Kansas City Chiefs safety Juan Thornhill was inducted into the Hall of Fame in his hometown in Virginia. Altavista High School sits in the namesake town of about 3,400 people and is where Thornhill was born and raised. Before suiting up for the Chiefs and University of Virginia Cavaliers, Thornhill was a Colonel.
Businessman and Darden alumnus] Warren Thompson is one such example of a leader in the industry who is creating a more equitable work environment. He founded Thompson Hospitality in 1992, which encompasses nearly a dozen restaurants throughout the mid-Atlantic and Florida. Restaurants like Milk & Honey in Charlottesville, Virginia, The Delegate in Washington, D.C., and Yot Bar & Kitchen in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, all fall under the Thompson Hospitality umbrella.
Kathryn Valentine has graciously agreed to share some of her insights with this audience. By way of background, Kathryn is the founder of Worthmore Strategies, a consulting firm focused on achieving gender parity in the workplace by empowering women to ask for what they need to be happy, productive, and successful in their careers. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Adweek, Working Mother and Forbes, and she has spoken at Harvard, Wharton, and Darden business schools. Kathryn graduated from the University of Virginia, where she was a Jefferson Scholar and Lawn Resident, and star...
If Thiel does aspire to become the next Republican kingmaker, he'll first need to put wins on the electoral map, said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. Right now, the candidate most visibly associated with Thiel this cycle, Vance, has been struggling. "If Vance loses," said Sabato, "it will not reflect well on Thiel. Thiel is doing more than giving him money; he's clearly giving him a lot of advice."
“You can sit there and present all the economic stats and say look at this the economy grew faster than it has since the 1980’s,” said Larry Sabato, Director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “And then the other person sitting opposite you says, ‘Well when I went to the store this morning I was paying $3 for a gallon of milk,’ it’s hard to argue with that—statistics don’t overcome personal experience.”
“Few believed Hogan would run for the Senate, so this is not a big surprise,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Had Hogan run, though, it would have created a competitive race. National Republicans would have been delighted, since Maryland would otherwise have been seen as safe for the incumbent. Van Hollen is now strongly favored to hold the seat.”
(Audio and transcript) Katie Dunn Tenpas, who studies presidential personnel at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, is quoted.
In response to Bud Light’s new 80-calorie, 0 carb beer, Next, Miller64 and collaborating agency Mischief @ No Fixed Address tapped esteemed mathematician and Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, Ken Ono, for a minute-long spot to help solve a pressing math equation: which number is smaller, 80 or 64?
Miller64 partnered with mathematician Ken Ono, the current Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics chair at the University of Virginia, for the campaign video, which was produced by Mischief @ No Fixed Address. During the spot, interviewers ask Ono which number is smaller, 64 or 80. Ono answers 64, seemingly miffed that he had been asked such a simple question. The campaign was inspired by market research conducted by Miller64 that alleges 7% of Americans answered incorrectly when asked if 80 or 64 is the larger number.
Specialty societies have not paired screening recommendations with aggressive efforts to educate physicians about the disorder’s prevalence, acknowledged Robert Carey, a professor of medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Endocrine Society past president, who helped develop the guidelines.
Once patrons are aware of the services, they still need to be convinced to use them. Pamela Guzman, associate professor of nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, Charlottesville, said, “In many communities that offer telemedicine visits in their libraries, the most vulnerable patients (those with limited resources, transportation, internet access) are not using the service. It’s not just an issue of marketing. We know that the Delaware libraries, for example, have done plenty of marketing of their services. I suspect that libraries are experiencing something that we have seen...
Jessika Bottiani, a research assistant professor of education at the University of Virginia, has seen schools struggle with belonging and culture, which she defines as implicit norms and beliefs about how things should work, or the personality of a school. She attributes this struggle partially to the tendency in education to gravitate toward the newest trend in absence of clear best practices. “Different interventions become the sparky new thing to try,” Bottiani said. “And the lived experience in a lot of schools becomes: We tried it and it didn’t work.”
Classism, like caste discrimination, is a very real aspect of diversity equity and inclusion, and one that needs addressing as much as racism, sexism and all other forms of inequity based on one’s mere identity. According to University of Virginia professor Sean Martin, who has studied the effects of social class in organizations, “The topic is important because social class is a source of bias and discrimination across all the stages of work: development, recruitment, retention, and promotion.”
(Podcast) My guest for Episode #439 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Elliott Weiss, the Oliver Wight Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, having taught in the Technology and Operations Management area at Darden. He is the author of numerous articles in the areas of production and operations management and has extensive consulting experience for both manufacturing and service companies in the areas of production scheduling, workflow management, logistics, lean conversions and total productive maintenance.
There have been more deaths from COVID-19 than some state populations and UVA doctors say this is something that could have been prevented. “Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Nine-hundred-thousand people are larger than those state populations. It’s larger than the population of the District of Columbia. So this is, you know, a very sad and grim milestone.” said Dr. Costi Sifri with UVA Health. “The biggest spikes have all occurred, in general, after we’ve seen a surge or a wave of infection. That’s what we’re seeing right now.”
(Co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project) Most American adults aspire to be married. But for many today, marriage is supposed to be a capstone achievement rather than a cornerstone of young adult life. The “capstone model”1 says you are supposed to have all your ducks in a row—education, some professional success, and a clear adult identity—before you marry.
Researchers at the University of Virginia are producing a film on Alzheimer’s disease. The film, “Animating Alzheimer’s,” aims to educate more people on what the disease is and how it functions in the brain and body.
Researchers at the University of Virginia are looking into a reason why seizures can cause memory loss. According to a release, the researchers, UVA Brain Institute Director Jaideep Kapur and postdoctoral fellow in neurology Anastasia Brodovskaya, found that seizures affect the same parts of the brain that are responsible for memory formation.
Stop discouraging couples in their early 20s from getting married. This rebuke, directed at American society generally, comes from the authors of a new report showing that the age of a couple at the time they say “I do” has little to do with the long-term success of their marriage. The study, released right before Valentine’s Day, represents a joint publication of Brigham Young University’s Wheatley Institution and School of Family Life, as well as the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project.
(Co-written by Jennifer L. Lawless, Commonwealth Professor of Politics) As the 2022 midterm election season gets underway, speculation is already mounting that it’s going to be another banner year for female candidates. But make no mistake, even if 2022 is another so-called “Year of the Woman,” politics is still a man’s game.