(Commentary by Craig Shirley, Reagan biographer and an instructor at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) If there’s one thing that I found curious about the Democratic National Convention last week, it’s how boring and utterly unforgivingly pessimistic many of the speeches were.
Cville Community Cares is an organization of activists created in March to respond to this growing need brought on by the health crisis. Volunteers from different backgrounds, including University of Virginia staff and health care workers, joined Cville Community Cares. Spanish speakers are on hand to help serve the undocumented and immigrant communities.
The International Association of Facilitators is recognizing the chamber for the positive impact its had through Project Rebound. After the pandemic shuttered many businesses, the Charlottesville Chamber of Commerce, along with the University of Virginia and Albemarle County, started Project Rebound as a way for people to discuss concerns and share ideas.
The wave of fall reopenings, now accelerating, has exposed the fragility of plans that once seemed solid. On Tuesday, the University of Virginia started online with hopes of switching to in-person classes after Labor Day.
The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia honors the lives, labor, and perseverance of the community of enslaved African Americans who built UVA and sustained daily life of faculty, students and administrators at the University.
When the pandemic first hit and UVA President Jim Ryan announced students would not return to Grounds after spring break, it left many questions, including what to do with items they’d left behind.
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia reopens Wednesday with new safety protocols.
A highly anticipated SHOWTIME limited series will be part of the 2020 Virtual Program for the Virginia Film Festival. “We are very excited to host what promises to be a fascinating event and thrilled to partner with SHOWTIME and Blumhouse to highlight one of the most talked-about shows of the Fall television season,” said Jody Kielbasa, VAFF Director and Vice Provost for the Arts at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) “The story of change in [Stone Mountain] is common to suburbs all around the South,” says Grace Elizabeth Hale, a history professor at the University of Virginia. Job opportunities and a low cost of living attracted a variety of people looking to become upwardly mobile.
The problems started when Reese Tempest entered sixth grade. She had always loved running, but now her track team training was triggering severe breathing difficulties. So her parents brought her to UVA Health for a complete pulmonology and cardiac work-up and a VO2 max test.
Abigail Amoako Kayser, a UVA postdoctoral research associate, says now that our homes have become classrooms, we can learn from research on “the complexities of these spaces.” She and her husband Brian Kayser, a former teacher who’s now also at UVA, report that to feel safe, children need a designated work space that’s comfortable.
David Marc Kahler MD, 60, a career member of the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Virginia, died Sunday at his home in Dyke.
The Tom Tom Foundation says the last conversation of its Exposed series will focus on early education. This talk will feature Amanda Williford, a research associate professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development
Fundamentally, the possibility of a Trump loss could stem from political realities, not vote-rigging. “When an incumbent president is running for a second term, the election is always largely a referendum on the president’s record during his first term,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
A University of Virginia infectious disease specialist says while the FDA issues an emergency authorization for convalescent plasma to be used to treat COVID-19, the hospital uses what has been proven in clinical trials.
Online classes at UVa begin Tuesday, before switching to in-person on Sept. 8.
Twenty thousand University of Virginia students have been shipped COVID-19 tests. An unknown number will live on Grounds and in the Charlottesville area this fall.
UVA students and staff are set to return to Grounds the first week of September, but not before submitting a mandatory COVID-19 test. Now, those numbers are coming to the forefront.
(Editgorial) It has begun. Virginia Tech, Radford University and Roanoke College already have suspended or “removed” more than a dozen students for violating anti-COVID protocols. The University of Virginia warns it will do the same if necessary.
"We’ve had a number of cases that we’ve managed, and some small groupings of students who’ve had COVID-19. We had one student who was hospitalized for a short time,” Student Health and Wellness Center Director Chris Holstege said.