The University of Virginia disenrolled 238 students ahead of its fall semester for noncompliance with the school’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement. Of that number, 49 were enrolled in fall courses – meaning that “a good number” of the remaining students “may not have been planning to return to the University this fall at all,” UVA spokesperson Brian Coy said in an email.
“We know rainfall patterns are changing – more intense, more frequent storms,” said Jonathan Goodall, a UVA engineering professor who co-chaired a recent study for the General Assembly on climate change impacts in Virginia, during a presentation to the Joint Commission on Technology and Science earlier this week. “Those aren’t limited to the coast. Those will happen across the commonwealth.”
One 5-year-old cancer patient has grown up to become a doctor herself, and she just celebrated her white coat ceremony at UVA. But there’s more. The doctor who treated her years ago, Dr. Loren Walensky, is reacting to the touching news. When he met the then 3-year-old Kate Franklin, the two instantly developed a special bond.
Before UVA students come back to Grounds, they were required to be vaccinated unless they have a religious or medical exemption. “Ninety-nine percent of students have complied with our requirements, so there’s only 1% of our entire student body that isn’t either vaccinated or doesn’t have a valid exemption,” UVA spokesperson Brian Coy said.
Emma Navarro, 20, of Charleston, S.C., is currently ranked No. 329. She won the NCAA singles title in May as a freshman at the University of Virginia after going 25-1 in collegiate singles, a program record for single-season win percentage. She earned a qualifying wild card into the 2019 US Open as the USTA Girls’ 18s finalist.
Former UVA standout Trey Murphy was the 17th overall pick in the July 29 NBA draft. Based on the results from just-completed summer league, he’s already begun to outperform that status. Murphy was named to the All-NBA Summer League First Team on Wednesday, after helping to spearhead New Orleans to a 5-0 record in Las Vegas, often winning in dominant fashion.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809 to traveling actors. He was only 3 years old when his parents died, and as a result, he was taken in by John Allan, a rich tobacco merchant from Virginia. As a child, Allan groomed Poe to be a successful businessman like himself, but the future writer had other interests. Eventually, Poe was sent to the University of Virginia. But being a miser, Allan sent him away without enough funds to support his education, and Poe eventually had to drop out of college.
Rohann Asfaw, a cross-country and track runner for the University of Virginia, started his TikTok account in the fall of 2018. Within four months, he had amassed more than 100,000 followers. Asfaw, who turned 22 earlier this month and is studying to get a master’s in educational psychology, used the app to post videos of himself dancing and participating in other viral trends and memes. He now has 1.3 million followers on the platform after uploading several posts a week. But because of NCAA rules, Asfaw could not profit from any of the popularity he gained from the app.
Dr. Leigh Ann Lather, University of Virginia School of Medicine: Dr. Lather is a pediatric surgeon who treats conditions including fractures, sports injuries, scoliosis and hip dysplasia. Before joining UVA Health, she worked in an underserved area of eastern North Carolina for 13 years.
Through a year and a half of pandemic hardships, the medical community has by and large risen to meet the moment. Below are 75 of the most outstanding and inspirational pathology and laboratory medicine professionals of 2021, according to The Pathologist. Anne Mills, associate professor of pathology, was among those listed in the “Leading Roles” category.
Alexis Ehrhardt, president and CEO of the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce, will leave for a job at the University of Virginia, the chamber announced Wednesday. In her new role at UVA, she will be the executive director for state government relations and special assistant to the president. Her last day at the chamber is Sept. 15.
Siddhartha Angadi, a cardiovascular physiologist and assistant professor at the University of Virginia, said published data does show that transgendered individuals had a substantially higher risk of strokes and heart attacks.
In addition to conceptual injustices, there are the daily slights and insults from living in a white-dominated academic world. Oludamini Ogunnaike, an assistant professor of African religious thought and democracy at the University of Virginia, recalls an orientation at his first tenure-track job.
Practice self-care: Self-care is frequently prescribed to protect against burnout in any profession. “I think people are starting to recognize that teachers’ well-being is really critical to their ability to perform their jobs well,” Patricia Jennings, a professor of education at the University of Virginia and an expert in teacher stress, said recently.
The 10 states with the highest transmission are all in one region: the South. “If we’re going to talk about traveling to the U.K., then we should also caution Americans about traveling to Florida,” Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton of the University of Virginia told Yahoo Finance on July 21. “Right now, one in every five new COVID cases are coming out of Florida.” The state’s daily caseload has since doubled.
What we’re going through was identified by James Davison Hunter, a sociologist at the University of Virginia. His 1991 book, “Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America,” described a stark divide between “traditionalists” and “progressivists.”
(Video) UVA Political Science Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE on Tuesday to discuss the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — and the chaos and humanitarian crisis that has followed.
The other key question is whether voters will forgive the execution of the withdrawal to reward the larger goal of ending a 20-year war. “We’re getting out of an unpopular war abroad,” says Larry Sabato, founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “We’re getting out of it in a messy fashion, but we’re getting out of it. … I’m not saying Biden will be boosted by it,but I am saying, if he is hurt by it, it will be temporary and this will be replaced by other issues that go to the heart of American life, like the pandemic [and] the economy.”
Robert J. Orth, a professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary, had been working since the 1970s in nearby Chesapeake Bay, where seagrass still survived. Together with researchers from the University of Virginia, Orth started planting back eelgrass seeds from Chesapeake Bay into the smaller bays. “We have about four times more fish in the seagrass meadows than outside [them] or before the seagrass meadows were restored,” says Karen McGlathery, a professor at the University of Virginia, whose role in the project is to understand the benefits of seagra...
Increasing burdens of disclosure and governance regulations are often cited as the reason that the number of public firms in the U.S. has been declining in recent decades. Using the fact that many public firm regulations apply only to firms whose float (the value of shares held by public investors) exceeds a certain threshold, Michael Ewens of the California Institute of Technology, Ting Xu of the University of Virginia and Kairong Xiao of Columbia University examine the bunching of firms around these thresholds to infer the costs of regulation. Their findings suggest that non-regulatory facto...