(Video) President Biden's visit to Poland Friday spotlights that country's importance to the military and humanitarian effort in Ukraine. Since the start of the invasion of Ukraine no nation has become more important to western efforts to repel Russia. Stephen Mull, former U.S. ambassador to Poland and now the vice provost for global affairs at the University of Virginia, joins Nick Schifrin to discuss.
Rita Dove is one of the most well-known American poets of our time, and her reputation is well-deserved. Throughout her 2021 book “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” we get an insider’s view into the perspective of a Black woman on many aspects of history and current events. Dove is a creative writing professor at the University of Virginia, and her expertise shines through in her ability to switch between formats to find the best fit for each subject.
UVA Health nurses traveled to the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro to see the animals that helped them destress while serving on the frontlines of the pandemic. At the Wildlife Center of Virginia, there are a live feed of the animals. The center calls it "Critter Cams" and the nurses at UVA Health love to look at the live feed for stress relief.
Nichols was forced to call for assistance from the University of Virginia Medical Center and her colleague Dr. Preston Reynolds to get the jail’s first possible COVID case tested, a time-consuming and complicated process. Throughout the pandemic Nichols said Reynolds and other medical colleagues have been an indispensable resource, helping each other pick up a perceived slack from larger institutions.
Helping patients who continue to have symptoms following a bout of COVID-19 is complex and a new bill from Sen. Tim Kaine could help equip doctors on the frontline with more information and resources. A host of UVA Medical Center leaders and physicians were on hand Friday morning to share their insights with Kaine, who recently introduced a bill to improve research on the syndrome known as “long COVID” and provide more resources for people experiencing its impacts.
Nearly all areas of Virginia continue to see a lowering of daily infections. The exceptions are Central Virginia, Roanoke city and West Piedmont districts. Those localities are currently in what’s known as slow growth trajectory from a very low case rate, according to Friday’s interim report from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute.
“Your learning curve in your twenties predicts your earning curve in your thirties and beyond,” says Meg Jay, associate professor at the University of Virginia and author of The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How To Make The Most of Them Now. But there is a difference between seeking out diverse experiences in your career and avoiding your career, Jay adds. “Learning . . . about work and love and yourself, is going to pay off down the line in all sorts of ways.”
The current funding debate is taking place amid a precipitous plunge in cases, which in Virginia have dropped to levels not seen since August of 2021, according to a recent report by the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. Hospitalizations have also dropped dramatically, and while a handful of districts are currently experiencing a slow growth in cases, there’s hope that the state may avoid another spike thanks to warming weather and an increase in both vaccine and so-called natural immunity from prior infections with the omicron variant, which is also protective against the grow...
Every year the College Board, the organization that oversees Advanced Placement and SAT exams, publishes an alarming graph. It depicts college tuition soaring like a rocket into the sky, although the trajectory has leveled off in recent years. The implicit message is clear: college has become increasingly unaffordable, forcing too many young adults to take on stratospheric debts. But a pair of academic economists – including Sarah Turner of the University of Virginia – are flipping this message on its head. They argue that higher tuition prices have actually made college cheaper for many lower...
The University of Virginia has sent out its regular decision admissions decisions, and this year's admissions pool broke records. UVA received more than 50,000 applications this year, compared to 48,000 last year.
UVA officials are lifting the requirement for students, staff and anyone visiting Grounds to cover the faces in the face of COVID-19. “Effective March 28, we will move forward with the plan we discussed last week to make masks optional while in class,” school administrators wrote Friday in an email to the UVA community. “As conditions have grown safer, we believe this will offer students and faculty the best possible classroom experience for the remainder of this academic year.”
University of Virginia students’ vote to ditch a long tradition of immediate expulsion for violators of its Honor Code is a change supporters say proves the once-staid institution continues to change for the better but others say trashes a deeply held core value.
(By Thomas Bateman, Bank of America Eminent Scholar at the McIntire School of Commerce) Consider the challenges of your job, your career, and climate change. What do they have in common, psychologically? In each case, success requires high-functioning human agency. In the psychological sense, agency entails a category of beliefs, a mindset. More profoundly, genuine agency includes the strategies and actions that accomplish what we want and bring us what we need.
(Commentary by UVA President Jim Ryan and Executive Vice President and Provost Ian Baucom) Much has been said recently about “cancel culture” in higher education. Close to our home at the University of Virginia, the Virginia governor delivered a speech earlier this month decrying this trend. And one of our undergraduate students recently published an editorial on the same topic and the related pressure to self-censor. One could question some of their assertions, but both have a point. The tendency not simply to disagree with others but to disparage their character or motives is all too common ...
In a community as diverse and thoughtful as ours, sometimes the most important work of education happens not in the classroom.
(Commentary by Katherine Churchill, Ph.D. candidate in English) What made me a medievalist? I don’t know–I was fifteen when I stepped into the thirteenth-century Parisian chapel Sainte-Chapelle, feeling my breath catch inside the kaleidoscope of stained glass. Later, something flickered when my teacher read a section of the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” out loud during my senior year of high school, and the Middle English made me go still with all its strange yet slightly familiar sounds. Surely, I was already hooked by the time I saw the vaulted ceiling of the Wells Cathedral in Engl...
Sara E. Rimm-Kaufman, a professor of education at the University of Virginia, said many teachers reached the end of their ropes this year when students returned to campus from two years of virtual learning. “Students have come to school with more needs than ever having experienced stress, trauma, and inconsistent conditions due to the pandemic,” Ms. Rimm-Kaufman said. “Plus, students have learning gaps. It’s hard to teach addition and subtraction of fractions if students didn’t learn about fractions last year.” She said trust between teachers and families has further broken down in recent batt...
(Video) 7 News has been following the controversy over admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School. A judge says the policy is discriminatory and has ruled that the school can no longer use it . University of Virginia law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson broke it all down for us as part of our “Crisis In The Classroom” series.
Dr. Costi Sifri is the University of Virginia Medical Center’s epidemiologist. “In the United States, we’re seeing an increased amount of BA2, the sort of sister variant of the omicron strain,” Sifri said Thursday. Sifri says the latest COVID-19 variant, BA2, is not hitting Charlottesville hard right now. “It seems that it has a complex system. It’s very similar to omicron, which is largely, you know, what we saw in January, an upper respiratory tract infection for many people,” the doctor said.