One UVA faculty member sees positive signs on the horizon. Tom Bateman, a professor at UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce and an expert on organizational behavior, leadership and decision-making, said the country will keep moving away from fossil fuels, despite Trump administration nods to coal and oil.
Federal funding for medical research and the humanities, which had been targeted for major cuts by President Trump, would increase this year under a spending deal reached by Congress on Sunday night. The increases would benefit the Charlottesville area, as UVA, various biotechnology companies and the Virginia Endowment for the Humanities rely on federal grant funding.
Macrophages are increasingly appreciated as important mediators of many physiological processes, from homeostasis to tissue remodeling. But the recent discovery of a new role for the immune cells comes from an unexpected source: the stripes that give zebrafish their name. Widely used as a model organism for developmental biology because the young are transparent, Danio rerio as adults have a characteristic black-and-yellow striping that runs the lengths of their bodies. “Nobody really pays much attention to the later stages” of the fish’s development, says UVA biologist David Parichy. “But for...
(Video) Studies have shown that osteoporosis is a childhood disease with adulthood implications. This is why it’s so important to drink milk and eat nutrient-rich foods from an early age. Randy Bird, UVA’s director of sports nutrition, shared some helpful tips to keep your bones healthy.
A visual artist unveiled what's being called the 'Virginia Curiosity Shop' on Friday at UVA. Artist Mark Dion has worked on the project for the past year.
(Video) A sculpture called “Virginia Curiosity Shop” is now open at the University of Virginia, on the Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds.
April is National Donate Life Month and the UVA Health System used dogs to inspire organ donation.
Most of the voters who cast a ballot for President Trump still support him, according to a nationwide poll commissioned by UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Video) Central Virginians got a chance to experience what it’s like to live a month in poverty in an event was hosted by UVA’s Batten School and Piedmont CASA.
A new magazine created in Charlottesville will help communicate bike laws to people who speak different languages. UVA’s In With Collective and Community Bikes hosted a workshop Sunday to translate bicycle parts and safety laws into multiple languages for Charlottesville’s diverse community.
(Video) Veterans and their families got to spend the day at picnicking and kayaking on the Rivanna River, thanks to some students at the University of Virginia’s 4S Club.
If the hiring of a superintendent ranks as the most important decision a local school board will make, then a college’s board of visitors has no decision more important than the hiring of a president. Those involved in UVA’s search have full agendas with long, albeit engrossing, reading lists.
Peyton Skipwith, an enslaved laborer freed in 1833, quarried stone for buildings at UVA. On April 13, a new building likely sitting on the quarry’s location was dedicated as Skipwith Hall in his honor.
There will be no banner in the rafters at John Paul Jones Arena, but one of UVA’s best intercollegiate teams recently won a national championship. One of UVA’s two participating teams won the College Mock Trial Association’s National Championship Trial, beating Yale University in the final round.
As new technology companies continue to percolate in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, the University of Virginia wants to know if its graduates can help provide more of the talent.
“We’re hoping that by building a freely available app, we will make it that much easier for first-time users to find and access the trail so they can get out there,” said UVA environmental sciences graduate student Amy Ferguson, who co-wrote the Rivanna Trails app.
Why is it necessary to make dummies look more like real Americans? Well, in the case of car crashes, size matters. Add worse car crash injuries to the growing list of problems associated with obesity such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, depression, etc. In a study published in the journal Obesity, Richard W. Kent and Jason L. Forman from the University of Virginia and Ola Bostrom from Autoliv Research in Sweden subjected obese and non-obese cadavers to different frontal car crashes and found that the obese cadavers moved around differently during the crashes.
(Co-written by Heather Ferris, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Virginia) As diabetes specialists, we often see patients who believe juice is a health food. In one survey of parents of young children, one in three believed that juice was at least as healthy as fruit. But even freshly pressed 100 percent juice is little more than sugar water. At first glance, it is reasonable to think that juice is healthy: whole fruit is healthy, and juice comes from fruit, so it must be healthy, too. But juice leaves some of the healt...
This weekend marks the first 100 days in office for President Donald Trump, and the University of Virginia Center for Politics has some numbers on how he is doing. The Center for Politics asked 1,000 Trump supporters what they thought of Trump's performance. Overall, 93 percent of Trump supporters approve of his first 100 days, although more than half said they only "somewhat approve."