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.
(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.