A compromise package Farm Bill has now been signed into law. President Donald Trump signed the legislation on Thursday, including priorities supported by Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine such as the legalization of industrial hemp. Back in 2014, the Farm Bill authorized industrial hemp for agricultural research purposes, and several institutions have been involved in such research in recent years, including the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is deep in the heart of lone star tick country. It’s also home to a world-class allergy research division, headed up by immunologist Thomas Platts-Mills. He’d been hearing tales of the meat allergy since the ’90s – people waking up in the middle of the night after a big meal, sweating and breaking out in hives. But he didn’t give it much thought until 2004, when he heard about another group of patients all suffering from the same symptoms.
On the same day that Virginia House Democrats published a minority report about school safety, several Central Virginia legislators participated in a town hall at the University of Virginia that largely focused on school safety initiatives and mental health efforts.
The University of Virginia hosted most of the local delegates and state senators during a Thursday preview of the 2019 General Assembly.
Humor, snow (natural and otherwise) and animals make appearances in holiday videos. The University of Virginia's new president got instant reaction to a text for help with his holiday card.
(Video) Families with babies in the neonatal intensive care unit at the UVA Children’s Hospital are getting a holiday pick-me-up.
City Councilor Wes Bellamy has asked that Charlottesville consider renaming Preston Avenue because its namesake was a Confederate officer and slave owner. The University of Virginia and Virginia Tech both have historical accounts about Preston, and he recorded part of his life in a memoir about his family history called “Historical Sketches and Reminiscences of an Octogenarian.”
Dozens of people are now better educated about two of the most influential women in Thomas Jefferson's life. On Wednesday, UVA’s Colonnade Club hosted a lecture about the former president's daughter and an enslaved woman with whom he fathered six children. Most history lessons at UVA center on its founder, but this one was different.
Tim Dodson is editor-in-chief of the University of Virginia’s The Cavalier Daily. He oversees about 350 contributors. None, including Dodson, get paid a cent. “It’s a labor of love,” Dodson said. The Cavalier Daily stays afloat through ads and donations from alumni.
The Silver Jews and Pavement members, along with WTJU’s general manager, share how the station has shaped the sounds of Charlottesville and beyond.
Every week, people from all walks of life come to The Haven to break bread with other community members. UVA President Jim Ryan and some of his staff joined in the lunch Wednesday.
In the last half of his life, Thomas Jefferson was influenced by two women: Martha Jefferson Randolph and Sally Hemings. Leslie Greene Bowman, president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, praised the women in a speech at UVA’s Rotunda on Wednesday evening, describing their surprising ability to shape the course of their lives.
Just ask The Real Housewives of New York City mom Ramona Singer, who watched her daughter Avery head off to the University of Virginia (she’s since graduated).
(Podcast) This week’s Business of Giving features UVA alumnus Jeffrey Walker, author of “The Generosity Network.” A former executive at JPMorgan Chase, Walker is chairman of the board of the venture-philanthropy group New Profit. “I started meditating in 1973 at the University of Virginia in the middle of a field (his first year at UVA). And I now am the outside chair of the Contemplative Science Center … and we’re building a building right on that spot.”
Larry Sabato, the political scientist who directs UVA’s Center for Politics, warned that the choice could backfire for the GOP if McSally doesn’t act more like McCain.
(Updated column) The new study helps explain the growing polarization of politics in the U.S and other open societies, and what UVA politics professor Larry Sabato recently called the collapse of “fair play” in the political sphere.
While Latter-day Saints may “privately have their doubts and speak of them in private venues,” says Kathleen Flake, head of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia, “assuming a public leadership role in attacking the authority of the prophet will lead to removal of church membership.”
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have identified a protein that feeds human papillomavirus, or HPV, offering an additional path for treating the cause of most cervical and anal cancers.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have made a discovery about human papillomavirus that could lead to new treatments for cervical cancer and other cancers caused by the virus.
“Patients are attracted to the less invasive aspects of focused ultrasound. Now Parkinson’s patients, for whom tremor is their primary disability, have more treatment options than conventional cranial surgery. While focused ultrasound is not curative for Parkinson’s disease, it can provide significant quality of life benefits. Research continues for the other symptoms of Parkinson’s,” said Jeff Elias of the UVA School of Medicine.