Consensus can be difficult. Two conservatives on the 38-member body — Jack Goldsmith of Harvard Law School and Caleb Nelson of the UVA School of Law — have resigned, the White House acknowledged Friday. “We respect their decision and very much appreciate the significant contributions that they made during the last 5 months in terms of preparing for these deliberations,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said.
Two conservative commissioners quit the panel, the White House said Friday. Jack Goldsmith, a conservative who worked in the George W. Bush administration, and Caleb Nelson, a UVA professor and former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, left the commission. The reasons for their departures were not immediately clear. In an email to CNN, Nelson wrote, “I can confirm that I resigned from the Commission, but I don’t have any further comment (other than to say that it was an honor for me to be part of it).”
The University of Virginia Cancer Center is working to increase racial and ethnic diversity in cancer center treatment clinical trials. UVA says ethnic and minority groups are under-represented in cancer research. The center is working with several different cancer groups to boost participation in clinical trials among minority communities.
The diagnosis was clear: UVA Health’s emergency department was seeing 60,000 patients a year, a figure 50% higher than its intended capacity. Tasked with devising a solution was longtime collaborator Perkins&Will, and its 440,000-square-foot expansion—the largest in the modern history of UVA’s medical system and the winner of the IIDA competition’s health care category—would add 180 much-needed beds to the Charlottesville campus.
Starting Monday, UVA Health will be offering both boosters and third doses of COVID-19 vaccines for those who are eligible. This is a difference between the two, and you must meet requirements listed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to get an extra shot.
UVA Health announced its efforts to help the incoming Afghan refugees by offering them clinics by appointment, as well as providing resources for long-term care.
The book I ended up reading to figure this out was “Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate” by William F. Ruddiman, professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. In this book, Ruddiman explores a variety of scientific evidence, including data from ice cores, ocean sediments, and astronomical information. Then, he compares this to evidence of human activities to see how much impact we’ve had over the last 10,000 years.
Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Virginia found that after the introduction of a mandatory “female” quota for the board of directors (40%), the liquid assets of 104 Norwegian public companies decreased 2.7-4.1%, and salary costs increased by 4.1% due to more active hiring of employees and fewer lay-offs. The probability of dismissal of more than 1% of employees at the enterprise with the introduction of the quota decreased by 25%, and the probability of dismissal of more than 5% of the staff decreased by 13%. That is, the presence of women in management positions he...
A recent study from the University of Virginia found that among states that formerly belonged to the Confederacy, a higher number of lynchings occurred in counties with a higher number of Confederate memorials.
In its weekly report on Friday, UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute — which has conducted infectious disease modeling for over 20 years and helps advise the VDH — noted how the state remains in a fragile, unpredictable position ahead of the holidays. Last year, October set up “the foundation” for the winter surge, researchers wrote. Close to 40% of Virginians are not fully vaccinated — a chunk of the population researchers said is large enough to initiate a repeat of the pandemic’s darkest days, when the state nearly hit a single-day high of 10,000 cases.
Qian Xuhong, ECNU’s president, shared the teaching practices of the university in his keynote speech and said ECNU aims to cultivate innovative educators who seek to complement Chinese and Western pedagogies. “To reach this goal, we have cooperated with over 300 global universities, including the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, to offer 56 dual-degree training programs and nearly 300 student exchange projects,” he said. According to Qian, the university has also invited experts and professors from institutions like Yale Universi...
During the 2020-21 academic year, 118 EMBA students at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business took virtual study trips to Finland, Estonia, India, Japan and Argentina. It was not the same as the global immersion courses that Darden professors Marc and Shizuka Modica have led to Japan for several years. However, they say that the virtual tours added something new: making traditional Japanese meals; or trying out local customs with their families. “People got really involved with it emotionally and intellectually,” Shizuka Modica says.
After FAFSA rates declined last year, a lower college enrollment followed this year. Undergraduate enrollment at Virginia colleges and universities is slightly below the 2020 level and down 2% from 2019. Not all colleges saw their enrollments drop this year. Some of the state’s most prestigious universities — UVA, the College of William & Mary and Virginia Tech — received record numbers of applications.
For the second year in a row, a popular event held on the University of Virginia Lawn has been canceled. Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn normally brings hundreds of families with children in costume to the UVA Lawn where the children can collect candy from Lawn residents. It was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the announcement for this year’s cancellation is along the same lines.
A University of Virginia tradition lives on as Pancakes for Parkinson’s returned in person on the lawn Saturday morning. This is the 18th year of the event at UVA. It is completely free and all donation based. People walked over to the Lawn, enjoyed some pancakes before the football game, while supporting the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Two new living memorials have been placed on the University of Virginia’s Grounds. According to a release, officials planted a Morton elm in front of Pavilion X to honor President Emerita Teresa Sullivan. A black gum tree was also recently planted in the Spies Garden at the UVA School of Law for former Law School Dean John Jeffries.
A UVA Medical Center clinic saw nearly three dozen patients on Saturday in a daylong event that provided initial visits to many of the refugees and special visa holders who arrived in Central Virginia this summer. The event helped get the new arrivals, mostly from Afghanistan, into regular family medical care at the International Family Medicine Clinic at UVA Health ahead of the anticipated arrival of as many as 250 more.
Nearly 18 months after Virginia’s first recorded case of COVID-19 – a period that’s seen the virus surge and retreat four different times – new infections are once again on the decline. Many researchers are cautiously optimistic that we’re leaving behind the latest wave. That doesn’t mean we’ve beaten the virus. “We still have a very high case rate, like most of the states in the country,” said Bryan Lewis, a computational epidemiologist with UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute. “We’ve been down for a few weeks, so everybody feels good, but there are still a lot of people going into the hospital.”
University of Virginia: Far from just being a place of education, UVA has a rich and fascinating history that has led it to be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and at its center lies The Rotunda, a stunning 19th-century property modeled after the Pantheon in Rome.
(Co-written by Henry Prillaman, a fourth-year student majoring in economics) Our agriculture system as we know it needs to change. We see an enormous amount of waste in current practices through using up too much water, using too many pesticides that hurt the neighboring environment as well as waste of produce through imperfection or being pest ridden. This, combined with flagging and in some cases stagnant yield increases in soil systems across the world will soon require sweeping and rapid changes in growing methods. As our population continues to grow, food production will grow and our meth...