(By Dr. Susan Modesitt, gynecologic oncologist at the UVA Cancer Center) Life can be unpredictable, and nothing has proved that more than 2020. The global pandemic has been dominating the news cycle, and everyone is now familiar with the devastation caused by viruses like COVID-19, especially the impact of asymptomatic carriers on spreading the disease. However, the fact that some cancers also can spread virally is much less well known.
Some notable institutions ranked 55 through 51 this current fiscal year: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Virginia, Harvard Medical School, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and University of Rochester (NY), just missed the top 50 with $166,132,138 through 370 awards.
COVID-19 cases are climbing on grounds, with more than 180 students testing positive in the last week. However, the administration says this is in line with what was expected.
The University of Virginia has implemented asymptomatic prevalence testing programs to detect cases in people who may have no idea they're sick.
(Commentary by Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology) My kids won’t be in school full-time this fall, so, like most parents, I will be thinking about how to keep them occupied and content. But I’m also a memory researcher, and that makes me wonder how they will recall these odd times decades from now.
University of Virginia Investment Management Co.’s pool of $9.9 billion in endowment assets and other long-term funds returned a gross 5.3% for the fiscal year ended June 30, according to an annual report posted on UVIMCO’s website.
Gov. Ralph Northam is throwing a lifeline to Virginia's public colleges and universities, which would save $300 million over the next two years through the proposed restructuring of their debt for capital projects as they struggle with the costs of the COVID-19 pandemic. UVA stands to save $344,000.
The University identified three COVID-19 cases within the Lefevre residence hall. Prior to waste indicators and follow-up testing, there were no known positive COVID-19 cases in the hall. Students who tested positive are being moved into isolation, and their close contacts will be placed in quarantine.
The Rosh Hashana Seder is more like an elevated Shabbat dinner than the often-lengthy Passover Seder. (“Seder” simply means order.) If you’ve never heard of this tradition, you’ve already held a mini version of one if you’ve ever dipped apples in honey for a sweet new year, said Vanessa Ochs, a rabbi and professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia announced it had ordered two more residence halls into quarantine after four students tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday.
(Podcast Interview) NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Professor Liz Magill, executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia, who clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
With the court vacancy coming so near the Nov. 3 presidential and congressional elections, Democrats argue that the voters should weigh in before Trump and McConnell rush to fill the seat – the very argument McConnell employed in 2016 to block a nominee of President Barack Obama’s. “There are those people who have a hypocrisy meter and it just offends them,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, referring to Republicans’ changing strategies.
(Analysis co-written by Craig Volden, professor of public policy and co-director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking) Increasingly, both the administration and Congress lack policy expertise, which makes it harder to solve policy problems, break through political disagreement and build coalitions.
At a time when many low-income districts are staying remote, California’s Cajon Valley has opened its 27 schools for a mixture of in-person and remote instruction. It was, in the minds of many educational experts, a small victory for poorer students who, studies show, have been disproportionately hurt by remote instruction. “There’s a substantial gap to begin with, and it’s expanding under COVID,” said James Soland, a UVA professor of education and one author of a study that looked at learning loss during the pandemic.
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, communications director and senior researcher at UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service) Election Day is technically still Nov. 3 this year, but that one day now is simply the last chance to cast a vote in person the traditional way at a polling place.
The much anticipated football matchup between the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech will have to wait. Because of an outbreak of the coronavirus on Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus, theAtlantic Coast Conference contest set for Saturday, Sept. 19, has been postponed. The game was to be televised nationally on ABC.
In the first home Duke Athletics contest in 190 days, the Blue Devil and Virginia women's soccer teams battled for 120 minutes in heavy rain, before finishing in a 1-1 draw in double-overtime at Koskinen Stadium in Durham, N.C.
Increased demand for absentee voting may mean that the wait for election results will be longer than in years past. "In both the 2016 and the 2012 elections in Virginia, less than 15 percent of the vote was cast absentee, and this year, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a third or more," said J. Miles Coleman, Associate Editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(PoliticKING with Larry King) Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, discusses the impact of Donald Trump's taped conversations with journalist Bob Woodward on the presidential race.
One point. That is how much Democrat Dr. Cameron Webb, is trailing Republican Bob Good, a self-described "biblical conservative," for Virginia's open 5th Congressional District, according to an internal Democratic poll provided to Newsweek. Dr. Webb, who practices general internal medicine in Charlottesville and teaches at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, held brief White House stints under both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, dealing with health care policy and economic development.