The University of Virginia, acknowledging its past as an institution that enslaved 4,000 people to build and maintain its grounds, has unveiled a memorial to honor them.
The University of Virginia has a new system for people to submit reports of major infractions concerning the safety guidelines put in place due to the coronavirus.
At the University of Virginia, a virtual version of “Convocation” happened Sunday night. President Jim Ryan welcomed UVA’s Class of 2024 and urged the new students to build bridges with others, even in an era of COVID-19.
The actions of students will determine if the fall semester at the University of Virginia is to remain in-person, a University official said Saturday in a video message.
UVA Dean of Students Allen Groves released a video through social media on Saturday addressing students who are getting prepared to return to Grounds within the next couple of weeks.
As University of Virginia students were sent home due to COVID-19 in March, the staff at the Fralin Museum of Art had to get creative to finish a semester-long docent training course preparing students to lead tours in the museum.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, is starting a new live web series called “Sabato’s Crystal Ball: America Votes.”
Brick by brick, and beam by beam, the stacks of Alderman Library are coming down, as the University continues major renovations that will bring the library into the 21st century.
Producing top-shelf linebacker talent in the ACC is nothing new in Charlottesville. UVA is the only program to have an All-ACC first-, second- or third-team linebacker in eight of the last nine seasons – perhaps surprising considering the Cavaliers had losing records in six of those seasons, and finished in the bottom five in the conference in scoring defense in five of those seasons.
It’s been just over a week since the NCAA postponed fall sports championships. “I would be lying if I didn’t say it was difficult,” UVa field hockey player Rachel Robinson said. “Definitely it was hard to hear the NCAA telling you, ‘Hey, we’re not having a championship this fall.’ The team and me personally, that’s what you’ve been working toward, and as a fourth-year, this is your last chance of getting that national championship.”
(Podcast) Networking, fostering and building relationships is key to success in corporate America and beyond. So how does doing all that change when we’re working from home? We’re figuring it out with Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts, professor of practice at UVA’s Darden School of Business and an expert in the art and science of maximizing potential for people in organizations and companies.
Humans have never successfully developed a vaccine against a coronavirus, but expectations are rising that a COVID-19 vaccine will be ready for the public by the beginning of next year. The question of who will get first priority for a vaccine still have to be ironed out in different countries, but "I believe that it is realistic that we will know sometime in late 2020 whether some COVID-19 vaccines are safe, exactly how effective they are, and which ones should be used to vaccinate the U.S. population in 2021," William Petri, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Virginia...
Dr. Bill Petri feels encouraged. A professor of epidemiology and medicine and infectious disease specialist at UVA Health, he and his team have been focused on one thing since last March – conquering COVID-19.
With many working-class Virginians struggling to pay their bills, stay healthy and keep their homes, they say, the state should be using every resource at its disposal to help. “It’s called a rainy day fund for a reason. It’s pouring,” said Del. Sally Hudson, D-Charlottesville, a labor economist and assistant professor at the University of Virginia. “At some point we have to accept that D.C. is not coming to our rescue and step into a world where states start doing more for their people.”
The vast majority of educators say schools covered fewer instructional materials or no new instructional territory during the initial wave of online learning this fall, but they also believe it will take technology to overcome COVID-19 learning losses. Those were among the findings of a national study of 788 teachers and administrators, which found that 86% believe that more tech will be needed in schools over the next three years as the country navigates through its recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, according to research conducted at the end of the 2019-20 ...
Positive cases of COVID-19 will be part of the “new normal” at the University of Virginia as students return to Grounds for the new school year, and a successful return doesn’t mean completely eliminating the risk of infections, officials wrote in a letter to the University community Thursday.
The strategy of testing everyone in one day regardless of symptoms is called a point prevalence survey. Dr. Kim Albaro, a director of research at the University of Virginia, says it’s especially important when those that are being tested are living in a care facility.
Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, tweeted that Biden’s convention speech had a focus and intensity, magnified by the lack of an audience, that made it shorter and stronger than it would have been in a traditional format.
UVA linebacker Charles Snowden, who grew up in Silver Spring and attended St. Albans high school, has taken the lead for the Cavaliers regarding social activism.
(Commentary by Jeffrey Sturek, assistant professor of medicine) Imagine going to the doctor for a cough and getting a transfusion of blood from a goat. It probably sounds strange today, but that is exactly how antibody therapy started in the late 1800s.