UVA pandemic analysts said while the state’s cases are dropping, colleges have remained a source of massive transmission. A few weeks ago, half of the state’s top 10 hot spots were in ZIP codes associated with colleges and universities, including Charlottesville, Richmond, Lexington and Blacksburg, according to the UVA Biocomplexity Institute.
A more contagious version of the coronavirus is on track to become the dominant strain by the end of March, but pandemic watchers aren’t sure what that will mean for Virginia. The U.K. variant could either lead to a drawn-out plateau of the current case rate or cause a new peak in July, according to a new analysis by the UVA Biocomplexity Institute.
UVA offers classes with tuition and certain fees waived for persons 60 years of age and older, who have been legally domiciled in Virginia for at least one year. Tuition-paying students are given priority. A senior citizen shall only be admitted to a class, tuition-free, after all tuition paying students have been accommodated.
(Commentary) The memorial to the slaves who labored at UVA is a quiet, dignified and moving tribute to the Virginians whose contributions to the University went unappreciated and unrecognized for too long. Yesterday my wife and I visited the memorial, which was dedicated almost a year ago, for the first time. It is a wonderful example of the “additive” approach to remembering our past — adding new layers of understanding — as opposed to the purgative approach of blotting out the remembrance of those who made significant contributions to society but whose association with slavery, the Confedera...
UVA is relaxing some restrictions that were put in place following a surge of COVID-19 cases in February.
UVA officials are again easing COVID-19 related restrictions on student gatherings as the number of virus cases and percentage of positive test results continue to decrease.
Students at the UVA Law School’s State and Local Government Policy Clinic helped draft and research the legislation. One of the students, Kyle McGoey, said, “These updates to Virginia’s criminal code will empower our justice system to account for the realities of mental illness and disability.” A simple example, said Richard Bonnie, a professor at the Law School, might be someone whose gullibility associated with an intellectual or developmental disability meant they did not realize that property someone handed them had been stolen and therefore they did not “know” they were “possessing stolen...
(Editorial) University of Virginia students still will be able to post offensive material on their Lawn doors. They just won’t be able to do so as obviously. We suppose that, as a compromise, that works as well as anything.
(By A.D. Carson, assistant professor of hip-hop) As a rap artist who is also a professor of hip-hop, I always make it a point to have my songs reviewed by other artists I admire. So when I released “i used to love to dream” – my latest album – in 2020, I turned to Phonte Coleman, one half of the trailblazing rap group Little Brother. “Just listened to the album. S— is dope!” Phonte texted me after he checked it out. “Salute!”
(By Dr. Bruce Greyson, professor emeritus of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences) I was raised in a scientific household, where things that couldn’t be seen, heard or felt were never discussed. Our world was the physical world, and the idea that there was anything else never came up. When you died, that was the end. That was the world I knew and felt comfortable with. I felt no need to go looking for anything else.
From properly positioning patients to prolonging the life of personal protective gear, UVA Medical Center personnel learned a lot about COVID-19 in very little time, especially considering that they started out with next to no knowledge.
App security testing firm Veracode has launched its inaugural Veracode Hacker Games, an event which aims to encourage the growth of secure coding skills. Taking place over two weeks from March 15-25, computer science and cybersecurity teams from eight leading universities in the U.K. and U.S. will be tested on their secure coding skills in a collegiate contest. A number of individual prizes will be on offer and Veracode will donate $10,000 and $5,000 for the first and second best-performing universities, respectively. Institutions that have signed up to the contest include the University of Vi...
Famed political science professor Dr. Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan political analysis and handicapping newsletter run by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, predicts Maryland’s next governor will be a Democrat.
(Commentary) Why not push for universal child care while the tax code sorts itself out? That may help parents avoid a tax headache, but it wouldn’t be the panacea some hope for. Leading voices on family policy, like Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia, have documented the failures of universal care programs in other nations, some of which have increased childhood misbehavior and anxieties. Far better, he says, to offer parents cash payments and let them decide what the best arrangement is for their families.
(Podcast) Chris Lu, former deputy secretary of labor under Obama and senior fellow at the University of Virginia Miller Center, discusses the passage of the Biden relief bill and what comes next.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, said Biden's past tragedies, including the deaths of his first wife and daughter in a car accident and his son to brain cancer, uniquely positioned the president to comfort Americans about the grim anniversary. "He really genuinely does feel people's pain because he's had so much of it in his life," Perry said. "He seems so comfortable in the role, which, in turn, makes him the perfect comforter-in-chief.”
Depending on how many people were counted in the most recent census, the city of Charlottesville could lose its metropolitan status. “I think losing the title of being a metro area would mean something, whether it means something materially it’s hard to say,” Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia, said.
“We need to approach the past year with the assumption that existing inequities in opportunities, access and outcomes will have been amplified,” Nancy Deutsch, director of Youth-Nex at the University of Virginia, said. “We have to be aware of that. That’s displayed itself in many ways, and it will continue to come out as kids come back into school in-person.”
(Commentary) In her research on the term, the University of Virginia’s Meredith Clark traces cancel culture from “its roots in Black vernacular tradition to its misappropriation in the digital age by social elites,” a trajectory that does not include my tweet about the online discourse surrounding weekly television ratings.
Researchers at the University of Virginia say exercise during pregnancy may help mothers reduce their child’s risk of diabetes and other metabolic diseases later in life.