UVA chemical engineer Steven Caliari and Jennifer Munson, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, talk about their work in 3-D cell culture, from hydrogels to organs-on-a-chip.
A 2015 study by Michelle M. Duguid of Cornell University and Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt of the University of Virginia demonstrates the peril of normalizing bad behavior. They found that telling participants that many people hold stereotypes made them more likely to exhibit bias.
UVA students spent part of their day discussing one of the most heated and polarizing topics in our country. Dozens attended a lecture to listen to an author talk about why he believes the country needs fewer guns.
Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the death of James McConnell, the UVA alumnus-turned-World War I pilot memorialized with a statue on Grounds. The university will honor McConnell in a ceremony Thursday.
Eight business schools at Virginia universities are listed in the 2018 national rankings released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report. The publication ranked the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business at No. 14 among full-time MBA programs. The College of William & Mary’s Mason School of Business ranked 57th.
In the original complaint, attorneys from the Legal Aid Justice Center and UVA’s School of Law attacked a state law that they say “unfairly punishes the poor” by mandating the suspension of an individual’s driver’s license if he or she is unable to pay off outstanding court costs, thus making it difficult to get or maintain a job.
UVA President Teresa Sullivan reminded representatives of the city and county that the University has obligations to the state to keep adding at least 100 new undergrads every year.
Jim Donovan, a Goldman Sachs partner chosen to serve as deputy secretary, is expected to play a critical role in helping manage the sprawling Treasury Department and push through major legislative goals. For the past eight years, Donovan has served as a professor of corporate strategy at the UVA School of Law, where he became a student favorite, according to the school’s former dean, Paul Mahoney.
Defensive responsibilities are toughest part of learning curve at UVA for Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome.
Virginia is the best state for higher education in the United States, according to a ranking by Smartasset, a financial website. Last year, Virginia ranked second, behind California.
Jerry Stenger, director of the state climatology office at the University of Virginia, said he believes the Shenandoah Valley snowfall will be on the high end of the range, meaning it could be 6 inches or more. If there is a silver lining to the storm, it is that the precipitation is badly needed. Stenger said February was a dry and warm month, and said there are a lot of concerns about the lack of rainfall as the growing season starts.
Christiana Brenin, a UVA oncologist who specializes in breast and colorectal cancer, would not readily recommend recreational therapy to her patients. “The short answer is no,” she says. During treatments, she works closely with a team of clinical psychologists who help her patients address the anxiety and fear that can accompany a diagnosis. Additional layers of therapy could be unnecessary, if not harmful, for patients already dealing with time-consuming and exhausting treatments, she says.
Republicans control 52 seats in the Senate, so they can afford just three defections and still pass the bill through the budget reconciliation process, assuming all Democrats oppose it. But at least 12 Republican senators have already objected to portions of the bill or called on the House to revise it. “If they’re losing someone like David Perdue, that really suggests the bill is in a lot of trouble,” says Geoffrey Skelley, a congressional analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Research from economists at University of Virginia and Middle Tennessee State University finds that those with early-career work experience can expect to earn 20 percent more later in their careers.
The University of Virginia School of Architecture has appointed Bradley Cantrell as the new chair of Landscape Architecture. Currently an associate professor of landscape architectural technology and director of the Master in Landscape Architecture degree program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Cantrell will assume the role June 25.
The University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education has cracked the top 20 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Graduate Schools” rankings.
Wise County has partnered with the University of Virginia to begin producing more engineers and tech sector graduates so that the local population might be seen as fertile ground for building a workforce without needing to import all of the talent.
Full-time MBA students have more time to build a network, says Jeff McNish, assistant dean of the Career Development Center at UVA’s Darden School of Business. And since they are likely not working, students have time for extra-curriculars and co-curriculars that add value.
Mudslinging has always been part of our political landscape, but UVA Professor of Media Studies Siva Vaidhyanathan says there’s something new in the 21st century – an online platform where more than 40 percent of Americans get their news.
Recent protests, even violent ones, over controversial speakers on campuses should encourage higher-education administrators to defend free speech, says Teresa A. Sullivan, the president of the University of Virginia.