James Madison University's board of visitors tapped the senior vice president of Rutgers University on Monday to become the school's sixth president, ending an 11-month search. Jonathan Alger was named to JMU's top post on Monday. He will replace JMU President Linwood Rose, who is retiring in June. Rose, who came to JMU as assistant director of residence halls in 1975, has been president since 1998.
A new procedure, called Transcatheter Aortic Valve replacement, gives patients wiith a heart defect called aortic stenosis hope for a new life. The UVa Medical Center is the only facility that offers the procedure in the state.
Patients with a low body mass index are at the highest risk of death following general or vascular surgery, according to an Archives of Surgery study. 
Individuals with a BMI less than 23.1 are twice as likely to die than patients with a BMI of 35.3 or higher, and had a 40 percent higher risk of death than patients with a BMI between 26.3 and 29.6, say researchers at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
What happens to the brain as we age? That was the question Timothy A. Salthouse, Brown-Forman professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, investigated in a new study appearing in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. His findings advance psychologists' understanding of the complexities of the aging brain.
Plans for increasing access to healthy, nutritious food in Virginia will be discussed at a symposium at the University of Virginia this week. The second Virginia Food Security Summit is set for Dec. 5-6. The theme is "Connecting Our Farms, Food, Health and Environment."
Five former Transportation Secretaries are among those taking part today in a forum on infrastructure investments and economic growth. The summit is being hosted by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Ridge Schuyler and colleague Meg Hannan unveiled the Orange Dot Project, which quantified the annual local income deficit (“the difference between what these parents currently earn and what they would need to earn to become independent”) and proposed a solution. Now, Orange Dot’s answer – creating a job hub to connect underrepresented local businesses with “economic powerhouses” like the University of Virginia, and subcontracting employees from low-wealth families – is moving closer to reality.
"Troy is Burning" may be the first play written by an undergraduate to make it into the UVA Drama Department’s main-stage season in 25 years, but its first step toward production was just another day in the undergraduate grind for fourth-year student Matthew Minnicino.
In type 1 diabetics, the pancreas makes very little or no insulin, a hormone that controls glucose levels, or the amount of sugar in your blood. … An artificial pancreas developed at U.Va. monitors blood sugar continuously and delivers precise amounts of insulin when it's needed.
This year, the University of Virginia reinstituted an early admissions program. But the new program is not binding. Students who applied early will receive notification by January 31. But if accepted, they are not required to enroll. The results show a dramatic increase in minority student participation in early admissions.
After University of Virginia engineering student John Paul Huguley discovered slippage in Fallingwater's foundation in 1995 -- ironically in a project meant to show the brilliance of the design -- experts were called in.