Tina Thompson was one of 12 basketball honorees, and one of two former WNBA stars, to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday. Now the head coach of the University of Virginia women’s basketball team, Thompson continues to collect accolades in recognition of her outstanding playing career. In June, Thompson was also inducted in the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.
(Video) The UVA Health System is celebrating the start of construction on a new facility at the site of the former Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center.
The University of Virginia is still one of the top 25 colleges in the U.S., according to the 2019 U.S. News and World Report National University ranking, released Monday.
The latest rankings show the University of Virginia as the No. 3 public college in the nation, and No. 2 “best value” among public universities.
A UVA doctor thinks he could have a cure for a common type of blindness. Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, the director of UVA’s Center for Advanced Vision Science, is the 2018 David F. Weeks Award winner, given for outstanding research in age-related macular degeneration.
The studies’ lead author, Dr. Frederick Hayden of the UVA School of Medicine, is an expert on influenza antivirals. He served as a consultant for Shionogi on the development of this drug, though his fees were paid to a charity. “I’ve worked on flu antivirals since I started my fellowship in 1976. This is the most potent single agent that I’ve seen to date in terms of its effect on replication in acute influenza,” he said.
Researchers must be willing to put aside emotions and even start afresh, UVA evolutionary ecologist Deborah Roach said. In 1986, as a researcher at another university, she set up what was meant to be a long-term study of plant aging in a field used for research. She and colleagues planted 27,000 seedlings and planned to follow them for a decade. Four years into the project, the university decided to build an art museum on the site.
UVA Engineering is teaming up with a UVA doctor to tackle asthma by detecting symptoms early on. The group is hoping to be able to predict the life-threatening asthma attacks before they happen.
Some previous research suggests that inorganic nitrate, an ingredient in beet juice, can help increase delivery of blood and oxygen to working muscles and enable muscles to use oxygen more efficiently, particularly in people who are less fit or who do high-intensity exercise. “This makes it an attractive potential therapeutic approach for individuals with [peripheral artery disease] who have severely limited blood/oxygen supply to the lower limbs which severely reduces their function and makes everyday tasks require a vigorous effort,” said senior study author Jason David Allen of the Universi...
Among universities in Maryland and Virginia, Johns Hopkins in Baltimore edged up one spot, to 10th nationally. The University of Virginia ranked 25th, unchanged.
The University of Virginia is still one of the top 25 colleges in the U.S., according to the 2019 U.S. News and World Report National University ranking, released Monday.
Several Virginia schools fared better on U.S. News' list of top public schools. The top national universities are: No. 3 University of Virginia, No. 10 College of William & Mary, No. 30 Virginia Tech, No. 67 George Mason University, No. 80 Virginia Commonwealth University and No. 121 Old Dominion University.
Babies who have beat the odds reunited Saturday with nurses and doctors from the UVA Children's Hospital.
Climate scientists now agree that the next glaciation period is put on hold for the long foreseeable future "because even if we stopped putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, what we have now would linger" said co-author William Ruddiman, a UVA paleoclimatologist.
The UVA Health System held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for a $105 million comprehensive musculoskeletal center. The approximately 195,000-square-foot facility will consolidate UVA’s outpatient orthopedic care in a single location.
The UVA Health System held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for a $105 million comprehensive musculoskeletal center. The approximately 195,000-square-foot facility will consolidate UVA’s outpatient orthopedic care in a single location.
Humans altering the land for farming steered the global climate off the natural course that was heading for another ice age, according to a new study. Compared with prior trends in the distant past, the Holocene about 5,000 years ago saw an increase in carbon dioxide and methane that prevented the spread of glaciers that had happened in previous solar cycles, according to the study, now in the journal Scientific Reports. Such findings seem to bolster the “Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis" that was originally proposed by co-author William Ruddiman, a paleoclimatologist at the University of V...
With elections just weeks away, the individual scandals could spell broader trouble for the GOP, poll watchers say. “An incumbent can survive a great deal in an election year that’s favorable to his or her party,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “But if there is a wave crashing for the other party, a scandal is extra weight that can cause a candidate to sink.”
A program at the UVA Children’s Hospital is helping patients keep up with school work while they are in the hospital long-term. While in the hospital, students have their lesson plans tailored to their needs and work for short periods throughout the day. UVA’s Children’s Hospital is one of only three in the state of Virginia to offer education services to students while they are being treated.
The University of Virginia will host a debate later this month between Virginia’s 5th District congressional nominees, Democrat Leslie Cockburn and Republican Denver Riggleman. The debate will be moderated by Craig Volden, director of the UVa Center for Effective Lawmaking, and Gerald Warburg, a professor at UVa’s Frank D. Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.