Following the Charlottesville area’s first COVID-19 diagnosis, two UVA Medical Center doctors are emphasizing social distancing to slow the spread of the virus.
The University of Virginia is among the top 14 law schools in the nation, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report in the year 2020.
For the third straight year, the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business moved higher by a single spot to rank 11th from 12th last year, 13th in 2018, and 14th in 2017.
University of Virginia President James E. Ryan announced late Monday that a UVA Women’s Center staff member has tested positive for COVID-19. The individual is in quarantine at home and is receiving care there.
The University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Virginia School of Law also have the same rankings as last year, at Nos. 7 and 8.
In this study, 12.9% of children with confirmed cases were asymptomatic, a rate that "almost certainly understates the true rate of asymptomatic infection" and indicates children "may play a major role in community-based viral transmission," wrote Dr. Andrea T. Cruz of Baylor College of Medicine and Dr. Steven L. Zeichner of the University of Virginia, in an accompanying editorial.
At the University of Virginia, the Student Council has led the effort. The council is currently matching donors to those in need and has raised over $10,000 in less than five days, said Isabella Liu, chair of the representative body.
The COVID-19 Surveillance Dashboard from the University of Virginia also gives a time slider to track the timeline for the progress of the disease since Jan. 22. There are different tabs to track for active, confirmed, recovered and deaths. The website claims to use a number of open source datasets.
UVA professors are becoming students again as they learn how to move their classes online in just days. The University recently announced it was canceling classes on Grounds for several weeks due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19.
Signature Management Corp., a Virginia Beach-based property management company, has established the Richard M. Waitzer Professorship in Business Ethics at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business. Funded with a gift from Signature president Brad Waitzer, a 1987 graduate of the school, it is named in memory of the company’s founder, who passed away in January 2019 after a 65-year business career based on acting ethically and treating people fairly.
UVA coaches, upon learning the announcement, had to react to the news and then support their student-athletes. Here’s how four Virginia coaches handled the news.
Both UVA and Virginia Commonwealth University are now on the front lines of the state’s race to expand its testing capabilities – a push labs across the country are making as states scramble to quell the spread of the virus. Both institutions are stuck in limbo as they wait for critical supplies – the same materials that scientists across the country, and around the world, are ordering as the virus continues to spread.
New College Institute and the University of Virginia’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies are taking “baby steps” toward possible collaboration. Through a new partnership between the two schools, UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies’ website will be linked from NCI’s website.
Hundreds of thousands of college students in the Washington area and beyond face sudden upheaval as academic plans are being reworked on the fly during and after their spring breaks. On Wednesday, UVA and Catholic, Gallaudet, Georgetown, Howard and Marymount universities in the region announced temporary suspensions of in-person teaching.
Meanwhile, as more colleges and universities decide to move their classes online, most Virginia institutions still remained open for employees as of Wednesday afternoon. The University of Virginia, for instance, recommends its staff and faculty to “continue reporting to work as usual” while taking safety precautions.
Businesses all over Charlottesville, and especially on the University of Virginia Corner, may bear the brunt of no students on Grounds due to the coronavirus.
Henry J. Abraham, a professor emeritus of politics at the University of Virginia, died on February 26. He was 98. Abraham wrote several books on civil rights and law, including Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States (Oxford University Press, 1967).
The University of Virginia also announced Wednesday that it would move all classes online and send students home. The change could last through the end of the semester, according to a statement from the University.
The University of Virginia sent an email to students Wednesday informing them that all classes, starting next week, would be completed online.