UVA English professor Stephen Railton and collaborators from around the country and abroad began the “Digital Yoknapatawpha” project several years ago and will continue developing the website, thanks to a three-year, $286,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research division.
The UVA School of Medicine's Dong-Wook Kim and Kwon Park have identified a weakness in small cell lung cancer.
Charlottesville Area Transit says the free trolley will be detoured Friday and Saturday during move-in at UVA. Instead of taking McCormick Road to get to University Avenue, the trolley will travel down Whitehead Road, Stadium Road and Emmet Street.
As UVA’s Miller Center notes, Roosevelt's successful campaign “challenged the conservative wing of the Republican Party and left it discredited.”
UVA and the Charlottesville Police Department are taking new steps to keep underage drinkers away from a booze-filled block party. As many as 6,000 people are expected to show up at the Block Party on Wertland Street Saturday.
Rijo Walker earned his undergraduate degree at Virginia in 3½ years. As a safety for the Cavaliers, he made the ACC’s Academic Honor Roll before interning with the football office while earning his master’s. He recently landed first job as the College Football Playoff's team operations coordinator.
Donald Trump’s ascendance to being the Republican Party’s nominee for president has served as a particular boon for historians. Historians at UVA’s Miller Center for Public Affairs, such as Barbara Perry, co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program, and Nicole Hemmer, assistant professor in presidential studies, have contributed pieces on Trump and conservative politics to USA Today, U.S. News & World Report and The Atlantic.
This is what Milwaukee looks like today, according to the 2010 Census, as visualized by the UVA Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Racial Dot Map.
Former UVA track star Robby Andrews waited until the final turn of his first-round men’s 1,500-meter race Tuesday morning to make his big move, which – so very late in the race – got him up to third place and a guaranteed place in the Thursday evening semifinals of the event at the Estadio Olimpico.
Dr. Mitchell Rosner, a kidney specialist at the UVA School of Medicine who chaired the guideline development group, says that overhydrating with water or sports drinks can lead to a condition called exercise-associated hyponatremia. When the body has too much water relative to its salt level, the salt level in the blood drops too low which can lead to significant problems.
Roush declined to comment on McAuliffe’s latest thoughts. So did UVA Prof. A.E. Dick Howard, who helped write the state constitution and whose analysis McAuliffe has leaned on more than anyone else’s in this case. Howard argued that McAuliffe had the authority to restore rights en masse.
“It’s disappointing the SEC did not act earlier, and the correspondence raises serious questions about why the SEC did not act earlier,” said Andrew Vollmer, a UVA law professor and a former deputy general counsel of the SEC.
One particular inquiry back in 1979 seems to have predicted the current state of presidential politics. That year, UVA professor James Ceaser published his dissertation in a book entitled “Presidential Selection.” In a recent interview published in The Atlantic, Ceaser, who has taught politics at UVA since 1976, summarized his argument about how changing the presidential selection process in the U.S. changed the field of candidates for the nation’s highest office.
Since 1982, the drug overdose mortality rate has risen by 425 percent, adjusting for population. They have eclipsed motor vehicle fatalities as a leading cause of death in the United States, according to a new working paper from Christopher J. Ruhm of the University of Virginia.
Ban-the-box policies have received mixed reviews. Two studies – including one from the University of Virginia's Jennifer Doleac and the University of Oregon's Benjamin Hansen – suggested banning the box led to less hiring of young African-American men without criminal records because it made employers more likely to profile applicants by race and gender.
“Another unflattering episode is always just around the corner,” Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said. “The e-mail matter is a persistent, low-grade fever that won’t kill her candidacy, but will weaken public trust in her during the remainder of her public career.”
Deans of Virginia University Libraries to Chairman Goodlatte: First Do No Harm in Copyright Revision
(Commentary by Brandon Butler, UVA Library’s director of information policy) John Unsworth, the dean and director of the UVA Library, joined with his colleagues at William & Mary, Virginia Tech, George Mason and VCU to send an important letter to House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte this morning.
A new study involving the University of Virginia finds that older, frail Americans – up to 4 million of them – live at home, but are not getting the health care they need. Aaron Yao, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences in UVA’s School of Medicine, said bringing back the house call can greatly help this population.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have discovered a flaw in the armor of the most aggressive form of lung cancer, a weakness that doctors may be able to exploit to slow or even stop the disease. Remarkably, this vulnerability stems from the very aggressiveness that makes the cancer so deadly.
On Nov. 18 and Nov. 19, UVA will hold a symposium on the legacy urban planner Jane Jacobs. Jacobs, who died in 2006, is best known for her 1961 work “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” “Her connection to UVA is that she received the Thomas Jefferson Medal in 1996,” Charlottesville City Councilor Kathy Galvin said.