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.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, suggested the public stance McConnell took reflects how the Senate GOP caucus actually feels about the proposed commission. “A caucus leader has to be, first and foremost, a good follower. That’s how you stay leader. You make sure that you are where your members are,” Sabato said. “Even if McConnell had come out in favor of this commission, I don’t see how in the world they would get 10 Republicans to go along. “They don’t want an investigation at all,” he said of congressional Republicans. “Look, there couldn’t possib...
(Audio transcript) An interview with Kyle Kondik, director of communications for UVA’s Center for Politics, on the significance of U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney’s removal from House Republican leadership.
A key challenge with privacy is precisely determining how it is violated in the eyes of the law, in terms of harm that can occur that is quantifiable, according to Danielle Citron, Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law at the University of Virginia. Citron observed that existing privacy laws in the US are not well suited to the problems of the 21st century. She noted that privacy laws that exist were made in an era when there was mass media publishing stories about people and advertisers using someone’s face without permission.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is dealing with limitations that have confronted other progressive Democrats elected in recent years as cities have grown more left-leaning — as to what political or legal power they actually have to get things done, said Richard Schragger, a UVA law professor who has written about mayoral powers. “They’re operating in an environment where making change is really hard,” Schragger said.
One of the court’s two central reasons is the hassle of reviewing past convictions and trials – the administrative burden on the court system of ensuring that those who appeal were actually convicted via fair and constitutional processes. Thomas Frampton, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who wrote the juror Taylor’s brief, said the court’s opinion is “animated” by a “fear of too much justice.”
(Commentary) The oldest sample of squid ink goes back long before humans ever walked the Earth, to the Jurassic period, 160 million years ago. Of course, squid go back much farther as a species, over 600 million years. Because they lack any bones or shells, squid are only rarely part of the fossil record. But in this one case, we got lucky. Chemists at the University of Virginia analyzed the 160-million-year-old ink sac of a well-preserved cephalopod. They found that the ink was not substantially different from what today’s squid make.
(Podcast) Justene Hill Edwards, assistant professor of history, is the author of “Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina.” “Unfree Markets” focuses in on an area of slavery’s history that has seldom been explored: the economic lives of enslaved people, and its meaning for them, enslavers, non-enslavers, and the institution of slavery itself. Hill Edwards explores how the complicated history of the slaves’ economy from the colonial period to the Civil War, showing the relationship between it and the development of capitalism in the nation.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Cancer Center just released a discovery that could boost treatment efforts for prostate cancer. The findings focus on how hormones called androgens act on our cells. It sheds light on how these hormones interact inside the cell affecting gene activity.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Cancer Center are revealing new findings that could help in the fight against prostate cancer. Bryce Paschal of the UVA School of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics says they have identified a new signal transduction pathway that responds to the male hormone androgen.