New funding from the National Institutes of Health is going toward research at the UVA School of Medicine. The university received an additional 25 percent in overall funding this year from NIH. As a result, the School of Medicine has more than $125 million to use on research.
UVA’s Center for Politics is hosting 30 young professionals from across Mongolia. As part of a two-week stay in Charlottesville, the group is taking part in various leadership training activities.
Virginians would be able to buy liquor with almost 50 percent more alcohol than is currently available under a bill passed Wednesday by the House of Delegates. College and health officials say the bill would endanger college campuses already dealing with underage alcohol abuse, binge drinking and sexual assault. Teresa Sullivan, the president of the University of Virginia, has compared highly potent liquor to a "date rape" drug.
On the day the United States installed a new president, the University of Virginia learned it will be searching for a new one. Teresa Sullivan announced she will retire as school president when her contract expires in 2018. Her decision gives the university ample time to select a successor. UVA ought to attract the cream of the academic crop.
Various researchers and companies are betting light waves from LED lamps and overheads can stream data and connect people to the internet. Among the innovators profiled are UVA engineering professor Maite Brandt-Pearce and her former student, Mohammad Noshad, co-founders of VLNComm.
Walking is one of the best ways to lose that stubborn belly fat – but you’ve got to vary your pace. UVA researchers found that women who did three shorter, fast-paced walks a week (plus two longer, moderate-paced ones) lost five times more belly fat than those who simply strolled at a moderate speed five days a week, even though both groups burned exactly the same number of calories.
From a record-high pool of applicants, UVA sent acceptance letters to more than 5,900 applicants Wednesday. All of the students had applied through the University’s “early action” program allowing people to apply and learn their status before the regular admissions deadline in late March.
Stewart’s Republican opponent, the front-runner in early polling, is Ed Gillespie, a longtime fixture in Washington, including stints running the Republican National Committee and serving as a counselor to President George W. Bush. “If Gillespie does win the nomination and the governorship, it’d probably be in spite of Trump, not because of him,” said Kyle Kondik, of UVA’s Center for Politics.
The executive order is “remarkably broad,” said David Martin, a UVA law professor who specializes in immigration, constitutional law and international law. “This order takes that notion of ‘criminal alien’ to its farthest reaches.”
The executive order is “remarkably broad,” said David Martin, a UVA law professor who specializes in immigration, constitutional law and international law. “This order takes that notion of ‘criminal alien’ to its farthest reaches.”
“Even for an inmate who has powerful new evidence of innocence, it is incredibly difficult to get even a hearing in front of a judge to even present the evidence,” says Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor and author of “Convicting the Innocent,” a book examining the cases of the first 250 people exonerated by DNA testing.
(By Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia) As an academic, dean of a school of education, and educator who has advocated for good charter schools, who can see the value of empowering parents through school choice and the promise of vouchers to enable that empowerment, and who believes our education system is still deeply in need of reform, I had initially approached the nomination of Betsy DeVos with an open mind. But I was deeply dismayed by her performance in her confirmation hearing. It was, in a word, disqualifying.
Unlike doctors, there’s no limit on the number of new nurse practitioners certified each year. Accordingly, nurse practitioners are a great demographic to care for the rising number of American seniors, according to researcher Nengliang Yao of the UVA School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences.
Doctors at the UVA Medical Center were able to reduce surgical patients’ pain while cutting back on opioid prescriptions over a four-year period, according to a recent internal study.
The Overdeck Family Foundation and the Simons Foundation have launched a new competition designed to inspire math and science learning outside of K–12 classroom. Projects funded through the Science Everywhere Innovation Challenge will be shared with classrooms across the country and also used as part of a University of Virginia research study.
At least five other elite educational institutions have released reports of their own on the topic, including the University of Virginia.
One of the people hoping to be in the running for Virginia's next governor came to the University of Virginia. College Republicans at UVA hosted Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie.
The Instant Pot, a high-tech kitchen appliance created by former Nortel engineers in Ottawa, was not an instant success. "My guess is that somebody bought it and they told all their neighbors about it," said Kim Whitler, an assistant marketing professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business. "They buy it and they're really wowed by the product. That then motivates them to go online and share their experience with others."
Obama might find a rival in wife Michelle, whom an expert predicts will "easily" surpass the $8 million Hillary Clinton got in 2000 for her memoir. Says UVA’s Brian Balogh, who co-hosts the popular history podcast “Backstory,” "We haven't heard as much from [Michelle], and he won't be running for president, whereas she …"