Scott Gest, a University of Virginia professor, says: “People talk about negative peer influence … but they neglect the pretty substantial literature that shows a lot of negative behavior of high school kids is discouraged by friends. There is a lot of very positive pressure that peers apply, like, ‘No man, that’s stupid.’”
Google and Facebook want to be the platforms where people are having timely conversations, said Siva Vaidhyanathan at the University of Virginia. “Their goal is to matter. Their ultimate goal is to be the operating system of our lives,” he said. Vaidhyanathan said that, more than revenue, is the incentive for the companies to have political content.
(Audio) The Australian government says it’s gone further than most in attempting to regulate social media giants Facebook and Google. So will other countries seek to follow Australia’s attempt to regulate two of the world’s most powerful companies? Featured: Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA professor of media studies and the author of the book “Antisocial Media.”
Rachel A. Harmon is a professor at the UVA School of Law, where she directs the Center for Criminal Justice. A leading scholar of policing, she previously served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, where she investigated and prosecuted civil rights crimes including hate crimes and cases of excessive force and sexual violence by police officers and other government officials. She visited the virtual Zócalo green room to talk triathlons, why Supreme Court justices are just like the rest of us, and why she moved from prosecution to academia.
Some, especially among Black and Latinx communities, have concerns about the vaccine’s safety and efficacy. “The skepticism and the distrust of the medical community is warranted,” said Dr. Ebony Hilton, an anesthesiologist and critical care physician with UVA Health. “The medical community, we know historically, has had insults to the African American community.”
(Video) Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at the University of Virginia, breaks down the latest on the coronavirus pandemic as the U.S. moves closer to getting a vaccine.
“Safety is job No. 1 for a vaccine. It has to be super safe because we’re giving it to completely healthy people, so it’s very reassuring from this plug and play that we know from the background the basis of these vaccines is very safe,” said Dr. Bill Petri, professor of infectious disease at the University of Virginia.
Peabody has appointed Manuel Betancourt, Henry Goldblatt, Michael Isip, Aswin Punathambekar and Bonnie Turner to its board of jurors, which each year bestows the Peabody Awards for excellence in television, radio/podcasting, and digital media. Punathambekar is a UVA associate professor of media studies.
Chemists at the University of Virginia synthesized a radical that contains beryllium in the +1 oxidation state by oxidizing a previously reported compound containing Be(II) (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13777). Compounds with main-group elements with low oxidation states could participate in chemistry typically seen only in transition metals.
When a high-power laser boils molten metal, it often generates deep and narrow gaps. These gaps are known as keyholes, and it had long been suspected that they were related to defects in the finished 3-D-printed part. The exact relationship between keyholes and porosity was not, however, fully understood. Researchers led by Tao Sun of the University of Virginia and two colleagues have now used high-energy X-rays derived from the Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source to image how keyholes and pores form in a titanium alloy during laser powder bed fusion.
Increased sensitivity to vaccines that younger vaccine receivers may have compared with adults could be a positive, said Dr Steven Zeichner, professor, Department of Pediatrics and Microbiology, University of Virginia.
A research project is looking at the benefits of cryogenic freezing on cannabinoids found in industrial hemp, from the time of harvest through extraction and final processing. The research team is studying cryogenic processing profiles that will “address knowledge gaps and provide best practices to maximize value immediately transferrable to hemp growers and processors seeking to optimize their product yield,” said Bryan Berger, University of Virginia associate professor of chemical and biomedical engineering.
A UVA exercise researcher found that regular exercise may reduce the risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome, a major cause of death in patients with COVID-19.
An exercise research team at the UVA School of Medicine has started an effort to understand the whole-body benefits of exercise so that doctors can use that information to prevent and treat disease.
The Princeton Review recently released its annual law school ranking, covering the best 164 law schools in the country. We’ve focused on one of the 14 rankings categories that we thought people would be the most interested in: The law schools where graduates have the best career prospects. (The UVA School of Law ranked No. 4.)
Dr. Ebony Hilton, associate professor in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Virginia, said that she understands the mistrust of the medical system that exists in the Black community. However, Hilton believes African Americans shouldn’t hesitate to accept an approved coronavirus vaccine.
In a time of constantly unfolding political and public-health crises, the PRX series “LBJ and the Great Society,” hosted by Melody Barnes (professor pf practice at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs), transports us to a world in which an outsized American President and personality drew on his considerable dealmaking skills to bring about progressive structural change.
Gov. Gina Raimondo nominated two women Tuesday to the Rhode Island Supreme Court, including one who, if confirmed, would become not only the first Black justice, but also the first person of color on the state's highest court. Superior Court Judge Melissa Long was nominated to replace Justice Francis X. Flaherty, who announced his retirement in October. Long is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the George Mason University School of Law.
Davis is a renowned scholar in the field of products liability. She graduated from Wake Forest University School of Law, and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia.
“There’s a tension in corporate and government spaces,” said Laura Morgan Roberts of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, whose research focuses on identity in organizations. The racial justice protests this year had catalyzed changes like the Nasdaq proposal, but “to move the needle” on inequality there needed to be corporate and government leadership steeped in the issues, and candidates’ backgrounds do impact policy, she said. “We have to be intentional and proactive to eradicate patterns.”