Baseball with a side of zip-lining and whitewater rafting, but with one common goal of building unity. That’s how Brian O’Connor’s Virginia Cavaliers will spend their Christmas break.
According to recent study conducted at the University of Virginia, cited in The Wall Street Journal, when you blow your nose your generate 10 times more pressure than you do while coughing or sneezing.
Other Virginia schools on the in-state “best value” list include the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, James Madison University, Virginia Tech and Christopher Newport University.
The first wave of admission decisions is in for the Class of 2019. Here are admission rates for the early round at some highly selective schools. University of Virginia: 29 percent.
University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan and rector George Keith Martin met with UVA faculty Wednesday to talk about the university's next-steps to protect students.
Two Charlottesville-area organizations are among a group of 62 agencies to receive $9.2 million in tobacco use prevention grants from the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth. The foundation awarded $180,000 to Charlottesville’s Children Youth and Family Services and $149,000 to the University of Virginia Cancer Center.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan says the school will make public reviews of how it responds to sexual assault allegations.
Over the course of 2014, as it has for 20 years, the Sorensen Political Leaders Program brought together each month professional, civic and political leaders and future leaders — Democrats, Republicans and Independents — from every region of the Commonwealth. The Sorensen Institute has long worked to provide meaningful conversation and consideration of the issues facing our localities and our Commonwealth. It stresses open dialogue, looking beyond surface and party/ideological differences, and clear, fact-based thinking about policy challenges we face.
Andrew Stauffer, an associate professor at the University of Virginia, is investigating what forgotten people wrote in books partly with the help of a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. He and his colleague Kara M. McClurken are collaborating on “Hidden in Plain Sight,” an effort to document traces of past owners in 19th-century books at the university’s Alderman Library. Dr. Stauffer also runs booktraces.org, a crowd-sourced database for poems, signatures, love notes and doodles found in libraries.
“As we age, we are already dealing with changes to our physiology and our brain that make us more prone to dizziness,” says Ann Tucker Gleason, director of the Vestibular and Balance Center at the University of Virginia. “To add to this, many of us also take drugs that significantly exacerbate dizziness and make us more likely to injure ourselves falling.”
Jeb Bush will have to work a lot harder than either his father or his brother to get to the White House if he throws his hat in the ring for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, said polling expert Larry Sabato. On Tuesday, the former governor of Florida announced he is "actively" exploring a run for president, but the announcement was somewhat underwhelming to Sabato, director at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
A new study released today presents powerful evidence that clearing trees not only spews carbon into the atmosphere, but also triggers major shifts in rainfall and increased temperatures worldwide that are just as potent as those caused by current carbon pollution. "Tropical deforestation delivers a double whammy to the climate — and to farmers," said Deborah Lawrence, Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, the study's lead author. "Most people know that climate change is a dangerous global problem, and that it's caused by pumping ...
Serial podcast fans can hold out hope that Sarah Koenig’s been saving some crucial piece of new evidence that the Innocence Project legal investigators from the University of Virginia unearthed that will break open the case.
“All these dark elements describe the margins not the mainstream of Civil War experience,” says Gary Gallagher, a historian at the University of Virginia who has authored and edited over 30 books on the war. While he welcomes the fresh research, he worries that readers may come away with a distorted perception of the overall conflict. The vast majority of soldiers, he adds, weren’t traumatized and went on to have productive postwar lives.
Instead of an apple, could a hug-a-day keep the doctor away? According to new research from Carnegie Mellon University, that may not be that far-fetched of an idea. The research team included University of Virginia Health Sciences Center's Ronald B. Turner.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin, who is overseeing thousands of federal lawsuits involving transvaginal mesh, said maker C.R. Bard should settle the cases to avoid billions in jury-awarded damages, Bloomberg reported. According to Carl Tobias, a product liability law professor at the University of Virginia, the move by Goodwin is “almost unprecedented,” he told Bloomberg.
Air temperatures at the top of the world continue to rise twice as fast as temperatures in lower latitudes, causing significant ice melt on land and sea, and affecting populations of polar bear and migrations of fish, a federal report released Wednesday said. This year's findings underscored an observation made by University of Virginia environmental professor Howard Epstein last year: “The Arctic is not like Vegas. What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.”
Last fall, students at St. Anne’s-Belfield School decided to enter the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams challenge – a contest that awards 15 grants of up to $10,000 for research on real world problems. The judges were apparently convinced. They awarded the team more than $9,200 to continue their work , and on June 18th, McKenna Borton says, they’ll visit Boston for Eureka Fest. Project consultant Jim Smith, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Virginia, thinks this team deserves credit for setting the bar high. “They’re pushing...
Wednesday, infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the University of Virginia Medical Center had some surprise visitors from the North Pole. Doctors and nurses from the NICU dressed up as elves, a Christmas tree, and even Jack Frost to visit with the little patients. Santa was there too.
The cover of the January/February 2015 issue of Mother Jones magazine stamps in white letters on a black cover: “Are You Racist? Science has the Answer.” Barely visible, printed in large glossy black letters on the matte black paper is an enormous, all-caps “YES.” The cover story includes data from the Race Implicit Association Test on the Project Implicit Demonstration website. (Project Implicit was founded by scientists at the University of Washington, Harvard University and the University of Virginia.)