People working on a project at the University of Virginia are working to rediscover the hidden stories of black nurses from the 1950s to the 1980s. Though UVA didn’t train black nurses in the ’50s and ’60s, it had an affiliated program that did. Now, the Hidden Nurses Project aims to rebuild that history into awareness and recognition.
Frequent snoring can lead to more serious problems, but research at the University of Virginia may have found the cure to those sleepless nights.
Webster Santos, professor of chemistry and the Cliff and Agnes Lilly Faculty Fellow in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, has received a $2.8 million award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to discover drugs to inhibit a small molecule transporter. Blocking this transporter modulates the immune system and has implications both in treating autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, and in immune-oncology. Santos received this research grant in collaboration with Kevin Lynch, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Virginia. Lynch will oversee th...
Home to the University of Virginia’s Fontaine Research Park, restaurants and residences, including those of many students, the Fontaine Avenue project was awarded $11.7 million in Smart Scale funding from the Commonwealth Transportation Board in 2016.
Pennsylvania state representative James R. Roebuck, the first African-American president of the University of Virginia Student Council, will speak at a symposium on education, equity and engagement. The symposium will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at the Rotunda. “Engagement through Experience: A Fifty-Year Look” is the first of a series of events that revisits and reimagines education and equity through the lens of important events in the life of Charlottesville and UVA.
The University of Virginia’s Center for Survey Research is recruiting residents in Central Virginia to be part of a standing survey pool in an effort to more easily and affordably conduct representative surveys.
The University of Virginia is launching an online survey that is intended to get advice and ideas from people in the Charlottesville community. The survey panel is called BeHeardCVA, and it will be conducted by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. It's the first survey of its kind in the state. People who sign up for BeHeardCVA will be sent a series of surveys.
A program at the University of Virginia has launched a new resource tool to help people in the Charlottesville area search for jobs.
Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia was created in 1954 to improve higher education access and opportunities for Southwest Virginia. More than six decades later and now named the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, the school still focuses on that mission, even with a wider scope of responsibilities and opportunities.
(By Rajesh Balkrishnan, professor of public health sciences, and Randy A. Jones, professor of nursing) African-American men have the highest risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer as well as dying from it compared to any other ethnic group in the U.S. Although research has focused on identifying the biological differences that may lead to this difference, there’s growing evidence that distinct racial and ethnic disparities in prostate cancer treatment, and the quality of medical care in African-American men, contribute to this disparity.
Amy White and 14 of her UVA classmates piled into cars and headed south for spring break last weekend. They weren’t headed to the beach or a Caribbean cruise. Their destination was Greensboro. Their goal: to roof houses and build a handicap ramp for people in need.
As one of four teams with a double bye in the ACC basketball tournament, Virginia knows that seven games will be played before it steps onto the floor at the Spectrum Center. Seven conference teams already will be eliminated.
This week’s ACC tournament in the same building offers some measure of redemption where UVA lost to Maryland-Baltimore County [last year], becoming the first No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 in the NCAA tournament.
Yet the 58-year-old Lee Habeeb has arguably contributed to the venomous media zeitgeist—at least from the right-wing side of the equation—that he now decries. As the executive producer of his University of Virginia law school classmate Laura Ingraham’s radio program from 2001 to 2008, and as the longtime vice president of content for the Salem Radio Network, which recently added glibly acerbic Donald Trump acolyte Sebastian Gorka to its roster of conservative hosts, Habeeb has possibly helped encourage divisiveness in the body politic.
No matter the circumstance, the 2016-17 rookie of the year's stoic countenance remains the same. It's something that was intentionally cultivated from a young age and practiced over the years from the relatively small stages of high school and AAU, to an all-American career at the University of Virginia to the NBA.
Dr. Linda Duska, a gynecologic oncologist at the UVA Health System, says that many of the women that she takes care of with cervical cancer are young women who have not even begun their families.
“The study is well-done and competently conducted. But it is establishing something we already knew using a new method, so it’s not a new insight into the genetic basis of ADHD,” says Eric Turkheimer, who researches genetics at the University of Virginia. So you have to be very careful about concluding that studies like these make ADHD more “real” or “biological.”
Larry Sabato, a UVA politics professor, said O’Rourke “has a thinner resume than most, and is fuzzy on policy in many cases. You start out thinking he is running for vice-president or maybe a cabinet post – yet Beto could surprise us just like he did in coming within 2½ points of Cruz.”
“Even if concessions are made in trade negotiations there’s a long way to go, because the business environment continues to keep Hollywood from operating on an equal plane,” said Aynne Kokas, a UVA assistant professor of media studies and author of “Hollywood Made in China.”
4. PLAGUES, WITCHES, AND WAR: THE WORLDS OF HISTORICAL FICTIONPerfect for fans of historical tales like “The Favourite” (2018), this online class taught by UVA English professor Bruce Holsinger details the rise of historical fiction from the 18th century to today. Sign up on Coursera for free.