Some respondents worried the system simply won’t be effective because Bluetooth isn’t precise enough to tell whether people are genuinely close enough to each other to spread dangerous microbes or sitting on opposite sides of an office wall. “Why compromise privacy for a tool that is not the best way to suppress the spread of COVID?” said Ashley Deeks, a former State Department official and professor at the UVA School of Law.
Humanity: A Leader’s Secret WeaponLeading through a crisis with humanity is not simple, acknowledges Morela Hernandez, a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. “But it’s not an impossible task,” she contends. Hernandez, this week’s guest on the “Three Big Points” podcast, explains that we know from social science how to address the key issues of leading through difficult times at the individual, relational, collective and contextual levels.
A duo of researchers at the University of Virginia set out with a question: could COVID-19 result in similar changes? To answer this question, they traced the local consequences of the Black Death in German-speaking Central Europe because of its “significant regional variation” in death intensity and historically high level of political decentralization. Before getting too far into it, the team notes several differences between the bubonic plague and Covid-19.
The University of Virginia says they’re consulting with experts at UVA Health, the Virginia Department of Health and the CDC about reopening the campus. At this time, the University is operating under the assumption that they will be opening in the fall. Fall courses are scheduled to begin on August 25.
UVA sent its Class of 2020 off into the world (virtually) on May 16. Graduating during a pandemic, with record levels of unemployment and an economic depression likely to last for a long time, means an uncertain future for all of them. But young people entering the medical field are facing unique challenges – from disrupted training to health concerns.
The graduating class of 2019 was smaller than the year before, but more students got jobs, according to the newest employment data provided by the American Bar Association. The report, based on data from more than 33,500 graduates, shows that the employment rate improved from 92.7% to 93.6%. University of Pennsylvania posted the highest employment rate at 99.2%, followed by University of Chicago, Harvard University and University of Virginia at 99%.
(Commentary by William Petri, professor of medicine) I am a physician scientist and have a Ph.D. in microbiology as well as an M.D. My clinical specialty is internal medicine and I subspecialize in infectious diseases. I am working on one approach to COVID-19 vaccination while also caring for hospitalized patients. Here are my responses to common questions surrounding tests and what they can tell you about immunity.
(Commentary by Brian N. Williams, associate professor of public policy) Public attention is focused on ending police brutality like never before. As a professor, I help students and communities rethink and redesign the policies and practices that shape relations between police and the community. The idea is to foster a shared sense of responsibility for public safety and order.
Gov. Ralph Northam announced new guidance for Virginia colleges on Thursday, unveiling the steps they must take in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as they bring students back to campus.
A record number of students have been awarded a graduate fellowship by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation. According to a release, 31 students were awarded the fellowships, 24 of whom were named Jefferson Fellows and seven who were named National Fellows.
Due to the Corona crisis this year, courses at the US Rare Book School, based at the University of Virginia, were cancelled. However, the faculty has curated a series of online lectures which are free to attend and are highly recommended.
The pandemic is remodeling the way the admissions process will work at the University of Virginia. Given the circumstances of the school year, UVA is making standardized testing, including the SAT and ACT, optional for those applying for Fall 2021 entry.
The University of Virginia, with 24,000 students, will distribute “Welcome Back Kits” in drawstring bags to those who return to Charlottesville. Each bag will contain two cloth face coverings, two bottles of hand sanitizer and an L-shaped “touch tool” for students to open doors and push elevator buttons without direct contact.
In the U.S., black people account for 12% of the overall workforce, but only 8% of management jobs, said University of Virginia professor Laura Morgan Roberts. The number of black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies peaked in 2002 with 12. Today there are just four. Roberts’ research looking at the careers of Harvard business school graduates found black alums got fewer prime opportunities, such as global assignments, than white graduates with the same degree.
Dr. Carlene Muto, from the University of Virginia’s Infectious Disease Division, says one of the most important uses of contact tracing is identifying asymptomatic people. “They’re not going to be symptomatic right after they see the patient,” Dr. Muto said. “They’re going to be perhaps incubating if they actually have had acquisition of the organism. And so while that time period clicks off, we need them to be into quarantine.”
When University of Virginia professor Andrew Stauffer sent his class to the library in the fall of 2009, he expected them to focus on the printed text of the books they brought back. But Stauffer and his students soon realized that was just one story being told in these volumes. While looking at nineteenth-century copies of work by Felicia Hemans, a poet wildly beloved at the time for her sentimental verse, the students were immediately drawn to everything else happening in these books: not just the expected underlining and dog-ears, but bookplates, diary entries, letters, quotes, pressed...
Betty Keen Haigh Lawson, of Charlottesville, died June 2. Lawson worked at the University of Virginia for 31 years. She held positions as a emergency room nurse, worked in the Department of Physiology and was a highly respected editor at the McIntire School of Commerce.
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Also Tuesday, Northam named three new members to the Virginia Crime Commission, a body that studies policy related to law enforcement to inform state policy. The new members include Larry Terry, the director of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
In 2007, two professors – Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia and Anthony Greenwald of the University of Washington – developed an Implicit Association Test designed to expose subconscious racial prejudice that might be lurking beneath otherwise anti-racist surfaces.