An expert who worked on the plan likened the reserve of federal medical workers to police officers. “This is a critical need for taking care of our citizens,” said Vivian Riefberg, a professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. “We don't stop hiring police or personnel or stop maintaining a military defense system after a problem passes. We have it so it is ready in times of need. We need to do the same thing here."
The first female U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, has died. Analysts from the University of Virginia Miller Center say her time serving has had a lasting impact. "She paved the way not only for women in her own field in academia as well as in practitioners in government but also really led the way for human rights,” said Barbara Perry, a political expert at the Miller Center.
It's the first time a Black woman is sitting before a Senate Judiciary Committee in a Supreme Court confirmation hearing, and though some of the questions are relevant, for those watching at home, it may be more about the senators asking them than Jackson's answers. "So when Ted Cruz is grilling her or Josh Hawley is grilling her, it has far more to do with them than her,” said Jennifer Lawless, with the University of Virginia Miller Center. … The late 1990s was the last time the majority of both parties voted to confirm Supreme Court justices. "As our politics have become more and more fraugh...
Next to testify will be Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, University of Virginia School of Law Dean Risa Goluboff and Wade Henderson, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
(Video) Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson faced a second day of questioning Wednesday by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Saikrishna Prakash, a University of Virginia law professor and former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, and Melody Barnes, executive director of the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, join Judy Woodruff to discuss.
(By Andrew Sheaff, assistant swimming coach) Basically, the more effective you can feel the water, the faster you can swim. And luckily, our hands are extremely skilled in perceiving sensory information and producing very nuanced movements. However, there are two issues that triathletes will run into that prevent them from taking advantage of the genius of their hands.
(Co-written by Leidy Klotz, professor in engineering systems and environment) We all know the symptoms. Too many committees, emails, software tools and long-winded syllabi. Too many new administrators adding rules and enforcing each exactly to the letter. Too many needless burdens weighing on the souls of those who signed up for teaching, research and learning.
“All forests are precious. Increasingly, we are discovering they also keep the air near and far cool and moist,” said Deborah Lawrence, a professor at the University of Virginia and the lead author of the study, “The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate.” “The heart of the tropics is at the heart of the planet and these forests are critical for our survival.”
The report, “The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate,” explains why forests are so precious for the earth's future and warns that their value is greatly underestimated by decision makers. "The heart of the tropics is at the heart of the planet and these forests are critical for our survival," said lead author Deborah Lawrence, a professor at the University of Virginia.
“Forests are not just carbon sponges. They—their physical structure—interact with the atmosphere to cool the surface of the Earth,” said Deborah Lawrence, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia and the lead author of the paper.
The world’s forests play a far greater and more complex role in tackling climate crisis than previously thought, due to their physical effects on global and local temperatures, according to new research. “The biophysical factors don’t cool the planet, but they do change the way we experience heat, and that matters,” said Deborah Lawrence, professor at the University of Virginia and the lead author. “The heart of the tropics is at the heart of the planet and these forests are critical for our survival.”
Tropical forests cool the world by more than 1 degree Celsius, increase rainfall, and shield people and crops from deadly heat, researchers said, showing the climate benefits of trees go beyond sucking planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the air. In a new study (led by UVA environmental scientist Deborah Lawrence) released on Thursday, they outlined different ways the Earth, its climate and its inhabitants rely on forests.
The University of Virginia hosted a virtual Medical Center Hour on Wednesday. Speakers said racism within health care is an ongoing public crisis, leading to higher mortality rates. Dr. Brian Wispelwey, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, was one speaker on the call. “People of color, our black and brown patients, are ending up much more on general medicine. So part of the decision was to start looking to that,” he said.
With 554 applicants from Arlington Publci Schools, UVA ranks second, behind Virginia Tech (594).
In a fact that may surprise anyone who knows even a few of his films or has a sense of his filmmaking ups and downs, Robert Aldrich was born into tremendous wealth and power, in Rhode Island in 1918. His grandfather was a Republican senator and a self-made millionaire. His aunt even married John D. Rockefeller Jr. As a young man, Aldrich attempted to fit the family mold, majoring in economics at the University of Virginia, but eventually he had had enough–of that life but also of the right-wing politics surrounding that life.
Many, if not most of us, have googled a symptom or doctor’s diagnosis at one time. A Virginia Beach woman, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, is taking that curiosity to another level. At age 11, Delaney Liskey had a terrifying experience, a sudden loss of sight in one eye. … Delaney’s inquisitive nature eventually led her to the University of Virginia and now the prestigious Mayo Clinic, where she’s on track to receive her PhD in biomedical sciences.
The National Minority Quality Forum is listing Dr. Taison Bell with UVA Health on it’s 40 Under 40 Leaders in Health list.
Troubling trends in education, physical health and mental well-being among young people predate COVID-19. But the pandemic’s disruptions of daily routines, emotional support networks and vaccination rates have raised those concerns to crisis levels. “This is really not just a story of an initial shock, then recovery. What we’ve seen are patterns of lost learning persistent, and in some cases being even stronger, in 2020-21,” said Jim Soland of the University of Virginia, an affiliated research fellow at the assessment nonprofit Northwest Evaluation Association.
Miles Coleman, the associate editor of the election forecaster ‘Sabato’s Crystal Ball’ at UVA’s Center for Politics, says he thinks both parties used Tuesday’s session to reinforce their overall political message. “For Democrats, that seems to be, ‘if you stick with us, we’ll continue to build an inclusive government that looks like the country,’” Coleman says in an email. “For Republicans, casting Jackson as weak on crime could be another way to show that Biden – and his appointees – are simply ‘in over their heads.’”