Impacted cerumen is one of the most common reasons people end up visiting a doctor for ear problems, according to a UVA Health System paper. In fact, an excessive build-up of earwax affects one in 10 children and one in 20 adults in the United States.
Research on SHUTi was done at the University of Virginia and published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. In this study, half the participants received general education on insomnia and the other half were provided online therapy with SHUTi. The researchers found that those who received the internet therapy improved compared to those who did not.
The ninth president of the University of Virginia is officially on the job as Jim Ryan replaced Teresa Sullivan on Wednesday, who served her last day as president on Tuesday.
In his first day on the job, the University of Virginia’s new president said Wednesday he supports the controversial appointment of a former Trump administration official to a one-year fellowship at a campus center that studies the U.S. presidency and public policy.
The new president of the University of Virginia said Wednesday that he backs the hiring of a former Trump aide at one of the university’s centers, despite backlash sparked by the decision.
On Wednesday, James Ryan officially started his tenure as the ninth president of the University of Virginia, succeeding Teresa Sullivan. He held a press conference in the Rotunda to talk about his goals for the university.
UVA’s Hamilton Lombard says areas outside the large urban centers are where labor force participation is lagging behind.
As director of investigation for the Innocence Project clinic at the UVA School of Law, Deirdre Enright has seen her fair share of miscarriages of justice. She considers Rojai Fentress' case one of them. "Rojai's trial was a charade," Enright said.
Molly Lipscomb, a UVA associate economics professor, brought in researchers from the group Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit that helps solve problems in poor countries. She knew that they had to find a way to get the “poop truckers” to start trying to beat each other on price.
On Wednesday – his first day as UVA’s ninth president – Jim Ryan fielded questions about current controversies, as well as preparations for the upcoming Aug. 11-12 weekend. At the news conference, Ryan also offered first glimpses at his initial priorities for community engagement, research and teaching.
Forty years ago this Thursday, Dick Obenshain, then the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, climbed into a twin-engine Piper Seneca in Winchester for a night flight to Chesterfield County. On final approach to the fog-enshrouded suburban Richmond airport, the light airplane crashed in trees a short distance from the runway, killing the 42-year-old Obenshain and the two pilots. In an instant, Virginia politics was remade. Larry Sabato, the UVA analyst who has followed state politics for a half-century and once worked for Henry Howell, the Democratic firebrand vilified by Obenshain and other Rep...
The city of Bellevue is cherishing small wins. On Tuesday, the city celebrated the first bike lanes spanning the length of the downtown corridor with free rides on electric-assisted bicycles, helmet giveaways and a ribbon cutting. For one year, transportation planners will measure impacts from the bike lanes, including vehicle-travel delays, traffic volume, on-street parking and the number of bicycle trips. “In the public sector, it’s very nascent,” Alex Cowan, a faculty member at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business who teaches product design, said about this type of prototy...
A new study shows that a UVA Medical Center program is helping heart failure patients live longer, healthier lives.
The Jefferson Area Board for Aging received an aging innovations award for its dementia care coordination program at a conference over the weekend of July 28. Although the grant-supported program is coming to an end, UVA’s memory and aging care clinic will offer a similar program starting Sept. 4.
(Video) Tuesday marks Teresa Sullivan’s last day at the president of the University of Virginia and students and staff are reflecting on her up-and-down eight-year tenure.
Julian Assange would likely fight extradition based on an argument that the U.S.-U.K. extradition treaty bars turning someone over to another country for political offenses, according to Ashley Deeks, a professor at the UVA School of Law.
(Video) Gloria Graham, UVA’s new vice president of safety and security, discusses what the University is doing to prepare for the upcoming first anniversary of Aug. 11 and 12 and what students should do to stay safe.
It’s a typical week at UVA: Students are working on chemistry experiments, robot engineering and complicated math formulas. The only difference? This week, those students are rising ninth- and 10th-graders.
International students in the United States are more susceptible to plagiarism — using someone else’s academic work as one’s own — and are more likely to be caught than their American counterparts, studies show. “In the case of plagiarism, one factor is that it concerns written material. International students are often not native English speakers,” said David Mills, a University of Virginia economics professor. “Their skills and comfort in using the English language may be more limited.”
What to do when financial stability is beyond one’s grasp? Over the past decade, a coterie of pundits and think-tank scholars have arrived at a surefire answer, a simple one that comes with a snappy title and puts the onus on the individual: pursue the “success sequence.” The concept of the success sequence has caught on for multiple reasons. “I think part of the appeal is it’s a fairly straightforward way of formulating a life script,” Brad Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, a professor of sociology and the best-known advocate of the success s...