Researchers have made a breakthrough in treating Alzheimer’s disease — but treatment needs to happen before symptoms begin. Early intervention is key here, according to the lead researcher. “It is my opinion that we will never be able to cure Alzheimer’s disease by treating patients once they become symptomatic,” says George Bloom, a University of Virginia professor and chair of the school’s Department of Biology.
As the one-year anniversary of the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville approaches, community members, students and groups advocating for racial justice are planning several events to fight back against racism. The events — which include a poster giveaway, a UVA student rally and a church service — begin this weekend and last through Aug. 12.
UVA, which endured the horrifying spectacle of torch-carrying neo-Nazis marching through Grounds last year on Aug. 11, announced plans to restrict access over the weekend to the Lawn (except for residents and attendees of a ticketed event Aug. 11) and to the plaza on the north side of the Rotunda, where a small group of counterprotesters were surrounded by white supremacists at the statue of founder Thomas Jefferson. UVA Students United plan a rally at the Rotunda’s north plaza from 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 11.
A UVA student is one of 10 finalists nationwide for a prestigious international science innovation award. Madison Smither, a rising second-year student, started Students to Scientists in her hometown, where she mentored young girls interested in the STEM field.
Julian Bond, the civil rights icon who taught at UVA for two decades, died in 2015. Now the University has mounted an effort to make his collection of papers, speeches, and other documents available to the world through a crowdsourced transcription effort.
The group also includes three of the state’s largest public universities: the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and James Madison University.
A.D. Carson, an assistant professor of hip-hop for the University of Virginia’s music department, knows this tightrope. A native of downstate Decatur who performs under the name AyDee The Great, Carson rejects the notion of the N-word as cool slang, though he has used it and doesn’t dissuade his own students from using it in his rap songwriting course. “I don’t know if the word is losing its negative connotation. My instinct says no, but I know there are all kinds of layers being continually added, peeled back, folded into others, and hopefully forcing us to think critically,” Carson said.
Impacted cerumen is one of the most common reasons people end up visiting a doctor for ear problems, according to a UVA Health System paper. In fact, an excessive build-up of earwax affects one in 10 children and one in 20 adults in the United States.
Research on SHUTi was done at the University of Virginia and published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. In this study, half the participants received general education on insomnia and the other half were provided online therapy with SHUTi. The researchers found that those who received the internet therapy improved compared to those who did not.
The ninth president of the University of Virginia is officially on the job as Jim Ryan replaced Teresa Sullivan on Wednesday, who served her last day as president on Tuesday.
In his first day on the job, the University of Virginia’s new president said Wednesday he supports the controversial appointment of a former Trump administration official to a one-year fellowship at a campus center that studies the U.S. presidency and public policy.
The new president of the University of Virginia said Wednesday that he backs the hiring of a former Trump aide at one of the university’s centers, despite backlash sparked by the decision.
On Wednesday, James Ryan officially started his tenure as the ninth president of the University of Virginia, succeeding Teresa Sullivan. He held a press conference in the Rotunda to talk about his goals for the university.
UVA’s Hamilton Lombard says areas outside the large urban centers are where labor force participation is lagging behind.
As director of investigation for the Innocence Project clinic at the UVA School of Law, Deirdre Enright has seen her fair share of miscarriages of justice. She considers Rojai Fentress' case one of them. "Rojai's trial was a charade," Enright said.
Molly Lipscomb, a UVA associate economics professor, brought in researchers from the group Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit that helps solve problems in poor countries. She knew that they had to find a way to get the “poop truckers” to start trying to beat each other on price.
On Wednesday – his first day as UVA’s ninth president – Jim Ryan fielded questions about current controversies, as well as preparations for the upcoming Aug. 11-12 weekend. At the news conference, Ryan also offered first glimpses at his initial priorities for community engagement, research and teaching.
Forty years ago this Thursday, Dick Obenshain, then the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, climbed into a twin-engine Piper Seneca in Winchester for a night flight to Chesterfield County. On final approach to the fog-enshrouded suburban Richmond airport, the light airplane crashed in trees a short distance from the runway, killing the 42-year-old Obenshain and the two pilots. In an instant, Virginia politics was remade. Larry Sabato, the UVA analyst who has followed state politics for a half-century and once worked for Henry Howell, the Democratic firebrand vilified by Obenshain and other Rep...
The city of Bellevue is cherishing small wins. On Tuesday, the city celebrated the first bike lanes spanning the length of the downtown corridor with free rides on electric-assisted bicycles, helmet giveaways and a ribbon cutting. For one year, transportation planners will measure impacts from the bike lanes, including vehicle-travel delays, traffic volume, on-street parking and the number of bicycle trips. “In the public sector, it’s very nascent,” Alex Cowan, a faculty member at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business who teaches product design, said about this type of prototy...
A new study shows that a UVA Medical Center program is helping heart failure patients live longer, healthier lives.