On Sunday, 25 University of Virginia Nursing students were at the Haven to hold a health fair for residents and clients. The health fair included health screenings--which included blood pressure measures, hearing and vision tests, and BMI Measurements.
A discovery by UVA researchers could change the way doctors treat patients with high cholesterol.
Nursing students from the University of Virginia are helping people in Charlottesville live healthier lifestyles. Members of the club "Nursing Students Without Borders" hosted a health fair at The Haven in downtown Charlottesville.
Called a MadiDrop, the porous, biodegradable ceramic tablet is designed to release silver ions that will disinfect water. One tablet can be reused continuously for six months. “There’s nothing quite like it on the market today,” said UVA’s James Smith.
Several Martinsville and Henry County musicians who are members of the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Marching Band will be marching with that band at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The local musicians are Jacob Wilkins, 2015 graduate of Bassett High School, a drum major at BHS and tuba player; Virginia Crabtree, 2014 graduate of Martinsville High School and former MHS drum major, and who plays clarinet; Andrew Lynch, 2014 graduate of Magna Vista and MVHS drum major, who plays tenor saxophone; and Katie Hairston, 2015 graduate of Magna Vista and who plays baritone, accordin...
Cruz also lacks support from his Republican colleagues in Congress, whom he’s alienated with his anti-establishment rhetoric, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Guy Aiken is an ethicist and historian of American Quakers at the University of Virginia. “What is ethically permissible is not always what is ethically preferable,” he says. “It may be that it is ethically permissible for Sidwell Friends to say that this is the Washington Home’s responsibility solely. But I think Quakers hold themselves to a different standard.”
The University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project director Bradford Wilcox, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies, also consulted on the survey. He said the “I’m-OK-you’re-not-OK” answers could indicate respondents are failing to look past the pop culture stereotypes of lousy marriages — or they’re failing to consider the weaknesses within their own unions.
The National Institutes of Health awarded a four-year, $1.9 million grant to support research at the School of Medicine that explores a real sweet heart of a question: Can the heart become addicted to blood sugar?
“If we really wanted a foolproof system, we would shut down immigration entirely,” said UVA’s David Martin, who’s previously held posts at DHS and the State Department. “The alarm is way overblown.”
Written when the future Nobel laureate was in his early 20s, “Twixt Cup and Lip” was discovered in the University of Virginia archives.
Mark Miear holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Liberty University, a master’s degree in educational leadership from Lynchburg College, and a doctor of education in educational leadership from the University of Virginia.
An outdoorsman who enjoys fishing, hunting and training a flamethrower on nonnative plants around his cottage in southwestern Wisconsin, Carpenter “sees the big picture faster and better than most scientists,” said Michael Pace, an ecologist at the University of Virginia and a collaborator.
Ronald McDonald House of Charlottesville gives families a place to stay while their children receive treatment at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
The discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals a previously unknown mechanism by which cells that are about to die inform the cells that are about to eat them how to handle the cholesterol they contain. By stimulating or simulating this molecular messaging, doctors may one day be able to better regulate the body’s levels of HDL and LDL cholesterol – the so-called “good” and “bad” cholesterols.
Julia Ticona, a fellow in UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, writes the latest entry in a project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on changes in the workplace.
The MadiDrop, a new disinfecting water tablet, has the potential to help millions of people in developing countries.
A more-objective approach would suit UVA’s Josipa Roksa. Academic challenge might be more accurately captured, she said, by the number of pages students are assigned to read and write, for example, or the number of hours they report studying.
Brad Wilcox, who heads the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies, said the “I’m-OK-you’re-not-OK” perspective on marriage could reveal something about people’s worldviews. Wilcox, who also consulted on development of the survey, said half of kids spend some time outside of an intact marriage, “an indicator that all’s not well” in marriages. That fewer young adults than older adults see marriage as important could portend a future dip in ma...
I recently spoke to one of the people who had a hand in drafting the Constitution back then [1971], University of Virginia Professor A.E. “Dick” Howard. He confirmed Virginia’s Constitution purposefully included provisions “to put a nail in the coffin” of massive resistance.