As of January 2009, no mentions were made of any deaths due to the use of Vicks VapoRub (though opinions were mixed on its safety). According to Dr. Diane Pappas, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, this study confirms that Vicks VapoRub, too, "should not be used in children under the age of two."
The Danish National Research Foundation had awarded roughly $4.2 million to a literary-studies project led by an English professor at University of Virginia, Rita Felski. This money would help Felski assemble a team of scholars to investigate the social uses of literature. For Felski, the windfall validates a nearly decade-long push to change the way literature and other art forms are studied.
Lauren C. Jackson, a 2013 graduate of Pulaski Academy in Little Rock and a senior at the University of Virginia, is one of 32 American students to be named last weekend as a 2017 Rhodes Scholar to the University of Oxford in England.
Election officials in Virginia say there’s no evidence that any votes cast on Election Day were fraudulent. But that’s not stopping Donald Trump, who went on a Twitter tirade over the weekend saying he would have won the popular vote if the fraudulent votes in Virginia and several other states were thrown out. Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says there’s nothing to the claim.
Richard Bonnie of the UVA School of Law said that defendants sometimes choose to represent themselves because of a fundamental disagreement with their lawyers about the essence of the defense strategy, including their feelings about receiving the death penalty.
(By Jeff Chidester and Tony Lucadamo of UVA’s Miller Center) The 2016 election, like four others before it, saw one candidate, Hillary Clinton, win a majority of the popular vote and a different candidate, President-elect Donald Trump, garner a majority in the Electoral College. Despite this incongruity, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and other Republicans began claiming, in the election’s immediate aftermath, that Trump had earned a mandate from the voters to work with Congress and adopt the agenda on which he campaigned. Indeed, this kind of mandate rhetoric is com...
“In the case of the alt-right, I think that the tendency has been to want to simply do away with the term and use the term ‘white nationalist,’ but I don’t think that captures the stew of hate,” said Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at UVA’s Miller Center who studies conservatism and the media.
Changes at the cellular level lead to neuron death in Alzheimer’s disease. UVA professor George Bloom seeks to understand these cellular mechanisms.
Amidst a proliferation of non-governmental organizations, charities and UN initiatives, the search for truly sustainable solutions to water access and cleanliness has intensified. UVA civil and environmental engineer Jim Smith may have found a solution.
Last year, Virginia farmers sold more than $63 million worth of apples, grapes, peaches and melons. That makes us a magnet for hungry bugs and a major user of pesticides, but a team of UVA students may have a new method for preventing the problems those chemicals can cause.
Amelia Garcia, a Cuban-American UVA student, says though there is mixed response worldwide, one thing everyone can agree on is that Castro was a controversial figure. Garcia, who is also president of the Latino Student Alliance, said she found herself in the middle of a block party over the weekend, while home for the holidays in Miami.
The UVA Health System appointed Jeffrey Keller as its inaugural chief innovation officer. "Jeff has both a scientific and a business background, and he has a great understanding of the biotech ecosystem," said Dr. Richard P. Shannon, UVA's executive vice president for health affairs, in a statement.
Adolescent pseudomature behaviour describes young teens who want to look and feel mature before they actually are. These teens often behave in ways they consider mature, like drinking alcohol, smoking, partying late and having sex. "It appears that while so-called cool teens’ behaviour might have been linked to early popularity, over time these teens needed more and more extreme behaviours to try to appear cool," said Joseph Allen, lead author and UVA professor of psychology.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said "the chances of this election being overturned are near zero, if not zero."
The majority of women do not know that having dense breast tissue can increase their risk for breast cancer, according to a study by the UVA School of Medicine.
Physicians should be responsible for making sure women with dense breasts understand what the findings mean. In the study, UVA School of Medicine researchers found that the strongest factors in knowing about breast density was whether a physician informed a woman about the density of her breasts, and what alternative screening tools should be used to determine whether or not there are abnormalities in the tissue.
People can drink beer for a cause in downtown Charlottesville in January and help out families of children receiving medical care at the UVA Medical Center.
About a dozen people from across Virginia want to help Native Americans from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the Dakotas because they are protesting the North Dakota Access Pipeline. They loaded up four vehicles with canned food items, wool coats, blankets and meat from local farms. The group consists of students from the University of Virginia, James Madison University and other people from across the commonwealth.
Hundreds of college and university leaders have mobilized in recent days to defend students who immigrated to the United States as children, without legal permission, and now face a swirl of questions about their future under President-elect Donald Trump. Among the signers in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia was Teresa A. Sullivan of the University of Virginia.
A growing is pushing to cash in on hemp, a versatile crop that can be put to thousands of commercial uses and bring back lost jobs. Three Virginia universities signed up to participate in a research program, and the University of Virginia has joined for next year.