New UVA athletic director Carla Williams has made her first hire, picking a department deputy familiar to both her and the University. Former UVA administrator Jim Booz, who has spent the past six years with Williams at Georgia, will become the Cavaliers’ deputy athletics director for administration in December, the school announced Monday.
“We think within a three-year period, someone could develop an improved, better-engineered, all-purpose helmet. We don’t say engineering is a panacea and will solve everything. It’s a systemic approach,” says Dr. Jeff Crandall, director of UVA’s Center for Applied Biomechanics and chairman of the NFL Engineering Committee.
Larry Sabato is weighing in on the close gubernatorial election for Virginia.
A controversial TV ad targeting Republican Ed Gillespie has been pulled off the air a day after it began running. The commercial was paid for by the Latino Victory Fund, an independent group supporting Democrat Ralph Northam’s bid to be Virginia’s next governor. “It certainly provoked a pretty loud response from the right,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Republicans were very angry with it.” Skelley added that Gillespie’s campaign has run equally negative ads against Northam.
The commissioner of the revenue assesses personal property taxes and issues business licenses, among other functions. The treasurer collects and invests all the city’s money. The clerk of the court issues marriage licenses and keeps records of court cases, deeds and wills. Their duties are similar to those of many city department heads, who are – at least in theory – appointed based on skill, education and experience. But there are few requirements for holding a constitutional office – aside from the commonwealth’s attorney, who must be a member of the state bar. If you can win an el...
"Tension in Virginia's whiter areas, rural areas, versus more multicultural areas – those are very old tensions," UVA historian Grace Elizabeth Hale said. The Trump campaign and this year's protests in Charlottesville and elsewhere "have put those things in front in a way that they hadn't been before," she said.
The UVA School of Medicine has concluded clinical trials on a new form of treatment for Parkinson’s disease and reports encouraging results. Neurosurgeon and principal investigator Jeff Elias has successfully used focused ultrasound on essential tremors. Now, he says, a pilot study indicates it works on Parkinson’s disease as well.
After years of animal testing, Penn State researchers have developed a therapy to treat some of the most resistant cancers without damaging healthy cells, and that treatment is now in the early stages of testing on humans. The therapy has been approved by the FDA for phase one clinical trials at three U.S. institutions. including the University of Virginia Cancer Center.
A new international study led by the UVA School of Medicine has found that breastfeeding for just two months cuts a baby's risk of sudden infant death syndrome almost in half.
UVA is playing host to an expert who says tighter gun control won't just drop the number of homicides in the U.S, but have an impact on suicides as well. Dr. Steven Miles, a medical professor from the University of Minnesota, spoke about the direct correlation between number of gun-owning households and gun related deaths.
Several dozen UVA students walked out of their classes Wednesday to protest what they say is an increasing attack on those who are undocumented, both at UVA and around the country. More than 100 gathered on the amphitheater steps to talk about the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., and how common it is to know one.
The University of Virginia ROTC will hold its annual 24-hour vigil to remember prisoners of war and those who are missing in action on Monday.
UVA’s College at Wise welcomed UVA president Teresa Sullivan to Saturday’s “Women in Leadership from Social Scientist to President” event. Sullivan joined UVA-Wise Chancellor Donna Henry to discuss issues facing women in public and business leadership positions.
The State Council of Higher Education has a wish list for the 2018 General Assembly, and it involves UVA and other state-assisted schools. The council wants legislators to shell out more for faculty salaries at public colleges and universities. It also wants more financial aid for needy students.
With just days to go, Northam has a small lead, but that may not be enough come election day. “This has been a pretty close and competitive race the whole time,” election analyst Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics said. “The bulk of the polling data and the natural environmental political factors going on right now suggest you’d probably rather be Northam than Gillespie, but I don’t think anybody should be shocked if Gillespie were to win.”
Dr. Donald Dudley, one of the leaders of the Virginia Neonatal-Perinatal Collaborative and an obstetrician-gynecologist with the UVA Health System, said it is unclear why Virginia’s rate has increased for the first time in seven years. “This continues to be a vexing problem,” he said. Ensuring that women have equal access to medical interventions to prevent preterm birth, Dudley explained, is especially important.
“Tension in Virginia’s whiter areas, rural areas, versus more multicultural areas – those are very old tensions,” UVA historian Grace Elizabeth Hale said. The Trump campaign and this year’s protests in Charlottesville and elsewhere “have put those things in front in a way that they hadn’t been before,” she said.
Dr. Donald Dudley, director of maternal-fetal medicine at UVA, said a task force recently began meeting to try and tackle the problem of premature births and other maternal-baby issues. While the number of drug-exposed babies is going up in Virginia and the country, he said that likely was not the biggest factor in the worsening rate.
(Co-written by Ben Castleman, an assistant professor of education and public policy) Over the last several years, countries across the globe – from the United Kingdom to Japan, Lebanon to Australia – have turned to behavioral science to improve the quality of services that governments provide to their citizens. Commonly called “nudge units,” these offices are charged with leveraging behavioral insights about how people navigate complex decisions and critical transitions in their lives to enhance how policies are designed and implemented.
UVA researchers who participated in an international study have found that breastfeeding for at least two months cuts a baby's risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, almost in half.