Charlottesville families gathered on Sunday afternoon at the Sprint Pavilion to learn about how injuries can affect the brain. The UVA Health System hosted the Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke Awareness Fair to show people how sports injuries, military service, falls at work, and other factors can affect the brain.
National health care publication Becker’s Hospital Review has named the UVA Medical Center to its 2018 list of 100 Great Hospitals in America.
The University of Virginia Medical Center, part of the UVA Health System, is the academic health care center partner of the University of Virginia. The UVA Medical Center was ranked the No. 1 hospital in Virginia by U.S. News & World Report for 2017-18. The publication also ranked six specialties among the top 50 nationally: cancer; ear, nose and throat; orthopedics; urology; diabetes and endocrinology; and cardiology and heart surgery.
An analysis, conducted by a team including UVA researchers, of more than 2,000 college classes in science, technology, engineering and math has imparted a lesson that might resonate with many students who sat through them: Enough with the lectures, already.
UVA now requires people unaffiliated with the school – including alumni – to reserve space in advance if they wish to give a speech or hand out information.
UVA’s solar car team finished designs for the school's first sun-powered car since 2001 on Sunday. The team was relaunched in the fall of 2015 and consisted of six people who didn't exactly know what a solar car was. Now, the only solar car team in Virginia is close to finishing part of the body of their car.
UVA on Friday announced changes to its rules on the use of campus by groups unaffiliated with the University. The University has been considering its rules since last year's march through the campus by white nationalists shouting Nazi chants.
To increase young women’s interest in and education of construction and the building trades, UVA’s Facilities Management department will host its third annual Girls Day on June 14 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
In his second season at Virginia, Lars Tiffany has led the UVA men back to the NCAA lacrosse tournament. If the bid for the Virginia men’s team was a step toward returning to the sport’s upper echelon, the women’s program never left. Sunday, the UVA women received their 23rd straight NCAA invitation.
Across the nation, 23 locales – including Monticello and the University of Virginia– have risen to become UNESCO World Heritage sites. And they’re all breathtaking.
He’s moving from Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village to James Madison’s homestead. Doug Trout, the executive director of UVA’s Miller Center Foundation, will become Montpelier’s chief advancement officer and executive vice president on June 4, Montpelier officials announced Thursday. He will lead the Montpelier Foundation’s fundraising efforts in this newly created position.
When Minnesota in 2013 retroactively eliminated its statute of limitations for a three-year period, the deluge of lawsuits resulted in four Catholic dioceses filing for bankruptcy protection, according to local reports. “The real problem is just the sheer lapse of time between the events and trial, which makes it almost impossible to figure out what happened, and that’s true whether the change is retroactive or prospective,” said Douglas Laycock of the UVA School of Law.
As print journals search for ways to adapt to evolving attitudes and new technologies, the New York Times Magazine has taken a bold step. The Times Magazine has been edited since 2014 by Jake Silverstein, formerly editor of the Texas Monthly, who upon joining the Times promised “the kind of long-form impactful [sic] journalism that has made the magazine one of the most influential publications throughout its history.” His latest bold and impactful move isn’t about long-form journalism, though. He’s made the poet Rita Dove the magazine’s poetry editor.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded 31 Andrew Carnegie Fellows stipends of up to $200,000 each for their research and writing in the humanities and social sciences. Among them is Grace Elizabeth Hale, a UVA professor of American studies and history, for "Reckoning: How the Southern Past Haunts the Present and Limits the Democratic Future."
The climb is significant for Democrats: Part of the district covers Franklin County, home of Columbus, but it also extends into Licking, Morrow, and Delaware counties – which never, ever vote for Democrats. “None of them have voted Democratic for president since at least 1964, and Delaware hasn’t voted Democratic since 1916, the longest Republican-voting streak of any county in Ohio,” Kyle Kondik at UVA’s Center for Politics, who wrote a book on the state’s politics, noted last month.
Only 26 CEOs faced prosecution in 306 cases studied by Brandon Garrett, professor at the UVA School of Law, of companies striking deals with prosecutors on criminal charges. “The corporation appears to be a kind of scapegoat … capable of receiving the brunt of blame and punishment while the individual culprits go free,” Garrett wrote.
Only 26 CEOs faced prosecution in 306 cases studied by Brandon Garrett, professor at the UVA School of Law, of companies striking deals with prosecutors on criminal charges. “The corporation appears to be a kind of scapegoat … capable of receiving the brunt of blame and punishment while the individual culprits go free,” Garrett wrote.
Professional race car driver Quin Houff is on a mission to help find a cure for cancer. The 20-year-old racer from Weyer's Cave was at the UVA Children’s Hospital on Thursday to bring joy to some young fans battling the disease.
When Peter Coughlin was in his sophomore year at James Madison University, he was besieged by a strange and unsettling illness. When he finally went to the hospital in 2016, the doctor tested him for all the usual allergies and was flummoxed by the lack of results. She gave him a strong antihistamine and an EpiPen and sent him home. Frustrated, Coughlin started researching. He found similarities between his symptoms and documented cases of something called alpha-gal allergy. A major study on the allergic reaction had been done right across the Blue Ridge Mountains at UVA.
In a 2013 report from UVA’s National Marriage Project – aptly titled "Knot Yet: The Benefits and Cost of Delayed Marriage in America" – research revealed that the average age at which women get married has hit an all-time high at 27 (29 for men), a number that was only expected to increase in the coming years.