The patient’s hand shook uncontrollably for years, rendering it virtually useless for normal functions. Then in a single day at the UVA Focused Ultrasound Center, under the care of Dr. Jeffrey Elias, the shaking caused by essential tremor disappeared. Watch how the non-invasive focused ultrasound technique pioneered by Elias is changing lives for the better.
You’re at a conference and meeting a bunch of new people. You think to yourself, ‘Shoot, what was his name?’ This professor of psychology has a hack to help with name recall.
What if we had a vaccine that would work for any COVID-19 variants that might pop up – and even for some coronaviruses that cause the common cold? UVA and Virginia Tech scientists are working on it.
Dubbed “the most insightful clinical investigator of allergic diseases of his generation,” Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills famously discovered a red meat allergy associated with lone star ticks, and linked dust mite allergens to asthma. He’s not done yet.
UVA's Dr. Jeffrey Elias, who pioneered the use of high-intensity soundwaves to treat tremor and Parkinson’s disease, has now set his sights on erasing chronic pain.
Meet 12 recently hired faculty members, most of whom represent UVA’s priority areas for building research expertise: democracy, environmental resilience and sustainability, precision medicine, the brain and neuroscience, and digital technology and society.
University officials began a new era on Thursday with the groundbreaking for the School of Data Science, the first of several new buildings planned for the Ivy Road entrance corridor.
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Our University photographers capture so many facets of life on Grounds, from historic events in the life of the University to the many small, everyday moments that make UVA unique. This series shares some of their most indelible images and the stories behind them.
Alexis Ward, a graduate student in the School of Education and Human Development, has been working to improve the lives of people with disabilities since she was a kid.
Gary Ham, one of the first African American players to ever suit up for the UVA football team, was honored with his former teammates at Scott Stadium on Saturday.
Wednesday’s first installment of the student-centered luncheon series, launched by the Office of the President, brought together graduate and undergraduate students for a lively and probing discussion.
To complete his dissertion, Perrin Godbold hopes to get a glimpse of what happens in chemical reactions in hydrogen fuel production, CO2 reduction to fuels, and biomass conversion.
The spacecraft Lucy will carry a plaque, including Dove’s poetry and other words of wisdom, created as a time capsule – not for unknown aliens, but for our own descendants.
