The University of Virginia is participating in a national study examining infection and transmission risks among college students who receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. UVA hopes to enroll approximately 600 student volunteers in the national Prevent COVID U study, launched by the COVID-19 Prevention Network.
Most college students are low on the priority list for vaccination against COVID-19, but UVA is offering them a chance at inoculation and planning to pay each volunteer nearly $600 to take part in a national study.
Robyn S. Hadley was appointed vice president and chief student affairs officer at the University of Virginia, effective June 1. She has been serving as associate vice chancellor and dean for scholar programs at Washington University in St. Louis.
In Charlottesville, the University of Virginia has taken steps since the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017 to address its past as a university built by enslaved people and that it had been supportive of the Confederacy. The University created a committee in February to rename two buildings. It will also remove two Confederate monuments and add historical context to a statue of Thomas Jefferson, who owned slaves.
We are living through history, and the University of Virginia Library has been documenting hundreds of websites since the first COVID-19 case in the commonwealth. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library is partnering with the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library to capture websites related to this pandemic. They hope to synthesize everything into one historical resource: From initial mask mandates, to the current vaccine distribution process, and the overall effect to the Charlottesville area.
Now that the U.S. is back in the Paris Climate Accord, the University of Virginia wants to jump start America’s role in addressing the global emergency. Starting Wednesday, the University will host a virtual conference on how to prevent the natural disasters that accompany climate change: extreme droughts, extreme floods, heat waves in cities, heat waves in the ocean – all of these things that affect people and the planet.
Gov. Ralph Northam recently signed an executive order aimed at keeping plastics out of landfills across Virginia. Executive Order 77 requires higher education institutions like the University of Virginia to eliminate single-use plastics, like plastic bottles or bags.
University of Virginia students enrolling in Summer Session will have to prepare for more Zoom classes, but there’s an opportunity for students to take one in-person class at no additional cost.
Several lawyer-presidents pointed to COVID-19 as a crisis in which their legal training has been invaluable to addressing a wide spectrum of challenges. UVA President James E. Ryan, who was a Supreme Court clerk and public interest lawyer before moving into higher education, noted his experience making sure laws are applied “both equally and equitably” has helped amid the public health emergency.
A college student from San Anselmo in Marin County is making news for being the first transgender and Asian American to win election to lead the student body at an Eastern school. Abel Liu is gaining national attention for winning election for Student Council president at UVA, becoming the first transgender and Chinese American to do so.
Financial technology company SmartAsset looked at five factors to determine the best-value colleges and universities including tuition, student living costs, scholarship and grant offerings, student retention rate and starting salary for new graduates. UVA takes the top spot in Virginia and ranks 12th nationally.
Why a state would abolish their insanity defense seems initially puzzling. However colored by public myths, the insanity defense underpins our very ideas of justice and personal blame. Proponents of abolition claim that doing away with the defence “improves the criminal justice system’s public image”, and ensures trust by holding “the mentally ill accountable for their actions the same as everyone else.” But for Richard Bonnie, a Professor of Medicine and Law at the University of Virginia, such a claim marks a contradiction in terms. The defense prescribes precisely the limits of how we judge ...
One of the top research journals in the United States has placed its editor in chief on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation into a controversial podcast episode that critics labeled as racist. … Academic physicians of color have lost their jobs for less, said Dr.Ebony Jade Hilton, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at University of Virginia. Hilton cited an incident involving Dr. Aysha Khoury, an internist, who said she was fired from Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in Pasadena after a discussion with her students on racism.
“Elon Musk is a techno-optimist so it makes sense he’s going for carbon capture,” said Andres Clarens, an environmental engineer at the University of Virginia who has researched carbon capture options. “You could create a new widget but scaling it up is the real challenge; also, Musk also doesn’t touch on what to do with the CO2 once you get it. But if we can solve these things our toolkit to deal with climate will become far more powerful.”
(Commentary) Brad Wilcox, a University of Virginia professor, notes that “current federal and state funding for higher education totals about $150 billion. But only $1.9 billion in funding is devoted to vocational education in high schools and community colleges. … Too many of our schools discount the potential of less academically minded children. … Far too many high school students—especially young men—spend critical years of their development struggling in classes that bore or overwhelm them and fail to offer them a path to a stable career—much less a clear sense of vocation and direction.”
(Commentary by William Antholis, director and CEO of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) How did Americans view the Greek Revolution of 1821? “No people sympathise more feelingly than ours with the sufferings of your countrymen, none offer more sincere and ardent prayers to heaven for their success: and nothing indeed but the fundamental principle of our government, never to entangle us with the broils of Europe, could restrain our generous youth from taking some part in this holy cause.” In one long sentence, Thomas Jefferson summarized pro-democracy hopes and non-interference constraints....
(Commentary by Christine Rosen, a fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) Last spring, as the COVID-19 virus was spreading across the globe and state and local officials in the U.S. scrambled to announce pandemic safety precautions, most K-12 schools across the country closed as a temporary emergency measure. By January of 2021, a clear divide had emerged in the nation between places where kids could go back to school in-person and those where they could not.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) So far this year, the Crystal Ball has released its initial ratings for the 2022 Senate races and the 2021-2022 gubernatorial races. We’re holding off on House ratings, though, because this is a national redistricting cycle. Without district lines in place, there’s no sense in issuing specific ratings.
Reporters, not surprisingly, weren’t keen on the proposition. When press secretary Pierre Salinger informed them that the president intended to hold live press events, “most of us print reporters, comprising the vast majority of the press corps then, objected vociferously to the idea of making a TV spectacle out of a news conference,” former Newsweek correspondent Charles Roberts told a Kennedy Presidency Forum at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Researchers at the University of Virginia, as well as other doctors, are trying to figure out how to prevent heart attacks and strokes from occurring.