Physicians with UVA Health say they are not expecting a spike in cases as students of all ages return to the classroom. UVA Health Director of Hospital Epidemiology Dr. Costi Sifri says national research suggests returning students to a K-12 classroom setting with proper health and safety measures – such as mask-wearing, social distancing and temperature checks – does not pose a significant risk, especially as teachers get vaccinated for the coronavirus.
Four members of the UVA faculty have been selected by their peers to be recognized for their teaching. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation announced the winners of 2020-21 faculty awards this week.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, people are spending more time outdoors. The pandemic has also sparked an increased interest in foraging for wild foods. This can lead to accidentally eating something poisonous. The Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVA Health announces the publication of a reference guide to poisonous plants native to Virginia. It is now available on their website listed as the Socrates Project.
A Charlottesville nonprofit is shining a light on heroes in Virginia every Friday,, and now the organization is recognizing frontline workers at the UVA Medical Center.
UVA is hosting clinics for people who are over the age of 75 and workers who qualify under Phase 1A and 1B.
Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel on Tuesday made a visit to Children’s National Hospital, and a virtual visit to the University of Virginia, to emphasize the agency’s goals of investing in telehealth strategies, with a specific emphasis on serving marginalized communities, veterans, and low-income patients.
The UVA School of Law reported that “a small number” of students tested positive in the fall semester. The school continued with in-person instruction. “Our continued ability to offer in-person classes and services is a significant achievement, one that has taken enormous effort from every member of our community, and one that will continue to require vigilance and care,” wrote Stephen T. Parr, senior associate dean for administration, to the Law School community.
All told, 20 of the schools that had shunned The Economist cooperated with this ranking, including the Chicago Booth, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Yale, and UVA’s Darden School of Business. (Darden ranked No. 11)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the first of his fireside chats in March 12, 1933, on the banking crisis, according to UVA’s Miller Center.
In her critical biography of Ghalib, Mehr Afshan Farooqi, associate professor in UVA’s Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, and daughter of late Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, analyses and interprets Ghalib’s Persian as well as Urdu oeuvre to understand why he didn’t publish half of his Urdu compositions.
A Bluejay is said to be an empty-headed chattering bird from the country, folks from the countryside seeing the city for the first time were known as Jays. The motor industry chose the term popular at the time to change the narrative. Peter Norton, a UVA assistant professor and the author of “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City,” the narrative is no accident. His research shows how our view of streets was systematically and deliberately shifted by the automobile industry, as was the law itself.
Is the Winchester area growing so fast that it’s turning into another Loudoun County? According to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the answer appears to be no.
UVA scientists have made an exciting discovery that could lead to treatment of a leading cause of blindness in this country and might also prove useful in treating Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, multiple sclerosis and type II diabetes.
As Congress debates the role Donald Trump played in a Capitol invasion last month, some scholars are looking for ways to heal the pain of friends and families divided by politics. [UVA professor] Rachel Wahl has spent years studying conversations between people who disagree over political and social issues. She did a book on police and communities demanding change, brought students together from a small evangelical college and a large secular university.
Analysis by UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute shows that Loudoun County is experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases. Loudoun is the only one of the state’s 35 health districts with a surge; cases are declining in 29 of the 35 districts.
In a weekly update released on Friday, UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute said prevention and mitigation strategies could contain the variants. “However, if coupled with reduced prevention effort, [variants] could lead to high transmission and extend the worst impacts of the pandemic,” the report said.
UVA Health held a press briefing Friday to update vaccination and COVID-19 data. Officials say they have administered 32,643 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Of those doses, 22,673 were first doses, and 9,970 were second doses. Each day, UVA Health vaccinates more than 1,000 people.
(Video) Dr. Taison Bell, UVA assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, breaks down the latest coronavirus vaccine developments.
All of the prediction models for where the pandemic is headed are showing encouraging signs, according to analysts at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute. The data indicate the coronavirus likely peaked two weeks ago. But experts caution that getting complacent now could allow the more aggressive variants of the virus to get a strong foothold in Virginia.
After parlaying his electric rookie season in MLS into an overseas loan to English Championship side Barnsley FC, [and former UVA men’s soccer star] Daryl Dike is reportedly on the English Premier League radar. That’s according to a report published on Thursday from Leon Wobschall of the Yorkshire Post, who spoke with Barnsley CEO Dane Murphy about the arrival of the 20-year-old Dike and what it could mean for his future.