Professor Deborah E. McDowell is being recognized for her commitment to diversify university faculty at UVA and across the country and other efforts.
Jogender Tushir-Singh, an assistant professor at the School of Medicine, has been developing a new type of cancer immune therapy. Tushir-Singh believes the new approach will help kill ovarian cancer tumors.
The new surroundings of business school – along with the break from the past it represents – is something that the MBA Class of 2020 has long sought. That doesn’t mean their lives won’t circle back to an original purpose. Take the University of Virginia’s Carissa Sanchez. Since high school, her long-term goal has been to serve her tribe on the Tohono O’Odham reservation. However, she soon learned that the social impact she’d envisioned was best left in other hands. Instead, Sanchez now plans to focus on climbing the Fortune 500, believing it is the best way to achieve her long-term goals.
When students return to Alexandria’s only city high school in three weeks, enrollment is expected to swell to more than 4,000 students. Classes at T.C. Williams High, which has more students than any other high school in Virginia, spill into six mobile trailers. In the next decade, enrollment is projected to exceed 5,360 students. The overcrowding spawns crammed classrooms and congested hallways. The reason: More young families are opting to remain in Alexandria rather than decamping for suburbs in Prince William or Fairfax counties, driving up the city’s school-age population, said Hamilton L...
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, a professor in Political Science at the University of Virginia, discusses partitioning and redrawing borders between Serbia and Kosovo.
A rapid imaging system could improve heart healthcare in developing nations because of reduced costs and easier availability, according to a study in Peru. "To make this proof-of-principle study a reality in much of the developing world, much work is ahead to train imagers at sites with appropriate scanner technology," Dr. Christopher M. Kramer, of the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, wrote in an accompanying editorial.
(Video) Late Senator John McCain would have turned 82 years old on Wednesday, but the American war hero died Saturday after a year-long battle with glioblastoma.
NCI’s specialty telehealth training modules and foundational courses will be included in the University of Virginia’s Ruebhan Center for Telehealth e-Learning Village. The new online Telehealth e-Learning Village will be a resource for professionals throughout the United States to access specialized courses in telehealth, increasing NCI’s reach to a broader audience.
The Blue Ridge Poison Center at the University of Virginia Health System is issuing a warning about a brand of electronic cigarette that looks a lot like a flash drive. According to a release, the device is called JUUL, and the BRPC says they are popular items that could leave teens addicted to nicotine.
A researcher at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is working on a new approach to battling ovarian cancer. Jogender Tushir-Singh, PhD, is developing a dual-pronged approach that aims to overcome obstacles that have undermined other promising immune therapies for treating such cancers.
A University of Virginia alumna is helping refugees from Afghanistan find work in Charlottesville. Gwen Cassady, who got her undergrad and graduate degrees at UVA and is a veteran of nonprofit work, founded the Super Sewing Shop in April.
Commentary co-written by Ben Castleman, an assistant professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia.
Nick Rubin, visiting lecturer in the UVA Department of Media Studies, explores the timeless appeal of a generational timepiece — the venerable clock radio.
Two years after Trump surprised many of the pollsters and prognosticators, a handful of forecasting efforts are attempting to predict the battle this fall for control of the House of Representatives — and trying to prove that they’ve incorporated hard-earned lessons from the presidential election. The latest entrant is a partnership between Ipsos, the international polling firm, and the Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the election-analysis site led by Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Their website — which launched Tuesday — will combine the Crystal Ball’s existi...
There are strategic reasons for McSally to emphasize gender equality, an issue that could be key for appealing to women and independent voters, especially those who are turned off by Trump’s allegations of sexual misconduct and rhetoric toward women. In a head-to-head race against Sinema, gender is seen as a likely asset not only when it comes to voter support, but also for GOP optics. “The [Republican Party] has a gender gap,” says Larry Sabato, the head of UVA’s Center for Politics. “By nominating McSally, they’re hoping to close the gap a bit.”
The McSally-versus-Sinema race is seen as a prime pickup opportunity for Democrats fighting to retake control of the chamber and challenge President Donald Trump's agenda. “This seems to me to have all of the elements of a close race," said Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics who analyzes Senate races around the country.
(Commentary by Michael Livermore, an associate professor of law) “Consistency and transparency are, in my view, generally good things. So is rational consideration of costs and benefits. Environmentalists, however, have every right to be deeply skeptical of any proposal made by this Administration.”
This year’s Virginia Film Festival will include the national premiere of the documentary “Charlottesville,” which will be followed by an address by Martin Luther King III. After his address, King, son of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will take part in a conversation moderated by Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. King’s event is being presented as part of a partnership with the UVa Center for Politics, Community Idea Stations and the Frank D. Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
Dozens of people came out to get a sneak peek of the 31st annual Virginia Film Festival at the Downtown Grill on Tuesday night. Jody Kielbasa, director of the VFF, announced that Martin Luther King III, son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, will be a guest speaker at the festival.
Brian Nosek, a psychology researcher at the University of Virginia and the executive director of the Center for Open Science, decided to focus on social science studies published in the most prominent journals, Science and Nature. "Some people have hypothesized that, because they're the most prominent outlets they'd have the highest rigor," Nosek says. "Others have hypothesized that the most prestigious outlets are also the ones that are most likely to select for very 'sexy' findings, and so may be actually less reproducible."