About 2.4% of adult Virginians have antibodies for the coronavirus, according to preliminary findings from a statewide study. The incomplete study, called the COVID-19 Serology Project, has so far analyzed blood samples from 3,775 out of 5,000 participants. The University of Virginia is overseeing the research.
Virginia Humanities will move its headquarters next year to the Dairy Central development on the grounds of the former Monticello Dairy building at Grady and Preston avenues, officials for the development and the organization say. It currently has its offices on Ednam Drive.
Businesses in Charlottesville could be impacted if UVA doesn’t play its slate of home games at Scott Stadium this year. The city’s economy isn’t nearly as reliant on the University or its sports teams for commerce, with robust business from weddings, wineries and other tourist draws.
A project from nuclear physicist Cynthia Keppel is focused primarily on developing more effective radiation treatment for the millions of people diagnosed with cancer each year. Keppel was recently awarded $1 million for her research through the Distinguished Scientist Fellow program of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The project is a collaboration between several Virginia research centers. Other partners include the University of Virginia.
The campuses at Virginia Tech and University of Virginia are getting national recognition for their beauty. Both schools made it on Condé Nast Traveler’s list of “The 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America.”
(Analysis co-written by Teresa A. Sullivan, president emerita) President Trump recently indicated that he wants the 2020 census reapportionment of House seats to exclude undocumented immigrants from the calculation. If that occurs, the 2020 reapportionment calculation will change, including changing the number of House seats allocated to the two largest states, California and Texas.
(Commentary co-written by Corey Feist, chief executive officer of the UVA Physicians Group) After losing her sister, Dr. Lorna Breen, to suicide in April, Jennifer Feist submitted written testimony last month to a Congressional hearing examining the pandemic’s toll on mental well-being. Together with her husband, Corey Feist, she co-founded the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation. In the second half of this post, Corey Feist shares why they are calling for culture change in health care.
U.S. News and World Report ranked the UVA Medical Center as the No. 1 hospital in the state for the fifth consecutive year, according to a news release. The publication’s 2020-21 “Best Hospitals” guide also ranks eight UVA specialties among the best in the country.
The UVA Medical Center once again was ranked the best hospital in Virginia by U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of the best hospitals in the nation, which was released Tuesday.
The Nov. 3 national general election will be unlike any before it, according to those who coordinate and tabulate results, and like everything else this year, COVID-19 is responsible. According to a University of Virginia study, of the 332 million U.S. residents, 235 million are of voting age and are U.S. citizens, meaning 70% of the overall population will be eligible to vote in 2020.
This school year, two rooms on the historic Lawn at the University of Virginia will be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. “First we took the Lawn walk itself and we raised it so five of the rooms would be barrier-free, and then two of the rooms themselves were converted to ADA compliance,” said Amy Moses, Historic Preservation Project Manager.
After more than a century, some important parts of the University of Virginia’s McCormick Observatory have been replaced. New rollers and a stainless steel track now operate the top shutters on the observatory. The original rollers were on a painted metal frame because stainless steel had not been developed when the observatory was built in 1884.
A 49-year lease agreement between the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority and the University of Virginia that will allow the authority to expand a treatment plant was authorized by the RWSA board on Tuesday.
A 5-year-old named Benjamin was the recipient of a basketball sport court in his backyard on Sunday. Make-A-Wish worked with Benjamin and his family to identify what wish he would like to receive. Benjamin, a huge University of Virginia basketball fan, picked a basketball court painted blue and orange to match UVA’s colors.
The Biden campaign has yet to confirm or deny the reports that Republican U.S. Sen. John Kasich has been invited to speak to a national TV audience during the Democratic National Convention. “Like Zell Miller was for Bush, there’s every reason to believe that Kasich could be a good figurehead for Republican voters who are really wavering when it comes to voting for Trump again,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a weekly politics newsletter published by UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Audio) UVA economics professor Edwin T. Burton joins discusses looming economic struggles in Charlottesville and Virginia as a whole. He also sheds light on the question of schools opening this fall.
(Press release) A UVA undergraduate team has won this year’s U.S. Accenture Innovation Challenge and will provide consulting support to the Waterkeeper Alliance, the largest and fastest-growing nonprofit solely dedicated to clean water. The winning team was selected following multiple rounds of competition involving 1,193 students from 63 undergraduate campuses and diversity partner programs across the United States.
(Commentary by M. Jordan Love, the academic curator at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia) It is an unusual feeling as a medieval art specialist for my subject to suddenly feel globally significant. I suspect some of my colleagues in Renaissance art feel this as well. For those of us who have studied art created after the Black Death of 1348, or the Plague of London in 1665, or during the wave of epidemics that washed over Italian cities every few years between 1500-1700, our current pandemic has felt familiar and brought our knowledge to the forefront.
The University of Virginia athletics department released its second update of COVID-19 test results on Friday afternoon. Of the 235 student-athletes who have returned to Grounds since July 5, four have tested positive for the virus.
Architect, historian, and educator Mabel O. Wilson has been named as the 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient by the University of Virginia School of Architecture.