(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.
The new paper is “really interesting, but seems counterintuitive,” said J. Kim Penberthy, the Chester F. Carlson professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the UVA School of Medicine and coauthor of “Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Guide.” “I do a lot of mindfulness research and we are often really advocating for people to slow down and see the benefits of down time, so this was a little antithetical to that,” she said. “There are health benefits to having free time to breathe and let our minds wander.”
The causal evidence of a link between air pollution and lung cancer has been building for decades, but the risk varies widely in different regions of the world, depending on the age of the population, the amount of tobacco smoking over time, and the amount of air pollution in the country. Berg and co-researcher Dr. Joan Schiller, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia and a Board Member of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, sought to better understand the worldwide variability in air pollution attributable to lung cancer.
According to analysts, studios are in a lose-lose position. Aynne Kokas, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Hollywood Made in China, explains that if Hollywood were to acknowledge self-censorship, the media blowback in the West would be significant, and China’s risk-averse government might blacklist Hollywood films to minimize attention. At the same time, she told me, studios might draw scrutiny from certain American legislators, harming their reputation at home. But Hollywood won’t stop caving to demands from Beijing, because that’s simply ...
A new Science and Technology Center, which the National Science Foundation announced today, will conduct transformative research, along with education and outreach, to promote a deeper understanding and appreciation of the chemicals and chemical processes that underpin ocean ecosystems. C-CoMP’s participating institutions include the University of Virginia.
Ann Woolhandler, who started working with Strickler as a young lawyer, recalled how an opposing attorney in a case Strickler won said afterward: “I’ve known attorneys who were smarter than I was but I worked harder, and I’ve known attorneys who worked harder than I did but I was smarter. But George Strickler worked harder and was smarter than I was.” “I think anyone would have admired his legal skills and versatility,” said Woolhandler, now a University of Virginia Law School professor.
A 2011 report from PRI details a study conducted by the University of Virginia that found that 4-year-old' attention spans were "immediately impaired" when viewing “SpongeBob Square Pants.” The show's demographics at the time were children ages 6-11. Angeline Lillard, the university's psychology professor who led the study, told NBC Washington at the time that SpongeBob wasn't the only cartoon that she found distracting. "I wouldn't advise watching such shows on the way to school or any time they're expected to pay attention and learn," she said.