Virginia universities plan a return to campuses in the fall, but there are questions if the COVID-19 vaccine can be mandated.
Â鶹ĆĆ˝â°ć Miller Center is getting ready to host another installment of its Democracy Dialogues series. This presentation, put on in partnership with the Institute of Democracy and the Democracy Initiative, will take place April 29 at 9 a.m. According to a release, it will feature Senators Tim Kaine of Virginia and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia as well as UVA President Jim Ryan and Democracy Initiative co-director Melody Barnes.
The Princeton Review says the University of Virginia is the No. 1 school in the nation for its financial aid packages. This is one of several high rankings UVA has achieved.
(Commentary by Cristina Lopez-Gottardi Chao, assistant professor and research director for public and policy programs at Â鶹ĆĆ˝â°ć Miller Center) This week marked the close of Cuba’s eighth Communist Party Congress, held every five years to announce important political and policy shifts. And this year’s came at a complicated time for the island nation.
Research from UVA and Duke University recently found that climate change and violence together are driving increased migration from Honduras. In the period between 2012 and 2019, when rainfall decreased, the number of Honduran families apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border rose. That number increased even further during periods with higher murder rates.
It’s good practice to continue wearing masks indoors, pointed out Patrick E. Jackson, a UVA professor of infectious diseases. “I think that there is some threshold of the level of community transmission of COVID-19 and the proportion of population that’s vaccinated at which point you would say that it’s no longer necessary. But I doubt there’s any place in the United States that would meet those criteria right now,” Jackson said.
University of Virginia students are making a direct economic impact on low-income households this tax season. Student volunteers with Creating Assets, Savings & Hope (CASH) have been working with individuals making under $57,000 a year in the Charlottesville area to maximize their returns. The organization partners with United Way and Cville Tax Aide.
The University of Virginia Department of Drama will present its fifth annual New Works Festival as five short audio dramas streamed on radio station WTJU-FM.
Virtual Virginia Film Festival events continued on Tuesday, as the organization hosted a conversation with an Oscar nominee. Travon Free, who wrote and directed the short film “Two Distant Strangers” spoke with University of Virginia’s Kevin McDonald, who leads the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion department. The film is a sort of Groundhog Day -- a repeat of an encounter between a Black man and a bad cop.
As a high school student, A.D. Carson dreamed of becoming a professional rapper. And he has done just that—albeit through an unusual route that he hopes will inspire others. His career path took him from a K-12 English teacher to doctoral student at Clemson University, then to his current role as a professor of hip-hop at the University of Virginia. In August, his latest album, “i used to love to dream,” became the first rap album to be published by a university press, after going through a formal academic peer-review.
Saturday is the Drug Enforcement Administration's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. A goal of the day and drug drop-off sites is to ensure the medications can’t be misused, abused or accidentally ingested. The drop-off locations, which include Wegmans at 5th St. Station and the Education Resource Center Pharmacy at the University of Virginia Medical Center, will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Medications also can be taken to Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, Gordonsville Plaza, Jefferson Pharmacy in Fluvanna County and sheriff’s offices in Louisa, Madison and Nelson counties.
The University of Virginia Health System has announced that it will be canceling decades of court judgments and liens over unpaid medical bills in an effort to reduce some of the financial burden of medical costs for low-income patients. UVA Health announced the new policy in a Monday press release, explaining that it plans to “release all liens and judgments for patients who are at or below 400% of the federal poverty level.”
The University of Virginia Health System has announced that it will be canceling decades of court judgments and liens over unpaid medical bills in an effort to reduce some of the financial burden of medical costs for low-income patients. UVA Health announced the new policy in a Monday press release, explaining that it plans to “release all liens and judgments for patients who are at or below 400% of the federal poverty level.”
New UVA research has found that autism-spectrum disorders manifest differently in the brains of girls than in the brains of boys.
Simply, Mamadi Diakite wanted a shot. Undrafted out of UVA, the 6-foot, 9-inch forward with an NCAA championship ring hoped to get a chance just to play in the NBA. The Milwaukee Bucks gave him that with a two-way contract. Four months later, Diakite has taken full advantage of the opportunity and the club will convert that deal into a multi-year contract.
Global warming is shifting the migrant population from men seeking economic opportunities to families uprooted by hunger, according to researchers at UVA and Duke University studying migration out of Central America. Climate change is a driving force, but there's little political will to help climate migrants, said David Leblang, a UVA professor of politics and policy who co-wrote the study.
“I think the verdict provided some measure of justice,” said Dr. Kevin McDonald, Â鶹ĆĆ˝â°ć vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion. “We still know that issues of systemic racism exist in our society. So, this is a step in the right direction. We just have to continue to move forward and be reflective as a nation to continue to kind of eradicate and maybe continue to reflect on our current systems and structures that have served as impediments to progress.”
1. Secureworks’ President [and UVA alumna] Wendy Thomas champions the company’s drive to provide innovative, best-in-class security solutions that sit at the heart of customers’ security operations.
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar has tried to distance himself from reports he was backing a caucus that would defend “Anglo-Saxon political traditions,” but political analysts say the flap is unlikely to harm the conservative Republican’s re-election prospects. “If Gosar’s district looks like it does now, he should be fine,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “There probably are other things that he could do that would make him vulnerable in a primary, but I don’t think what’s been reported over the past several days qualifies...
Out of office, ex-presidents lose the power of the bully pulpit, but they gain the opportunity to transcend everyday politics and work on less contentious causes in the public interest, like promoting vaccinations or raising money for victims of natural disasters. That Bush is using his platform to weigh in on policy, even in a less partisan way, is noteworthy. “I think it’s a natural extension of his feelings about immigrants to do something that honors their contributions to this country,” said Russell Riley, a University of Virginia professor and co-chairman of the Miller Center Presidentia...