At the University of Virginia Cancer Center, doctors and researchers said they see some of the worst strains of cancer. "T-Cell Prolificitic Leukemia is one of the ones we see," said Dr. Thomas Loughran, the Director of the UVa Cancer Center. "This is one of the most aggressive types of cancer, and one of the most aggressive type of leukemia known to man. It is generally thought to be incurable, unless a patient receives a bone marrow transplant."
Engineers at the University of Virginia are taking their work on car safety and applying it to helmets, cleats, and shoulder pads. The UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics has a 20 year history of doing automobile research. It says a lot of those techniques apply equally to the sports world.
The University of Virginia’s police force is the first in central Virginia to outfit every officer with body cameras. All 67 sworn law enforcement officers in the UVA Police Department are now outfitted with Taser-brand cameras.
University and college presidents from across the Commonwealth of Virginia will gather at William & Mary Oct. 4-5 to discuss opportunities for students to engage in a year of national service. Dorothy McAuliffe will be in attendance as well as Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton and at least 15 college presidents, including those from William & Mary, Shenandoah University, the University of Virginia, Christopher Newport University, James Madison University and Virginia Wesleyan.
A group of eight colleges and universities across the nation have organized the Hazing Prevention Consortium, a three-year project aimed at putting together an “evidence” base for “hazing prevention” on college campuses. The eight are Cornell University, the University of Kentucky, Lehigh University, Texas A&M University, the University of Arizona, the University of Central Florida, the University of Maine and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia will be hosting Datapalooza on Friday to showcase initiatives, research, resources, services and outreach the university has around the compilation and analysis of large data sets. The event, organized by the Data Science Institute, will feature speakers, panels, presentations and an open resource fair on the "big data" revolution.
Charlottesville has been named one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live 2016 by Livability.com. The site says the city placed among the top 100 out of more than 2,100 cities with populations between 20,000 and 350,000, which is described as the small to mid-sized city range.
Bernie Sanders, Democratic presidential candidate and independent U.S. senator from Vermont, brought his progressive campaign message to the University of Virginia on Monday.
Let’s pretend for a minute that hoops wasn’t a factor; that the only thing guiding a teenager’s thought process was which cool campus he would like to see. Here’s a stab at the top 10 campuses to visit just for the sake of visiting – with basketball grades added in case a recruit would like to construe it as a “work” trip. U.Va. gets the No. 2 spot with a basketball grade of A.
The Charlottesville Fire Department welcomed a new fire chief Monday afternoon. At an official pinning ceremony Andrew Baxter accepted his new leadership role. “… He and his wife both graduated from the University of Virginia, his wife works at UVA, his daughter just got in to UVA and now he’s protecting UVA,” said retired Chief Charles Werner.
In the case of University of Virginia senior Alexis Ohanian, who in 2005 co-founded Reddit, the innovation wasn’t just a highly influential social hub that’s celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. It was Snoo.
Two alumni from the Virginia Gators and Albemarle High School have qualified for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Matt Lockman currently swims for the University of Virginia swim team and Holly Harper swims for Virginia Tech.
By Douglas Laycock, Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.The Religion Clauses of the Constitution emerged from a time of great religious ferment. That history casts light on today’s questions, but it rarely answers them. The country was more than 99 percent Protestant, so religious fights were among Protestants.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made stops in Virginia Monday. The Vermont senator spoke in front of a big crowd at Lynchburg’s Liberty University earlier in the day.The White House hopeful then made his way to the University of Virginia Miller Center, where he taped an interview for a public television show.
Working as carpenters, landscapers, painters and toy cleaners, more than 1,000 University of Virginia employees will perform community service Sept. 16 as part of the Thomas Jefferson Area United Way's 24th annual Laurence E. Richardson Day of Caring.
Henry L. Valentine II and Beverley “B.B.” Munford III have marked 65 years of working at Davenport & Company, a Richmond-based brokerage. Valentine and Munford grew up as friends in Richmond, and graduated from the University of Virginia together.
Harry Harding, University Professor and Professor of Public Policy in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, did an interview for Phoenix TV, the biggest international Chinese-language cable TV network, based in Hong Kong, on the rise of China.
Larry Sabato, widely respected political science professor and head of University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, is shocked at just how bad of a candidate Hillary Clinton has proven to be.
Said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist and founder of the school’s Center for Politics: “I think Walker’s consolation is he’s got a lot of company in the Republican field scratching their heads saying what happened and what’s going on?”
Elizabeth Barnes, a philosopher at the University of Virginia and the author of an upcoming book on disability, thinks defenders of Singer should try to see the situation from the perspective of disabled people. “Academic freedom should allow Peter Singer to say what he thinks,” she argues, “but it shouldn’t protect him from the consequences, including public outrage."