John Dunlap, a former executive at the San Diego Zoo, has been appointed park president for SeaWorld & Aquatica San Diego. Dunlap holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of Virginia as well as an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
“Joel has been an amazing community partner and supporter of our program,” Ryan Lightner, associate director of development at UVA Children’s, said in the release. “Year after year he and his crew members continue to go above and beyond to help the families of central Virginia.”
Crunching the data, UVA political analyst Larry Sabato concludes that, “Biden won the presidency by doing a bit better with white voters, especially those with a four-year degree, than Hillary Clinton, while doing worse than she did among voters of color. This was particularly true among Latinos, a group that shifted from a roughly 70%-30% Democratic margin in both the 2012 and 2016 two-party vote to a 63%-37% Democratic edge in 2020,” Sabato continued. “This Democratic drop jumps out in the results, not only in heavily Latino South Florida and South Texas, but other places across the country ...
Planning, testing, the safe movement of bodies from place to place: These were the sorts of problems Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr. could sink his teeth into, said Bethany A. Bell, who served on the Future Planning Group, which was assembled to navigate the pandemic. “South Carolina was really ahead of the curve,” said Bell, who recently took a position at the University of Virginia, where she is an associate professor of education and chair of the Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy. “It got saliva-testing up quickly. His military logistics and those types of leadership skills, I...
The controversy has grown decidedly more civil since December. Both Young and Jaenisch say they received more intense criticism for their preprint than any studies in their careers, in part because some researchers worried it played into the hands of vaccine skeptics spreading false claims about the newly authorized mRNA vaccines. “If there ever was a preprint that should be deleted, it is this one! It was irresponsible to even put it up as a preprint, considering the complete lack of relevant evidence. This is now being used by some to spread doubts about the new vaccines,” Marie-Louise Hamma...
"In congregate settings like schools, I suspect we will continue to see masks in the foreseeable future, even in a fully vaccinated population," said Dr. Carlos Armengol of UVA Health’s Pediatric Cardiology.
(Video) Thousands of adolescents stood on line for their first shot Thursday. Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at the University of Virginia, discusses the latest guidance.
(Video) The CDC is easing restrictions on masks, allowing those who are fully vaccinated to unmask for some outdoor activities. UVA critical care and infectious disease physician and medical ICU director Dr. Taison Bell discusses the latest coronavirus news.
(Commentary by Kimberly A. Whittier, assistant professor in the Darden School of Business) One of the fortunate things about being a professor is that you have colleagues who are on the leading edge of developing new knowledge. I was excited to hear about a new book (“Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work”) written by professor Jim Detert. The topic is timely given the growing fear that people have speaking up in today’s “cancel culture.”
(By Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley, associate professor of pediatrics) Shirley specializes in pediatric infectious diseases. Here she addresses some of the concerns parents may have about their teen or preteen getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
UVA Health’s vaccination clinic at Seminole Square Shopping Center is accepting anyone in the community regardless of affiliation with UVA, within the same age guidelines. “We’re not planning to close the Seminole Square site at this point,” UVA Health spokesman Eric Swensen said. “Appointments are required at Seminole Square. [It’s] open to those 12 and older while supplies last.”
The Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVA Health says it’s seeing reports of gasoline poisoning due to siphoning. The center said callers have reported people inhaling and swallowing gas while trying to suck it out of of vehicle through a tube to put into another vehicle, like sipping a drink through a straw.
The Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVA Health says it has been getting calls about gasoline poisoning. On Thursday, the center issued a warning against siphoning gasoline, saying callers have been reporting that someone accidentally swallowed gas while they were attempting to siphon it through a tube from one container to another.
It takes just seconds: a car crosses the center line on a highway, or misses a stop sign, colliding with another vehicle. What happens next largely depends on speed, the type of vehicle and road conditions – but it can also depend on who is driving. In the United States, female drivers are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a car crash compared to male drivers in a similar crash, according to research from the University of Virginia.
If you do make a serious mistake, whether you get away with it or not can depend on your gender. Women are judged more harshly at work than their male counterparts, multiple studies have shown, particularly when it comes to errors. In a 2019 study, VA researchers found female CEOs were judged more harshly than men for workplace failures.
(Commentary) Northern Virginia’s population is growing, but not nearly as fast as before. According to a new study by UVA demographer Hamilton Lombard, Northern Virginia accounted for 66.5% of the state’s population growth between 2010 and 2019, but slipped to 33.7% in the last year.
The vaccine acceptance rate is 49% in the Eastern region of Virginia, lagging behind other parts of the state, according to data from UVA’s COVID-19 modeling.
One concern parents may have regarding their child's education during the COVID-19 pandemic is learning loss. A study involving an education assistant professor at the University of Virginia has found that some forms of tutoring can help students catch up.
They didn’t have the high profiles or long tenure of some other members of Congress, but Arizona lawmakers in the last Congress ranked relatively high on a recent scorecard of congressional effectiveness. The Center for Effective Lawmaking study, by researchers at UVA and Vanderbilt University, ranked members on the amount of substantive legislation they introduced and how far it moved toward passage in the 116th Congress.
Democrats’ stunning disappointment in 2020 House races was due to an “absolute collapse” in members’ historical power of incumbency, an analysis by UVA’s Center for Politics found. “Imagine if the results were that all the Republican incumbents survived, but so did all but a few of the Democrats. People would’ve been surprised by the polling miss, but it would’ve felt more like an average result,” the report noted.