(Commentary) Educators tend to underestimate the importance of knowledge, as though teaching rote facts detracts from teaching higher-order thinking. But the science shows otherwise. “The very processes that teachers care about most,” like critical thinking and problem solving, “are intimately intertwined with factual knowledge that is stored in long-term memory,” writes Daniel Willingham, a UVA cognitive scientist.
Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, said this conflict is entering legally unknown territory and the Supreme Court has found that former presidents enjoyed executive privilege, at least to some extent. “Imagine having a conversation with President Biden during the last two months of his presidency,” Prakash said. “Are you going to give him some sincere advice if you know it’s going to come out in two months, that the privilege is over in two months?” No, maybe not.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor of Media Studies) magine what it’s like to work at Facebook this week. For about five years much of the world has slowly turned against the service that once promised to connect the world and spread democracy and cookies and puppies and such. But this week, in the wake of revelations of serious malfeasance and moral irresponsibility by Facebook’s leaders, it must be unbearable to face friends and family, even distant Facebook friends.
The University of Virginia Health System’s Heart and Vascular Center has earned four awards from the American Heart Association. The AHA awards for quality standards come in Bronze, Silver and Gold, and the highest award is Gold Plus. UVA Health was awarded Gold Plus under the Get with the Guidelines-Heart Failure category.
University of Virginia Medical Center officials say they will sink more than $30 million into merit raises and pay increases in the next fiscal year in an effort to reward and retain current employees and improve recruitment of new employees. The effort comes as nursing and staff shortages affect hospitals and medical facilities nationwide and burnout from 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic convinces many to leave their professions.
(Editorial) Nine months into the Biden presidency and a new but divided Congress, the political debate in the United States may be going far beyond policy issues, such as money for what has long been a bipartisan favorite, transportation infrastructure. In a new survey [From the UVA Center for Politics and Project Home Fire], more than half of both Biden and Trump voters view elected officials from the opposing party as “presenting a clear and present danger to American democracy.” More than 40% on each side say the same about anyone who strongly supports the opposing party.
(Commentary) “Significant numbers of both Trump and Biden voters show a willingness to consider violating democratic tendencies and norms if needed to serve their priorities,” UVA’s Center for Politics reported last week of its latest poll. “Roughly 2 in 10 Trump and Biden voters strongly agree it would be better if a ‘President could take needed actions without being constrained by Congress or courts,’ [more than 40 percent of both groups at least somewhat agree] and 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, favo...
(Commentary) The UVA Center for Politics and Project Home Fire’s recent surveys of Joe Biden voters and Donald Trump voters revealed a profound distrust between the two camps. The pollsters went looking for common ground, only to find it in the 41% of Biden voters and 51% of Trump voters favoring some form of secession and disunion. The idea of a “national divorce” has traveled from the fever swamps to the social network (the distance is short).
New polling released on Thursday by Project Home Fire in partnership with University of Virginia’s Center for Politics reveals that people who voted for former President Donald Trump worry that an increase in immigration will threaten not only the culture of the United States, but also their own job security.
A large majority of people who voted for former President Trump say they are concerned about anti-white discrimination in the United States, according to a new poll from the University of Virginia and Project Home Fire released on Friday.
84% of Trump voters worry about discrimination against whites and think Christianity is under attack
New polling released today by Project Home Fire in partnership with University of Virginia’s Center for Politics has found that Trump voters are animated by concerns about anti-white discrimination and the fate of Christianity in America.
UVA’s Cavalier Daily reports a painting dedicated to Otto Warmbier is missing from his former fraternity house. Warmbier died in 2017 under mysterious circumstances after being accused of stealing a political banner in North Korea.
A fraternity at the University of Virginia is asking for the community’s help. According to the Cavalier Daily, a painting that was dedicated to former Theta Chi member Otto Warmbier has been stolen. The painting was taken from the fraternity house on Preston House around Sept. 22.
In an era of viral digital disinformation, eroding governance norms and increased political violence, the same old campus “civic engagement” programs no longer seem sufficient. So now colleges are rethinking their efforts. In June, the University of Virginia announced that a new Institute of Democracy is in the works. … Laurent Dubois, who directs democracy programs at UVA, takes it back further, to the period he studies, the Age of Enlightenment. “The idea that you could study humanity, understand humanity – and therefore contribute to better societies, better systems, better government – suf...
Even in normal times, many patients don’t get rigorous, routine, and comprehensive care, says Dr. Margaret Tracci, a UVA Health vascular surgeon. Even those who know they need care and hope to receive it face obstacles. Distance to an expert center is one issue, but lack of access is “not just a matter of miles,” Tracci says. If a patient can’t take time off work or get transportation to an appointment, or the strain on family caregivers is too much, it’s hard for patients to receive the care they need, she says.
In urban areas across the U.S., low-income neighborhoods and communities of color experience an average of 28% more nitrogen dioxide pollution than higher-income and majority-white neighborhoods. The disparity is driven primarily by proximity to trucking routes on major roadways, where diesel trucks are emitters of NO2 and other air pollutants. “In terms of environmental justice, one of the things we have lacked is these observations across an entire city that also have temporal variability that we can use to understand the sources [of pollution],” said Sally Pusede, a UVA atmospheric chemist ...
When it comes to flu shots and the COVID-19 vaccine, “the simple answer is they can be administered at the same time or shortly before or after one another,” according to Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley, a pediatrician heading UVA’s Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease.
The self-described “world’s premier space exploration company” is not SpaceX, Blue Origin, or Virgin Galactic. Nor is it Boeing, Lockheed Martin, or any of the old-school aerospace firms. Instead, it is Space Adventures – a mysterious company with a surprisingly successful history of sending paying customers to space. Space Adventures is the brainchild of Eric Andersen, a former intern at the space agency NASA. Andersen graduated from the University of Virginia in 1996 and immediately started trying to recruit investors from his home in Arlington.
If Melanie Frank’s career at banking conglomerate Capital One was a person, it would be old enough to buy a drink. Following her first job as a software test manager at Honeywell, she moved to Capital One, the McLean-based financial services company, take on a software testing position in 2000. Along the way, she’s moved from the director of quality services to take on a senior director role in enterprise customer management. In the years following, she’s held leadership roles in retail bank technology, card technology and associate experience all the way up to her current role: managing VP of...
Try to imagine public reaction around rural western Albemarle county to a brief news note in the Daily Progress in the summer of 1909: “Dr. A.B. Wayland has in course of construction a handsome hospital, situated on a high hill overlooking the town [of Crozet] and facing the picturesque Blue Ridge mountains.” Alfred Bledsoe Wayland (1874-1915) was a product of old Crozet. Young Bledsoe received his academic education at Fishburne Military Academy at Staunton, before entering the University of Virginia, where he graduated with a degree in medicine in 1897.