On Tuesday, colleges throughout the country began canceling clinics and urging students to get their shots elsewhere. In some cases, like at the University of Virginia, officials said they will lean on existing supplies of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.
A UVA spokesman said students will begin receiving vaccines this week, which will give them enough time to receive their second shot before the end of final exams, which run May 7-15.
Dr. Bonds said Monday the lack of J&J supply will affect administration of vaccine to UVA students. She says the state and the Blue Ridge Health District had given the University a cache of the vaccine because the single-dose was so much more efficiently delivered to students. She says there’s still time to administer the two doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to the students, but first doses need to be done quickly.
UVA President Jim Ryan announced Tuesday that the University will not be raising undergraduate tuition for the 2021-22 academic year. The news brought big relief for students and their families. The mood on Grounds was one of gratitude.
UVA is freezing undergraduate tuition at current levels for the next school year, but officials warn that the hold will likely last only one year. The Board of Visitors unanimously voted to not raise tuition during a virtual meeting on Tuesday. The vote came despite pandemic mitigation costs and lost income last year that cost the school more than $100 million, including $44 million for which the school will not see reimbursement.
Liza Myers Borches, president and CEO of Carter Myers Automotive [and a 1997 graduate of UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce], is at the forefront in acclimating drivers to electrifying their rides. In her view, Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s signing of the General Assembly’s Clean Cars Virginia bill into law last month allows more dealers to climb aboard the electric vehicle bandwagon.
(Commentary by Jerome Adams, Darden Dean’s Fellow) The announcement Tuesday that U.S. authorities recommend pausing administration of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine over incidents of blood clots is big news. It is important to read past the headlines and to have a healthy dose of perspective on the available information.
A 2018 University of Virginia alum’s small business is giving back to her Ghanaian roots, with the help of some current UVA students. Charity Dinko founded Northshea, a shea butter business, that provides a living wage to women in Ghana. Dinko says the students have been vital to her company’s recent success.
H.E. Rangina Hamidi is the first female Minister of Education of Afghanistan in the last 30 years. Minister Hamidi was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, fled with her family to Pakistan in 1981 during the Soviet Occupation and eventually immigrated to the United States. She attended high school in the United States and received her B.A. degree with a double major in religion and gender studies at the University of Virginia.
Sunscreen can make all the difference. Experts say it can take as little as 15 minutes for some people to be sunburned. “The immediate response is the sunburn and subsequently even sun poisoning that you can get with too much sun exposure,” Dr. Mark Russell with the University of Virginia explained.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies, said that since the ’60s Republicans had sought to covertly appeal to the racist fears of white voters, but also broaden their appeal. It’s a balancing act Fox News hosts have also long performed, he said.
While it’s always nice having your toddler help set the table, empty the dishwasher, pack away their toys, and keep their room tidy, teaching your child to be responsible isn’t just keeping him occupied or assisting you. It’s one of the first steps to future success as an adult. We explore the benefits of chores to children, whatever their age. “Kids like to do real things because they want a role in the real world,” suggests psychologist Angeline Lillard of the University of Virginia.
Rogue officers like Derek Chauvin probably won’t be deterred by good law, but excessively vague law encourages bad behavior. As Sgt. Jody Stiger, a member of the Los Angeles Police Department called by prosecutors in the Chauvin trial, testified, most police departments derive their policies governing the use of force from Graham v. Connor. As Rachel Harmon, a UVA law professor and author of “The Law of the Police,” told me in an email, “Graham offers a standard focused on judging the use of force after it has happened,” and it “offers very little guidance to officers and d...
(Commentary by Bart Epstein, research associate professor at the School of Education & Human Development) The ongoing progress of COVID-19 vaccinations suggests we may finally have a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, and that soon all of our 56 million K-12 students, as well as teachers and administrators, can return to school.
On April 5, the Human Rights Commission, along with a number of other local aid and advocacy groups, implored the City Council to fully fund a $460,000 right to counsel program that would provide attorneys to tenants – specifically low-income tenants – in eviction proceedings to reduce the overall number of evictions in the city and the resulting trauma caused to individuals and the community. The April 5 letter presented to the council is cosigned by several local entities, including the University of Virginia Equity Center.
In each episode of this reboot of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning College Bowl quizzer that for decades has been part of campus life at colleges and universities around the world, teams of three representing some of the nation’s top schools will battle it out in a bracketed tournament over four rounds. The top two schools advance to the final where they compete head-to-head for the Capital One College Bowl trophy and a scholarship to put toward their education. (UVA is among the participating schools.)
University of Virginia: “The constructed environment is a continuously evolving realm that: 1. Encompasses the material, socio-economic, and political systems of the human mediated physical world. 2. Spans a wide range of temporal-spatial scales, from plants and species to building elements, assemblages, sites, neighborhoods, cities, and global infrastructures, across historical narratives, present conditions, and future projections. 3. Is the product of competing agents drawn from across the socio-physical environment including microorganisms, climatic conditions, interfaces with virtual real...
A memorial to enslaved workers who built the University of Virginia was officially dedicated Saturday, a year after the Covid-19 pandemic canceled its official unveiling.
The University of Virginia is honoring the thousands of enslaved people who built the institution in stone.
After a national search, UVA Health announced Dr. Tracy M. Downs will be the one for the job. He comes from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine where he's currently the Associate Dean for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.