U.S. President Joe Biden has nominated diplomat Mark Brzezinski to serve as his ambassador to Poland, the White House has announced. Brzezinski received a B.A. from Dartmouth College, a J.D. from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in political science from Oxford University.
The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library will hold a virtual presentation focusing on managing stress and mental health during the pandemic. Dr. Bethany Teachman, a UVA professor of psychology, will speak on Aug. 10 at 6:30 p.m. for “It Has Been a Tough 17 Months: Managing Stress and Mental Health in a Pandemic.”
(Commentary) Scholar David Walsh, who has studied the history of the American right at the University of Virginia, told Beauchamp, “For most parts of the right, there was this idea that you could still redeem the country – that you could reverse these long-term trends by political organizing, electing conservatives to political office, etc. Today, there is this move away from even the trappings of the American democratic tradition – and I think that is linked to the broader sense that this country can no longer be redeemed.”
“I can see this in maybe a Republican mailer or two, but I don’t think it’s gonna be an overarching issue for the 2020 campaign for Congress,” said J. Miles Coleman, a political analyst at the University of Virginia.
“Cori Bush had to have some impact,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. “The president and his staff had to wake up every morning thinking about how they were going to placate the left wing of the party. I think that any time the progressive wing pushes back, they take note of it in the White House.”
Jonathan Colmer, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia, said on Twitter that Van Hollen’s bill is “not a mitigation tool,” but “it will help to pay for the investments needed to manage the effects of climate change.”
Melvyn Leffler, professor of history emeritus at the University of Virginia, explains that there are very clear differences in our current rivalry with China. He points out that the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union was clearly a phenomenon that stemmed from a desire to go to war but no will to follow through. Both sides competed for strategic assets around the world and even engaged in proxy wars to stem the spread of Communism or Capitalism respectively. Both sides wished to erase the other’s way of life and the only thing stopping an actual conflict was war exhaustion ...
Local health leaders hope to see vaccine approval for all children later this year, but until then encourage everyone who can get the shot to do their part. “You know because there’s an entire population of people 11 years old and younger who aren’t even eligible for the vaccine yet, so they don’t, they don’t have the choice to have that protection,” University of Virginia pharmacist Justin Vesser said.
As of now, the latest data shows that the Delta variant is causing the recent increase in cases and deaths. UVA Health pharmacist Justin Vesser said the only way out of the pandemic is by rolling up sleeves and working together, even if people are following CDC guidelines.
With many people still hesitant about getting their COVID-19 vaccine, even with the delta variant surging across the country, health experts like Justin Vesser, a manager of ambulatory pharmacy services with UVA Health, says to get it as soon as possible. “[The delta variant] makes you sicker, it makes you more contagious,” Vesser said. “Delta is so virulent and it multiplies so fast that even a fully vaccinated person can have pockets of it in your nasal cavity. You can actually have enough in your bloodstream so you can actually shed enough to cause another person to be infected. That’s real...
Bob Pianta will step down as dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development at the end of the 2021-22 academic year.
Nurses at the University of Virginia Medical Center are making sure their colleagues have a chance to take a mental break during their day. Nancy Farish, Jane Muir and Jeanell Webb-Jones created a toolbox for their colleagues. Each box contains noise-cancelling headphones, virtual reality goggles, and guides to make typical tasks more reflective and thoughtful.
A Q&A with Dr. Maria Luisa S. Sequeira Lopez, Harrison Distinguished Professor in Pediatrics and Biology.
The Milky Way has enjoyed a relatively quiet history in recent eons, but newcomers continue to stream in. Stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere can spot with the naked eye a pair of dwarf galaxies called the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Astronomers long believed the pair to be our steadfast orbiting companions, like moons of the Milky Way. Then a series of Hubble Space Telescope observations between 2006 and 2013 found that they were more like incoming meteorites. Nitya Kallivayalil, an astronomer at the University of Virginia, clocked the clouds as coming in hot at about 330 kilometers ...
Many educators hope to use dialogue to help students bridge differences, especially moral and political ones. How can they best achieve these goals, especially for students who bring strong religious commitments into the classroom? Recent research by Rachel Wahl, a UVA associate professor of education, provides valuable insights into the challenges and surprising successes of dialogue across differences – religious and otherwise – in a higher-education context.
(Podcast) Darryl Brown, a professor at the UVA School of Law, discusses bail, a part of the criminal justice system where deals are often made behind closed doors and which critics say favors the rich.
If Americans were facing what many anticipated would be the largest financial slump since the Great Depression, or at least the Great Recession, why were their spending and debt accumulation habits so … healthy? UVA sociologist and demographer Teresa Sullivan has some ideas.
The location-data broker X-Mode Social Inc., which was kicked off the Apple and Google platforms last year over its national-security work with the U.S. government, is being acquired, the company told The Wall Street Journal. X-Mode will become part of the Atlanta-based IP intelligence company Digital Envoy Inc., both companies are set to announce this week. As part of the merger, X-Mode will be rebranded as Outlogic and its chief executive, Joshua Anton, will join Digital Envoy as chief strategy officer. X-Mode had its genesis on the University of Virginia campus in 2013, when as an undergrad...
Slovenia’s men’s basketball team demolished Germany 94-70 in the Olympic quarterfinals Tuesday in Tokyo. Luka Doncic, who stars for the Dallas Mavericks, is the team’s unquestioned top player, but Mike Tobey has proven to be an extremely valuable team member.
The first international student to graduate from the University of Virginia will be honored with a highway historical marker, one of five new markers announced by Gov. Ralph Northam on Tuesday. Yan Huiqing, who was known to classmates as Weiching William Yen, or W.W. Yen, was both the first international student and first Chinese student to earn a degree from UVA, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1900 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.