As Virginia moves into its third stage of reopening and local cases of COVID-19 rise again, there have been new and growing outbreaks of COVID-19 in local long-term care facilities. Dr. Laurie Archbald-Pannone, a UVA geriatrician and the lead physician of UVA Health’s GERI-Pal program – an interprofessional team of physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses who are working to support local long-term care facilities in preparation for and outbreaks of COVID-19 – explained how the living configuration and demographic of long-term care facilities impacts viral transmission.
As part of UVA’s fall return to Grounds, students will leave Charlottesville before the Thanksgiving holiday and won’t return until after the New Year.
Architecture is defined by its humanity. This is especially true in a year defined by the coronavirus pandemic and global calls for social justice. The impact has been felt across sectors, including in higher education. As architect for the University of Virginia, Alice Raucher advises the University on capital planning and design guidelines. Working to address unique design challenges, Raucher is acknowledging the University’s past while planning for the future.
Pushing to include the stories of a wider swath of people and endeavoring to reinterpret historical spaces does not equate to erasing history, a panelist said Monday during a discussion of Albemarle County’s property in Charlottesville’s Court Square. Elgin Cleckley, a UVA assistant professor of architecture and design thinking, said that the moment to rethink public spaces is now.
Black history is integral to American history, but not a requirement to earn a degree in teaching, nor is it a required subject area for teacher certification exams such as the Praxis, said Valerie Adams-Bass, an assistant professor in UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development.
(Commentary by Aniko Bodroghkozy, professor of media studies) One of the remarkable features of the era’s media environment, dominated by the relatively new medium of television news, is how quickly certain events could roil the conscience of the nation. Confrontations between police and protesters happened frequently during the 1960s. But a particular set of circumstances ensured that the images coming out of Selma galvanized politicians and citizens with remarkable speed and intensity.
Two students at the UVA School of Medicine started the trivia game as a fun, safe way to see friends during the coronavirus pandemic.
On a recent summer morning, a group of UVA students gathered in Chantilly to sort and sanitize handheld devices ranging from smartphones to tablets. The equipment was given to a local medical clinic and then distributed to seniors who don’t have the means to purchase their own, but need to stay connected to health care providers, family and friends.
(Commentary by Andrew Kahrl, professor of history and African American studies) With the weather getting hotter and many indoor activities limited because of the pandemic, a trip to the water is a great way to cool off. But not every Connecticut community has a beachfront or river in town, and many wealthy communities with waterfronts have a history of limiting water access to residents only. Some of those restrictions have reappeared this summer in response to COVID-19.
New research suggests that antibodies the immune system makes to fight the new coronavirus may only last a few months in people with mild illness, but that doesn’t mean protection also is gone or that it won’t be possible to develop an effective vaccine. What we need to know is if and how people remake antibodies if exposed to the coronavirus again and if they protect against another infection, Alison Criss, an immunologist at the University of Virginia, wrote in an email. “We also need to know if there is a protective T cell response” that reappears.
Interleukins are a type of protein that stimulate your immune system’s B- and T-cells to help fight off infections. A recent study at the University of Virginia Medical Center showed that preexisting high levels of interleukin-3 have been associated with a poor outcome in COVID-19 infections.
An international nonprofit consortium of health care institutions dedicated to developing and evaluating therapies to support failing organ systems has honored UVA Health.
We know that Thomas Jefferson’s stirring words on equality and inalienable rights do not comport with his own history. Jefferson’s conflicts as a man and thinker are even embedded in his architecture – as majestic as his words but also masking ugly truths. His crowning achievement is the University of Virginia, which he founded, designed, and began building in 1817.
Wesley Aaron Volk died July 12 at age 95 in Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge. He joined the Department of Microbiology in the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1951, soon became a full professor, an remained at the school for 43 years.
In a 2017 study, a research team led by UVA professor Patricia Jennings focused on 224 New York City elementary school teachers. The teachers who participated in a mindfulness-based program were better than nonparticipants at regulating their emotions, and rated lower on measures of depression, anxiety, exhaustion and feeling pressures.
John Stanley Land played football at Rockbridge High School and became the first African American scholarship football player at the University of Virginia. In addition, he was part of the first entry class of Black undergraduate students at UVA.
(Podcast) Keillor reads the poem “Dawn Revisited,” by Rita Dove, UVA Commonwealth Professor of English, starting at 3:43 min.
Cumulus Media Sports WSBN-A (ESPN 630 The Sports Capital)/Washington has joined the University of Virginia’s Virginia Sports Radio Network. The station will air Cavalier football and men’s basketball, plus coaches’ shows.
Almost all medical visits at the Charlottesville Free Clinic were done remotely between March and May. That’s a huge help for people who have devices, but those that don’t also don’t have access to medical care. The clinic is crucially important for the 2,600 uninsured or under-insured people who go there. A group of students at the University of Virginia has a solution.
(Commentary) Opponents warn of grave threat to civil liberties as observers say the president seeks to build ‘law and order’ credentials. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said: “He took longer than I thought he would to start emphasising law and order. But I bet he starts at the convention. It’s going to be one of the key themes of the convention. ‘These crazy liberals are causing problems again.’”