(Press release) Culture of Respect is excited to announce the participants of Cohort 6 in the Culture of Respect Collective, an ambitious two-year program that brings together institutions of higher education dedicated to ending campus sexual violence and guides them through a rigorous process of self-assessment and targeted organizational change. This sixth cohort is comprised of 23 diverse institutions from across North America, including the University of Virginia.
(Commentary by UVA Alumnus Mike Kerrigan; subscription required) Fortune smiled on me in that Heathrow bookstore. Prominently displayed was a translation of Marcus Aurelius ’ “Meditations” by Gregory Hays. It seemed apt to reread because Mr. Hays taught at the University of Virginia, where I studied classics. On a long flight and a delayed layover, I tried to be a Stoic.
More than 20 million Americans will fight an eating disorder at some point in their life. “Raising awareness is the primary goal, along with improving care, so the more people that are on the lookout for eating disorders and the quicker people get care, the better outcomes we have,” said Dr. Julia Taylor, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
In a “hothouse of ambitious people,” Jackson’s colleague, Richard C. Schragger, said, she “stood out for her consideration of others … and her kind words to lots of people. She was clearly someone who could talk to anybody and definitely not an ideologue or someone who was pushing a particular agenda,” said Schragger, who teaches at the UVA School of Law. Fellow Harvard Law Review editor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, also now UVA law professor, said Jackson’s election to an editing post was proof that she “had a brilliant legal mind, but she is also someone who is humble and easy to work with.”
(Commentary) You may have read about legislation moving through the Virginia General Assembly regarding the future of Catawba Hospital. The bill would fund a study about reimagining that 112-year-old institution, and adding substance abuse treatment to the services it offers. It’s a bipartisan effort, sponsored by Dels. Sam Rasoul, D-Roanoke, and Joe McNamara, R-Roanoke County. On Feb. 11, the measure got 99 votes in the House. It’s now being considered in the Senate. When and if that study happens, one of the items under consideration should be a way to appropriately recognize [UVA School of ...
Bestselling author David Baldacci and his wife, Michelle, have given $1 million to the Library of Virginia, the library announced this week. David Baldacci, who grew up in Henrico County, is a 1978 graduate of Henrico High who went to earn a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
(Podcast) Retired Lt. Gen. Charles Luckey, a UVA alumnus and former chief of Army Reserve and commanding general of the U.S. Army Reserve Command, joined Aileen Black on “Leaders and Legends” to discuss leadership and the importance of empowering your team to do its best.
Erin McClelland, an alumna of the Saint Louis University field hockey team and the current University of Virginia field hockey team manager said, “Sports have taught me to be confident in my own strength and ability, and how important it is to uplift and support those around you whenever you can.”
Catherine Ward, a law school student at the University of Virginia who has studied the state constitution, says before the 1971 revisions to the state constitution, there hadn’t ever been language requiring staggered terms for education board appointments. “They had this emphasis – really, for the first time – on terms being staggered,” Ward said. “Most of the debate previously was really focused on who would be appointed, how many members there would be and what their tenure would be.”
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(Essay) Fortune smiled on me in that Heathrow bookstore. Prominently displayed was a translation of Marcus Aurelius ’ “Meditations” by Gregory Hays. It seemed apt to reread because Mr. Hays taught at the University of Virginia, where I studied classics.
(Audio and transcript) Joining us now to help explain what the Democratic incumbents’ exodus from Congress could mean for midterm elections in November is Kyle Kondik. He is an elections analyst and director of communications at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Biden can’t be seen as taking a premature victory lap on the economy or COVID despite progress, according to Barbara Perry, an expert on the presidency at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “He has to acknowledge that people are in pain and they’re fearful,” said Perry. “They have fears over COVID, obviously and inflation, and not so much unemployment, but underemployment, and rising crime.”
(Commentary) This is what pediatrician Ann Kellams would call “creative problem solving.” Kellams is the president of the Board of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia. “You take the information you have, and then you figure out what will work best, and minimize the risk as much as possible for you to get to the place you feel comfortable.”
“What we’ve seen are patterns of lost learning persisting,” said Jim Soland, an assistant professor of quantitative methods at the University of Virginia who was among panelists attending an online briefing hosted by SciLine, a nonprofit based at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
CDC data indicates that 67% of hospitalizations and 85% of deaths from breakthrough cases occur in people 65 years and older. “If you’re under 45, your chances of dying are almost nonexistent, and then it increases exponentially,” says William Petri, vice chair for research at the University of Virginia.
While 6,000 women hit meno every day, most don’t know exactly what to expect, when to expect it, and what to do about it, says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UVA Health who specializes in midlife health.
(Subscription required) With Russian ties to Europe all but severed, Russia will lean even more on its friendship with China, says Brantly Womack, senior fellow at the Miller Center and professor of foreign affairs at the University of Virginia.
In-state college ban likely lives for VA sportsbooks: It was left in committee, along with another piece of sports betting legislation that sportsbooks wanted to see pass. HB 1127 also failed to gain traction in the House this year after it was quickly dismissed by Del. Barry Knight. The bill would have ended the ban on in-state college betting, allowing operators to take bets on the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.
(Commentary) We see it in takeovers. Investors and company bosses focus upon the likely synergy gains from the merger and neglect the base rate fact which is that, as the University of Virginia’s Robert Bruner has shown, takeovers typically offer “a zero return to buyers.” And so they overestimate the chances that a takeover will succeed.