(Commentary) Arlington’s fourth high school – where half of the students are from low-income families – sets a standard for such campuses that we rarely ever see. That school, Wakefield High, is where the teachers who wrote the protest letter work. The school is the subject of a recent UVA study chronicling its success in challenging every student.
An international team of scientists has created a plan for an accelerated pipeline for developing drug cocktails to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The pipeline could speed new and better treatments that the newly diagnosed and recently exposed could take at home to prevent serious illness, according to a University of Virginia news release.
While experimenting with mice in 2019, researchers at the University of Virginia discovered that fluvoxamine could be an effective treatment for sepsis, or blood-borne infection. A large study in France during the early months of the pandemic found that Covid-19 patients treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as fluvoxamine were significantly less likely to be intubated or to die.
Virginia is poised to easily eclipse the high levels endured earlier this year, according to the University of Virginia’s most recent forecast. The numbers are driven by the extremely transmissible omicron variant, yet another altered version of the coronavirus.
UVA experts warn that although the impacts may not be as bad, the sheer volume of infections could easily push hospitals – already facing severe staffing shortages – to the brink, especially when combined with growing flu cases an other winter ailments.
The University of Virginia’s widely followed modeling suggests if the omicron variant hits Hampton Roads, new cases could rise from about 2,000 a week in early December to somewhere between 11,600 and 39,000 by mid-February 2022 – a big spread and well above the peak of 8,950 cases seen for the week ended Jan. 24.
A forecasting model produced by the Virginia Department of Health and UVA predicts the state will reach the peak of its omicron variant surge in early February.
(Commentary) Virginia’s reputation as a political bellwether, and relative swing state, has disguised one of the great challenges facing the commonwealth: We are not only deeply divided, but to a striking extent Virginians of different political outlooks are dispersed geographically from one another, and thus losing our connections and sense of shared purpose.
Fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant and its delta cousin, the number of COVID-19 cases is reaching record levels across the region, the state and on the University of Virginia Grounds.
University of Virginia: Full vaccination required, booster required. According to their website, UVA is is requiring all students and staff to upload proof of their updated vaccine status to the school by Feb. 1.
The University of Virginia’s students, faculty, and staff will be required to get a COVID-19 booster shot for the spring semester.
Foxhaven is the first natural area you see along this quiet road. It was longtime Foxhaven resident Jane Heyward, a gardening and hiking enthusiast, who, throughout the decades that her family owned and lived at this beautiful estate, explored, navigated and created her beloved Ragged Mountain paths. In doing so, thanks to Jane’s passionate pathfinding legacy and the meticulous upkeep by UVA, which now owns this iconic estate, this magnificent property has been opened to the public.
A legal team from the University of Virginia Law School First Amendment Clinic and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press represented The Caucus in a two-year legal battle over records that could illuminate the extent of the cybersecurity risk posed by the camera network, which is connected to several law enforcement agencies in the region.
(Press release) Aramark, the largest U.S.-based food service provider, is making it easier for students at 10 U.S.-based universities (including UVA) to make climate-friendly choices, by introducing Cool Food Meals on residential dining menus this semester.
This is a school, an occupational training program and a job skills education center all in one. This is VIAble Ventures, the business and training arm of the Virginia Institute of Autism’s Center for Adolescent and Adult Autism Services. The venture was spawned through a 2018 Innovation Laboratory, or i.Lab, program at UVA’s Darden School of Business that focused on developing microbusinesses and enterprises for nonprofits.
The University of Virginia’s autism initiative is offering classes for caregivers of children with autism and they can get paid while attending.
The University of Virginia is planning to build a Native American-centered cultural center in place of the Georges Rogers Clark statue, which depicted Clark on a horse, attacking a Native American family while backed by three frontiersmen wielding rifle, pistol and powder. UVA’s Racial Equity task force called for the statue’s removal and recommended the University work with the local indigenous community to reimagine the space, among other steps to repair UVA’s relationship with Indigenous communities.
The University of Virginia has big plans for continued expansion in Northern Virginia, with more details to come early this year on where UVA will be developing new programs within the region.
For patients and visitors at Northridge Medical Park, El’Carlos Coles brings “a little ray of sunshine” to their day when he greets them, helps them out of their vehicle or assists them to their appointment. Coles has been working for UVA Health for nearly 30 years, most of his time as a greeter.
Isaac Mackey, 27, a 2016 graduate of the University of Virginia. At UVA, he joined Virginia Rowing and fell in love with the sport he’d never done.