Officials with The Nature Conservancy, the University of Virginia and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science under William & Mary are working with the state to launch the first carbon credit program linked to seagrass. It would allow anyone to purchase credits to offset carbon emissions, with the money feeding back into research and management.
When Charles Dickens sat down to compose the Tavistock letter, he would have been amused to consider that, almost 165 years later, it would be pulled to pieces, endlessly analyzed and ultimately deciphered by, among others, a 20-year-old University of Virginia student from Ohio named Ken Cox. “I thought it was mind-boggling that there was something he’d written that nobody had read yet,” says Cox, who studies cognitive science.
15. Rita Dove: In her collections of poems, Dove combines historical writing with an intimate expression of language. In 1993, she became the youngest person and the first African American to hold the title of U.S. poet laureate. She now serves as a University of Virginia’s Commonwealth Professor of English.
After weeks of record COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, the omicron-fueled surge appears to be slowing down in the area, but the challenge of caring for such large numbers of patients has left nurses and other health care workers exhausted.
A financial gift from a law firm is going to support the Mandela Washington Fellowship’s 2022 Leadership in Civic Engagement Institute at the Presidential Precinct. According to a release, McGuireWoods has given the Presidential Precinct a $50,000 gift in honor of Leigh B. Middleditch, Jr., who died last year. Middleditch, a University of Virginia School of Law graduate, is described as someone who was a dedicated supporter of the Mandela Washington Fellows at the Presidential Precinct.
Lucy Greenman, a senior majoring in health analytics at William and Mary and Megan Sullivan, a junior majoring in classics at UVA, will be representing Virginia on “Jeopardy!” in this year’s National College Championship.
The new legislative maps were created by two special masters, appointed by the Virginia Supreme Court. “I think one of the first things you would notice when looking at these maps, the lines are a lot less jagged, the districts are generally more compact,” said J. Miles Coleman with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
“It was very hard for centers to be responsive to any pressures to improve without any resources to put into it,” said Daphna Bassok, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia, and a researcher in child care quality measurements. “There’s a massive amount of instability in child care right now,” Bassok said. The focus from providers is “on a very baseline level of quality — how do I get enough teachers in this classroom every day?”
Around two-thirds of Americans say the qualified immunity doctrine should be reformed. “As long as we make that [civil suit] payment transparent so we don’t have nondisclosure agreements, then we can act, and we also collect data on it,” Rachel Harmon, a UVA law professor whose research focuses on police reform, said in June 2020. “Then a community could actually say, ‘Hey, I don’t want my taxes to go up because you idiots won’t train and prepare officers and discipline them and supervise them so that they do less of this.’”
“We’re thinking about this every single day,” said Dr. James Gorham, the blood bank director at UVA Health. “We have a patient blood management group that has implemented a number of measures to ensure that we’re not transfusing unnecessarily.”
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School) Amid the wrangling over the Build Back Better legislation, the version passed by the House of Representatives to increase the $10,000 cap on state and local taxes (SALT) to $80,000 has been lost in the shuffle. With Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) threatening to vote no unless program costs are reined in, many observers believe a significant increase in SALT deductions is effectively dead on arrival. At the same time, some House Democrats from the tristate region (N.Y., N.J., Conn.) are threatening to vote no if the deductions are not i...
It’s a crisis felt in health systems across the nation brought on by the pandemic: Health care workers suffering from burnout. UVA Health is being awarded more than $2 million in an effort to battle burnout among health care workers.
On Tuesday, the University of Virginia Cancer Center became the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Virginia. With this designation, the cancer center will be able to help even more patients across the state. UVA will be one of just 52 National Cancer Institutes in the country. There are about 200 employees at the center who go above and beyond finding new ways to treat and prevent cancer.
The 21st Century Learning Project is starting in an Albemarle County charter school. It’s a collaboration between the district and the University of Virginia. “The question is, what should learning look like?” Community Lab School Principal Chad Ratliff said.
A University of Virginia research team is working to make cloth masks more effective. Dr. Gaurav Giri and his team are working with a specialized fabric to combine comfort and safety.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce says tickets have already sold out for its first-ever State of the Community address. According to a release, seating for the event at the Center of Developing Entrepreneurs building was limited to allow for social distancing. This new event is a chance for chamber members, business leaders and the public to hear from the executive leadership of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia. UVA President Jim Ryan will be talking about initiatives to strengthen the relationship between the university and the surrounding commun...
More than $1 million is funding 14 new programs at the University of Virginia. The Jefferson Trust says this is the largest amount of grant money it’s ever awarded. UVA students and faculty have the opportunity to go before board members and pitch ideas, and see if they end up with a check to make it happen.
People fired from UVA for not getting a COVID-19 shot now have a new choice to make: “We’re not particularly reaching out to folks, but we’ve given the discretion to managers if they would like to rehire people, or their folks to reapply for jobs, that that would be fine for them to do,” Coy said.
The University of Virginia is lifting a restriction on eating and drinking at University-sponsored events and says all instructors need to return to in-person teaching.
(By Brian Teare, associate professor of English) Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients — but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a redemptive tale about what is wrong with them.