The University of Virginia has been planning for a biennial democracy celebration for the past two years. Kimberly Dove found out recently that she was selected to be a part of it. Dove, a social studies teacher at Wilbur S. Pence Middle School, was selected to be the 2021 UVA Democracy Biennial Ambassador – one of four middle or high school teachers in the state selected to attend the UVA Democracy Biennial this weekend.
Two professors at the University of Virginia are leading an effort to improve care for kids with autism and other disabilities. The Leadership Education in Neurodevelopment and Related Disabilities, known as the LEND program, is actually getting its own Blue Ridge sector. This program provides a range of graduate-level training for an important field.
The University of Virginia has announced plans for a new performing arts center funded by a $50 million donation.
A $50 million gift from a Charlottesville fine arts supporter will fund a new performing arts center at the University of Virginia, UVA President Jim Ryan announced at the school’s Board of Visitors meeting on Friday.
In his most recent book, University of Virginia professor Christopher Ali argues that the ongoing battle for improved connectivity is not only far from over, but also critically flawed. “Farm Fresh Broadband” proposes a new approach to national rural broadband policy to narrow the rural-urban digital divide.
“Our research found that people didn’t tend to enjoy their thoughts,” says Timothy Wilson, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia and lead study author. “We’re usually not willing to put in the effort because we have the allure of so many other things to take our attention.”
(Subscription may be required) Paul Cantor, a UVA English professor who has written extensively on how popular culture reflects the country’s character, looks across history and sees far more discord than harmony. “This has always been a deeply fractious nation,” Cantor said. … In a more balkanized country, in which many people focus on their ideology, race, gender, ethnicity or sexuality as much as their identity as Americans, the idea of rallying to a shared patriotism has been politicized, said Kevin Gaines, a historian at UVA who focuses on the country’s struggles with racial integration.&...
Ericke S. Cage will serve as interim president until a new permanent president for the university is selected. Cage is a graduate of the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.
Jayme Swain, VPM and Virginia Foundation for Public Media president and CEO, was elected to serve a three-year term as a professional director on the Public Broadcasting Service Board, PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger announced Wednesday. Swain is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
Novelist Michael Knight is the featured speaker in the Fall Residency in Creative Writing at East Tennessee State University, with virtual events planned for Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 27-28. Knight holds an MFA from the University of Virginia.
(Subscription may be required) Matthew Sipe and Ryan Watzel met in 2012 at Yale Law School and became fast friends. Mr. Sipe, 31, is an assistant professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. He graduated from the University of Virginia.
In early August, archivists and other scholars erupted in protest when the American Historical Association (AHA) wrote a letter asking broad questions about how archives plan to reopen. Nicole Schroder, a PhD student in American History at the University of Virginia, cast the AHA’s letter as part of a “dystopian world” in which “the well-being of archivists and libraries is negligible because some [people] have books to write.”
(Video) GoLocal interviewed the chair of the University of Virginia's Political Science Department Jennifer Lawless.
University of Virginia School of Medicine Professor Dr. Jochen Zimmer has been awarded $9 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The HHMI is the largest private biomedical research institution in the nation.
Dr. Patrick Jackson, an epidemiologist at UVA, says his pager is "blowing up" with patients requesting various treatments for COVID-19. He says the city needs to do everything it can to encourage vaccines, including a mandate for city employees.
James Naughton, a pension expert and actuary who teaches at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, says the recent rescue package is “just putting a big delay in there,” the publication writes.
In a great piece from The New York Times, John Moore, a virologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, asks. “But truly, how much does this difference matter in the real world?” Dr. Jeffrey Wilson, an immunologist and physician at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, told the NY Times: “In high-risk populations, it might be relevant. It’d be good if people took a close look.”
Intensive care unit beds at University of Virginia Health Systems are near capacity. It was announced Friday morning at a UVA COVID-19 Health briefing that the contributing factor being the rise in COVID-19 cases in those unvaccinated.
University of Virginia Medical Center leaders report Friday morning their ICU was near capacity. CEO Wendy Horton said the ICU numbers are very dynamic, but as of Friday morning they had 86 ICU beds staffed of 93.
A painful childhood health problem is on the upswing in Charlottesville. Doctor Abigail Kumral is a pediatrician at the University of Virginia. She says a combination of social distancing and masking kept ear infections at a record low in Charlottesville last year.