As the three-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally, a shocking display of white supremacist and neo-Nazi demonstrations in Charlottesville on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017, approaches, the city is attempting to reckon with the lasting consequences of its long history of slavery and racism. The Charlottesville Regional Equity Atlas project is one of many steps being taken. The project, a collaboration between the University of Virginia Library, the Equity Center, and the broader Central Virginia community, aims to produce a community-centered engagement tool.
The Covidwise app detects when someone who downloaded the app has spent time near another app user who later tests positive for the virus. A UVA study found that just 2.4% of 5,000 people tested carry COVID-19 antibodies.
UVA’s Equity Center has been selected as the winner of this year’s Marcus L. Martin Endorsed Award. The UVA IDEA fund announced Wednesday the Equity Center will receive a $5,000 grant to support its work to facilitate long-term, institutional change in the areas of inclusion, diversity, equity and access.
A Charlottesville nonprofit that hopes to grow the local biotech industry is wrapping up its first year of student internships. CvilleBioHub created an internship program with the help of Go Virginia and the biomedical program at the University of Virginia, connecting 17 students with 11 companies in the region.
The COVID-19 pandemic caught most Americans by surprise, showing us the many ways we were not prepared for a widespread health emergency. At the University of Virginia, two professors of nursing say we should have trained more medical professionals in how to help patients and their families face the end of life.
Unlike Nintendo, there’s nothing particularly Chinese about the content on TikTok. Before the latest controversy, many of its users may not have even realized they were using a Chinese product. Aynne Kokas, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia who studies the global reach of Chinese media, says this is likely deliberate.
Last month, many University of Virginia health care providers donned white coats and took a knee at UVA’s new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, protesting racism and inequality and showing support for a national “White Coats for Black Lives” movement and the Black Lives Matter movement. Among them was Dr. Sana Syed, a pediatric gastroenterologist who joined UVA Health three years ago. She and other attendees began talking about immediate action they could take to fight inequality in their communities, and to promote diversity in their professions and schools.
Where materials from demolitions or construction projects can be taken in Albemarle County soon could change. In an interview earlier this year, Mark Stanis, director of capital construction and renovation at the University of Virginia, said UVA is making a number of changes around its contracts for hauling materials. He said the University also initiated a protocol with Albemarle County that UVA would reach out as soon as it has a large site that it knows there is going to be hauling from to make sure that the county has been contacted by the contractor and that the site is communicated.
(By Christopher Ali, associate professor of media studies) For the last four years I have been researching and writing about rural broadband policy in anticipation of my forthcoming book, “Farm Fresh Spectrum: Rural Broadband and the Future of Connectivity,” which will be released in 2021 with MIT Press. The book is an analysis of rural broadband policy in the United States. My goal is to explain how is it that this country can spend upwards of $10 billion a year on broadband deployment and yet the digital divide is growing, not shrinking.
A new study from the University of Virginia estimates that very few Virginians have COVID-19 antibodies. Researchers said that 2.4% of the 5,000 blood samples they examined had antibodies. Dr. Eric Houpt, the head of the University’s infectious diseases division, led the study and said its purpose was to get a better picture of how many people were infected with the virus that were unknown to health officials.
A University of Virginia study is shedding light on troubles people prone to HIV may have in the South. It shows there are more people with HIV in the Southern states, but people with Affordable Care Act insurance policies also have the hardest time getting preventative treatments like PReP.
The University of Virginia will delay undergraduate in-person instruction and residence hall move-in dates by two weeks due to an uptick in local and national coronavirus cases, according to a news release from the university.
The University of Virginia is pushing back the start of in-person classes to Sept. 8 and delaying move-in day for undergraduates following an increase in COVID-19 cases in the state and nation. UVA leaders announced the change Tuesday in an email that also cited supply chain disruptions that have affected the availability of testing materials.
The University of Virginia announced Tuesday that it will delay the return of undergraduates by about two weeks, a further sign of the tumult in higher education brought on by the rising threat of the coronavirus pandemic.
A new online portal aims to help University of Virginia students order self-administer COVID-19 test kits. UVA launched the portal on Monday, and all undergraduate and graduate students who plan on returning to Grounds must submit test results before they are allowed back.
Crews were called out to the area of Chemistry Plaza, off McCormick Road, around 9 a.m. Tuesday. A construction worker at the scene told NBC29 that a vehicle had driven up onto the plaza to make a delivery, but was so heavy that it crashed through the walkway.
Also Tuesday, the University of Virginia announced that it is delaying in-person instruction and residence hall move-ins in response to an uptick in coronavirus cases. The two-week delay means undergraduate classes will still start Aug. 25, but all classes will begin online before moving in-person Sept. 8.
John Thompson, Distinguished Institute Fellow at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute and former U.S. Census Bureau chief, speaks on results of census deadline changing.
Society’s perception of child care being of lesser quality to education has rarely been so pronounced. Robert C. Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development, said the pandemic “pushes on a lot of the tectonics that are between those two systems.” He added that there has been a reversion to the erroneously assuming, “What child care does is warehouse kids, keeps them out of parents’ hair.”
Virginians are returning to work and visiting local businesses nearly at pre-pandemic levels, according to UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute. The institute says the rebound in economic activity is good news – but only if businesses and customers continue to follow guidance on safety, cleanliness and other restrictions laid out in Virginia’s reopening plan.