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.
(Commentary) “The virus is this huge stress test on our education system,” said Robert Pianta, dean of UVA’s education school. “It has exposed a great deal of inequity, and we are going to see this only exacerbated in the coming months, not years. Certain kids in certain systems, depending on the resources, are going to get much closer to what looks like a typical high-quality education than others.”
All faculty and staff members will soon be returning to work at UVA Health.
(Commentary by Aidan Brown, alumnus of UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) Schools on Long Island are closed for the summer, but administrators still have homework. As the coronavirus pandemic exacerbates an ongoing adolescent mental health crisis, schools must prepare to meet the mental health needs of their students come September.
Three UVA students are leading a local effort to collect and donate devices to help seniors stay connected.
“The virus is still around and still circulating and being transmitted,” said Eric R. Houpt, head of the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at UVA Health. “We do have hospital capacity, but let’s hope we don’t need it.”
Researchers from all over the world, including at the University of Virginia, made some headway in identifying cells leading to the deadliest form of brain tumor.
According to an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, if President Donald Trump’s poll numbers stay the same, then Joe Biden could be on his way to a landslide win in the fall.
John Owen, head of UVA’s Department of Politics, said that the president thinks the U.S. has fought a lot of worthless wars, but very few in Congress agree with him.
(Commentary by Nomi Dave, assistant professor of music) The current Black Lives Matter protests around the world build on a longer history of anti-racist solidarity and struggle across the Atlantic. Guinean people see, clearly, what the U.S. is – both good and bad.
UVA leaders are thanking those who spoke out against a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the coronavirus pandemic.
After a week of voluntary football workouts at Virginia, coach Bronco Mendenhall has become an authority on nearly all known aspects of coronavirus prevention in athletics, while his staff and players have followed suit.
UVA athletes from all over returned to campus last week to begin voluntary workouts – but not before undergoing COVID testing. Only two of the 110 athletes Virginia tested came back positive, an encouraging sign as the program navigates a return to in-person training.
Taison Bell, an assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of infectious diseases and international health and pulmonary and critical-care medicine at the University of Virginia, said regions of the country with the highest mask use are seeing some of the lowest positivity rates.
(Commentary by Jacqueline Skalski-Fouts, global studies undergraduate student) With most countries closing borders and issuing some form of stay-at-home orders, safety and services dedicated to asylum-seekers and refugees have dramatically decreased. The result is a large number of migrants in Morocco and around the world facing dangerous health situations and increased economic insecurity.
(Commentary by Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine) The difference reflects, at least in part, each state’s behavior expectations and the willingness of residents to keep up safety precautions like wearing masks, avoiding large crowds, maintaining social distance of at least six feet and staying isolated when they are ill or may have been exposed to the virus.
(Commentary by Rachel Harmon, professor of law and director of UVA’s Center for Criminal Justice) No state can so easily create a federal decertification database that prevents officers who have a history of misconduct from wandering from one state to another state.
(Commentary by Mehr Afshan Farooqi, associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) Each time I try to write a tribute to Asif Farrukhi, my fingers freeze on the keyboard. I find it incredibly hard to write about Asif in the past tense. It can’t be true that Asif is no more. A person with such indomitable energy can’t go away so suddenly. Yet, he did leave us; we are his mourners, wringing our hands in sorrow and despair. How does one begin to enumerate the wide-ranging engagements of his visionary repertoire? As an eminent writer of fiction, lit...