United Way Worldwide today has selected Angela F. Williams to serve as its next president and CEO, effective Oct. 15. Williams is a native of Anderson, South Carolina and earned her bachelor of arts degree in American government from the University of Virginia.
Moving from metal to metaphor, recent monuments reveal a shift in how we confront past trauma. At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, a tribute to enslaved Black people who lived and worked there opened in 2020. Yoon’s architectural firm collaborated on the design of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. The low granite ring symbolizes a broken shackle. The stone is engraved with 577 names and 4,000 “memory marks,” wound-like slashes representing enslaved people whose identities remain unknown.
The University of Virginia was full of red, white and blue all day on September 11. The Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) placed 2,977 flags in the UVA amphitheater. This number is to reflect and help us remember and honor the lives lost twenty years ago.
People who received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had “slightly higher” antibody levels than those who received the Pfizer — now formally called Comirnaty — shot, according to a new small study. While both vaccines insert molecules called mRNA that teach our bodies how to produce coronavirus antibodies, the Moderna shot uses more than three times the amount of mRNA than the Pfizer vaccine. This, University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers say, could explain their findings.
University of Virginia students and university President Jim Ryan laced up their running shoes on Thursday, September 9. They ran four miles together starting and finishing at Madison Hall.
"What's happened to the public landscape of Washington is more than the architecture of bollards and the immediate choreography of security and risk adjacent to public buildings,” said UVA architecture professor Elizabeth Meyer. "It's the total change of flow and accessibility that everyday citizens used to have to seats of power."
(Podcast) Jim Detert, John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business, discusses how to build your courage to stand out and influence.
“The Piedmont Scholarship Program allows students from our region to be able to access UVA. Students that might not be able to access it otherwise,” said Andrew Renshaw, PVCC’s dean of student services.
(Commentary by Barbara A. Perry, Presidential Studies director and Gerald L. Baliles Professor at the Miller Center) Americans typically support newly elected presidents and those who have left office. It’s incumbents they often dislike. George W. Bush is no exception. Although he lost the popular vote in 2000 by a half-million ballots but achieved an Electoral College victory over Vice President Al Gore by the barest of margins (after a Supreme Court decision in Bush’s favor), his initial approval rating was 57 percent, 10 points above the percentage of votes he garnered from the electorate. ...
The University of Virginia Medical Center is lightning up its south tower in support of Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month. The tower is using gold lights to honor the children who are diagnosed with cancer.
(Commentary by Russell Riley, co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) It is hard to think of Joe Biden as a novice. After arriving in Washington as the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history in 1973, Biden remained there for almost five decades, becoming the oldest president ever elected in 2020. The time in between included eight consequential years as the ultimate under-study: vice president to Barack Obama. These metrics demonstrate that few people have risen to the presidency better prepared than Biden. And yet, when he took the oath of o...
Kidney specialists with UVA Health have started to see patients out of a Lynchburg clinic as part of a partnership with Centra Health.
(Commentary by Muhammad Tayyab Safdar, post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Politics and UVA’s East Asia Center, and Max C. Barte, research assistant at UVA’s East Asia Center) Pakistan and China’s “all-weather friendship” has come under increasing stress in recent months. The two countries have been strong diplomatic partners for 70 years, at first as a geostrategic counterweight to the ties between India and the Soviet Union, but increasingly because of China’s enormous investments in Pakistan. Today, Pakistan is one of China’s few close allies, with officials on both sides frequent...
There is a new director for talent acquisition and retention at UVA Health. According to a release, Charles Bodden has been selected as the inaugural Senior Director for Talent Acquisition and Retention, and he will take up the role later this month. Bodden will be leading a consolidated recruitment team that aims to attract, engage, evaluate, hire, promote and retain the people needed to deliver necessary patient care and drive strategic initiatives.
(Transcript) BARBARA PERRY (presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center): We want presidents to grieve with us because we view them as the fathers of our country and the leader of our American family. But we also want to make sure that that leader is not oversharing or being tearful or collapsing with us.
(Transcript) In the weeks and months after 9/11, Washington became a sort of security garden. Planters, cement bollards and barriers suddenly sprouted from the sidewalk, like here in front of the EPA. It became what University of Virginia architecture professor Elizabeth Meyer calls a landscape of fear.ELIZABETH MEYER: What’s happened to the public landscape of Washington is more than the architecture of bollards and the immediate choreography of security and risk adjacent to public buildings. It’s the total change of flow and accessibility that everyday citizens used to have to seats of power...
More than one in four new COVID-19 cases are now in children, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. It’s an alarming statistic for many doctors, including those at UVA Health on the front lines. “It is of course so much more transmissible and that’s responsible for the overall cases in children and the increases in hospitalizations in children,” said Dr. Bill Petri.
A third-grader is thanking the nurses at UVA Children’s for turning their office into a walk-in coronavirus testing clinic.
Dr. Cameron Webb stressed that the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are safe, yet people are reluctant to get vaccinated due to complacency, confidence and convenience. Complacent individuals don’t believe that they will catch the virus, he explained. Others lack confidence in the safety of the product, which translates to not “trusting in the government that’s telling you to get vaccinated,” said Webb, who is the senior policy adviser for COVID-19 equity and a physician and UVA professor.
Researchers from New York University, the University of Virginia and elsewhere say they’ve found no evidence to support GOP grievances that social media companies stifle conservative voices. If anything, they say, social media platforms amplify the voices of conservatives, shaping the worldviews of millions of voters.