To understand how the U.S. asylum system works, you have to go all the way back to World War II. Millions of people were displaced after the war, including Jews who fled the Holocaust and political outcasts who escaped from behind the Iron Curtain. Many of those refugees couldn't return home. So European diplomats gathered in Geneva in 1951 to figure out how to help them – and to establish an international framework for future refugees. "There was certainly a very strong humanitarian impulse behind it," said David Martin, a former U.S. immigration official and a professor emeritus at the UVA S...
Trend forecasters rightfully focus on the housing needs of millennials when predicting the future of the U.S. real estate market. But the rising senior population, sometimes referred to as a “silver tsunami,” suggests baby boomers shouldn’t be written out of the story just yet. “Between 2010 and 2040, we predict the nation’s 65-plus population will grow by roughly 90 percent,” UVA demographics researcher Hamilton Lombard said. “In some areas of the country, most of the population growth will come from retirees.”
What is holding up the stork? The theories range from the personal to the political. One dourly amusing possibility blames screens: Researchers such as UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox have hypothesized that those of baby-making age are having “too much Netflix, not enough chill.” Young adults may be displacing in-person activities – including forming relationships, getting married and, yes, having sex – with time on computers, phones and tablets.
The need for nurses and medical professionals was in the spotlight on Tuesday, May 22, on Capitol Hill as the Senate Health Committee met to address shortages in the healthcare workforce. The University of Virginia Hospital and Sentara Martha Jefferson are both working with area programs and colleges to recruit new hires locally.
The University of Virginia Health System on Wednesday reported it performed its 1,000 telestroke consultation since partnering with smaller, community hospitals in 2015. The Comprehensive Stroke Center offers a stroke team of stroke neurologists, neurointensivists, neuroradiologists, neurosurgeons and specially trained stroke care nurses and information technology experts can connect through video with emergency rooms and confirm diagnosis and direct care.
The bill has the support of UVA’s Center for Telehealth, one of the nation’s most extensive telehealth hubs and one of 14 resource centers scattered across the country. Dr. Karen Rheuban, the center’s director and a former president of the American Telemedicine Association, said the bill would “allow telehealth – demonstrated to be an effective tool to deliver health care – to provide such evaluation and treatment services to greater numbers of patients nationwide.”
Gary L. Bush, represented by the Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law, was granted two writs of actual innocence by a three-judge panel of the court. Deirdre Enright, one of Bush’s lawyers, said in a statement: “Of course we are glad that Gary Bush has finally been officially exonerated. But we should take this moment to focus on the reasons he was convicted.”
Saikrishna Prakash teaches constitutional law at UVA and is the author of “Imperial from the Beginning: The Constitution of the Original Executive,” a historical study of the executive branch. There is simply no constitutional answer to the question, he said.
The new migrants to the Atlanta region are often young, black and more progressive than the people who already live in the region, according to Sabrina Pendergrass, a UVA sociology professor who has studied the reverse Great Migration.
The Hollywood Reporter asked a dozen prominent American historians to offer Leo some advice on which president might make a better movie. UVA’s Brian Balogh, co-host of the “BackStory” podcast: “Since DiCaprio already played a white man encountering bears, indigenous peoples, and frontier mythologies of individualism in ‘The Revenant,’ I'm going with Grant. His memoirs happen to be the best in this genre: There is a good ‘script’ to work with.”
Though teens are missing out on a paycheck when industries eliminate entry-level jobs, they’re also losing valuable work experience. In a study, UVA economist Christopher Ruhm and a colleague found that teenagers who held part-time jobs realized annual earnings that were roughly 7 percent higher compared to their fellow classmates who didn’t work as they grew.
The Supreme Court’s decision Monday allowing employers to keep employees from joining together in wage and hour disputes could have a dramatic and lasting impact on the American workforce. UVA law professor Daniel Ortiz, who represented one of the employees in a trio of cases the court consolidated, called Monday’s ruling a loss, but one he hopes Congress can correct in the not-too-distant future.
One of her memories of their time on the road, Rebecca Abdul said, is of her mother dodging soldiers, bombs and other fleeing refugees to help a woman give birth by the side of the road. Her mother had no formal midwife training, but was determined to help. Abdul said the long, arduous immigration process made her question American immigration laws, but helped her feel closer to her family and friends. After graduation, Abdul is considering working in Nashville, Tennessee, or Washington, D.C. Her mother will live with her, study English and, they hope, also become a nurse.
When you’ve flown war-zone helicopter medevac missions and spent more than a year sailing the ocean, you’re pretty much equipped to handle most of life’s stress.That includes starting medical school at the age of 36, less than two weeks after your first child’s birth. “I wouldn’t say it was easy because it hasn’t been easy,” said Dr. Patrick Marvil, who graduates Sunday from UVA’s School of Medicine.
From 2000 to 2017, net migration to counties classified as retirement destinations increased 169 percent in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, compared to 67 percent nationwide, according to UVA demographer Hamilton Lombard. The U.S. Department of Agriculture classifies a county as a retirement destination if net migration caused its 60-and-older population to grow at least 15 percent in a decade.
Though a growing number of universities are lining up to work with Facebook, Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA professor of media studies and author of “Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy,” said that universities should think carefully before collaborating with the company in developing technologies. “We know that Facebook depends on user data to make its products work and work well,” he said. “We have seen that Facebook’s accumulation of data is a serious problem. One that legislators are finally taking seriously. Universities should therefore be careful about the pr...
“The pitch there is more about representation of under-represented people. That might be also a part of the emergence of women candidates on the Democratic side,” said Kyle Kondik, an election analyst with Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA. “As the country is becoming more diverse, the Democrats are becoming more reliant on nonwhite voters and women and it shows up in who’s running.”
When we started preparing for the symposium, my students, mostly women, were worried that they knew nothing about AI governance – a reminder that the rhetoric of advanced technology excludes many people from important political discussions. Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship, cautions that presumptions like these, about who interacts with technologies and who can claim expertise, mean that “we forge policies and design systems and devices that match those presumptions.”
What’s the Center for Effective Lawmaking? The center Trump cited is a nonpartisan effort directed by two political scientists – Craig Volden of UVA and Alan E. Wiseman of Vanderbilt University. The duo wanted to come up with a way of measuring the success of members of Congress in passing legislation.
(By Jeff Bergner, visiting professor at UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) First, some good news. You are all very talented. You have the intellectual ability to succeed at pretty much whatever you choose to do. Now, some harder news. You are all good rule followers. By following the rules, you did well in high school and were accepted at UVA. When you leave here, however, you will leave all these rules behind.