The day Sue Donovan, the conservator for special collections at the University of Virginia, watched Albemarle County unearth its Confederate time capsule from beneath the ‘Johnny Reb’ statue in Court Square, she knew the contents would be damaged. “But I wasn’t prepared for the extent of the damage to the paper-based items,” she said.
Predicting patient outcomes to improve care is the goal of a project created by a team of UVA Health data scientists, and now they’re competing for a $1 million prize. Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched a health outcome challenge for scientists across the country to create a patient prediction plan in order to better their outcomes. Scientists with the University of Virginia are one of seven finalists for their artificial intelligence model that they created.
17. Seven Society: The Seven Society at the University of Virginia is cloaked in secrecy. Members’ identities aren’t revealed until after their death, when a wreath of black magnolias shaped like a “7” is put at the deceased’s grave. Despite the mystery, members are known for their gifts to the university. The society hands out an annual award of $7,000 to teaching assistants and it established a student loan program in the 1990s.
UVA students who remain in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County region must be tested for COVID-19 by the University every week. UVA spokesperson Brian Coy says this is just one of the ways the University is attempting to prevent the spread of the virus.
The University of Virginia is more than halfway through the annual Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, Virginia’s largest workplace giving drive. The Haven and the United Way of Greater Charlottesville say the campaign plays a critical role.
A UVA team is one of seven finalists in a national competition focused on improving health care with help from artificial intelligence.
(Commentary by Lucy Bassett, professor at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and co-director of the Humanitarian Collaborative) Over the past four years of the Trump administration, thousands of migrant children were separated from their parents, stuck in squalid tent camps on our southern border, and made victims of violence, trafficking and exploitation during their journey and in U.S. custody. These traumatic experiences inflicted grievous psychological damage that can have lifelong consequences.
(Editorial) The partnership center and its West Main headquarters ultimately are the product of UVA President Jim Ryan’s long-term goal of improving University-community relations and addressing real-life social and economic problems. Establishment of the Center for Community Partnerships is a major milestone in that effort. It is tangible evidence that the University is serious about local partnerships.
For Chris Farley it was “mission” accomplished yet again. For the 22nd straight year, the 1998 UVA graduate ran a 26-mile marathon in fewer than 3 hours. Farley’s most recent achievement came Nov. 15 at the Upstate Classic Marathon in Guilderland, N.Y., near Albany, finishing the race in 2:55.19.
Jonathan Gordon sometimes wishes his college buddies would talk about more serious topics. The group of four men, who all met on their freshman floor at the University of Virginia and are now in their 30s, have all been groomsmen in each other’s weddings. They have gone on international trips together. They all consider the other men in the group their closest friends. So why don’t they ever actually talk about their feelings?
Due to a series of mini-strokes starting in 2012, Harrison Ruffin Tyler lives almost without time. It would be quite a change for anyone, but it’s particularly so for someone like him, who grew up steeped in family history. Harrison was raised in his grandfather’s hunting lodge; his grandfather — John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States — was born in 1790.
A University of Virginia graduate has turned a lifelong hobby into a business - one that connects co-workers at a time when many are only linked remotely. Collin Waldoch grew up an avid fan of 'Jeopardy!', often keeping score when watching the show with family and friends. Over the years, he was part of high school quiz bowl, and started up pub trivia teams while attending UVA. In 2017, Waldoch first launched Water Cooler Trivia as a side project. By the time the pandemic hit, he had drawn the interest of enough companies – more than 1,000 – to do it full time.
There was a time in Denver Riggleman's life when he sat on the banks of a creek that reeked of dead fish and peered through night-vision goggles into the thick of the Olympic National Forest. He was looking for Bigfoot. Or at least, others in his group were. Riggleman, a nonbeliever who was then a National Security Agency defense contractor, had come along for the ride, paying thousands of dollars in 2004 to indulge a lifelong fascination: Why do people — what kind of people — believe in Bigfoot?
Margaret Thornton, who taught English in Charlottesville City Schools prior to becoming a PhD student in educational leadership at the University of Virginia, said teacher shortages limit schools’ capacity to improve and can exacerbate inequality. Thornton’s graduate work is focused on the concept of school detracking. The idea is that tracking students into either advanced or grade-level classes perpetuates inequity because students of color, immigrants and poor students are much less likely to be selected for more rigorous tracks.
Students at the University of Virginia are moving out of the Charlottesville area, and it will be months before they move back. Grounds will be quiet until February.
University of Virginia infectious disease expert Dr. William Petri says rapid tests aren't the end-all be-all. "I think any test is not going to be 100 percent, and the antigen detection tests are less sensitive than the reverse transcriptase PCR tests that we started out, with in general," Petri said. "The antigen tests have to detect the amount of virus that is transmissible to other people. So they're not, they're not detecting the very, very lowest levels of infection, but they are detecting the level that is most associated with being transmissible."
Reggie Leonard, 35, associate director for career connections and community engagement at University of Virginia, remembers the moment he got bitten by the wine bug. “The thing that made it all click was when I watched Action Bronson tasting natural wines in France on YouTube,” Leonard said. “I had never seen wines with those colors, and had no idea there could be so much variety and so much fun with wine. I loved how much Action and the fellas were in the streets of Paris, drinking something traditionally relegated to white linen-lined tables on a sidewalk, in shorts and a T-shirt.”
The report quotes William Anthllis, director and CEO ofg UVA’s Miller Center for Public Affairs, and Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Kyle Kondik, the author of a political history titled "The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President," is skeptical about Ohio being either a predictor or even a swing state that Democrats that stand a chance of winning back in the 2024 presidential campaign. Trump won Ohio each time by a margin of around 8 percentage points. "It's definitely moving off of the really competitive presidential playing field," said Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, who had said even before this election that Ohio's demographics were going to make it redder.
The Sexual Assault Resource Agency will host a Giving Tuesday auction this week. Charlottesville-area businesses are offering a host of activities you can bid on, including a run with UVA President Jim Ryan.