On Wednesday, Dairy Queen will offer a free, small vanilla ice cream cone for “Free Cone Day,” which not only celebrates spring, but also brings in donations for children in need. With a donation of 50 cents or more to the UVA Children’s Hospital, people can get their cone dipped in chocolate, dreamsicle, rainbow sprinkles and butterscotch.
U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman toured the UVA Health System Pain Clinic to bring attention to the opioid crisis in the 5th District. Riggleman was part of a roundtable discussion of how UVA Health System changes patient care in response to the issue.
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research in Japan, Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of Virginia and collaborators have made observations of a molecular cloud that is collapsing to form two massive protostars that will eventually become a binary star system.
Serious applicants should consult leading rankings beyond U.S. News, and should pore over the law school data freely available from the ABA to create their own individualized weightings and formulas. And there are many superb national schools beyond this triumvirate, including the University of Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Northwestern, NYU, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Virginia, among others.
Other recent announcements include the University of Virginia's School of Data Science. Funded with a private $120 million donation, the school will set up satellite centers in the University's other schools to foster collaboration across fields.
To improve treatments, a team of UVA researchers has studied sleep apnea to better understand the condition. “It’s a very common problem and decreases the quality of life,” said Haibo Dong, a UVA associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering who specializes in fluid dynamics research.
An important area for teachers to understand is that students will remember the content that they think about the most – the reason why they recall some facts and forget others, UVA psychology professor Daniel Willingham said. When planning lessons, this principle can help teachers consider what material students are more likely to remember when they need to.
Tucked away down an inconspicuous rural lane in the seaside village of Oyster is the home of one of the longest-running coastal research projects in the nation — the Virginia Coast Reserve Long Term Ecological Research project. The UVA Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center, directed by Cora Johnston, houses the project, among its other missions.
Richard Glasser, a prominent Norfolk attorney who helped thousands of people with asbestos-related illnesses secure financial victories throughout his nearly 54-year law career, died unexpectedly Thursday, his brother said. He was 77. The Glasser family traces its Hampton Roads roots to 1880, and it has been a staple in the region since. Richard went to Norfolk Academy, graduated from the University of Virginia and went on to UVA’s law school.
Perusing the White House list of major players, one sees President Donald Trump at the top of the roster, followed by Vice President Mike Pence, Kellyanne Conway — and Thomasville native William Crozer. Crozer, a UVA alumnus, is a special assistant to the president and deputy director in the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Beverly Griffin (1930 - 2016). Griffin held two doctorates in chemistry and is best known for her work on the molecular biology of two viruses that cause cancer, polyomavirus and Epstein Barr Virus (EBV). Griffin Received her bachelor’s degree from Baylor University, then received a master’s and PhD at the University of Virginia.
The US homeland security secretary has steadfastly defended a border policy that has provoked condemnation because of its impact on children and families. But why has Kirstjen Nielsen's style also irked her critics?
Only two other states are sending as many Division I basketball programs to the Big Dance as Virginia. Virginia schools account for five teams in the NCAA Tournament’s field of 68, tied with Texas and New York for the most from a single state. The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth, Liberty and Old Dominion all punched their tickets to the tournament. The commonwealth has not had more than three programs make the bracket since 2011, when mid-majors George Mason, Hampton, Old Dominion, Richmond and VCU all played.
Before anyone associated with VCU starts to consider how the Rams will handle Zion (Williamson, but aren’t we reaching the point where he’s known by just his first name?), and before anyone wonders who Virginia will play in the semifinals of the Final Four in Minneapolis, there are other things to consider.
(Subscription required) Virginia became the first No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 seed in the men’s NCAA tournament last year. You may have heard something about that. You’re about to hear a whole lot more when March Madness begins this week. And you might be tempted to pick against Virginia in your bracket after being reminded of the biggest upset in the history of the sport. But that’s exactly why you shouldn’t.
Medical students at the University of Virginia and across the country are celebrating the next chapters of their lives.
Fourth-year Engineering student Rehan Baddeliyanage passed away over spring break, according to an email sent out to the University community by Dean of Students Allen Groves Wednesday afternoon.
As a kid in New Zealand, Jack Salt can recall being aware of news reports of the frequent incidents of mass shootings and gun violence in the United States. It wasn’t until Salt, now a fifth-year senior basketball player at the University of Virginia, came to this country for college that he truly grasped the breadth of the problem. “You’d hear about it on the news when I was back in New Zealand, but just coming over here and just seeing, monthly, something so sad, it’s pretty tough to see that go on,” Salt said Friday after UVA’s loss to Florida State in the ACC tournament semifinals. “And to...
Larry Sabato, a widely followed political prognosticator and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Trump's comments are "the latest manifestation of Trump's incurable sickness — the inability to let anything go, the instinct not just to defeat but to destroy any opponent, a debilitating jealousy that continues beyond the grave."
For the most part, however, Republican senators who face the toughest re-election bids next year stuck with Trump, who continues to enjoy strong support from Republican voters at large. "It suggests that they see more electoral peril voting against the president than voting with him," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball newsletter at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.