Behind Biden in public opinion polls, Trump is in a 'precarious' political position as 2020 re-election campaign begins. “The president has a governing problem that has become a political problem,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Commentary by Richard Handler, professor and director of UVA’s global development studies program) At the University of Virginia, where I teach, it makes little sense to have statues of Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner, at central sites in our landscape, as we try mightily to make our institution more welcoming and rewarding for the descendants of enslaved African Americans. Our mission to study and teach such topics as Jefferson and his legacy would be better achieved by removing such statues, forcing no one to ignore or worship them.
There is a new tool in the commonwealth to collect coronavirus-related information, and it has a University of Virginia tie.
The University of Virginia has released protocol for students returning to campus this fall after being away for summer and because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Parham Jaberi, chief deputy commissioner of the Virginia Department of Health, said earlier this month, state workers retrieved samples from backlogged private labs contracted with the state and rerouted specimens to labs at the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University.
The chancellor of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise has been named the 2020 Outstanding Woman Leader in Virginia higher education.
As students return to Grounds in a few weeks, one shop is helping shield the UVA community from the coronavirus.
Educators and school administrators are finding themselves caught between balancing the White House’s desire to reopen schools and the risks to public safety. Teaching through this pandemic is “really, really tough,” said Tish Jennings, a UVA associate professor who studies how stress affects teachers.
The Washington NFL team has retained the services of high-powered D.C. attorney Beth Wilkinson, a UVA Law graduate, “to do an independent review of the team’s culture, policies and allegations of workplace misconduct.”
Former U.S. Sen. John Warner donated $150,000 to establish a new scholarship at UVA’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.
“The last two summits have been in Miami and Atlanta and we brought in leaders like Carla Williams, who’s the athletic director at the [University of Virginia],” she says. “So she can meet a student that’s interested in being an athletic director and that person can see, ‘Oh, there’s a black female AD at a Power Five school.’”
A chance for re-discovery and personal growth is the way WTA Tour player Danielle Collins chose to spend her nearly four months away from the game of tennis during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown. The 26-year-old two-time NCAA singles champion from the University of Virginia actually gives herself a little pat on the back, saying she was proud of the way she chose to spend her time during the stoppage of play that began in March.
UVA’s Integrated Translational Health Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV), in partnership with the Virginia Department of Health, developed an online tool to collect COVID-19-related data from Virginia residents who volunteer their information.
The UVA Medical Center and UVA Children’s earned excellent scores for their support of breastfeeding in a nationwide survey of hospitals that was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Jalane Schmidt, associate professor of race and religion at the University of Virginia, has become an inadvertent tour guide, along with her UVA colleague Andrea Douglas, an art history professor. Back in 2017, the pair took journalists to the three Confederate monuments of Stonewall Jackson, Johnny Reb, and Robert E. Lee located throughout Charlottesville, and shared historical context for their presence.
International students at UVA and colleges across the country no longer have to worry about their future at their schools or in the U.S.
While the future of Charlottesville’s two Confederate monuments has not yet been decided, discussions have already begun. UVA architectural history professor Louis Nelson hosted a conversation on Wednesday as part of a series on equity from the Tom Tom Foundation and United Way.
Take UVA School of Law, which had never held a single online class. Soon after the pandemic hit, the Charlottesville school transitioned nearly 140 courses online in one week.
All University of Virginia students will have to submit a negative COVID-19 test before returning to Charlottesville for the start of classes next month, the school said in a release Thursday.
UVA leaders are voicing their disappointment and concern after a weekend of “Midsummer” gatherings in Charlottesville.