The Leapfrog Group – a national watchdog organization of employers and other purchasers focused on health care safety and quality – announced the recipients of its 2019 Top Hospitals award. The UVA Medical Center was awarded in the teaching hospitals category.
“Interestingly, Pennsylvania is the only state that currently has an exactly split [U.S.] House delegation by party,” noted Kyle Kondik, managing editor of / at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “The split is a good illustration of how divided Pennsylvania is,” he said of the nine-nine partisan split.
Suzanne Morse Moomaw, associate professor of urban and environmental planning at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture, is the new director of the University of Virginia Press.
Another plausible scenario is much simpler: Biden wins Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, and quickly takes command of the race. Cory Booker’s exit yesterday may have made this more likely. “At the time Biden entered the race, Harris and Booker seemed like the most obvious possibilities who could cut into Biden’s black support,” Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia writes. “Now they’re both out.”
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Charlottesville Alumni Association will honor two local leaders with annual awards on Jan. 29. The LCAA board of directors will present its signature Leaders' Leader Award to Andrea Copeland-Whitsett and Emily Martin. Martin is an employee with the UVA Facilities Management working to build a Diversity & Inclusion program that meets the goals of UVA President Jim Ryan's 2030 Inclusive Excellence model.
Two students at the University of Virginia are on a mission to save information from Alderman Library’s card catalog. Neil Curtis and Sam Lemley are candidates for Ph.D.s in English. They have been working since November to rescue millions of cards in the hope to preserve information for future research.
Several colleges and universities in D.C., Maryland and Virginia were ranked among the nation’s best in online education on an annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report. Two universities in Virginia are in the Top 10 best online graduate programs in education – UVA (No. 3) and Virginia Commonwealth University (No. 8).
The University of Virginia (Curry) ranks No. 3 on the list.
Ernest Grant, president of the American Nurses Association, and Pamela Cipriano, dean of UVA’s School of Nursing, debunk some of the myths surrounding nurses and midwives and discuss the challenges the industry is facing in 2020.
Some selling points of the original “Star Wars” trilogy – like the special effects that awed audiences in the ’70s and ’80s – are more charming than revolutionary in the 21st century, said Aynne Kokas, a UVA professor and author of “Hollywood Made in China.”
Teenboys are less likely to be abusive or sexually violent in a relationship after taking part in Coaching Boys Into Men, a prevention program delivered by athletic coaches as part of sports training, according to research results. “Kids are already ready to do what their coach says,” UVA associate professor of nursing Kathryn Laughon said. “A coach is often an authority figure and has true respect and is really creating a little community in a way that has historically been toxic. This helps take that energy and turn it into something positive.”
Kim Forde-Mazrui, a law lecturer at the University of Virginia Law School, said Virginia law allows state bodies to collect personal information, although it prohibits recording the political or religious beliefs of residents unless it’s specifically required by an ordinance. That suggests the state is implicitly authorized to collect information on race. The question, he said, was the purpose of collecting the information. “If racial data is sincerely collected for the purpose of verifying identity and security background, I expect a court would uphold it,” he said.
In 2016, many Americans became aware of how easily distortions and outright lies could be spread online to influence a national election. Since then, many countries have had experiences with this. And critics worry that not enough is being done by online platforms like Facebook and Twitter to make sure this doesn't happen again in 2020, a year when more than 60 countries will hold elections, the first of which took place in Taiwan today. Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies, has been writing about these concerns. We spoke earlier about why he thinks digital democracy will face ...
An associate professor from UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development held an implicit bias workshop at Charlottesville High School on Saturday afternoon. The session taught parents how to talk to their kids about race. Dr. Joseph Williams, who led the session, held an open conversation with participants about race and how it plays it role in their life.
J. Miles Coleman of the UVA Center for Politics said Northam was "lucky" with this turn of events. "As perception is important in politics, Northam’s transgression seemed relatively less odious," he told Fox News. "Second, as all three top state officials were ‘tainted’ to some degree, the issue of succession, if one (or all) of them stepped down, seemed like a potentially chaotic prospect."
A Norton City Council resolution spelling out support for organizing, training and city mustering of the “unorganized militia” leaves out some points of Virginia law, according to one legal expert. Richard Schragger, a professor at the UVA School of Law and an expert in state constitutional and local government law, said two parts of the resolution appear at odds with Virginia Title 44.
Syaru Shirley Lin, a political economist at the University of Virginia and Chinese University of Hong Kong, said young people in the two places feel increasingly connected, and this has gathered momentum in the past year. "The older generations in Hong Kong and Taiwan have not formed a platform [because] the natural connection was never there," said the Taiwanese scholar who has lived in Hong Kong for 30 years.
In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by UVA professor Daniel Willingham. His conclusion was that generic critical thinking skills don’t translate from one subject to another, but that subject-specific critical thinking skills can be explicitly taught as you go deep into a lesson, be it history or math, as students need to learn a lot of information to process it.
In dealing with Taiwan, Beijing has employed a system of doling out preferential treatments and economic benefits to certain groups or political parties it supports, and punishments to those who oppose their actions. Syaru Shirly Lin, a world politics professor at the University of Virginia who focuses on China and Taiwan, calls this a “carrot and stick strategy” used to promote behaviors and policies more friendly to Beijing.
UVA’s newest employee is helping both students and police officers, one lick at a time. UVA police’s new therapy dog, Cooper, is now on the job with his owner and handler, Officer Ben Rexrode.