(Commentary) The University of Virginia president distributed a mass email Aug. 4 that urged students, faculty and staff avoid the Aug. 12 rally for their own safety. She wrote that “to approach the rally and confront the activists would only satisfy their craving for spectacle. They believe that your counter-protest helps their cause.” The email goes on to say, “The organizers of this rally want confrontation; do not gratify their desire.” This will help to cover the university should violence erupt, but it does not speak to our function in society.
At a hearing earlier this year, UVA President Teresa Sullivan said lawmakers were undertaking "an experiment" on students and likened Everclear to a "date rape" drug that could be used in sexual assaults. In an emailed statement this week, Sullivan welcomed the protections in ABC's distribution plan and urged officials to closely monitor the situation.
For those looking to avoid Saturday’s Unite the Right event, there will be more than a dozen counter-events, including prayer services, music and public education opportunities available – including a series of free lectures at the University of Virginia.
Two hours’ drive from South Boston at the University of Virginia, John McLaren was among the small school of economists worrying that overall gains from international free trade were smaller than his colleagues suspected – and the local impact much worse.
A local charity is helping the UVA School of Medicine research a rare disease that has no common name. About 50 children across the world are impacted by the disorder, suffering symptoms such as severe developmental delays, seizures and movement disorders.
The UVA Medical Center has contingency plans for Saturday. In response to the “Unite The Right” rally, hospital officials are preparing for the possibility of incidents that could trigger a swarm of new patients.
The UVA Health System has been ranked the No. 1 hospital in Virginia and has several specialties listed as among the best in the United States.
The UVA Medical Center has been named the No. 1 hospital in Virginia for the second consecutive year, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have reversed depression symptoms in mice by feeding them Lactobacillus, a probiotic bacteria found in live-cultures yogurt. Further, they have discovered a specific mechanism for how the bacteria affect mood, providing a direct link between the health of the gut microbiome and mental health.
New research points to treatment strategies for multi-drug antibiotic resistance using currently available drugs. The study, publishing Aug. 8 in the open access journal PLOS Biology by Phillip Yen and Jason Papin at the University of Virginia, demonstrates how different adaptation histories of bacterial pathogens to antibiotics leads to distinct evolutionary dynamics of multi-drug resistance. In an era where there are few new antibiotics in the R&D pipeline and bacteria are developing resistance to the drugs now available, exploiting bacteria's past may be a major breakthrough for the fut...
UVA is offering a day of events to display its commitment to mutual respect and inclusion. Faculty and staff members will lead discussions on various topics on Saturday, including constitutional rights, citizenship, community dynamics, local history and more. The overall theme of the discussions will be peaceable democracy.
A team at UVA’s Curry School of Education is looking at how well high school students, particularly freshmen, adapt to social pressures.
All these sound like good ideas. No single one is going to “save” rural Virginia by itself, but each seems worth pursuing – no matter who the next governor is. That’s especially true for another one of Northam’s signature proposals: He wants to expand the University of Virginia’s College at Wise – the only four-year state school west of the New River Valley. Northam points out that colleges are economic engines in the modern economy, so his working theory is quite sound: Far Southwest Virginia needs a bigger economic engine. Right now, out of the 15 four-year colleges and universities that Vir...
How could the common areas in a street where homes sell for millions go for a relatively small sum? More to the point, how could it be sold at all? “There’s always been a very vibrant trade in streets,” says Molly Brady, a UVA associate professor of law. “It has actually been quite prevalent in the U.S. for a long time.”
Scientists have extracted DNA from parchment before, but this non-destructive technique expands the potential pool of research material. “That’s why it’s such an exciting breakthrough. It allows a lot of different manuscripts from a lot of different areas to be analyzed together,” says Bruce Holsinger, a UVA English professor who is writing a book about parchment.
“It is definitely the case that climate skepticism is most likely among white U.S. evangelicals,” says Willis Jenkins, a UVA professor of religious studies. “So there is something going on in that particularly powerful demographic.”
(Commentary by Michael Livermore, UVA associate professor of law) President Donald Trump and his appointees, particularly Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, have made federalism a theme of their efforts to scale back environmental regulation. They argue that the federal government has become too intrusive and that states should be returned to a position of “regulatory primacy” on environmental matters.
The deadly drug overdose epidemic that has been ravaging the nation may be even worse than we realize. A new University of Virginia study says the numbers of deaths due to heroin and opioid overdoses have actually been severely underreported. Dr. Christopher Ruhm revisited thousands of death certificates from 2008 through 2014 and concluded the mortality rates were 24 percent higher for opioids and 22 percent higher for heroin than had been previously reported.
A new study finds that many opioid-related deaths are underreported, and that the full picture of the epidemic may be worse than even those numbers show. In the report, Christopher Ruhm, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia, created a prediction equation that he believes more accurately estimates the number of opioid-related deaths in a given state.
Deaths from drug overdoses rose sharply in the first nine months of 2016, the government reported Tuesday, releasing data that confirm the widely held belief that the opioid epidemic worsened last year despite stepped-up efforts by public health authorities. In a separate study released Monday, a UVA professor of public policy and economics suggested that opioid death rates for 2014 may be as much as 24 percent greater than previously reported totals.