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(Video) From the Rotunda, to the UVA Lawn, and through Grounds to Scott Stadium, the University of Virginia Class of 2020 is finally celebrating graduation after a year of much anticipation.
Rain, cool temperatures, a gas shortage and even an international pandemic couldn’t stop graduates of the University of Virginia’s Class of 2020 from walking the Lawn, as hundreds returned to Charlottesville for a delayed ceremony Sunday.
If you’re ready to toss your mask, you still need to get vaccinated. On Friday afternoon in downtown Charlottesville, a new place and space to get your shots emerged. At the Sprint Pavilion on the Downtown Mall, a chance for kids – and kids at heart – to roll up their sleeves and, soon, pull down their masks, thanks to UVA Health.
Predicting population growth is a tricky game. But one Virginia institution has become the go-to source for state population predictions. When the Census Bureau stopped making state-level population projections in 2005, a lot of people were wondering where they were going to get those numbers. UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center stepped into the breach and started making their own state-level population projections. Since that time, their crystal ball has been crystal clear.
Employees will likely struggle with a loss of autonomy as they head back to a space where their arrival times and computer screens are suddenly in full view of the boss. Being watched at work might increase performance at first, but it’s not a sustainable form of motivation for employees, says Roshni Raveendhran, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
For many African Americans brought up by single mothers, paying for expensive tuition can be hard to crack. For Diana Wilson, however, being the recipient of many scholarships changed the narrative for her and equipped her financially to study and travel. Her stellar academic performance from high school all through the University of Virginia paved way for her to get the financial aid that she needed. When a team from Google took some UVA students on a short visit to the company, Diana was one of them. This laid the foundation for her to apply to join the tech giant.
[UVA alumna] Simone Jordan's role at SheaMoisture exists at the intersection of passion and purpose. As the global head of community commerce, Jordan leads the multicultural beauty brand's social responsibility efforts.
[UVA alumna] Simone Jordan's role at SheaMoisture exists at the intersection of passion and purpose. As the global head of community commerce, Jordan leads the multicultural beauty brand's social responsibility efforts.
John Dunlap, a former executive at the San Diego Zoo, has been appointed park president for SeaWorld & Aquatica San Diego. Dunlap holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of Virginia as well as an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
“Joel has been an amazing community partner and supporter of our program,” Ryan Lightner, associate director of development at UVA Children’s, said in the release. “Year after year he and his crew members continue to go above and beyond to help the families of central Virginia.”
Crunching the data, UVA political analyst Larry Sabato concludes that, “Biden won the presidency by doing a bit better with white voters, especially those with a four-year degree, than Hillary Clinton, while doing worse than she did among voters of color. This was particularly true among Latinos, a group that shifted from a roughly 70%-30% Democratic margin in both the 2012 and 2016 two-party vote to a 63%-37% Democratic edge in 2020,” Sabato continued. “This Democratic drop jumps out in the results, not only in heavily Latino South Florida and South Texas, but other places across the country ...
Planning, testing, the safe movement of bodies from place to place: These were the sorts of problems Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr. could sink his teeth into, said Bethany A. Bell, who served on the Future Planning Group, which was assembled to navigate the pandemic. “South Carolina was really ahead of the curve,” said Bell, who recently took a position at the University of Virginia, where she is an associate professor of education and chair of the Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy. “It got saliva-testing up quickly. His military logistics and those types of leadership skills, I...
The controversy has grown decidedly more civil since December. Both Young and Jaenisch say they received more intense criticism for their preprint than any studies in their careers, in part because some researchers worried it played into the hands of vaccine skeptics spreading false claims about the newly authorized mRNA vaccines. “If there ever was a preprint that should be deleted, it is this one! It was irresponsible to even put it up as a preprint, considering the complete lack of relevant evidence. This is now being used by some to spread doubts about the new vaccines,” Marie-Louise Hamma...
"In congregate settings like schools, I suspect we will continue to see masks in the foreseeable future, even in a fully vaccinated population," said Dr. Carlos Armengol of UVA Health’s Pediatric Cardiology.
(Video) Thousands of adolescents stood on line for their first shot Thursday. Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at the University of Virginia, discusses the latest guidance.
(Video) The CDC is easing restrictions on masks, allowing those who are fully vaccinated to unmask for some outdoor activities. UVA critical care and infectious disease physician and medical ICU director Dr. Taison Bell discusses the latest coronavirus news.
(Commentary by Kimberly A. Whittier, assistant professor in the Darden School of Business) One of the fortunate things about being a professor is that you have colleagues who are on the leading edge of developing new knowledge. I was excited to hear about a new book (“Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work”) written by professor Jim Detert. The topic is timely given the growing fear that people have speaking up in today’s “cancel culture.”
(By Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley, associate professor of pediatrics) Shirley specializes in pediatric infectious diseases. Here she addresses some of the concerns parents may have about their teen or preteen getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
UVA Health’s vaccination clinic at Seminole Square Shopping Center is accepting anyone in the community regardless of affiliation with UVA, within the same age guidelines. “We’re not planning to close the Seminole Square site at this point,” UVA Health spokesman Eric Swensen said. “Appointments are required at Seminole Square. [It’s] open to those 12 and older while supplies last.”