UVA, Charlottesville and Albemarle County are working on adopting an app that will allow bystanders in public settings to take action if someone is suffering from cardiac arrest. 
UVA, Charlottesville and Albemarle County are working on adopting an app that will allow bystanders in public settings to take action if someone is suffering from cardiac arrest. 
UVA Orthopedics is again among the best in the country. Becker's Hospital Review put UVA’s programs in its list of top 100 for the sixth consecutive year. The University is applauded for its better-than-average surgical infection rates and length of stay for hip fracture patients.
The University of Virginia’s School of Nursing has received a $20 million gift to support the enrollment of more than 1,000 students in its programs over the next decade.
A distinguished UVA law professor makes a serious claim: Virginia legislators are circumventing not only the intent of statute, but the state Constitution itself, by appointing themselves to policy boards in the executive branch of government.
The rise of the internet, which captures every tweet and video clip in perpetuity, makes it easier than ever to catch hypocrites in the act. But today, it seems, hypocrisy is particularly rampant – and there’s a reason. “It’s a function of our extreme partisan polarization, and really, it justifies anything,” says Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Hypocrisy is the lifeblood of politics.” 
The Association of American Medical Colleges says for the first time, women students are the majority in medical school. The UVA School of Medicine is part of that trend, said John Densmore, associate dean of admissions and student affairs.
Taiwan heads to the polls on Saturday with the island sitting in the center of a struggle for regional dominance between the United States and China. “Taiwanese voters, for the first time, are voting between two candidates that have completely different visions of what Taiwan’s relationship is with China and the world,” said Shirley Lin, Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Bush was punished for the Iraq War – but only after it had begun to sour and the public re-evaluated its earlier support for the action, notes presidential scholar Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. The payback came in the 2006 midterm elections, when Democrats took control of both the House and Senate. "What president, in the middle of impeachment, doesn’t try to get us to look elsewhere?" Perry says. 
War powers practice in the early republic suggests that the president’s power of “self-defense” was far narrower than Trump’s defenders imagine. Yet, as the University of Virginia’s Sai Prakash explains, “even though [those] nations had declared war on the United States in formal and informal ways, Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison believed that the president could not wage war in response.” Without formal authorization from Congress, early presidents recognized that “they were limited to those steps falling short of a declaration of war, such as defensive meas...
A database compiled by UVA researchers \ is connecting people living with autism to hundreds of resources.
According to a new study, the pleasure center of the brain and the brain's biological clock are linked, and that high-calorie foods – which bring pleasure – disrupt normal feeding schedules, resulting in overconsumption. It was examined by the researchers at the University of Virginia that junk food can lead to weight gain not just because they are high in calories, but also because they interrupt with sleep patterns.
Since Danville’s peak in the 1990s, the largest city in Southern Virginia—most famous for tobacco and its large stock of Victorian homes—has lost 23% of its population. Projections by the University of Virginia’s Demographics Research Group forecast Danville will lose another quarter of its 40,693 residents by 2030.
The UVA School of Nursing just received its largest gift ever. Pam Cipriano, dean of the school, says they plan to use the money to help fund scholarships and increase diversity.
A $20 million grant from a Washington, D.C., investment mogul will allow UVA’s School of Nursing to graduate more nurses, expand school programs and improve nurse training.
The Virginia Kindergarten Readiness Program at the University of Virginia estimated that as many as 34% of Virginia children enter kindergarten unprepared in at least one critical learning domain, which include literacy, mathematics, social skills and self-regulation.
In the summer of 1998, a group of psychologists left their labs at Yale University and headed to the beach. They pitched a tent and began running experiments. Among them was Brian Nosek, a graduate student interested in the subconscious biases that affect our social interactions. For Nosek, now a UVA professor of psychology and executive director of the Center for Open Science, it was his first taste of team science and a lesson in the power of collaboration.
Bob Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education, and fellow researchers followed 1,300 kids from birth through high school and examined trends in school attendance. They found missing school, starting in kindergarten, could become a habit.
Podcast featuring Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA professor of media studies.
UVA soccer stars Joe Bell, Daryl Dike and Daniel Steedman all are leaving school early for the pros according to a press release. Dike and Steedman are both sophomores. Bell is a junior.