A UVA graduate has been named the new president and CEO of the New York Times. Meredith Kopit Levien graduated from UVA in 1993.
The real number of Virginians infected with coronavirus could be at least twice as high as the number that have tested positive, according to new research being conducted by UVA Health and the Virginia Department of Health.
It is troubling that the districts have no metric system to close the schools, said Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, a UVA associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care. It is difficult to pin down a metric when the numbers change so quickly, she said, adding that not being able to narrow down a metric is also one of the reasons school divisions should hesitate before they reopen.
Rachel Harmon, professor of law and director of UVA’s Center for Criminal Justice, used to work on Code 242 violations at the U.S. Department of Justice. She said the cases are complicated and “very difficult to prove.” Harmon said that if she was investigating McClain’s case for the federal government, she would focus on whether the stop and arrest was legal and whether police used excessive force.
Nonpartisan U.S. election analyst Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia said the tweet seemed to follow Trump’s typical approach of trying to distract voters from bad news. “Trump suggesting delaying the election (he can’t do this w/o congressional approval) seems to be one of his more obvious attempts to change the subject given this morning’s wretched GDP numbers,” Kondik wrote on Twitter.
Oregon’s governor said on Wednesday the federal government had agreed to withdraw agents from Portland, while the Justice Department said it would send law enforcement officials to Cleveland, Milwaukee and Detroit – all in crucial battleground states – in an expansion of a separate program aimed at curtailing a surge of violent crime in some cities. Kyle Kondik, a non-partisan analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, believes Trump ordered federal police into Portland “to create scary images for suburban voters.”
Gov. Ralph Northam recently emphasized that case growth in four of the state’s five geographic regions is currently stable – a statement that Dr. Taison Bell, an infectious disease expert at the University of Virginia, described as “factually accurate” but not necessarily reflective of signs of trouble at the local level.
Questions about this latest photo challenge also mirror reaction to the #blackoutTuesday push in early June. “Successful selfie protests made what’s invisible visible,” said Mona Kasra, an assistant professor of digital media design at the University of Virginia. “They are effective when they shift public perception, when they create a counterculture, when they resist, when they claim a place online.”
(Commentary by Molly Harry, a Ph.D. candidate studying higher education with a focus on intercollegiate athletics) In 1955, while competing as an offensive lineman for Fort Lewis A&M, Ray Dennison suffered a knee to the head, which shattered his skull and eventually killed him. Dennison’s widow filed for death benefits since her husband’s death was the result of his work while serving as an employee of the institution. The NCAA and Fort Lewis A&M took her to court in what is arguably one of the most important cases in intercollegiate athletics history. Here, the NCAA introduced member ...
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.