As the novel coronavirus vaccine would be approved in the U.S. by Food and Drug Administration before the end of 2020, University of Virginia researcher Dr. Steven Zeichner said that the vaccine would not be effective at all if a certain number of people don’t get the shot.
For Meejin Yoon, whose work on the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia has garnered extensive praise, the question is more nuanced. She sees the enslaved people commemorated in the UVA memorial as heroes too: brave casualties of an abhorrent system “who deserve to be honored and dignified.” The memorial includes the names of known enslaved people who helped build Thomas Jefferson’s campus, but several lines are left blank, because the story is unfinished. Yoon says too many memorials “try to close the topic or make it knowable to the public,” when history is never reall...
You may already recognize the University of Virginia Darden School of Business as a top global business school whose mission is to inspire responsible business leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences, but did you know these seven things about UVA Darden?
The University of Virginia (UVA) endowment’s long-term pool returned 5.3% for the fiscal year ending June 30, outperforming its benchmark portfolio’s return of 3.3%. The gains increased the endowment’s total asset value to $9.9 billion from $9.6 billion last year.
This summer has been a season of tests or lack thereof. In between checking for COVID-19, many high school seniors also experienced a test of their patience. With no in-person classes, they couldn’t take the SAT or ACT tests. As a result, college admission offices across the country changed course to accommodate a lack of standardized college admission testing. That includes colleges in Virginia, as they went “test-optional or “test blind” due to a shortage of testing availability. Universities in Virginia who also chose to go test-optional due to COVID-19 include the University of Virginia an...
This summer has been a season of tests or lack thereof. In between checking for COVID-19, many high school seniors also experienced a test of their patience. With no in-person classes, they couldn’t take the SAT or ACT tests. As a result, college admission offices across the country changed course to accommodate a lack of standardized college admission testing. That includes colleges in Virginia, as they went “test-optional or “test blind” due to a shortage of testing availability. Universities in Virginia who also chose to go test-optional due to COVID-19 include the University of Virginia an...
UVA researchers compared course completion rates for students at the Virginia Community College System who were enrolled in online courses from the start of the spring semester against those who were enrolled in in-person courses at the start and had to switch to virtual instruction due to the pandemic. They found that the shift to virtual instruction resulted in a 6.7-percentage-point decrease in course completion.
(Commentary by Jeff Bergner, adjunct professor in UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) In the midst of all the vitriol over replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps a few facts could help to anchor the conversation.
UVA researchers recruited 155 healthy adults either into a psychological wellbeing course or put them on a wait list. Three months after the course ended, those who had participated reported fewer sick days than those who had stayed on the wait list. They also said they felt better, mentally and physically.
(Editorial) Larry Sabato, the widely regarded director of UVA’s Center for Politics, suggests the country faces “a real danger zone” between Nov. 3 and the inauguration. In an interview with columnist Peggy Noonan, Sabato offered an idea to cut off potential trouble at the pass – muster a group of prominent Americans from both sides of the aisle to preach unity, regardless of the result.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is the only Republican up for reelection this year – and one of two in the Senate, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska – who has challenged McConnell's plans to bring a Supreme Court nominee through the chamber, weeks before the election. "People will be reminded in Maine of how important that vote was and they are going to hold it against Collins in all likelihood," Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said. Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifted Maine's Senate race in Democrats' favor on Monday morning, moving it from a toss-up to a lean toward the party.
Dozens of members of the Charlottesville community showed up at a demonstration of solidarity with Louisville on Wednesday evening while demanding justice for Breonna Taylor. "Tonight is mostly about solidarity and solidarity for the people in Louisville,” said Cecilia Cain, a University of Virginia student who attended the demonstration.
Mourners filed quietly past the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s flag-draped coffin outside the white marble court building on Wednesday as the United States began three days of tributes to the liberal icon. Her popularity prompted officials to set aside two days for public viewing, rather than the one day allowed for other justices, said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
We look back 60 years at the first-ever televised presidential debates in the fall of 1960 between incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Barbara Perry, presidential studies director at UVA’s Miller Center, talks about how the debates came to be, the issues, the candidates and how the debates created public expectations for later presidential campaigns.
The advanced battery cell design and new manufacturing processes outlined by Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk are promising, battery experts say, but they questioned how quickly they can be implemented and how much they’ll contribute to reducing overall costs. Gary Koenig, an associate professor at the University of Virginia: “It seems like often people are looking for a new type of battery, but changing things like form factor can make a big difference, and a lot of the Battery Day discussion mentioned those advances. Making processing easier and faster, and even successfully making the (ba...
In 1607, just 10 days after English explorer John Smith and his fellow colonists settled at a marshy site they called Jamestown, an expedition went up the James River to search for precious metals. “Monacans resisted English settlement, trade, and political control for more than a century,” writes UVA archaeologist Jeff Hantman in a recent book, “Monacan Millennium.”
There are 15 new cases of COVID-19 at the University of Virginia, 14 of which are among students. There are currently 221 active cases of the virus on Grounds, of which 96 percent are student cases.
There are 15 new cases of COVID-19 at the University of Virginia, 14 of which are among students. There are currently 221 active cases of the virus on Grounds, of which 96 percent are student cases.
The president of the University of Virginia has announced new COVID-19 restrictions which he describes as mostly preemptive because students have been doing the right thing.
Aynne Kokas, UVA associate professor of media studies who specializes in U.S.-China media and tech relations, noted that the proposed ownership structure as detailed by ByteDance is short of previous executive branch statements around ownership.