“Abortion is something that naturally divides the two parties and is a motivator for a lot of voters,” Kyle Kondik, an elections analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said. “A major question in the Biden presidency, and this is true for every party after they take office, is, can they keep up their motivation level? Usually the other party has the edge. Would an opinion on abortion that Democrats and liberals don’t like potentially help motivate the left in 2022? Quite possibly.”
Afton resident Kenneth R. White has been appointed dean of the School of Nursing at MGH Institute of Health Professions in Charlestown, Massachusetts. White, who recently completed service as the associate dean for strategic partnerships in the School of Nursing and Endowed Professor of Nursing at UVA and where he continues in that affiliation as an emeritus professor, will begin his new role July 1.
(Commentary by Robert F. Turner, retired professor of law) What if I told you that the Hemings story is likely false and, in reality, Jefferson has a strong claim among major public figures of his era to the title “America’s First Abolitionist?”
UVA Children’s is finding more ways to help children with autism and their families. UVA joined the National Autism Care Network, which will allow more local families to have better access to care.
History Lesson: The University of Virginia’s Miller Center and the LBJ Library have launched a new website, lbjtapes.org, that offers a newly accessible, free window into Lyndon B. Johnson’s White House tapes and more than 100 conversations he had in office. The launch follows more than two decades of efforts to transcribe and analyze Johnson’s tapes at the Miller Center.
Republicans have a good chance of bouncing back in the 2022 midterms after Democrats’ lurch to the left, a new report from UVA’s Center for Politics suggests.
Apart from being the husband of Serena Williams, Alexis Ohanian is a successful businessman. Both Serena and he often post pictures and videos of themselves having a good time with their daughter Olympia. Recently, Alexis captured and posted about another one of these adorable moments that happened when he was giving a speech. Alexis had to give a speech at the convocation ceremony of the University of Virginia. Interestingly, before that, he asked Olympia a question. He asked her what piece of advice she would give to the students of the University of Virginia. To this, Olympia came up with a...
The University of Virginia, which held its commencement ceremonies this past weekend, removed its mask mandate for the event ahead of its start. “Based on the advice of university medical experts, we are pleased to inform you that the university will follow the advice of the CDC and the governor and update our policy so that UVA community members who are fully vaccinated can now safely forego masks both indoors and outdoors,” officials wrote in a message to campus.
Some Virginia universities have eased their mask mandates for those who have been fully vaccinated to follow more closely with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. Universities that officially made mask changes for vaccinated people include UVA, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University and Old Dominion University.
The University of Virginia is requiring students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for fall semester and will require unvaccinated employees to undergo regular COVID-19 testing beginning this summer, administrators announced Thursday.
The University of Virginia is joining a growing list of universities requiring vaccinations. At least 389 colleges across that country have required vaccinations for at least some students or faculty, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The University of Virginia will require students who live, learn or work on campus this fall to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, school officials announced Thursday.
Dr. Costi Sifri, a UVA infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist, said the news of the ballplayers is evidence that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine works. “It’s preventing serious infections in those staff and players with the Yankees,” Sifri said. “Those infections that occurred, the so-called breakthrough infections, importantly were for the most part mild to moderate infections.”
Over the past year, UVA graduate Destinee Wright has been hard at work finalizing the Charlottesville Black Business Directory. When Destinee began her passion project in 2018, she recognized a need to connect Black business owners to the local community. “It started as a Facebook post,” Destinee shared. “Where are the Black businesses? I know a bunch from being in the community, but I don’t see them listed anywhere.”
(Commentary by Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine) Allowing fully vaccinated people to socialize without masks or social distancing – both outdoors and indoors – is essentially a return to pre-COVID life. It was an unexpected decision bereft of detailed implementation guidance that has been met both with applause and loud criticism from physicians and public health experts.
(Commentary) [Double Hoo] Robert Bersch, 85, called it quits in December following a 60-year career as a Roanoke Valley lawyer. Health and age were certainly factors, he told me. So was COVID-19. The pandemic put the kibosh on Bersch’s business niche — house and hospital calls. So he quietly closed Wills on Wheels, the low-overhead, two employee law firm he’s run mostly out of his house since 2009. Besides wills, Bersch specialized in trust and estate work and preparing documents such as medical directives and powers of attorney.
Two hours before her tee time, Lauren Coughlin called her husband and unloaded. Weary of golf and burdened by disappointment, she was on the brink of abandoning her dream. Two days later, the 2016 ACC individual champion and University of Virginia graduate was celebrating her first professional victory. Coughlin has yet to win again as a pro, but she enters Thursday’s opening round of the LPGA Tour’s Pure Silk Championship in Williamsburg playing the finest golf of her life.
Elizabeth Horton, injury prevention coordinator at UVA Health, says while the hospital has a level-one trauma center that can handle traumatic injuries, it is important to take precautions in order to try to prevent injuries from occurring in the first place. “It’s the simplest things, like wearing a helmet properly, buckling your seat belt, watching your child around a body of water, but they’re simple things, so we forget about them,” said Horton. “Or we think they’re just not as important as they really are.”
(Audio) In this conversation, Dana is joined by Dr. Meg Jay, clinical psychologist and an associate professor of human development at the University of Virginia who specializes in twentysomethings, and Bill Hemmer, co-anchor of “America’s Newsroom” on FOX News Channel. They share what advice they have for recent graduates or graduates at heart.
(Audio) University of Virginia historian Alan Taylor shares both criticism and praise of the 1619 Project’s specific claims as well as its overall aim, which is to emphasize the importance of slavery and systemic racism in American history instead of the founding principles of liberty and freedom that were, as the project’s opening essay argued, betrayed by the crime of human bondage.