The University of Virginia won’t know how many students are returning to Grounds and from which regions these students are coming until Aug. 5. UVA spokesperson Brian Coy explained that on Saturday, students will receive their final class assignments, which will let them know how many of their classes will be online or in-person.
UVA Wise announced that it is delaying the fall semester start from Aug. 12 to Aug. 26. Additionally, the school is mailing out COVID-19 test kits to students before they arrive on campus.
A new documentary produced by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia about the United States’ 41st president will hit television screens Tuesday. “Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team” is a documentary directed by local film maker Lori Shinseki about the presidency of George H.W. Bush.
Researchers Test Drive New Virus-Killing Robot Prototype at Daily Planet Health Services in Richmond
The weekend provided the real-world test drive of a semiautonomous robot that researchers call Dingo. A UVA robotics professor and fellow researchers envision one day the prototype will be used in airports, grocery stores, train stations and other locations to kill viruses on surfaces.
With much of the nation working from home, managers face a challenge: how to promote productivity when people aren’t in the office. Some are turning to sophisticated software to track workers’ every move online, but Roshni Raveendhran, a UVA business professor, says that’s the wrong way to go.
Many people are fighting bitterly about all kinds of contracts, ranging from weddings to conferences to leases to factory output. What will happen to all of these contracts? It turns out that we can’t be sure, according to a new paper cowritten by Cathy Hwang, of UVA’s School of Law.
The third round of COVID-19 athlete testing at the University of Virginia produced no new positive results, the school announced on Friday evening. The school has reported four total positive cases, three from the football team, out of 235 tests since athletes returned on July 5.
On June 2, the music industry launched #BlackoutTuesday, an action against police brutality that involved, among other things, Instagram and Facebook users posting plain black boxes to their accounts. The posts often included the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter; almost immediately, social-media users were inundated with even more posts, which explained why using that hashtag drowned out crucial information about events and resources with a sea of mute boxes. For Meredith Clark, a media-studies professor at the University of Virginia, the response illustrated how the B.L.M. movement had honed its abi...
In the meantime, funding agencies might be able to help researchers negotiate better rates, says Philip Bourne, dean of data science at the University of Virginia. The U.S. National Institutes of Health does this with its Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation and Sustainability Initiative – which uses cloud resources to streamline NIH data.
(Commentary by Jonathan Colmer, assistant professor of economics, and Jay Shimshack, associate professor of public policy and economics) Fine particle matter pollution concentrations in the United States have declined by roughly 70% since 1981. However, in a newly published study, we show that the areas that were most polluted in 1981 are still the most polluted today, and the least polluted areas in 1981 are still the least polluted today.
A recent article published by UVA’s Darden School of Business underscores how companies can unjustly minimize the value of diversity by only acknowledging its impact on profitability: “When companies value diversity for its impact on profitability, it commodifies blackness and objectifies black people, making them valuable to the extent that they can boost organizational performance.” Providing fair and equitable employment opportunities for all employees is an ethical obligation for organizations simply because it is the right thing to do.
Built in the 1950s to serve freshmen students, Bonnycastle Hall is part of the McCormick Road Houses complex at the University of Virginia. Prior to their renovation, the buildings lacked many of the amenities and creature comforts found in newer residence halls on UVA’s campus. New interior finishes and an emphasis on transparency and daylighting create a contemporary aesthetic and make the space more attractive to students.
A documentary about the legacy of George H.W. Bush, co-produced by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and VPM public TV, will debut nationally this week. Titled “Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team,” the film offers a unique look at the foreign policy legacy of Bush via the his Presidential Oral History, the historical record and accounts from advisers, according to a news release.
UVA officials will open up Grounds to students with a set of rules, protocols and tools in place – such as a contact-tracing cellphone app and a student-signed contract – that they hope will allow classes to commence and continue despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Commentary by William Petri, professor of medicine) As millions of people are recovering from COVID-19, an unanswered question is the extent to which the virus can “hide out” in seemingly recovered individuals.
Researchers at the UVA’s Motivate Lab are asking students to share their stories of racial injustice to better help with the University’s diversity and equity efforts.
A small cadre of medical care providers at the UVA Medical Center is following up with patients who spent time in the pandemic ICU once they go home.
Acacia Johnson, a creative writing graduate student at the University of Virginia, took the photos accompanying this article.
Air pollution is a persistent problem in California’s Central Valley. A new study finds that the places that were most polluted nearly 40 years ago generally remain the most polluted today. “The persistence of these relative disparities were striking,” says Jonathan Colmer, an economist at the University of Virginia and one the authors of the study, which was published in the journal Science. “Federal and state guidelines aim for all people and places to enjoy the same degree of protection from environmental hazards,” he says. “We’re falling short in terms of addressing relative disparities.”
Republican federal lawmakers are calling for added protections at a time when a handful of states have enacted their own versions of a liability shield against COVID-19 claims. Some companies – and President Trump’s re-election campaign – have also asked consumers to sign waivers. Whether these types of waivers will hold up in court remains an open question, some experts say. “In the absence of this shield, ordinary tort liability would apply and you could sue for negligence, carelessness and unreasonable behavior, the way most tort suits are brought,” UVA Law professor Kenneth ...