Books are still alive and well. I discovered this last weekend in Charlottesville, home of the University of Virginia, at the 23rd annual Virginia Festival of the Book.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have created an online metabolic calculator to predict a person's risk of heart disease and diabetes. A study of the online metabolic calculator suggests it is more accurate at predicting the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes than traditional methods.
Yamuna River Project, unveiled Wednesday, will use sustainable bio-remediation technology to clean water and long-term management strategies to create city-level assets for all. A memorandum of understanding was signed between Delhi Jal Board and University of Virginia in 2016 to work on the five-year project.
Gerald L. Gordon, president and CEO of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, is bullish about the growth of private-sector industry in the county, particularly the potential of personalized medicine. Earlier this year, Inova Health System entered into a partnership with the University of Virginia that could reap significant rewards.
Instances of family members – particularly children – of presidents serving in the administration are rare, and unprecedented under modern ethics standards. According to Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, Ivanka Trump would be the first child of a president to hold an official White House post since Dwight Eisenhower’s son John.
Welcome to College Confidential, an online gathering point for college-bound teens and college-obsessed parents. Jeannine Lalonde, an associate dean of admission at the University of Virginia, said she started following the site years ago, after noticing that some people were posting rumors or guessing answers. “I thought, ‘I could easily answer these,’ and then the matter is settled, and people have a reference if they’re searching,” she said. “It also was really apparent that thousands and thousands of people were there.”
Behind every successful man, there’s a woman! And now a novelist has dug out enough proof for us. Bruce Holsinger, a novelist and an English professor at University of Virginia, has come up with a hashtag ‘#ThanksForTyping.’
(By Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor of Media Studies) That’s why the Federal Communication Commission studied the issue of online privacy for years, solicited public comment, deliberated openly, and ruled in 2016 that telecommunication and cable companies must not exploit the intimate relationships that consumers have with their phones and computers. Republicans in Senate and then House did the opposite this past week, voting along party lines to reverse the consumer protections.
Hundreds of health care providers from across the state are joining forces this week to tackle the opioid epidemic. The Population Health Summit at Charlottesville's Omni Hotel is hosted by the UVA Health System and a handful of other medical institutions.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have found that a hormone responsible for controlling iron metabolism helps fight off a severe form of bacterial pneumonia, and that discovery may offer a simple way to help vulnerable patients.
UVA scientists have found that a hormone responsible for controlling iron metabolism helps fight off a severe form of bacterial pneumonia, and that discovery may offer a simple way to help vulnerable patients.
For 60 years, WTJU has been a sonic life raft for the University of Virginia, the Charlottesville community, and beyond. That longevity is an achievement in itself. Even more amazing is the tremendous achievement of our community – listeners and station volunteers who have helped the station thrive for six decades. Saturday afternoon, WTJU kicks off its season of anniversary celebrations with a special live broadcast event.
At a public meeting on Wednesday afternoon, more than 50 UVA faculty members sent a clear message: they want the University’s next president to have an academic background.
The way police and courts respond to people suffering a mental health crisis is changing in the commonwealth. The UVA School of Law on Wednesday hosted the Criminal Justice and Mental Illness symposium, whcih focused on ways law enforcement and the judicial system are dealing with people in mental health
The University of Virginia’s special committee on the nomination of a new president has listed new opportunities for feedback from faculty members. The committee has set up four listening sessions throughout the day next Monday.
Novelist and UVA English professor Bruce Holsinger started a Twitter hashtag to give a shout-out to the women who wrote their husbands' books, and giving it a scroll-through fascinates and angers. The #ThanksForTyping hashtag exposes the long, carpal tunnel-inducing hours that academics' wives put in at their keyboards to bring their husbands' ideas to market.
If all goes to plan, more than 300,000 infants in the United States will sleep in cardboard boxes before year’s end. But that idea doesn’t rest well with prominent doctors, researchers and organizations focused on SIDS, who characterize the boxes as untested and unregulated for infants. “I don’t think that we can be gung-ho, let’s do baby boxes,” said UVA pediatrician Dr. Rachel Moon, who chairs the task force. “Because the evidence just isn’t there.”
The opioid epidemic weighed heavily on the 400-plus attendees at a statewide conference on population health hosted by the UVA Health System, which kicked off Wednesday afternoon at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel.
Both Democratic candidates for governor – Lt. Gov. Ralph S. Northam and former U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello – denounced Stewart’s use of the Confederate flag when asked about it Tuesday. “The problem is elections are won in urban, suburban and exurban areas,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Those are the people who would be most turned off by this approach to campaigning.”