Citing the potential for violence, UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan sent a message to staff, students and faculty on Friday advising them to avoid the Aug. 12 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park.
"A crucial step to developing policy to combat the fatal drug epidemic is to have a clear understanding of geographic differences in heroin- and opioid-related mortality rates," Christopher J. Ruhm, of UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, said. "The information obtained directly from death certificates understates these rates because the drugs involved in the deaths are often not specified."
Todd DeSorbo has been named Virginia’s head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach, the school announced on Monday. He has spent the past six seasons as the associate head coach at N.C. State.
At a retreat meeting Saturday, the UVA Board of Visitors explored ways to enhance online learning and other digital opportunities for students at UVA.
We may complain about freezing temperatures, but most cold snaps leave us little worse for the wear. That’s not the case for a common lizard living on the Texas-Mexico border, which, in just the span of a few months, underwent a dramatic genetic transformation in response to cold weather. In fact – in one of the most detailed examples of rapid evolution to date – a new study shows that just one cold snap can change the way green anoles’ muscular and nervous systems respond to temperature. But as Butch Brodie, director of UVA’s Mountain Lake Biological Station in Pembroke points out, it's not c...
When it comes to building things, Eric Loth has his head in the clouds. This UVA engineering professor wants to construct a wind turbine standing more than five times higher than the Statue of Liberty, with rotor blades longer than the Washington Monument is tall. “The larger a turbine, the more powerful and efficient it becomes, and that reduces the cost of energy,” Loth says. “Ultimately, cost is going to drive decisions about energy much more than anyone’s opinion on climate change.”
Ken Forde-Mazrui, a UVA law professor who specializes in race, said that the focus on university admissions is misguided – and that the Trump administration is taking up the complaint by Asians largely because their interests align with those of many whites. “This is primarily about conservative leaders protecting the privilege of access to society’s resources and opportunities for certain white constituents,” he said.
It’s not unusual for companies to run internal investigations through outside attorneys, said Eric M. Negangard, a UVA assistant professor of commerce and a forensic accountant. If a client asks its law firm to subcontract with the investigators, their work is then covered by attorney-client privilege, Negangard said. But that’s not what U of L did.
"Vagrant Nation," an examination of constitutional changes and their effect on the social reform movements of the 1960s by Risa Goluboff, dean of the UVA School of Law, Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law and professor of history, won one of the two 2017 Lillian Smith Book Awards.
A new economic impact study released July 18 by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service revealed that the state’s agriculture and forestry industries contribute $91 billion annually to the economy. That total represents a 30 percent increase since 2013.
The University of Virginia is the birthplace of MadiDrop PBC. Created two years ago as a public benefit company, it has successfully produced a ceramic tablet designed to purify any water it comes into contact with.
According to a 2017 economic impact study by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, agriculture has an economic impact of $70 billion annually and provides more than 334,000 jobs in the commonwealth.
Demographer Hamilton Lombard at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service crunched some numbers on the state’s coal counties, which are hemorrhaging young adults. Even if everyone stopped moving out, the populations will still decline, because deaths outnumber births, he reported.
UVA professor Christopher Ali says the cumulative effect of a proposed loosening of federal broadcast regulations could inspire broadcast networks to downsize the number of smaller stations, which tend to make less money.
According to Dr. Russ Federman, an expert in bipolar disorder and director of UVA’s Counseling and Psychological Services, intense moods that last for an extended period are key sign of bipolar disorder.
Thanks to the 1975 Individuals With Disabilities Act, more than 90 percent of young people with intellectual disabilities now go to public schools with mainstream students. And that, experts say, has altered expectations around what they ought to achieve. “If we are going to really help people with significant disabilities, it’s not by pretending they can go to college and do college work,” said James M. Kauffman, a UVA professor emeritus of education who has written extensively on special education.
Microblogging site Twitter, which is open and accessible to anyone, can be used to help predict people engaged in criminal activity, a study has found. Although “people don’t share with the world that they intend to or have just committed a crime…(but) they do share are things like social events or outings that could lead to criminal activity,” said Matthew Gerber, assistant professor at the University of Virginia.
Some entrepreneurs say the path forward requires wholly rethinking male birth control. “What is a male contraceptive?” asks Kevin Eisenfrats, the 24-year-old co-founder and CEO of Charlottesville-based startup Contraline Inc. “What we’re developing is a nonsurgical and reversible alternative to a vasectomy,” he says. He hatched the idea while he was a senior at the UVA School of Engineering & Applied Science and initially planned to market Echo-V to pet owners as an alternative to neutering.
The UVA Health System received some exciting news Wednesday. The breast care program has been awarded accreditation for the first time from the American College of Surgeons. To become accredited, the program had to meet a set of national standards including having an active outreach program, which is how it lets the community know about breast cancer, diseases, and opportunities for screenings.
UVA’s Breast Care Program has been fully accredited by the American College of Surgeons' National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. The three-year accreditation follows a review that includes an in-person survey and a written application.