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UVA’s Darden School of Business tied for No. 9 out of 84 U.S. schools in the 2021-2022 Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools MBA list, released this week.

The University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, is taking yet another step into the future thanks to its 21st-century School of Data Science. The new educational building broke ground this fall, with a projected opening for early in 2024.

Researchers may have solved a mystery about the origins of Earth’s water, finding the sun to be a surprising source. The scientists describe how new analysis of an ancient asteroid suggests extra-terrestrial dust grains carried water to Earth as the planet formed. Researchers from several institutions, including UVA, contributed to the paper.

Soothing scents can also help, says Terrell Smith, a UVA resident physician and the founding physician of Spora Health, a telehealth platform for people of color. “Consider getting a diffuser for your kitchen, bedroom, home office or bathroom, and try ‘happy’ scents, such as bergamot, orange and lemon,” he says.

UVA Health is one of the few places in the country sequencing COVID in its lab. This will tell doctors exactly when the new variant is in the area.

Age-based restrictions on obtaining a firearm are not conclusive in reducing injury and death of young people, according to a of panel of researchers from Duke University and UVA.

Researchers in the US have used machine learning techniques to study the GDPR privacy policies of over a thousand representative websites based in the EU. They found that 97% of the sites studied failed to comply with at least one requirement of the European Union’s 2018 regulatory framework, and that they complied least of all with regulatory requirements around the practice of ‘user profiling.’ The study is titled “Automated Detection of GDPR Disclosure Requirements in Privacy Policies using Deep Active Learning,” and comes from three researchers at the University of Virginia.

University of Virginia scientists recently uncovered evidence that a little-known hormone may help prevent severe COVID-19, and the compound – called adiponectin – is suddenly in the spotlight. As research continues to see how well it works, there’s no need to wait: “Boosting adiponectin is one of the best things you can do for yourself, especially if you’re hoping to lose weight,” says Columbia University-trained integrative physician Dr.

A recent working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows, when small businesses experience paid family leave, they actually tend to love it. The research from experts out of Columbia, Stanford, and the University of Virginia exploits the fact that different states offer different benefits. A few like New Jersey and New York have already been offering workers paid family leave for a few years now.

The University of Virginia and Stanford are working on a new approach for brain surgery. If approved, it would allow for a noninvasive way to remove fault brain circuits. PING uses low-intensity, focused ultrasound waves. It then destroys only the cells causing the problem, leaving others unattached, and the skull without cracks.

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have helped to create a noninvasive way to remove diseased cells from the brain without a scalpel. According to a release, this method can remove faulty brain circuits, allowing doctors to treat various neurological diseases, such as epilepsy, without the need for conventional brain surgery.

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, with help from researchers at Stanford University, have developed a new way to treat neurological diseases without normally invasive brain surgery.

(Editorial) Academic freedom isn’t some new concept in this country. In 1819, however, when former President Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia, his was a radical notion. “This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it,” Jefferson said. Take a moment to digest Jefferson’s words.

Researchers at the University of Virginia have developed a way to operate on the brain - without a scalpel.  UVA researcher Kevin Lee has pioneered a new technology called PING -- a noninvasive way to target and destroy problematic clumps of brain cells. It could be used to treat conditions such as epilepsy.

(Commentary) In 2018, the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law took my case and submitted a pardon application to then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe. After a few years of hard work by my attorneys, Gov. Ralph Northam granted me an absolute pardon in August on the grounds of innocence.

The law schools sending the most recent law graduates to top 10 firms were: 2; The University of Virginia School of Law, with 10.39% of recent alumni at top 10 firms.

The University of Virginia is launching a program designed to create a more equitable Virginia through local government action. Through a combination of data, conversations, and guest speakers, more than a dozen local governments are represented at the Inaugural Equity Cohort, which has a vision of improving the commonwealth.

To strengthen the early warning system, the health department is deploying more than two dozen of these wastewater monitoring sites across the state, the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute reported in its latest update, although it’s not clear where these systems will be stationed.

For 16 days, jurors listened to arguments inside a red brick federal courthouse a mile from the University of Virginia’s Rotunda, where four years ago white supremacists marched with torches and chanted “Jews will not replace us.”

The events surrounding Aug. 11-12, 2017, saw white nationalists and supremacists marching through Charlottesville and the University of Virginia campus chanting, “Jews will not replace us,” “You will not replace us” and “Blood and soil,” a phrase evoking Nazi philosophy on ethnic identity.