(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...
An art installation in downtown Fayetteville aims to help people look beyond themselves. Between the Headquarters Library and Segra Stadium at Festival Park Plaza, “Fayetteville to the Moon,” is an interactive art sculpture by Virginia artist William Bennett, who recently retired from teaching sculpture at the University of Virginia after 42 years.
Moy, a retired Air Force colonel with 27 years of active duty service, moved to Charlottesville after retirement where he and his wife Kellie settled and are raising their sons Caleb and Titus. He has been a lecturer at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and brings extensive military experience to his candidacy.
“I really don’t think anyone would contest that Good is one of the most conservative members of Congress,” said J. Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Coleman says Dan Moy could give [U.S. Rep. Bob] Good a run for his money. “He’s no stranger to Virginia Republican politics,” said Coleman. “He was active in the Youngkin campaign. Youngkin did quite well in the Fifth District.”
While the legislation’s proponents say the Equality Act would simply build upon existing tenets of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, opponents of the bill say it would jeopardize religious objections, by which business owners can deny service to LGBTQ+ individuals in the name of religion. “It protects the rights of one side, but attempts to destroy the rights of the other side,” Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, told NPR after the bill was passed by the House last year. “We ought to protect the liberty of both sides to live their own lives by their own identities and the...
(Commentary) Larry Sabato, the highly-respected director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics: “Newt Gingrich offers a compelling reason why the GOP crazies should not be put in control of their asylum next November.”
Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and a Kennedy family scholar, said she suspected Robert Kennedy Jr.’s opposition to vaccine mandates came from his work as an environmentalist. He has campaigned against pollutants, such as mercury, that contaminate food sources, Perry said in an interview. “Clearly he doesn’t want people poisoned in the environment by pollutants,” she said. “In his mind, I guess, it’s a pretty easy step to [think] not poisoning the body through vaccination.”
Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order lifting mask mandates in Virginia schools is now in effect, but some schools in the commonwealth are continuing to require masks indoors. Albemarle County Public Schools and Charlottesville City Schools are still requiring students, faculty, and staff to wear a mask at all times. It’s a decision, a legal expert we spoke with says the districts have the right to make. “It’s no accident that this was one of the first executive orders,” University of Virginia School of Law professor Margaret Riley said.
(Co-written by Kelli Bird, research faculty, and Ben Castleman, Newton and Rita Meyers Associate Professor in the Economics of Education) Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country have grappled with substantial enrollment declines. Even with the resumption of in-person learning at many institutions this fall, community college enrollment is 6% lower than fall 2020 and 14.8% lower than fall 2019. College enrollments had been slowly declining through much of the 2010s, in part stemming from demographic trends toward a smaller population of traditional colleg...