C. difficile causes thousands of infections in hospital patients ... The grant will help fund Sequella's collaboration with microbiologists at the University of Virginia to identify highly active chemical analogs to develop an antibiotic treatment.

The institute will also become the repository for the oral history project that Kennedy spent years working on with the University of Virginia.

When it comes to schools with the highest Annualized ROIs [return on investment] for the "list price," selective in-state public schools come out on top. The five schools with the highest 30-Year Annualized ROI (approximately 13 percent or more) are Georgia Tech, University of Virginia, Colorado School of Mines, Virginia Tech and UC-Berkeley.

Patients suffering from a severe heart condition may soon have a new option for treatment besides open heart surgery. Clinical trials for the new procedure are underway at the University of Virginia Medical Center. ... Both open heart surgery and this new less invasive procedure treat a heart condition called aortic stenosis. Doctors at UVA and about 20 other hospitals nationwide conducted a trial of 358 inoperable patients.

The University of Virginia is planning to dedicate a small park on its South Lawn to remember a once-thriving neighborhood of free black people. The event Friday will honor Catherine Foster, a free black woman who purchased the property in 1833. The community that grew around it became known as Canada, and is thought to hold the graves of Foster, her descendants and others. U.Va. officials say a number of Foster descendants are expected to attend the celebration.

Officials at the University of Virginia say the state is giving the school $64.5 million to renovate a classroom building built after World War II. President Teresa Sullivan said Wednesday that the money for the major renovation of New Cabell Hall had previously been approved but not funded.

Van Beek contributed to the building of U.Va.’s Klockner Stadium. Among his community activities, Harry served as the Chairman of the Board of the University of Virginia Health Services Foundation, as a board member of Poplar Forest, and as a Founding member of the Board of the University of Virginia Children's Medical Center.

Peter Rodriguez Associate dean for international affairs at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business

The University of Virginia’s new 21-month global program enters its first class of some 40 students this August. ... this year through May of 2011,students will undergo six separate two-week-long international residencies at the home campus in Charlottesville, Va., and Washington, D.C., but also in Brazil, India, Europe, and China. Fully a third of the course work will be delivered via the Internet, in live weekly classes, virtual learning teams, and integrated work projects. Some 15 faculty members at Darden will be involved in delivering the program.

If you were a major business school dean and had the chance to pull out a blank piece of paper to design the ideal global MBA program, what would it look like? For Peter Rodriguez, an economics professor and an associate dean at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, this was no theoretical exercise. Four years ago, he was asked by Dean Robert Bruner to do just that—sketch out the best possible design for a new global MBA program for executives. ... Now, years after studying the market, the result of that worry and work will debut this August. Darden’s Global...

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A proposal by the University of Virginia’s Health Services Foundation to build a new 100,000-square-foot office building near the intersection of U.S. 29 and Fontaine Avenue has cleared an important hurdle. The Albemarle County Planning Commission recommended approval on Tuesday for a request to rezone the land from residential to commercial use. The proposal for the Morey Creek Professional Center would also see the construction of a 15,000-square-foot day-care center, as well as a 450-space parking structure. The foundation does not intend to use the center for patient care.

An alternative to open-heart surgery tested at the University of Virginia Health System may hold new hope for inoperable and high-risk patients suffering from a potentially deadly heart valve condition, a clinical trial suggests. ... Rather than cutting open the chest, the new procedure sends a catheter from the leg or chest to the heart. Once the catheter is properly positioned in the heart, the surgeon inflates a balloon that installs a replacement aortic valve and pushes the diseased valve aside. The effect is instantaneous; the new valve begins working immediately.

The next wave of upcoming musicians don’t have soul. Or heart. Or even blood. That’s because these cutting edge instrumentalists are robots. Expressive Machines Musical Instruments (EMMI) is an organization geared towards automated acoustic performance. Formed by University of Virginia PhD students Troy Rogers, Scott Barton, and Steven Kemper in 2007, EMMI has built several robotic drums and a guitar-like apparatus as well as written numerous pieces of music for them to play.

WNRN radio Wake-Up Call host Rick Moore talks with Rebecca Tippett of UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center regarding a study she has written about the approximately 30% of families in the area who, should disaster strike, do not have enough assets to live three months at the federal poverty line.

The General Assembly voted overwhemingly to provide nearly $2.7 million to the University of Virginia for long-awaited repair for its historic Rotunda.

University of Virginia officials have explored ways a potential federal government shutdown might affect the school.  President Teresa Sullivan (pictured) says the most immediate impacts might include those researchers whose work is funded by federal grants.  It could also impact Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements for the UVA Hospital.

University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan held a news conference on Wednesday to address several initiatives that have been launched on grounds to improve the safety of students.