For the past five years, UVA’s neurotrauma laboratory has gathered the school’s top doctors to study what has been called a “signature wound” in American military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Traumatic Brain Injuries—known as TBIs—have afflicted 200,000 soldiers since the start of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001.
The University of Virginia has received several significant gifts recently. And, apart from the obvious — that this, and any, university can use more funding to improve the educational product — what is particularly notable about this spate of gifts is that they cover a wide swath of territory. That is a testament to the university’s true liberal arts foundation, and to the breadth of its offerings.
By Brian D. McKnight, associate professor of history and author of "Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia" and "Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia."
The narrative of the Civil War revolves around the metaphor of neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother. But in the mountains of the Upper South, this was no metaphor: counties, towns and even families split between the two sides, and then set upon each other with gruesome fury in one of the bloodiest — and least understood — theaters of th...
For their part, college administrators should remind their trustees, alumni, students and parents that commencement fees are inappropriate at a time when their institutions are facing budget crises and student costs are rising at unacceptable rates. Every available dollar needs to be channeled into the real business of higher education. [Note: U.Va. doesn't pay commencement speakers.]
Beneath Davenport Field is a room filled with pictures and memorabilia from past Virginia baseball players…. Will Roberts ensured himself a spot in the room March 29, when he threw the eighth perfect game in NCAA history, and the first by a Cavalier.
The U.Va. Club of Charlottesville helped organize an inaugural poker tournament to benefit the Rebecca Clary Harris Memorial Fellowship, which provides research fellowships to students studying immune therapy.
A year after her tragic death, it is the happy memories of Yeardley Love that her friends and close family, like her cousin, Sharon Robinson, remember most of all.
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Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Women may soon be in charge of the American economy
Richmond Times-Dispatch / May 8
Dr. John DiMarco
Professor of cardiovascular medicine
Afib Ablation May Scale Back Stroke Risk
MedPage Today / May 8
Dr. Arthur Garson Jr.
Executive vice president and provost; pediatric cardiologist
School-Wide ECG Screening Feasible
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Parke Muth
Associate dean of admission
Test preparation company New Oriental Education is helping a rising generation of Chinese students to ace U.S. college entrance exams
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About School of Law professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin's new book.
U.Va. has reappointed Bob Bruner as dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Bruner began his tenure in August 2005, and his new term will last through July 2015.
By Elizabeth Gorman, associate professor of sociology, and Sarah Mosseri, Ph.D. candidate in sociology
On this Mother's Day it's worth noting that times have changed regarding working moms. In 1960, 27.6 percent of mothers were in the paid labor force. Today, approximately 71 percent of mothers work, and 73 percent of those employed mothers work full-time.
The University of Virginia Department of Environmental Sciences, through its Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center and the Virginia Coast Reserve Long Term Ecological Research Program build their outreach and education programs geared "at improving environmental literacy in Northampton County and throughout the Eastern Shore of Virginia," said Art Schwarzschild, site director for the center.
For this week's segment of UVa Today, Thomas Skalak of the Coulter Program joined CBS19's Tiffani Sargent to discuss the Endowment for Translational Research.
By Jonathan Haidt, professor of psychology
You can’t just scale up your ideas about morality at the individual level and apply them to groups and nations. If you do, you’ll miss all that was good, healthy and even altruistic about last week’s celebrations.
The meadows and woodlands of Morven looked especially lush and vibrant after a recent spring rain. Laura Voisin George, director of research at the 2,913-acre estate south of Charlottesville, stood on a favorite vantage point overlooking green fields. … The beauty was starkly evident, but it’s the invisible and yet to be found history of this place that drives George to learn more and more about it. … The late John W. Kluge had given Morven to the University of Virginia in 2001.
By Thomas Nachbar, law professor
It is impossible to argue that the killing of Osama Bin Laden was not "justifiable," or even "just," and I might even be inclined to accept it as a form of "justice." But to use that term to describe what happened last weekend in Abbottabad, Pakistan, is to invite confusion we cannot as a nation afford.
National Security Law Experts at the University of Virginia have confirmed that the killing of Osama bin Laden was legal. Charles Fishburne talks with the Director of the UVA Center for National Security Law, Professor John Norton Moore
Knoxville lawyer Sam F. Fowler Jr., a member of a family of Knoxville lawyers dating back to the early 1900s, died Thursday. He was 82. A graduate of the University of Tennessee and the University of Virginia law school, Mr. Fowler practiced law for nearly 60 years.
The Virginia men's basketball team announced on Thursday that the Atlantic Coast Conference has approved the medical hardship waiver request for Mike Scott, providing him another year of eligibility in 2011-12.
[Head tennis coach Brian] Boland's team, which currently is 29-0 and hasn't lost an Atlantic Coast Conference match in more than five years, has three starters from Fairfax County. And one of the top recruits in the country, Mitchell Frank, a senior at Annandale High School, is on the way next year.