.6 to 1.8 times more likely to die from the virus across the U.S., according to a Friday update from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which monitors the state’s COVID trends.
The University of Virginia’s COVID-19 Model is predicting another peak in virus cases in late spring or early summer, largely aided by the variant first discovered in the United Kingdom. “The timing and size of the peak depend on how well Virginians maintain prevention measures,” according to the UVA model’s latest weekly update.
Virginia is in a race between two opponents on the opposite ends of the health spectrum: vaccines and virus variants. The race winner will determine if COVID-19 cases – already growing statewide – will explode to a peak higher than the January surge or eventually fade to a controllable level. This particular match-up has been predicted for weeks by a COVID-19 model specifically geared to Virginia’s part of the pandemic. A report released Friday by UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute has dropped an optimistic tone it had in early March when infections were down and vaccines were up.
New research from UVA leads doctors one step closer to treating solid tumor cancers such as ovarian, colon and breast cancer. New findings could allow doctors to treat cancer patients with safer therapies than chemotherapy, which is extremely tough on cancer patients.
Dr. Jogi Singh and others at the UVA Cancer Center are speaking on new research that could help rescue immunotherapies for solid cancer tumors that failed in human clinical trials, including ovarian, colon and triple negative breast cancer.
Bonds said the district’s percent positivity rates have remained very low, at 2.7%, but that it is important to note that this is just a ratio and that the rate is low partially because the University of Virginia performs such a large number of PCR tests of its students on a regular basis.
The UVA Medical Center is wrapping up its 2020-21 series of health care discussions Wednesday. The last Medical Center Hour will feature surgeon and author Dr. Atul Gawande and three UVA physicians. They will be talking about health care in the United States after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the last two decades, bachelor’s degrees have become standard for entry-level jobs in nearly every occupation, and as more workers went into the job market with a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree became more valuable as a way to specialize and stand out from the competition. Fortunately for busy professionals, online education also evolved during that time, making a master’s degree more convenient and accessible for adults who want to advance in their career. (UVA ranks No. 5.)