(By Mary C. Gentile, Richard M. Waitzer Bicentennial Professor of Ethics at the Darden School of Business) Leaders who want to instill an ethical culture can encourage their organization’s personnel to give voice to their values.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School of Business) The term “global supply chain disruption” has been cited frequently as one of the main consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. But what exactly does the term mean, and why does it matter?
Cale Jaffe, associate professor of law and director of the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at the University of Virginia: As an environmental lawyer focused on coalition-building, what I really hear in this question is a plea to do something about the climate crisis. Isn’t there some all-powerful hammer—the proverbial silver bullet—that we can use to bring this spiraling problem under control? It seems like we need one.
(Video; commentary by Jennifer Lawless, chair of the Department of Politics) University of Virginia Political Science Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE on Thursday, where she discussed the gridlock in Washington as Democrats — who control the House and Senate — are still negotiating the price tag of the social spending bill on the Hill.
The University of Virginia Department of Drama is returning to the stage this season. It will be putting on several plays, highlighting the challenges people face through their lives and celebrating human resilience, with in-person performances at the Ruth Caplin and Culbreath theaters. “There is a richness in gathering together, in sharing a communal experience and being able to laugh and to cry,” said Artistic Director Marianne Kubik. “We are thrilled to share that experience with audiences this year with a season of shows that allows us all to explore where we’ve been, where we are, and whe...
The diagnosis was clear: UVA Health’s emergency department was seeing 60,000 patients a year, a figure 50% higher than its intended capacity. Tasked with devising a solution was longtime collaborator Perkins&Will, and its 440,000-square-foot expansion—the largest in the modern history of the University of Virginia’s medical system and the winner of the IIDA competition’s health care category—would add 180 much-needed beds to the Charlottesville campus.
There are pregnant women being treated for COVID-19 in the ICU at the University of Virginia Medical Center, creating a challenging combination for staff. “The particular risk is when oxygen levels go down, that’s a risk to the baby,” Dr. Taison Bell said. “When our patients are in the ICU, we actually have crash carts ready just for the baby in case we have to deliver them on the drop of a dime because you don’t have a lot of time when those oxygen levels go down.”
When a hurricane churns an ocean and sends waves crashing onto the shore, chaos ensues but eventually calm is restored. At least until the next storm. It’s much the same way with the coronavirus pandemic. Multiple waves bring about sickness and death until eventually waning. The latest wave — created by the highly transmissible delta variant — only caused about 40% of cases compared to last winter’s surge, the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute reported Friday. At least so far.
Infectious disease modelers at the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute are concerned the pandemic could mimic last year and skyrocket around Thanksgiving. If it does, the upturn could handily surpass January’s peak, due to the more contagious strain, according to a new analysis.
The number of COVID-19 cases in Virginia has entered a sustained period of decline, with 20 out of the state’s 35 health districts reporting declining positive case numbers, according to the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute and the Virginia Department of Health.
Dry macular degeneration is a debilitating eye disease that affects millions of Americans. Now, researchers at the University of Virginia believe they have discovered a way to help these patients.
Barnett has found in his research that preschool teachers with four-year degrees are more effective in the classroom than teachers without that level of education. Researchers from George Mason University and University of Virginia also studied how Black and Latino children in Miami fared in several types of publicly funded preschool programs based in public schools, center-based care or home-based child care. Public pre-K programs required teachers to have four-year degrees. They found that “Black and Latino children in public school-based pre-K programs consistently demonstrated greater kind...
Promising news in the effort to develop drugs to treat obesity: University of Virginia scientists have identified 14 genes that can cause and three that can prevent weight gain. The findings pave the way for treatments to combat a health problem that affects more than 40% of American adults.
A new University of Virginia Center For Politics report found that 52% of Trump voters support seceding from the Union.
More than half of Trump voters (52%) and 41% of Biden voters expressed support for cleaving the country along political lines, according to a new poll from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
A majority of people who voted for former President Donald Trump are in favor of breaking up the country, a new poll from the University of Virginia Center for Politics has found.
(Commentary) If you’re just waking up from a coma that felled you in 1995, Americans in 2021 hate each other. Polls released last week by the University of Virginia showed that “roughly 4 in 10 (41%) of Biden and half (52%) of Trump voters at least somewhat agree that it’s time to split the country, favoring blue/red states seceding from the union.” In addition, “a strong majority of Trump voters see no real difference between Democrats and socialists, and a majority of Biden voters at least somewhat agree that there is no real difference between Republicans and fascists.”
(Commentary) On Thursday the University of Virginia released polling results that should shock exactly no one who closely follows American politics and culture. A majority of Trump voters (52%) and a strong minority of Biden voters (41%) strongly or somewhat agree that it’s “time to split the country.” … What this poll tracked better than many others is that the mutual loathing is based more on emotion than policy.
The Marcus Alert working group, focused on mental health crisis response in the city, recommended the city create a task force that would focus on a Marcus Alert implementation plan as well as the potential to create a 24/7 mental health crisis center separate from the hospital and the jail. This could potentially be a partnership with Albemarle County and/or the University of Virginia.
On the University of Virginia campus, there will be the Swanson v. University of Virginia marker honoring Gregory Swanson, the first African American student to attend the school. … The University of Virginia will also honor Dr. W.W. Yen (1877-1950), a Chinese diplomat and politician, who graduated from the University in 1900, becoming UVA’s first international student to earn an undergraduate degree and the first Chinese student to earn a degree.