Maria Rosario Jackson, if confirmed, will be the first African American and Mexican American to serve as chairperson for the National Endowment for the Arts. Jackson is a professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State, where she also holds an appointment in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. She is currently on the advisory boards of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the Equity Center at the University of Virginia, and several arts organizations in Los Angeles.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children have health screenings at 12, 15, 18, 24, 30 and 36 months of age, and once a year after that. Early signs of autism typically appear in the second year of life, so these check-ups are important for early diagnosis. “The earlier you get diagnosed, the better your outcomes are,” says study leader Pamela DeGuzman, associate professor of nursing at the University of Virginia.
When a colleague is experiencing a stress injury leading to this behavior, how can you calm the situation in the moment and for the long hall to ensure physical and psychological safety? “We know that presence is important. Showing up and standing by and asking, ‘Is there anything I can do to help?’” said Richard Westphal, PhD, co-director of the Wisdom and Wellbeing Program at the University of Virginia School of Nursing in Charlottesville. “And in the patient-care environment, if there is a risk to the safety of a co-worker or patient, then you just say, ‘Stop. Freeze. Let’s look at what we’...
As part of my Marketing Strategy Series, I’m talking with fellow marketing pros at the top of their game to give entrepreneurs and marketers an inside look at proven strategies you might also be able to leverage to grow your business or career. Today I had the pleasure of talking with Rajkumar Venkatesan co-author of “The AI Marketing Canvas.” Raj Venkatesan is the Ronald Trzcinski Professor of Business Administration in the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Marketing and Harvard Business Review, among others, and he is the co-a...
(Subsciption may be required; commentary) The author quotes Daniel Willingham, a cognitive scientist at the University of Virginia: “The very processes that teachers care about most,” like critical thinking and problem solving, “are intimately intertwined with factual knowledge that is stored in long-term memory,” writes Daniel Willingham.
Much of this debt to France was the legacy of what the University of Virginia scholar Marlene Daut calls “the greatest heist in history”: surrounded by French gunboats, a newly independent Haiti was forced to pay its slaveholders reparations. You read that correctly. It was the former slaves of Haiti, not the French slaveholders, who were forced to pay reparations. Haitians compensated their oppressors and their oppressors’ descendants for the privilege of being free. It took Haiti more than a century to pay the reparation debts off.
(Commentary; subscription required) “You see lots of people putting forth a hopeful idea of a new, humane social media platform to rescue us — one that respects privacy or is less algorithmically coercive,” Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, told Warzel. “But if we’re being honest, what they’re really proposing at that point is not really social media anymore.”
(Subscription may be required; commentary co-written by Jeffrey Vergales, associate professor of pediatrics) With a pathogen as contagious as the delta variant of the coronavirus, there is a place for quarantines in the public health tool kit. But it’s important that they pass a basic cost-benefit test: The risks of quarantine, in a given situation, must be outweighed by the risk of contracting the virus. We, as parents and concerned individuals, would gladly embrace this public health strategy if it met that standard — if the tactic prevented dangerous spread in the school setting.
(Commentary by Dr. C. Edward Rose Jr., emeritus professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine) I have practiced and taught pulmonary and critical care medicine for more than 40 years, and I am chagrined when hearing allegations that mortality data are contrived and people are not really dying of COVID-19. My colleagues in critical care medicine, infectious disease and emergency medicine know and tell me otherwise.
Two directorial debuts, a 9/11 documentary and screenings of Halloween thrillers are among the latest additions to the Virginia Film Festival’s schedule.
The Virginia Film Festival announced today that several films have been added to its recently-revealed 2021 program - including two of the most talked-about titles on this year’s festival circuit. The Virginia Film Festival is presented by the University of Virginia and the Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost for the Arts.
After almost a year-and-a-half of hardship and physical and mental fatigue, University of Virginia Medical Center employees will be getting a monetary “thank you.” UVA Health has committed $30 million to compensate its employees. The money was not originally in the budget, but UVA Health CEO Wendy Horton said it had to be done. “We’re all exhausted in health care,” Horton said. “We’re working really hard. This will be an important time to really address the compensation and it’s our first step of principally many that need to come.”
A UVA data model is suggesting we might be past the peak of the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Data from the UVA Biocomplexity Institute suggests cases peaked around Sept. 19.
A new UVA Center for Politics study has found that a majority of GOP voters supported Republican states seceding from Democratic ones. The study found that 52% of voters who supported President Donald Trump and 41% of voters who supported President Joe Biden said they’d want the country to be split. Experts say politics are now personal and impact lives in person and online, causing deep divisions across the country. “The emotion is building up,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics. “The anger is building up, and at some point, you’ll have an explosion.”
(Commentary) This week, the University of Virginia Center for Politics released a poll surveying Americans’ feelings about their political opponents. According to the poll, 80% of Biden voters and 84% of Trump voters believed that elected officials of the opposite party present a “clear and present danger to American democracy”; 78% of Biden voters believed that the Republican Party wanted to eliminate the influence of “progressive values” in American life, while 87% of Trump voters believed that the Democrats wanted to eliminate “traditional values”; 75% of Biden voters and 78% of Trump voter...
(Commentary; subscription may be required) Sitting on a shelf in my sunlit study are two massive works of history by the late, great scholar Zara Steiner, each dealing with the international politics of the 1920s and ‘30s. The first volume is “The Lights That Failed”; the second is “The Triumph of the Dark.” They came particularly to mind when I learned of the latest poll results from the University of Virginia Center for Politics, in which about three-quarters of Joe Biden and Donald Trump voters say that representatives of the opposing party are “a clear and present danger to American democr...
(Editorial) A new political poll offers an alarming look at the state of American unity and our population’s respect for some of the nation’s core values. The poll, conducted by the University of Virginia’s nonprofit Center for Politics, shows that 52% of respondents who voted for former President Donald Trump were in favor of splitting the country into red and blue states, while 41% of voters for President Joe Biden agree with the idea.
(Commentary) In a survey taken this summer by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, 83% of Trump voters agreed with this statement: “There are many radical, immoral people trying to ruin things; our society ought to stop them.”
(Commentary) To that point, a new poll from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics shows that more than 50% of Trump voters would support seceding from the Union. Given the racial grievance and white supremacy politics of Trump’s followers, such a course of action could lead to a second American civil war. It is no coincidence that a fair number of Trump’s terrorists waved Confederate flags as they attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
(Commentary; subscription required) The tools of political science, neuroscience, evolutionary theory, psychology, cognitive science and sociology are all necessary to understand the ongoing upheaval in politics — not just in America but also globally. On Sept. 30, for example, the University of Virginia Center for Politics and Project Home Fire released a survey showing unexpectedly large percentages of voters agreeing with this statement: “The situation in America is such that I would favor states seceding from the union to form their own separate country.” Among Trump voters, 52% agreed, wi...