There is a new director for talent acquisition and retention at UVA Health. According to a release, Charles Bodden has been selected as the inaugural Senior Director for Talent Acquisition and Retention, and he will take up the role later this month. Bodden will be leading a consolidated recruitment team that aims to attract, engage, evaluate, hire, promote and retain the people needed to deliver necessary patient care and drive strategic initiatives.
(Transcript) BARBARA PERRY (presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center): We want presidents to grieve with us because we view them as the fathers of our country and the leader of our American family. But we also want to make sure that that leader is not oversharing or being tearful or collapsing with us.
(Transcript) In the weeks and months after 9/11, Washington became a sort of security garden. Planters, cement bollards and barriers suddenly sprouted from the sidewalk, like here in front of the EPA. It became what University of Virginia architecture professor Elizabeth Meyer calls a landscape of fear.ELIZABETH MEYER: What’s happened to the public landscape of Washington is more than the architecture of bollards and the immediate choreography of security and risk adjacent to public buildings. It’s the total change of flow and accessibility that everyday citizens used to have to seats of power...
More than one in four new COVID-19 cases are now in children, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. It’s an alarming statistic for many doctors, including those at UVA Health on the front lines. “It is of course so much more transmissible and that’s responsible for the overall cases in children and the increases in hospitalizations in children,” said Dr. Bill Petri.
A third-grader is thanking the nurses at UVA Children’s for turning their office into a walk-in coronavirus testing clinic.
Dr. Cameron Webb stressed that the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are safe, yet people are reluctant to get vaccinated due to complacency, confidence and convenience. Complacent individuals don’t believe that they will catch the virus, he explained. Others lack confidence in the safety of the product, which translates to not “trusting in the government that’s telling you to get vaccinated,” said Webb, who is the senior policy adviser for COVID-19 equity and a physician and UVA professor.
Researchers from New York University, the University of Virginia and elsewhere say they’ve found no evidence to support GOP grievances that social media companies stifle conservative voices. If anything, they say, social media platforms amplify the voices of conservatives, shaping the worldviews of millions of voters.
The new paper is “really interesting, but seems counterintuitive,” said J. Kim Penberthy, the Chester F. Carlson professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the UVA School of Medicine and coauthor of “Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Guide.” “I do a lot of mindfulness research and we are often really advocating for people to slow down and see the benefits of down time, so this was a little antithetical to that,” she said. “There are health benefits to having free time to breathe and let our minds wander.”
The causal evidence of a link between air pollution and lung cancer has been building for decades, but the risk varies widely in different regions of the world, depending on the age of the population, the amount of tobacco smoking over time, and the amount of air pollution in the country. Berg and co-researcher Dr. Joan Schiller, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia and a Board Member of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, sought to better understand the worldwide variability in air pollution attributable to lung cancer.
According to analysts, studios are in a lose-lose position. Aynne Kokas, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Hollywood Made in China, explains that if Hollywood were to acknowledge self-censorship, the media blowback in the West would be significant, and China’s risk-averse government might blacklist Hollywood films to minimize attention. At the same time, she told me, studios might draw scrutiny from certain American legislators, harming their reputation at home. But Hollywood won’t stop caving to demands from Beijing, because that’s simply ...
A new Science and Technology Center, which the National Science Foundation announced today, will conduct transformative research, along with education and outreach, to promote a deeper understanding and appreciation of the chemicals and chemical processes that underpin ocean ecosystems. C-CoMP’s participating institutions include the University of Virginia.
Ann Woolhandler, who started working with Strickler as a young lawyer, recalled how an opposing attorney in a case Strickler won said afterward: “I’ve known attorneys who were smarter than I was but I worked harder, and I’ve known attorneys who worked harder than I did but I was smarter. But George Strickler worked harder and was smarter than I was.” “I think anyone would have admired his legal skills and versatility,” said Woolhandler, now a University of Virginia Law School professor.
A 2011 report from PRI details a study conducted by the University of Virginia that found that 4-year-old' attention spans were "immediately impaired" when viewing “SpongeBob Square Pants.” The show's demographics at the time were children ages 6-11. Angeline Lillard, the university's psychology professor who led the study, told NBC Washington at the time that SpongeBob wasn't the only cartoon that she found distracting. "I wouldn't advise watching such shows on the way to school or any time they're expected to pay attention and learn," she said.
“First years are problematic for presidents,” says presidential historian Russell Riley of the University of Virginia. “There’s a tendency to a kind of innocent arrogance in the early part of an administration. You think that because you succeeded in winning the White House, your judgment is golden.”
In June, the University of Virginia's Center for Politics released an analysis of midterm elections going back to 1946. That report showed that a president in power, on average, loses more than 26 House seats during the midterms. The largest loss has been 64 seats, while the largest gain has been just eight seats. The analysis showed similar results in the Senate. On average since 1946, the president's party has lost more than three seats in the Senate during the midterms. The biggest loss has been 13 seats, while the largest gain has been just four seats.
“The president’s party is at a disadvantage in a midterm environment, so it naturally looks for things that will get their own voters engaged,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Threats to Roe vs Wade, and strong restrictions on abortion are things that are definitely motivating for Democrats.”
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests frequent exercise could prevent non-communicable diseases, like heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and even depression. Dr. Zhen Yan says the cells in our body can sense problems and perform quality control on the mitochondria. Yan says the mitochondria acts similarly to a battery that needs to be charged and tested. When it is damaged or dysfunctional, it lends to non-communicable diseases.
Zainora Babayee, 23, remembers hearing the phrase “9/11” on the news in her family’s home growing up in Kabul, where her father worked as a private contractor with U.S. special forces. Only years later, after her family moved to the U.S., did she learn about what happened on 9/11. Now, she’s struggling with survivor’s guilt as she watches her many friends and cousins fall under Taliban rule. “When I wake up I want to scream and let the world know what’s happening,” she told me Sunday, crying in her dorm room at the University of Virginia. “I see my peers around me enjoying their life, but I’m ...
(Commentary by Hanna Hassan, UVA student and an intern at the High Atlas Foundation) Yemeni youth are among those whose lives have been entirely consumed by the six-year long civil war. This comes as no surprise as young Yemeni men and women represent more than 60% of the population. However, against all odds, Yemen’s youth are rising out of the ashes of the conflict and engaging in activism to envision a better future for themselves and their country.
After the planes struck the World Trade Center and Pentagon and another crashed into a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001, the administration at a Catholic High School in Lancaster, Pa., gathered the student body for a school-wide assembly to discuss what had happened. Sitting among the other students was Jon Young, a senior who had been considering a military career. In that moment, he became certain it was his path forward.