Researchers at the University of Virginia have developed a way to operate on the brain - without a scalpel. UVA researcher Kevin Lee has pioneered a new technology called PING -- a noninvasive way to target and destroy problematic clumps of brain cells. It could be used to treat conditions such as epilepsy.
(Commentary) In 2018, the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law took my case and submitted a pardon application to then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe. After a few years of hard work by my attorneys, Gov. Ralph Northam granted me an absolute pardon in August on the grounds of innocence.
The law schools sending the most recent law graduates to top 10 firms were: 2; The University of Virginia School of Law, with 10.39% of recent alumni at top 10 firms.
The University of Virginia is launching a program designed to create a more equitable Virginia through local government action. Through a combination of data, conversations, and guest speakers, more than a dozen local governments are represented at the Inaugural Equity Cohort, which has a vision of improving the commonwealth.
To strengthen the early warning system, the health department is deploying more than two dozen of these wastewater monitoring sites across the state, the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute reported in its latest update, although it’s not clear where these systems will be stationed.
Spencer, Kessler, Cantwell and other white supremacists found liable in deadly Unite the Right rally
For 16 days, jurors listened to arguments inside a red brick federal courthouse a mile from the University of Virginia’s Rotunda, where four years ago white supremacists marched with torches and chanted “Jews will not replace us.”
The events surrounding Aug. 11-12, 2017, saw white nationalists and supremacists marching through Charlottesville and the University of Virginia campus chanting, “Jews will not replace us,” “You will not replace us” and “Blood and soil,” a phrase evoking Nazi philosophy on ethnic identity.
The case centered on leaders of the “alt-right” rally in August 2017 that featured mobs chanting “Jews will not replace us” while encircling counter-protesters on the University of Virginia campus, wielding and in some cases throwing burning tiki torches as they marched.
Hundreds of white nationalists descended on Charlottesville for the Unite the Right rally on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017, ostensibly to protest city plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. During a march on the University of Virginia campus, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us,” surrounded counterprotesters and threw tiki torches at them.
Kim Kirschnick never aspired to mascot fame. Becoming the mounted Cavalier, the University of Virginia’s gallant rider, who kicks off every football game racing into Scott Stadium atop his trusty steed, Sabre, wasn’t exactly a lifelong calling. But when the University needed a good horseman to take on the role of what’s affectionately dubbed “Cavman,” the veteran polo player obliged. Twenty years on, it’s been a wild ride.
(Co-written by Brad Wilcox, director of the National Mattiage Project at UVA) For many of us, the holidays offer a time of reflection. We look back at the year that’s passed and ahead to the year to come. Some ask a simple question: Am I happy? That appears to be a more difficult question for liberals than for conservatives. It’s a puzzling but well-established finding: Conservatives are more likely than liberals to report they are happy. But why are conservatives more likely to say they’re happier? And how can liberals live happier lives?
Teams from UVA and the University of Florida recently dove into the powerful inner workings of fish schools. Scientists know so far that dozens to millions of fish assemble in these formations as predator deterrents. Schools also allow for speedy and streamlined movement. The research groups reproduced a group of trout-like swimmers, using a fluid dynamics computer program. Their aim was to further uncover why fish have evolved this interesting phenomenon.
(Video) Most families gathered on Thanksgiving hoping that politics wa not on the menu. James Davison Hunter, an author and executive director of UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, discusses polarization in the U.S. and how to lower the temperature.
Less than a week before Saturday’s matchup between Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia, Bedford County law enforcement escorted the game ball all the way from Blacksburg to Charlottesville. According to the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office, this escort on Sunday, Nov. 21 was part of the annual FIJI “Run Across Virginia,” which is organized by the Rho Alpha chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Over the past 15 years, officials say the donations and sponsorships from the run have raised more than $600,000 for the Jimmy V Foundation, which supports cancer research and treatment acro...
Frozen Dinners: Given that registered dietitian and University of Virginia School of Medicine researcher Anne Wolf says we’re often “eating well over what we need” when it comes to fats, consuming unneeded additional sources from these meals won’t help.
Two West Virginia members of the U.S. House of Representatives will face each other in next year’s Republican primary. Because of population loss in the 2020 Census, West Virginia lost one of its three House seats. After redistricting, incumbent representatives Alex Mooney and David McKinley are running against each other. “It’s setting up as a very interesting and probably pretty competitive primary,” said Kyle Kondik, an election analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Kondik initially thought McKinley had the edge because he’s more familiar to West Virginia voters. But, h...
As saltwater has continued to invade the land, it’s become a thick salt marsh. “So like the dark green shrub that’s poking out in the grass, that’s a salt-associated shrub. The wax myrtle,” said Baird, who studies sea level rise around the Eastern Shore for the University of Virginia’s Coastal Research Center. Baird noted the threat extends across the Chesapeake Bay to Virginia’s mainland. “The Guinea Neck areas of Gloucester [County] are experiencing this as much or more so than some of our regions on the Eastern Shore,” she said.
Since no definition will find universal acceptance, and given the state of the country’s water resources, University of Virginia water law expert Leon Szeptycki argues against limiting the act’s scope to seek middle ground. “We’ve already destroyed a lot of our wetlands,” he says. “A lot of our waters are increasingly polluted. There’s a lot of strain on water resources in the West because of drought driven by climate change. So I’m a little bit reluctant to suggest that somebody should pursue a middle ground that’s less protective than the Clean Water Act allows.”
(Podcast) On Dec. 1, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, one of the most anticipated cases on the court’s docket in recent years, on the question of whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional. Panelists discussing the case include Julia Mahoney, John S. Battle Professor of Law, and Richard Re, Joel B. Piassick Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School of Business) With President Biden reportedly reappointing Jerome Powell to a second term as Federal Reserve chair and make Lael Brainard as vice chair, he will have an opportunity to meet with them privately. So why am I suggesting Biden should do what no other U.S. president has done and indicate that he wants the Fed to raise rates in an election year?