(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.
(Commentary) Now we have something new to argue about: Is “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” still an appropriate song to play? Or does it glorify the Confederacy? The night they drove old Dixie down / And all the people were singin’ Why were people singing? That’s not something one usually does in defeat. Were they possibly celebrating? The song doesn’t say. Jack Hamilton, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia, writes in Slate that the song is really an anti-war song: “To my ears, ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ has more in common with Creedence ...
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham took center stage Wednesday at the top of a lineup of party heavy hitters on the third night of the Democratic National Convention, stressing the need to invest in clean energy jobs to avert “the environmental annihilation” posed by President Donald Trump’s administration. “The parties do use their conventions to identify up-and-coming talent – Lujan Grisham certainly qualifies, given that she also was in the mix to be the vice presidential nominee,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the nonpartisan political newsletter Sabato’s Crystal Ball for the Uni...
A far-right Republican candidate banned from social media sites because of her racist and anti-Muslim speech is celebrating a congressional primary victory in Florida while embracing her role as a general election underdog in a heavily Democratic district that President Donald Trump calls home. The candidate “is something of a celebrity in far-right circles, which may have helped her in her primary, but this is not really a district that is competitive at the general election level,” said Kyle Kondik, an editor at UVA’s Center for Politics. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton each won the distric...
In a recent update to the University of Virginia’s COVID-19 model for the state, researchers wrote of some promising lessons learned from the surge in Hampton Roads. These surges do not seem to last very long, they wrote, because communities change behaviors, businesses follow guidelines more closely and public health agencies and private health systems rally to meet the growing threat.
The George Rogers Clark Statue Disposition Committee of the Native American Indigenous Studies Group at the University of Virginia is calling on the University to remove the statue.
MBA grads from these programs earn base salaries that exceed $110,000, U.S. News statistics show. University of Virginia (Darden): U.S. News business school rank: 11; Full-time acceptance rate (2019): 36.5%; Average consulting salary (2019): $151,903; Average salary among all sectors (2019): $135,168
Many public monuments installed over the past century have racist origins. A new memorial at the University of Virginia instead explores racism itself – how the university has benefited from the labor of enslaved people, and how much further there is to go.
Wait, “injury to a monument” is a felony in Virginia? There haven’t been any appeals courts cases that involved this statute and monuments, says UVA law professor Darryl Brown, which leads him to “assume that this has rarely if ever been used to prosecute people who damage monuments.”
Getting “canceled” frequently plays out the same way: A person – whether famous or not – says or does something controversial and the backlash on social media follows swiftly. Over the last few years, the term became more mainstream as prominent figures and brands became targets. But Meredith Clark, a UVA media studies professor, said that getting – and remaining – canceled “depends on who you are.”
(Commentary by Dr. William Petri, professor of medicine) As fall approaches rapidly, many are wondering if the race for a vaccine will bear fruit as early as January 2021.