New polling released today by Project Home Fire in partnership with UVA’s Center for Politics has found that Trump voters are animated by concerns about anti-white discrimination and the fate of Christianity in America.
84% of Trump voters worry about discrimination against whites and think Christianity is under attack
Naomi Alligator, the project of Los Angeles-based songwriter and multi-media artist [and UVA alumna] Corrinne James, shares a video for “Anywhere Else,” the new single from her upcoming EP and Carpark Records debut, “Concession Stand Girl.” Inspired by the sparse and confessional qualities of Liz Phair’s early portastudio recordings, James uses the project as her own musical journal to share and process personal anecdotes. Her modern folk production and poetic songwriting links the sounds of artists like Joan Baez and Steeleye Span to a 21st-century context.
Also confirmed Tuesday to serve as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, which covers the rest of the state, was Chris Kavanaugh an assistant U.S. attorney, said the offices of U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine. Kavanaugh is the senior counsel to the deputy attorney general. He has practiced before every judge in the Western District and has worked in the U.S. Attorney’s office since 2014, handling a wide variety of federal criminal offenses involving domestic terrorism, civil rights violations, national security, white-collar offenses and violent crimes. Kavanaugh received...
The Lebanese writer [the Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at UVA this year] wants to change the world, one novel at a time.
“The past decade and a half has been one of the best stretches of my life,” Koehn said. “I do mean that … I know that Charlottesville and UVa is forever going to be a part of who I am. You know the saying, once a Wahoo, always a Wahoo.”
The Milwaukee Bucks have hired Dave Koehn as their new radio play-by-play voice. He replaces Ted Davis who retired after last season. Davis had been with the team for 24 years. Koehn comes from the University of Virginia where he has done radio and been director of broadcasting since 2008.
(Commentary) Virginia election expert Larry Sabato said that Biden’s woes are impacting the McAuliffe-Youngkin race big-time. “It’s obvious from history that a president’s popularity — or lack of it — is a factor in off-year elections. Biden’s drop in the polls couldn’t have been more poorly timed from McAuliffe’s perspective. Add to that the Democrats’ Keystone Kops performance in Congress,” he said. “If Democrats get their act together before November 2nd, a reasonable assumption is that Biden’s ratings would tick up and help McAuliffe, if only because it would increase Democratic voters’ li...
There is also evidence that coupling up improves the economic fortunes of couples, both men and women. It’s not that they only have to pay one rent or buy one fridge, say some sociologists who study marriage, it’s that having a partner suggests having a future. “There’s a way in which marriage makes men more responsible, and that makes them better workers,” says University of Virginia sociology professor W. Bradford Wilcox, pointing to a Harvard study that suggests single men are more likely than married men to leave a job before finding another.
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.”