UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Services has a Demographics Research Group that forecasts population both by state and nationally. The group recently forecast population by state and age. One set of figures predicts population by state in 2040.
One data model is predicting the commonwealth will see a steep decline in COVID-19 cases in the coming weeks, but the Virginia Department of Health says that doesn’t mean we should loosen restrictions. “People do need to take some responsibility and try and avoid infecting other people,” Bryan Lewis with the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute said. VDH and the UVA Biocomplexity Institute both suggest we may have just passed the peak of the omicron variant. This is based on past models that have been accurate on predicting trends, but not exact numbers.
The University of Virginia will be testing the components of its Emergency Notification System on Tuesday.
Stanford White’s creations can be found outside New York City. He designed Rosecliff and several other houses in Newport, Rhode Island, and the Frederick Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, New York. The firm’s Boston buildings included the Algonquin Club, the Boston Public Library, Harvard Stadium, and the Symphony Hall. His work on the University of Virginia is considered one of his few misfires.
For governments that need help developing better data resources, universities, regional centers and organizations devoted to equity topics provide invaluable assistance. In Virginia, Albemarle County, which surrounds Charlottesville, developed an Equity Profile, in collaboration with the Equity Center at the University of Virginia. The profile was one product of a larger partnership with the Equity Center and many other community partners that also included the development of a Regional Equity Atlas, which is designed to “combine, visualize, and make accessible data about local disparities.”
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University of Virginia president Jim Ryan said in a message Monday about the attorney general’s opinion that “the issue is moot for us at UVA, at least for the time being. Our deadline for the vaccine/booster mandate has passed, and we are grateful to report that over 99 percent of students have complied with our vaccine and booster requirements,” Ryan wrote. “Because we have such a small number of students who have not yet received the booster, we decided early last week–based on the advice of our student affairs team–that we will not disenroll students who have not yet received their booster...
Virginia Tech, George Mason University and the University of Virginia announced Monday that they’re dropping their COVID-19 vaccination requirement for students to attend in person or to enroll in light of last week’s legal opinion issued by state Attorney General Jason Miyares.
It’s become a semiannual hurdle for colleges in Virginia: when classes begin, thousands of students return to campus, and a rise in COVID-19 cases follows. Thanks to omicron, the start of the spring 2022 semester has been no different. But this time, as colleges see their cases rise, they are ending the policies that require students and employees be vaccinated. At least four universities – Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and George Mason – announced Monday they had ended their student vaccine requirements, in light of an opinion released Friday by A...
One by one, Virginia’s public universities appear to be falling into line with an opinion from the state’s new Republican attorney general, Jason Miyares, that they are not legally authorized to require students to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The University of Virginia, meanwhile, said it would no longer threaten to disenroll students this semester who do not get a vaccine booster shot.
Three years after Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, an unplanned stop at the University of Virginia led to Dr. Robert Walter “Whirlwind” Johnson taking the first step toward fulfilling his dream of seeing the sport of tennis fully integrated.
A UVA School of Medicine researcher and local biopharmaceutical company have teamed up to develop a new, more effective potential treatment for burns and wound healing.
After weeks of record-setting COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations, researchers at the University of Virginia say the commonwealth appears to have turned the corner.
[UVA-trained] economist Philip Jefferson has called on the Federal Reserve to more closely consider how its policies shape the economic well-being of different groups of Americans. If confirmed for a seat on the central bank’s board, he may soon prod it to do so as it prepares to raise interest rates to combat inflation.
Despite coming up short in the championship match against Ashleigh Barty, [UVA alumna] Danielle Collins should be feeling great about her breakthrough run in Melbourne. And now, she finds herself in the top 10 of the WTA rankings.
The Bears are hiring [UVA alumnus] Ian Cunningham as their assistant general manager, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports. Cunningham takes over as the right-hand man for Ryan Poles, who was hired Tuesday as the team’s new general manager. Cunningham is leaving the Eagles, where he was the director of player personnel.
Colette McEachin: Years of experience: 31; Current title: Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney. She graduated law school at the University of Virginia in 1985. She worked at private law firms in Atlanta and Richmond before starting at the Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office in 1991 as the crack epidemic hit the city sending annual murder totals into the triple digits.
As the world focuses on tensions at the Russian-Ukrainian border, one of Pittsburgh’s own is headed to the nearby ex-Soviet neighbor of Moldova to represent U.S. interests in the small, rural state – one that faces challenges of legacy corruption and poverty but that experts say is pivoting from a pro-Russia stance toward the West. [UVA alumnus] Kent Logsdon, who grew up in Edgeworth, will embark on the next phase of his decades-long career in diplomacy as the U.S. ambassador to Moldova, a country of 3.3 million tucked between Romania and Ukraine’s southwestern border.
(Commentary) This writer and the newspaper I write for are pondering why the name of former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears was not included on that list. … She matriculated to Cornell University, obtained her bachelor’s degree and became a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She went on to get her law degree from Atlanta’s Emory University in 1980, followed by a Master’s law degree from the University of Virginia in 1985.
(Editorial) Having a comprehensive view where inequities exist among Virginians is the first step toward figuring out how to rectify them. In this regard, CRT has been used as a guide. In a recent interview, Janice Underwood offered an example of how her team (including student volunteers from the University of Virginia School of Law) applied the theoretical framework to remove the racist language in the Code of Virginia.
Avinash “Avi” Agarwal, M.D., 47, died Jan. 19 at home. He was an associate professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation Surgery at UVA Health for the past 11 years. He served as the program director of the Abdominal Transplant Fellowship at the UVA Department of Surgery, and was also the medical director of the UVA Transplant Unit and medical director for LifeNet Health Virginia. During his time working with LifeNet, he recovered 833 transplanted organs and saved 793 patient lives.