Central to these grading makeovers: Many students lack access to technology, and not all teachers have mastered the ins and outs of online instruction. Families are reeling from health concerns or lost employment. Some students are tending to siblings or getting jobs themselves. “You have to err on the side of fairness to all of the students and the validity of whatever performance measure you use,” said Robert Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development.
Doctors at UVA Health specializing in infectious disease and critical care began looking at evidence for different potential therapies for COVID-19 before treating their first patient. “We wanted to hit the ground running,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious disease specialist leading the remdesivir trial at UVA.
Mager Koromhas (Virginia), a graduate of the University of Virginia with a B.S. in Commerce and M.S. in Accounting from the University of Virginia is employed with KPMG LLP in Norfolk, Virginia.
The Focused Ultrasound Foundation, based in Charlottesville, announced Tuesday that it has named Patrick Edelmann as its managing director. He received his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and his master’s degree in business administration from the University of Virginia.
In effect, the banks agreed to become worldwide enforcers of U.S. law, including financial sanctions – sometimes despite their own governments’ protests. That’s the take of UVA law professor Pierre-Hugues Verdier, author of the just-released book, “Global Banks on Trial U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance.”
TJHD Deputy Incident Commander Ryan McKay says the district’s top priority right now is containing outbreaks in long-term care facilities, as well as communication. ”It’s just making sure that that we’re facilitating tests and testing quickly, and we’ve established a relationship with UVA Health to make sure that we can deliver a test kit,” McKay said.
Lower chief executive officer integrity is associated with higher audit fees at large public corporations and deteriorating performance, according to a recent academic study published in The Accounting Review. Researchers pored through over 30,000 shareholder letters, scrutinizing the words used by CEOs, according to the study, titled “CEO Behavioral Integrity, Auditor Responses, and Firm Outcomes,” from the University of Virginia, INSEAD, Duke University and Yale University.
“Obviously, we would love to open in the fall – meaning, have students back. That’s true of my colleagues in Virginia and across the country,” said UVA President James E. Ryan. “What we’re trying to do right now is ask the question, ‘Under what conditions can we safely open?’” Ryan sees three scenarios for the 24,000-student public university.
UVA is among the 10 law schools where class of 2018 graduates employed at law firms were most likely to possess full-time jobs lasting at least a year at firms with more than 500 lawyers.
Former UVA students have created a way to deliver groceries to those susceptible to the novel coronavirus. Dubbed “Social Distance Delivery,” the service was created by Nicholas Ehat and Fayez Jabboure, both members of the Class of 2019, and operates in the Charlottesville area as well as Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, parts of Maryland and Wesley Chapel, Florida.
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe spoke Wednesday to Larry Sabato’s class at UVA about several current issues, including what he would have done had he been in the Oval Office during the COVID-19 crisis.
With Mamadi Diakite and Braxton Key graduating and starting their professional basketball careers, Virginia’s underclassmen gain an opportunity to contribute meaningful minutes for a contender entering 2020-21. Under Tony Bennett’s watch, UVa’s 2020-21 roster returns key contributors such as Kihei Clark and Jay Huff, while also adding an impact transfer in Sam Hauser.
The number of COVID cases in Virginia prisons has been rising steadily, with 200 inmates and guards now infected and a 49-year-old prisoner dead. Public health experts say jails and prisons are petri dishes for the virus, and some states have freed thousands of prisoners, but Virginia is moving slowly on that front. By February, infectious disease experts like Dr. Scott Hysell at UVA were warning that COVID-19 could spread rapidly through prisons and jails. “These are populations that share eating and sleeping facilities,” he says. “There’s overcrowding. There are limitations to sanitatio...
(Commentary) At issue is the already much-damaged equilibrium of the Constitution’s separation of powers. If both cases are decided correctly, the vitality of Congress will be enhanced and the pretensions of presidents will be chastened. Today’s column concerns the case involving Congress’s investigative powers. A subsequent column will address the case concerning Congress’s core power, that of controlling government’s purse strings. Tuesday’s arguments will concern standing – whether the House can seek a judicial remedy for its injuries. If it has standing, it should win on the meri...
UVA public policy professor Ray Scheppach, former longtime executive director of the National Governors Association, said the decision governors face on when and how to loosen restrictions is a lot tougher than the call they had to make on closing down. “There are bigger political risks,” he said. “That’s why you see groups of governors getting together.”
Dr. Leigh-Ann Jones Webb, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia, said having more complete data of all types, including socioeconomic and racial data, is key to determining where additional resources will be needed during the pandemic. Jones Webb encouraged anyone who receives medical care for COVID-19 to include their race and ethnicity in any hospital paperwork.
On Friday, UVA announced – tentatively – that Class of 2020 graduations will take place Oct. 9-11, indicating hope that the novel coronavirus pandemic will have abated by then.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday announced the launch of Project Rebound, a local economic recovery initiative to address the COVID-19 economic crisis. The project, hosted by The Chamber and economic offices at the University of Virginia, Albemarle County and the city of Charlottesville, aims to bring together local businesses to discuss challenges of COVID-19’s economic impact and to prepare solutions.
A trash orgy, tanning and a hike with a ‘bearded geologist’: Virginia’s first Earth Day celebrations
Like other Virginia universities, UVA planned a roster of talks and seminars leading up to Earth Day. But on the actual day, students’ minds were evidently somewhere else. Attendance at an all-day symposium was “sparse,” and the Cavaliers (who were for the first time both male and female after a federal court case led Mr. Jefferson’s University to go co-ed in 1970) were apparently “more concerned with getting suntans and playing tennis.”
Environmentalists have launched a monthlong program, “Earth Day Every Day,” to promote a range of personal actions that could have a collective impact on the health of our planet. “Adopting a more plant-based diet and wasting less food are some top actions that people can take,” says Dana Schroeder with the Sustainability Office at UVA. “A plant-based diet doesn’t mean you need to be vegetarian or vegan. You could just be eating one less meat-based meal every week.”