Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidential-campaign announcement on Thursday featured footage from the 2017 white-supremacist rally at the University of Virginia. In the announcement, the former vice president called student activists at UVA “a courageous group of Americans” who stood against those spreading hate.
The UVA Health System had a little help drumming up organ donors on Thursday. The system's popular therapy dogs were on hand Thursday as part of UVA’s fourth annual Donate Life Week.
UVA police are holding public roll calls to give the public a glimpse into what they do.
UVA police are holding public roll calls to give the public a glimpse into what they do.
Patrick Tolan, director emeritus of UVA’s Youth-Nex, a center dedicated to effective youth development, reviewed the study. He said the findings are not surprising, but they don't mean long-term consequences are inevitable for all kids who are bullied. But the study is a warning that "this is a real problem worthy of attention and intervention to stop and prevent," he added.
Janet Warren, UVA professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences, testified in that trial as an expert who knew about policies regarding protection of children from sexual abuse. Besides her work as a professor, the Boy Scouts of America retained her in 2013 to research its ineligible volunteer database and to recommend how to make it more effective, according to BSA.
Janet Warren, UVA professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences, testified in that trial as an expert who knew about policies regarding protection of children from sexual abuse. Besides her work as a professor, the Boy Scouts of America retained her in 2013 to research its ineligible volunteer database and to recommend how to make it more effective, according to BSA.
The prosecution called Timothy Longo Sr., a nationally renowned expert. He served, most recently, as the chief of police of the city of Charlottesville. He is now creating a master’s degree program on police issues for the University of Virginia while teaching as an adjunct professor teaching the police use of force at the UVA Law School.
Minnesota-based lawyer Jeff Anderson, who specializes in sex-abuse litigation, released a court deposition in New York on Tuesday with testimony from Janet Warren, a UVA psychiatry professor hired by the Boy Scouts to review its files. In her deposition, Warren said there were 7,819 individuals in the "ineligible files" as of January, as well as 12,254 victims. Warren joined in Wednesday's news briefing, describing the BSA's sex-abuse database as "cutting edge' and contending that the organization's rate of reported sex abuse was lower than in society as a whole.
Attorney Jeff Anderson released a January testimony from UVA professor Janet Warren, who had been contracted by the Boy Scouts for five years to pore over their “ineligible volunteer” or “perversion” files from 1946 through 2016. Her team identified 12,254 victims and 7,819 perpetrators in those documents.
The UVA Medical Center is getting the word out that use of e-cigarettes and JUULs risks nicotine addiction and exposure to carcinogens, heavy metals and dangerous chemicals. “There’s this misconception that they’re OK and they’re not a tobacco product, but they are,” Connie Clark, a tobacco treatment specialist, said to several health care providers Wednesday at a talk sponsored by the Teen Health Clinic.
The UVA Medical Center says doctors are seeing more and more teenagers turning to vaping or electronic cigarette smoking. Doctors want parents and kids to know that even if they think vaping looks cool, it can be dangerous.
A survey of 100 urban universities across America revealed that the overwhelming majority offer community-engaged coursework and have centralized offices dedicated to partnerships with their communities. According to research by Thriving Cities Lab at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, 90 percent of schools sampled offer community-engaged coursework for students and 95 percent have central offices that work intentionally on community collaborations.
Between 2011 and 2014, a new study says almost 70 percent of babies who died from sleep-related suffocation died due to soft bedding. A physician at the UVA Health System conducted the study, underscoring the message physicians have been telling new parents, which says babies should sleep only in cribs or bassinets that are free of blankets, toys and other potential hazards. "These results are very significant, because these deaths, clearly due to suffocation, were all preventable," said Dr. Fern Hauck.
Spring-semester final exams are approaching, but student anxiety is a year-round problem. We are in the middle of what experts are calling a mental health crisis on college campuses. James Madison University and the University of Virginia are seeing the effects.
An annual event at the University of Virginia is hoping to spark an interest in science at a young age. National Physics Day started at UVA over two decades ago, and organizers say the event is a way to bring lovers of science together.
The UVA Medical Center is on a major hiring blitz. The hospital's largest expansion ever means it needs more people to care for patients now.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Biden has better name recognition than the rest of the field, but cautioned that it was too early to predict winners. He also noted that Biden’s past presidential runs were dismal.
The Boy Scouts have kept files going back decades showing that nearly 8,000 volunteers have been excluded from the organization because they had been accused of sexually abusing children, according to a review by an expert on child sexual abuse. Janet Warren, a UVA professor, revealed the scope of the reported abuse when she testified as an expert witness in a trial involving allegations of child sexual abuse at a children’s theater in Minneapolis.
If Murphy decides to appoint a black woman, the list of candidates might include Norrinda Hayat, 41, is a Rutgers-Newark law professor and director of the Civil Justice Clinic. She is a former trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, during the administration of President Barack Obama. Graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia Law School.