A new discovery may help people suffering from severe trauma or the full-body infection known as sepsis who develop multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, or MODS. UVA researchers say exercise may help protect people from disease and could one day reduce the death rate among the sickest and more gravely injured.
Increasingly, Virginia schools are getting financial support to seek a more diverse population in STEM programs -- that's science, technology, engineering and math. In Charlottesville, grants are funding a partnership between Piedmont Virginia Community College, UVA and Buford Middle School to make that dream come true.
One of the biggest problems facing public education in the commonwealth is taking center stage at the University of Virginia. The Curry School of Education hosted over 100 professionals and policymakers Tuesday. The hope of the conference is to get everyone on the same page and come up with possible solutions to address the shortage of teachers.
There is no question that Williams’ exposure to big-time college football at Georgia and Florida State was one of the factors that landed her Virginia’s AD post, beating out a talented field of six semifinalists.
The Slave Dwelling Project recently held its largest-ever event at the University of Virginia to commemorate the hundreds of enslaved men, women and children who built and ran the school in the 19th century. Nearly three-dozen panels saw more than 100 speakers over the three days. But at the center was an outdoor sleepover in near-freezing temperatures, where the enslaved would have slept.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe stopped by UVA’s Curry School of Education on Tuesday to discuss K-12 teacher shortages in the state. The governor took part in a public discussion with Bob Pianta, dean of the Curry School, to cap off a daylong summit that featured guests and speakers from UVA, as well as educators from across Virginia.
A Dartmouth student who united his classmates against hatred in the wake of Charlottesville was chosen by Major League Baseball to deliver the game ball before Game 1 of the World Series. After seeing white nationalists march on the University of Virginia, 18-year-old Carlos Polanco decided to act. He reached out to other incoming freshman heading to Dartmouth, and worked on a statement from the Dartmouth class of 2021 to the incoming students at the University of Virginia, encouraging unity and acceptance.
Carmen Williams did all she could to hold back tears as she watched her mother, Carla Williams, introduced as the new athletic director at the University of Virginia. UVA introduced Williams on Monday, two days after she arrived on campus with her husband, Brian, and children Carmen, Camryn (both students at the University of Georgia) and Joshua.
On Monday, Carla Williams became the latest example of "Black Girl Magic" when she was named as the new athletic director at the University of Virginia.
UVA’s student-run Arts Board Committee has invited New York-based artist Ed Woodham, founder and director of Art in Odd Places, a collaborative arts festival, to be the artist-in-residence. Woodham will give two talks this month on the significance of art in public space. In the spring, he’ll collaborate with students, artists and the community to create an Art in Odd Places festival in Charlottesville.
UVA researchers who have studied LEAP and its effects found that schools that run the professional learning program as designed had greater growth in the portion of students scoring ‘proficient’ on state tests.
“I am living proof that anything is possible if you have the nerve and the imagination to believe it can happen.” So said Carla Williams, who was introduced earlier this week as the University of Virginia’s incoming athletic director. She’s spent 30 years working toward this pinnacle.
The significance of the selection of Carla Williams as Virginia’s new athletic director was not lost on the appointee. “Yes, I am an African-American female,” Williams, 49, said. “I see that every morning when I wake up and look in the mirror.” Williams, previously the top assistant at the University of Georgia, is the first African-American woman to hold the position of AD at a school in a Power Five conference.
Carla Williams, a longtime athletics administrator at the University of Georgia, was introduced as the new boss of Virginia’s athletics department in a press conference at John Paul Jones Arena. Displaying confidence, grace, and a fire that fueled her ascension from athlete to coach to administrator, the 49-year-old mother of three charmed her audience.
At the community recreation center in LaGrange, Ga., playing basketball and football against the boys, Carla Williams developed a competitive drive. It pushed her to become a 1,000-point scorer for the Georgia women’s basketball team. It drove her to become a Final Four assistant coach with the Bulldogs. And it’s fueled her steady rise through the ranks of college athletics administration.
A researcher at UVA’s School of Medicine has received nearly half a million dollars to research how specific diets are related to breast cancer. Melanie Rutkowski, of the UVA Cancer and Carter Immunology Centers, was awarded $450,000 by the breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen to examine whether a chronic disruption in the microbiome, the group of bacteria in the gut, can hurt the immune system’s ability to battle breast tumors.
A national organization has given a UVA researcher funding for research to combat breast cancer. The Susan G. Komen organization has awarded a $450,000 grant to fund Melanie Rutkowski's work that may lead to doctors prescribing a specific diet to prevent the spread of the disease.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation has awarded the University of Virginia $450,000 for breast cancer research. The grant will allow researchers to harness bacteria in the gut that could help fight against cancer.
Past research has shown delivery of testosterone via the nostrils can be effective and safe. A UVA study reported in the journal Andrology revealed 90 percent of patients treated with a gel had normal blood testosterone levels after daily use for varying lengths of time. The study also found that the men's impotence lessened, their mood improved and the proportion of body-fat tissue dropped over one to three months.
Voices from Southern universities and historical preservation organizations joined UVA and the Charlottesville community to discuss slavery and history as part of the “Universities, Slavery, Public Memory, and the Built Landscape” symposium.