[UVA alumna] Danielle Collins was in a world of pain a year ago, but the American is now hopeful her best tennis lies ahead of her as she bids to break new ground at the Australian Open. Collins ended Alize Cornet’s dream run on Wednesday with a 7-5, 6-1 win, reaching her second semifinal at Melbourne Park on Wednesday, three years after her first.
(Conversation between alumna Sara Zewde, landscape architect and assistant professor at Harvard, and Mabel O. Wilson, who helped design UVA’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers) It was when I was a student at the University of Virginia [UVA] that I encountered the landscape that most impacted me. There, everything you touched had some sort of historic value, and the heroism of Thomas Jefferson saturated every facet of our education as architecture students. The traditionalism was intense. I knew there must have been enslaved people around there somewhere, but we didn’t hear or read anything about t...
“Republicans were going to attack [Arizona U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly] anyway as being the ‘liberal’ senator from Arizona as opposed to being the ‘moderate’ senator from Arizona,” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist who directs the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “They were going to try and paint Kelly into a liberal corner using Sinema. In that sense, Sinema has not done Kelly any favors.”
“Given drug manufacturers’ effort to limit 340B discounts to contract pharmacies, we appreciate Rep. Spanberger’s efforts to ensure safety-net providers like UVA Health continue to receive discounted pricing from drug manufacturers,” said Wendy Horton, a doctor of pharmacy who is CEO of the University of Virginia Medical Center. “The savings we see from reduced drug expenditures as a result of the 340B Drug Pricing Program are essential to supporting our mission to serve those who need us most.”
Defenders of such policies stress that while there’s no genetic or biological reason people of color are at higher risk from Covid, there is ample evidence that they’re far likelier to lack health insurance, work in a higher-exposure environment, experience discrimination in the health care system, and have an undiagnosed underlying medical condition — making their race or ethnicity a helpful flag for doctors to further investigate their situation. “This policy is trying to combat racial and ethnic disparities that are already happening,” explained Taison Bell, a doctor and assistant professor...
(Registration required) Dr. Nicole Ruzek, director of counseling and psychological services at the University of Virginia, said that the lack of mental health resources is an issue not only on college campuses but in communities in general. “Historically, there just hasn’t been a very robust understanding of what mental health needs are, to begin with,” Ruzek said. “People know that mental health is an issue, but not entirely how to approach it.” While the stigma associated with mental health has decreased in the past decade, Ruzek said, there still remains much room for improvement.
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(Commentary by Justin McBrien, environmental historian and lecturer) “The real-life story of the climate crisis makes even the wildest, biggest-budget film like ‘Don’t Look Up’ seem like a charming EM Forster adaptation. But does this story-of-all-stories get wall-to-wall news coverage? Nope. Not by a long shot.” So observed director Adam McKay and marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson in their recent Guardian opinion article calling for new messaging on the climate crisis. Yet if you are in search of such new messaging in McKay’s blockbuster Netflix film “Don’t Look Up” — well, don’t look ...
While mobile sports betting is legal in Virginia, those betting in the Commonwealth can’t place wagers on Virginia colleges and universities. Sen. Monty Mason, who introduced SB 576, wants that to change. HB 1127, introduced by Del. Schuyler VanValkenburg, asks for the same change.
(Essay) I immediately entered a high-risk program at the University of Virginia’s Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center, and met my gynecologic oncologist, breast surgeon and plastic surgeon. Having a BRCA mutation doesn’t mean you’ll get cancer. It just means you have to weigh whether you want to spend the rest of your life under surveillance (alternating breast M.R.I.s and mammograms every six months) or take things into your own hands with a major preventive surgery.
After two years and four different COVID surges, UVA Health’s care workers say they’re at their breaking point. Wendy Horton, the CEO of UVA Health, says the health system currently has the highest number of COVID patients it has seen since the pandemic began, and health care workers are physically and mentally exhausted.
Hospitals across Virginia are stretched thin due to a surge in COVID-19 cases. The University of Virginia Medical Center and Augusta Health are both pleading with the community to get vaccinated. They say the majority of COVID-19 patients they are seeing are unvaccinated and health care workers are burning out.
Morale is wearing thin with each surge, Wendy Horton of the University of Virginia said during a press conference Tuesday afternoon. UVA and Augusta Health announced they would be banding together to get a message across to the public. “We need help more than ever from our communities to do our part,” Horton said.
The CEOs of the University of Virginia Medical Center and Augusta Health are pleading with their communities to get vaccinated. “There are times when communities really need to come together as partners, really join arms and rally toward a common cause,” said Wendy Horton with the medical center. “This is one of those times. COVID is an insidious disease, and it impacts all of us.”
At the University of Virginia, Hicks called the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers “a marvel” for recognizing the labor of some 4,000 individuals who built and maintained the university. Even where names are not known, the work done by these laborers — “tomato farmer” or “brick mason” — is fully acknowledged.
Here are the public colleges with the highest 40-year ROIs for low-income students, according to the report: … 5. University of Virginia: $1.8 million
Guardianships are a reminder of why estate planning and advance directives, like a power of attorney, are so important. “Every adult is assumed to be mentally capable of making their own personal and financial decisions,” says Naomi Cahn, co-director of UVA’s Family Law Center. “It’s only when someone becomes unable to make those decisions and has not made any alternative plans that we start thinking about a conservatorship or a guardianship.”
After [Darden School of Business student] Cecilia Rios Murrieta stopped drinking alcohol, she still wanted to participate in the social ritual of drinking – being able to have a beverage that made her feel excited. So she created Joie Avec Sans, better known as JAS, an alcohol-free beverage brand.
In 2020, UVA President Jim Ryan announced that over the next decade, UVA plans to support the development of 1,000 to 1,500 units of affordable housing in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. UVA and the UVA Foundation will retain ownership of the land for the affordable housing developments, and partner with third-party developers to design, finance, build, and manage the new units.
Former University of Virginia goalkeeper Laurel Ivory has signed a one-year contract with a second-year option, OL Reign announced on Monday.
(By Chloe Wetzler, third-year student majoring un environmental thought and practice and Spanish literature) Anyone lucky enough to attend EarthEcho’s Youth Leadership Summit during the summer of 2020 may remember Owen Pyle from the screening and panel discussion on the “Sea of Hope: America’s Underwater Treasures” documentary. Owen is featured in the documentary alongside the legendary Dr. Sylvia Earle and his father, ichthyologist and deep-sea diver Dr. Richard Pyle. Over the holidays, I interviewed Owen about what has changed since the making and release of “Sea of Hope” — both in the world...