(Commentary by Drs. Leora Yarboro and Elizabeth D. Krebs of the UVA Medical Center) Heart disease is the top cause of death in the U.S. For some people with end-stage heart disease, a heart transplant can save their life. Unfortunately, there are currently more patients on the heart transplant list than there are suitable donors.
Atop Salt Pond Mountain, there’s more maturing than the flora and fauna. Among the natural landscape, a smattering of artists and scientists are working together to find the art in science – and vice versa. They are part of a team running field experiments at UVA’s Mountain Lake Biological Station.
At the University of Virginia’s law school, professor Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash said he used the report last semester in a class titled “Presidential Powers” – and his students “were very interested” in it.
Kyle Guy ended his college career at UVA on top, winning both a national title and Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. Now the second-round pick is back to square one in the pros, fighting for a roster spot with the Sacramento Kings – and a much-needed paycheck.
Arizona is seen as in-play after last year’s election of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema – a race in which she beat McSally and gave the state its first Democratic senator in more than two decades. Kyle Kondik, political managing editor at UVA’s Center for Politics, said all that has made Arizona “something of a swing state.” “After narrowly beating McSally in 2018, Democrats now see Arizona’s other Senate seat as pivotal to winning a Senate majority,” Kondik said in an email.
While the “debt trap” narrative has dominated the thinking of Australian and other Western media and policymakers, we would contend that we are only in the early stages of understanding what kinds of relations will characterize China and the developing world in the years ahead. As the University of Virginia’s Brantly Womack has recently pointed out, we should not assume that the smaller countries will be without agency despite the large power and economic asymmetries between China and its southern neighbors.
A new analysis pinpoints some of the most ancient stars in our galaxy – and tells the story of the Milky Way’s ravenous past. This new examination of some of the Milky Way’s oldest stellar contents constitutes a “window into our galaxy’s past,” Chris Hayes, a UVA astronomer who was not involved in the study, said recently.
A new analysis pinpoints some of the most ancient stars in our galaxy – and tells the story of the Milky Way’s ravenous past. This new examination of some of the Milky Way’s oldest stellar contents constitutes a “window into our galaxy’s past,” Chris Hayes, a UVA astronomer who was not involved in the study, said recently.
UVA English professor Bruce Holsinger’s novel, “The Gifted School,” set in a Colorado town, involves four families and the pressures of getting children into the best schools. He talks with journalist Sally Williams about similarities with the college admissions scandal.
Some of the twinkling stars that spangle Earth’s skies are relics from the earliest beginnings of the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have discovered. “Identifying the oldest populations of stars that actually formed in the Milky Way is quite interesting, because they give us a kind of window into our galaxy's past,” says Chris Hayes of the University of Virginia, who was not involved in the study.
The accelerator program, Catalyst, is a joint venture by GO Virginia, UVA, the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Applications are set to open Aug. 1 and selected teams will receive access to the resources they need to grow their companies.
To reduce cancer’s toll in under-served populations, both the University of Virginia Cancer Center and VCU’s Massey Cancer Center are beginning surveys of people who they say are too often left out.
Trump has long rejected the traditional presidential role of a unifying figure for America’s broad and diverse population, and his decision to spread such inflammatory rhetoric was bound to escalate beyond his control, said Russell Riley, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center.
The president’s narrow victory in 2016 and his relatively low approval rating, currently around 43%, leaves him vulnerable for re-election, and makes his strategy a risky one, according to UVA analyst Kyle Kondik. “The approval rating is the troubling thing for the president because if his approval rating is under 45%, then he is going to need a significant share of people who don’t approve of him to vote for him. And that is when it becomes really difficult.”
Researchers at the University of Virginia Medical Center are working to find a treatment for a tick bite that causes an allergic reaction to red meat. UVA is the first to create a model that is a replica of the human immune system to find out why this happens and how to fix it.
Mortimer Caplin, who as Internal Revenue commissioner in the early 1960s was credited with making taxpaying more tolerable for the majority of Americans who do so voluntarily and tougher for the rest to avoid or evade, died on Monday at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 103. After completing John Adams High School in Queens, Mr. Caplin graduated with a bachelor of science degree in economics and political science in 1933 from the University of Virginia, where he was first in his class, and went on to earn a law degree there.
The Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle County Emergency Communications Center on Thursday announced its next executive director. Larry “Sonny” Saxton Jr., a 25-year public safety veteran, was chosen from 11 candidates for the position.
The Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle County Emergency Communications Center will have a new executive director next month. On Thursday, the ECC Management Board voted to appoint Larry Saxton, Jr. to the post. The ECC is the emergency communications services provider for Albemarle County, Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, handling 911 calls and as the main dispatch unit for the three police departments, EMS teams, fire crews and coordinating emergency management when necessary.
Scalia has a fairly long and impressive resume that should serve him well in the upcoming confirmation hearings. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia, majoring in science and minoring in political science.
Amazon is certainly not alone in appreciating Northern Virginia’s prime location. When UVA’s Darden School of Business expanded its MBA studies in 2016, it chose to offer its executive MBA program at a facility in the Rosslyn area of Arlington, overlooking the Potomac.