The league has embarked on what it calls “The Engineering Roadmap,” a $60 million program designed to improve head protection equipment. “This is a comprehensive and dedicated plan intended to spur innovation and significantly improve head protection for NFL players in three to five years,” explains Dr. Jeffrey Crandall, director of UVA’s Center for Applied Biomechanics and chair of the NFL's head, neck and spine engineering subcommittee.
The UVA Health System and the Foundation Radiology Group have signed an agreement to expand access to high-quality medical imaging.
(Co-written by Brenton D. Peterson, Ph.D. candidate in UVA’s Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics) Based on our new research examining the impact of natural disasters on American presidential elections, we believe that Harvey’s effect will largely depend on the preexisting partisanship of the counties hit.
(By UVA law professor Brandon Garrett, author of the forthcoming book, “End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice”) The American death penalty has a big innocence problem, and it is not going away. Last Wednesday, Missouri planned to execute Marcellus Williams. The problem was that he may be innocent. Governor Eric Greitens wisely put that execution on hold while a panel investigates further.
Scientists at The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with UVA graduate students, will use the Short Prong project to test four different oyster castle designs of varying widths and heights.
William Antholis, executive director of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, and politics professor Philip Zelikow comment on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s standing in the Trump administration.
With 17 seniors on the roster and 14 returning starters in the fold, the Highland Cavaliers were pegged for a fourth-place finish in the Mountain East Conference preseason football coaches poll and could be a dark horse in the rugged 11-team NCAA Division II league. The team opens the season on Thursday night at Glenville State.
In the weeks leading up to the 2016 football season, new Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall focused his attention on his team and figured that would be the best approach as FCS foe Richmond loomed.
Commentary by Aaron Spence, superintendent of Virginia Beach City Public Schools since June 2014. He attended UVA, where he received a bachelor’s degree in French studies, a master’s degree in secondary education and a doctorate in educational administration and supervision.
Carson Price is the featured artist for September at the RTD Gallery at the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Her work will be on display starting Sept. 1. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from James Madison University and the University of Virginia, respectively, and then worked within the local nonprofit sector, including stints at The First Tee-Chesterfield, Camp Hanover and the Wilton House Museum.
Uber has chosen Dara Khosrowshahi, the chief executive of travel booking website Expedia, to be its new chief executive. “A lot of start-ups get going on the energy of the founders, but now they have to really professionalize,” said Lynn Isabella, an associate professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
A new exhibit at the University of Virginia's Brown Library aims to raise awareness for a problem plaguing ocean ecosystems. It features 18 sculptures made from discarded fishing nets retrieved from the ocean.
A study published Monday in Child Development suggests that bonds from adolescence might have an outsized role in a person's mental health for years. “[They were asked] how much trust there is, how good communication is and how alienated they feel in the relationship,” says Rachel Narr, the lead author on the study and a UVA doctoral student in psychology, says that when she watched videos made in the early years of the study of the teens asking their best friends for advice or support or talking through a disagreement, it was easy to tell which relationships were strong.
Researchers from the UF College of Pharmacy, the UF Department of Chemistry and University of Virginia collaborated on a two-year study to understand the antiviral properties of the Coprinus comatus mushroom, also known as the “shaggy mane.” During the study, they uncovered the mushroom’s ability to detect and destroy leukemia cells.
In 2016, Mayor Mike Signer helped to form an Open Data Advisory Group of city staff and representatives from the University of Virginia and local businesses and nonprofits.
In a study led by UVA’s Catherine Bradshaw and published in May in the journal Pediatrics, researchers looked at data from 10 years of student surveys about bullying in Maryland schools. They saw a decrease in 10 of the 13 indicators of bullying they were measuring.
UVA alumnus Dr. L.D. Britt has a vivid childhood memory of his family packing both lunch and dinner before going to the doctor in Suffolk. The surgeon, now 66, just landed the grant of a lifetime to study health care disparities in surgery patients across the country.
“We need to dig deeper to understand what's going on,” said Joellen Schildkraut, a professor of public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine, who says she is uncertain about talc's effect on the ovaries. “We really need to understand the mechanism, if there is one.”
J.C. Aragone, who played No. 5 singles for UVA’s NCAA-championship winning team in the spring, wasn’t even sure he’d be in the qualifying draw last Monday, as he needed several other players to withdraw with injury to get in. But with his three-set triumph over Australia’s Akira Santillan Friday, Aragone, 22, booked his spot in the main draw alongside fellow Cavalier Thai-Son Kwiatkowski.
On Wednesday, Taylor Reveley III, the president of the College of William & Mary, sent the following email to all the school’s faculty and staff members, and students: “On Saturday, Aug. 12, early in the course of the events in Charlottesville and their aftermath, I put the following statement on William & Mary’s website and released it to the media: ‘The images and reports from Charlottesville this weekend have been deeply disturbing and tragic for our Commonwealth. Freedom of thought and expression are central to a functioning democracy. Violence and hate are not. Bigotry has no plac...