Design practice WEISS/MANFREDI has won the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. Presented by the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, the award is one of four honors recognizing achievements in architecture, citizen leaderships, global innovation, and law.
(Audio) Dr. Alex Krist at Virginia Commonwealth University and Dr. Amy Mathers at the University of Virginia offer some answers.
(Commentary by Matt Weber, senior assistant to the president and lecturer) During Holy Week, I wanted to remind my kids of sacred spaces even if our usual one is off limits.
The congressman saw firsthand the impact of COVID-19 on patients and staff at the UVA Medical Center this week. Riggleman says UVA is leading the pack in testing development.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes has announced it will present the University of Virginia Head Men's Basketball Coach Tony Bennett with the 2020 John Lotz "Barnabas" Award.
The weather was beautiful on Friday in Charlottesville. Ben Elron, who grew up in the college town, was thinking about past spring afternoons at the University of Virginia, where he is a third-year student. Law school third-years would be outside in shorts, playing sports, hanging out with friends and visiting nearby vineyards as the end of the school year approached. None of that is happening this year. The campus is closed. Dining halls are locked. A lot of law students are still in town, Elron said, but they’re not seeing one another because of social distancing rules.
Meagan Thurston wasn’t sure what to expect when she walked into Strength in Peers in December of 2019 for her first tele-psychiatry session, but she was willing to do whatever it took to get her children back. That’s how Thurston wound up in a room with a monitor and webcam, and speaking with Adam Colbert, a fourth-year resident in psychiatry at the University of Virginia, on the other side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The short supply of testing in the U.S. is one major concern for Dr. Taison Bell, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia's infectious disease and pulmonary critical care division, who said, “early and aggressive testing allows us all to stay safe.” “We see in states that aren’t reporting on racial demographics that there’s been a surge of patients dying of respiratory diseases … These are conditions caused by COVID-19,” Bell said, adding that preexisting conditions that make COVID-19 more fatal, like asthma, diabetes, and heart disease, are also more prevalent in black communitie...
A UVA associate nursing professor whose work focuses on intimate partner violence expresses the importance of tending to needs of potential victims during the “stay-at-home” order. A number of police departments report dealing with a spike in domestic violence incidents, and professor Kathryn Laughon wants people to know the Executive Order explicitly states anyone not safe at home can leave when they want or need. Laughon says it’s important to realize abusers thrive on isolating their victim, so it’s important friends and family reach out to each other. She says it’s not that you need to say...
UVA political scholar Larry Sabato noted that it’s odd for Trump – a relatively recent convert to the GOP – to be calling another Republican’s bona fides into question. “I’m always amused when Trump uses the term RINO,” he said. “He wasn’t even a RINO for most of his life since he described himself as a liberal Democrat. Hogan has a long pedigree in the GOP.”
Taison Bell, a professor of medicine at the UVA School of Medicine, said that in places where coronavirus testing is scarce for minority communities there’s been a spike in related ailments. “We see in states that aren’t reporting on racial demographics that there’s been a surge in patients dying from respiratory distress and respiratory failure. These are diseases that [COVID-19] causes but they’re not diagnosed as [COVID-19] because they’re unknown and aren’t tested,” Bell said.
“Effective policymaking is difficult. The ‘hardware’ of policymaking – the tools and structures of government that frame the possibilities for useful work – are obviously important,” writes Philip Zelikow, historian at University of Virginia. “Less obvious is that policy performance in practice often rests more on the ‘software’ of public problem-solving: the way people size up problems, design actions, and implement policy. In other words, the quality of the policymaking.”
According to reports, UVA researchers have developed a new high-temperature, low-cost alloy by combining nickel powder and graphene flakes. This modern metal matrix composite material can maintain integrity at 1000 degrees Celsius and will be widely used in industrial fields.
Michael Pittman created the Twitter account “@WahooBasketball” back in 2010 to retweet UVA news and interact with fans about the Virginia men’s basketball program. When he made the account, he figured it would be a fun way to discuss the Wahoos. The account has turned into something much more personal.
Aramark, UVA’s dining facilities contractor, is offering furloughed employees a free meal that comes ready to eat.
Technology entrepreneur Pete Snyder, and his wife, Burson, kicked off efforts today to provide Virginia-based small businesses with immediate financial assistance to meet payroll, preserve health care coverage for employees and save jobs while they await recently approved federal funding. The Virginia 30 Day Fund approval process is powered by volunteer MBAs from UVA’s Darden School of Business and some of the top business minds from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
(Editorial) That the University of Virginia is a wealthy institution sometimes provokes criticism. But the flip side is that the University is positioned to deploy financial resources to help people economically distressed by the COVID-19 crisis. The University announced this week that it is making available $2 million in aid to contract workers whose companies serve the school, and another $1million to the community at large.
As he approaches what could be the most consequential weeks of his presidency, Trump must fight the virus while holding together warring internal factions that have been a defining characteristic of his administration. “The Trump White House has been marked by chaos from the beginning, but in earlier days, it was mostly benign,” said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. “History will not judge this kindly.”
We spoke with Greg Fairchild, a research professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business and associate dean for Washington, D.C. Area Initiatives, who discussed the impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on the small business community.
Minority groups are also less likely to have health insurance, complicating their ability and willingness to seek treatment for illnesses. “If you look at pretty much any disease process, African Americans have higher rates or poorer outcomes for those diseases,” said Dr. Ebony Hilton-Buchholz, a UVA associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care. “We’re seeing that race literally is an independent risk factor for many of these disease processes. And it’s heightened [under COVID-19].”