UVA Health officials are offering third doses of COVID-19 vaccines for patients with compromised immune systems but are not giving out booster shots for other patients or vaccines for children under 12. Officials said they are receiving a large volume of phone calls from people who want a booster or to inquire about a vaccination shot for a child. Many are confused about who can get which shots, when. The concern is heightened by the rise in COVID-19 cases nationwide and new variants of the coronavirus.
Following the Bush-Gore 2000 election controversy, the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that focuses on public policy and political history, assembled a commission to examine voting systems and recommend reforms. Many of the suggested improvements ultimately helped inform, and were subsequently adopted in, the Help America Vote Act, which addressed improvements to voting processes and access, and was signed by former President George W. Bush in 2002.
Work by researchers with the University of Virginia suggests women recover from concussions much faster than men. Jake Resch with UVA’s Department of Kinesiology and School of Education says his findings differ what other studies have suggested.
A new study done by researchers at the UVA School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences has revealed that the commonly used blood pressure drugs have potential to improve the survival rate of patients suffering from colorectal cancer. The study was conducted on more than 14,000 patients with colorectal cancer.
The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at UVA selected 21 Virginia residents, including five in Hampton Roads, as 2021 class members for its flagship Political Leaders Program. The program, which is on a shortened schedule because of the pandemic, will focus on Virginia politics and governing, policy issues and solutions, regional needs, and leadership, according to a news release.
Last week the University of Virginia disenrolled 49 students who didn’t comply with the school’s vaccine mandate, announced May 20. Students had until July 1 to comply. In an email, the school said 99% of UVA’s students were in compliance with the mandate. The 1% who was not totaled 238 students, but only 49 of those had actually signed up for fall classes.
Outside of academia, Wilson established a private practice, Studio &, which recently completed the Memorial to Enslaved African American Laborers at the University of Virginia. Designed in collaboration with Höweler + Yoon Architecture, Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect, Frank Dukes, and Eto Otitigbe, the memorial was named Project of the Year by the Architect’s Newspaper in the 2020 AN Best of Design Awards, where it was said to address “America’s fraught history of race” through the creation of “a space for mournful contemplation by making an earthly incision […]”
The National Building Museum announced that Mabel O. Wilson, the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, is the 23rd recipient of the museum’s annual Vincent Scully Prize. Established in 1999, the Scully Prize recognizes excellence in practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design. … With her private practice, Studio &, Wilson is part of the architectural team that completed the Memorial to Enslaved African American Laborers at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) Over 80 institutions of higher education have joined the Universities Studying Slavery consortium, created and led by the University of Virginia. And recently, Virginia legislators passed a law that requires five public institutions – UVA, the College of William and Mary, Longwood University, Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia Military Institute – to “make reparations through scholarships or community-based economic development and memorial programs.”
The University of Virginia began classes on Tuesday. Grounds was swarming with backpack-strapped students, unlike last semester, when classes were mostly virtual. “I was used to my whole life going to class, learning in class, and then the major shift online just really, I realized how grateful I was to go into class,” said third-year Derek Pekar.
To reckon with this history is to consider what is allowable at any moment, what we are willing to misremember, to forget, who we are willing to shun, to exclude. We must ask how the Black church can today move forward with honesty, integrity, love.
(Video) Dr. Michael DeVere Williams, population health medical director; associate professor of surgery & public policy at the UVA School of Medicine and Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy, discusses the latest on the coronavirus pandemic.
After days of talks between athletic directors and commissioners, the Big Ten, Pac-12, and Atlantic Coast conferences announced Tuesday that they will form an alliance to develop a “collaborative approach surrounding the future evolution of college athletics and scheduling.” … University of Virginia Athletic Director Carla Williams will be among one of the four ADs from the ACC that will be working with ADs from the Big Ten and Pac-12 to oversee the strategy of the scheduling alliance.
The University of Virginia was well-represented in the Olympics, as several current, former, and future Wahoos participated across a number of events and represented many countries. In total, UVA sent 18 Olympians across six sports and represented seven different countries. Nine of those Cavalier Olympians brought home medals.
Best known for being the founder of the popular dessert brand Milk Bar, Christina Tosi has become a legend in the baking world. Her talent and creativity have allowed her to reach heights that once seemed unimaginable, and she doesn’t plan on slowing down any time soon. Over the course of her culinary career, Christina has also become a fixture on television. She has been on dozens of shows throughout the years, mostly as a judge. … Even though being in the kitchen has always been one of Christina’s passions, it wasn’t something she pursued at first. Instead, she went to the University of Virg...
London Perrantes has had quite the journey since he graduated from the University of Virginia in 2017. As the former UVA star point guard heads into his fifth season playing professional basketball, the next chapter of his playing career will be taking place in Israel, where Perrantes will play for Hapoel Galil Gilboa, a professional basketball club in the Israeli Premier League.
In October 2020, [UVA aumnus and NFL official] David Wyant decided to put the yellow flag in his pocket for good. He recently joined an officials meeting through Zoom thinking it was to honor all the referees who were retiring. Little did he know the Art McNally Award would be headed to White Hall, Va.
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Reclamation this week announced a first-ever water shortage in the Colorado River Basin that is expected to force Arizona farmers to cut their water use and eventually force further cuts across all seven states in the basin. The declaration has “major implications for the stream flow and the health of rivers and streams around the basin,” said Leon Szeptycki, a University of Virginia law professor and former executive director of Water in the West at the Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment.
The sheer scale of the project means better maps could still be far off, experts say. “The FCC is a deliberative federal agency, so it’s moving slowly,” said Christopher Ali, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. “I think their heart is in the right place in terms of wanting to produce the best maps. But it’s probably going to take another two years.”
(Commentary) UVA anthropology professor and author Jarrett Zigon recently wrote: “Addiction is often called a disease of loneliness, and during the pandemic, loneliness is something that many more people experienced.” Zigon admits that overdose increases during COVID-19 are not surprising, since it has been so difficult for those living with SUD to rebuild meaningful social connections and have hope for the future.