Fibroids, benign growths that develop in the muscular wall of the uterus, affect the quality of life for as many as two out of three women in the U.S. They are so prevalent that they have been called a “hidden epidemic” by the National Institutes of Health. Advice by Dr.Dana Redick, medical director of the Uterine Fibroid Treatment Center at University of Virginia Health System, a collaboration of the departments of Interventional Radiology and Gynecology.
Just a few years ago, most Richmond-area schools didn't allow students to carry even the most basic cellphones. But as the communications culture continues to change, school systems can't ignore it. Bert Jacoby, a doctoral fellow in instructional technology at the University of Virginia, said schools are best served by using all the available technological tools because "those tools will be essential in the professional world."
More than 3,000 women hit the pavement through Albemarle County to raise money for breast cancer research. Women got up early to run the Charlottesville Women's Four Miler at Foxfield on Saturday.
An update on the new Contemplative Sciences Center at U.Va.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - A panel discussion is set at the University of Virginia on the short-lived ouster of university President Teresa Sullivan. The event is set for Sept.
Few if any athletes can match the collegiate career of Ralph Sampson (College '83). Now he’s joining another exclusive club – the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
The Culpeper Regional Health System, the Culpeper Regional Hospital’s parent company, will host a few free events in September and October. Dr. Kathleen Fuchs, a University of Virginia neuropsychologist, will present a lecture on "What’s Normal and What was the Question?" at the Country Club of Culpeper on Sept. 10 from 6 to 7 p.m.
HOUSTON — This season means more to Texans quarterback Matt Schaub (College '03) than any player on the team. Schaub is preparing for his ninth season — his sixth in Houston — and his health is paramount to the Texans reaching the high expectations that are unprecedented in the 11-year history of the franchise. This weekend he returned to the University of Virginia, where his jersey was retired. He left Charlottesville in 2004 with 22 school records and just about every award the university had to offer for performance on the field as well as academics.
Kathryn Budig and Karly Wade met about a year ago at YogaWorks in Los Angeles, where Ms. Budig, 30, began teaching in 2004. Ms. Budig had set out to be an actress after graduating from the University of Virginia but instead became a yoga instructor. She has nearly 20,000 followers on Facebook and when she travels to yoga studios—33 gigs this year from Idaho to Dubai—it is standing-pose-room-only.
The value in having a four-year degree in sales lies less in acquiring technical skills necessary for a specific job and more in demonstrating soft skills that can push sales reps to generate commissions, explains James H. Wyckoff, director of the Center on Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
Discussions of the Emancipation Proclamation on the national and state level will be held Sept. 17 and 21 as the document's 150th anniversary nears. A program sponsored by the National Endowment of the Humanities. Ed Ayers, president of the University of Richmond, will moderate the session at the Smithsonian American History Museum. Christy Coleman, president of the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar, will be on the panel with history professors Eric Foner of Columbia University, Thavolia Glymph of Duke University and Gary Gallagher of the University of Virginia.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has appointed art historian Melissa Jordan Love as the museums first full-time academic curator following a national search.
But is the crowd up to the task? Some raise concerns, including Edward G. Lengel, editor in chief of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia, who calls crowdsourcing "an unproven concept."
Five pairs of masterworks concerts presented by the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra and music director Kate Tamarkin will explore rhythms of dance from around the world.
“I was in Alderman Library when we came up with the name Reddit,” a mashup of “read it” and “edit,” said co-founder Alexis Ohanian, a 2005 graduate of UVA. The former pre-law student had recently walked out of an LSAT prep course after realizing he wanted to go after bigger things. (Or maybe he was just craving waffles, but that’s another story.)
Seconds after Clint Eastwood finished his speech, at the Republican National Convention, the Twittersphere was buzzing with response -- including from Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
A study published just a few years ago out of the University of Virginia — "Effect of Exercise Training Intensity on Abdominal Visceral Fat and Body Composition” — showed that those who exercised at the highest intensities (of course that is relative, depending on your current fitness level) had the greatest loss in belly fat!
Audio September is back for a fifth annual month of sound at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiatives. There will be more than two dozen guest artists to share music, radio, poetry, storytelling and other disciplines. The Mushroom Walk, which begins at noon Wednesday, marks composer John Cage’s centennial by leading participants in one of Cage’s favorite hobbies — hunting for mushrooms. Composer Chris Peck and Manuel Lerdau of the University of Virginia’s Department of Environmental Sciences will lead the free event.
Debate continues on line between property rights and freedom of information. It is “the property maximalists versus the Utopians,” says Christopher Sprigman, a professor of intellectual property and antitrust law at the University of Virginia. And, he adds, “It’s an unproductive battle.”
Preliminary results show effectiveness of focused ultrasound technology. ... In April came the most recent evidence of its potential uses. The University of Virginia Medical Center conducted a yearlong study using focused ultrasound to treat Essential Tremor, a movement disorder that affects about 10 million people in the U.S. Preliminary results from the study showed that focused ultrasound pulses delivered to a targeted spot in the brain — without anesthesia — reduced measurable symptoms by 92 percent.