(Editorial) “Out-migration from Virginia is largely being driven by Northern Virginia and to a lesser extent Hampton Roads,” says Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. “Before the 2010s, out-migration from Northern Virginia was more likely to be to the rest of Virginia than out of state. During the early 2010s this trend reversed. … Virginia’s slower population growth in recent years has principally been due to the fact that more people moving out of Northern Virginia are going to other states than other parts of Virginia.”
New modeling from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute warns against complacency, however. The institute reports that the spread of the B.1.1.7 variant, which is more contagious, could create another surge in cases. It noted that half of the state’s current 10 hot spots are in college towns, including Charlottesville, where the variant has been reported among cases at UVA.
UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute’s latest report on the pandemic, issued Friday, continued to be optimistic. Average daily cases per capita were at about 39 per 100,000 residents during the week ending Feb. 14. Daily cases are thought to have peaked at just over 68 per 100,000 residents during the week ending Jan. 24.
With cases on a steep decline, variants are becoming the focus of concern among health experts, including the University of Virginia. UVA’s Biocomplexity institute, which each Friday provides a report on the pandemic, said that a combination of variants and Virginia residents’ abandoning safety precautions could lead to another spike in cases by summer, with a peak in June higher than the one experienced in January.
Historian Hannah Scruggs curated the exhibit. She started with the oral histories that had been collected during a heritage and history day at the school, as well as those in collections at the University of Virginia and the Scottsville Museum, Brody said. They also went through items at UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, including six boxes of artifacts from the school, obtained more research from the Scottsville Museum and utilized newspaper articles, yearbooks and additional information from families from the area.
Cortney Hawkins moved to Charlottesville from Birmingham, Alabama in December to take on a new role with the Univerty of Virginia Police Department (UPD), one that Chief Timothy Longo knew she’d be perfect for. “She understood the importance of relationship and engagement, and to be intentional about this work of diversifying this police department,” Longo said. Longo created the role of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager,” and says he wanted to be intentional about creating this job, not just going through the motions.
The University of Virginia has surpassed the number of COVID-19 cases that were reported during the entire fall semester.
The University of Virginia announced Friday plans to lift most COVID-19 restrictions implemented amid last week’s spike in virus cases.
The University of Virginia will loosen temporary restrictions on students following a sharp decline in recent coronavirus cases on campus, officials said Friday.
Dr. Bruce Greyson started out as a skeptic. He went through traditional psychiatric training in medical school and described himself as a "materialistic scientist." So when he saw a handful of patients who described profound experiences when they came close to death – or near-death experiences – he wasn’t convinced.
(Commentary co-written by Philip Zelikow, professor of history and of governance) Taiwan is becoming the most dangerous flashpoint in the world. Events in and involving the small democracy could spark a war that draws in the United States, China, Japan and possibly others.
(Commentary by Daniel T. Willingham, UVA psychology professor) When musician John Roderick’s 9-year-old daughter asked him how to use a can opener, he saw it as a teaching moment. He refused to show her and vowed that they wouldn’t eat until she had puzzled it out. It took her six hours, during which Roderick provided hints, cajoled, philosophized and occasionally teased her.
In addition to being the first woman to graduate from UVA’s engineering program, Kitty O’Brien Joyner also became NASA’s first female engineer in 1939. During her 32-year career, she specialized in the mechanics of wind tunnels, including testing new aircraft designs prior to being used in flight.
Vern Yip seems equally at home in a variety of places: in front of a global television audience with previous stints as a celebrity interior designer for TLC’s “Trading Spaces” and as a judge on HGTV’s “Design Star”; behind a drawing board creating a host of decor items such as bath towels, pillows and fabric; and at the computer writing design books. Perhaps his favorite place to be, though, is at the eclectic, elegant dream home in Buckhead he shares with his husband, Craig Koch, their two children and five rescue dogs.
Tiffany S. Mickel is blazing new paths as the first African-American editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Review, and she hopes to ensure an accessible, equitable and informative resource for others.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented time for businesses. But for one business started by a UVA student, the business suddenly saw itself in the right place at the right time. For the fundraising platform, business suddenly started booming during the pandemic.
Others, including UVA Center for Politics founder and Director Larry Sabato, connected the statue to the book of Exodus. In the Old Testament story, the Golden Calf was worshipped by the Israelites in the absence of Moses as he went up to Mount Sinai. In the Bible, God punished those who worshipped the golden structure instead of him, destroying the calf and killing about 3,000 people.
A phone call from a medical school mentor paved the way for Dr. Norm Oliver’s next step: joining the Department of Family Medicine at the UVA School of Medicine. Among those who took notice of Dr. Oliver’s words and actions there was Dr. Cameron Webb, who was an undergraduate student at UVA at the time. “He was in leadership in the health system and he was speaking out against social injustice,” Webb said. “Again, it was just great to see that in real life, in real time, right in front of me and know that that’s a path that I could walk.”
We sat down with Dr. Adam Winick, a UVA associate professor of vascular and interventional radiology and interventional radiologist at UVA Radiology Vein and Vascular Care Gainesville, and asked him to shed some light on interventional radiology, medicine’s best-kept secret.
After having a tight restriction on visitors following the surge of COVID-19 cases over the holidays, the UVA Medical Center is now adjusting its policy. Starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday, UVA Medical Center will once again allow one visitor per patient. The easing of restrictions comes as the coronavirus outlook in Central Virginia improves.