Five members of the United State Womens National Team have ties to Virginia. Former University of Virginia standouts Becky Sauerbrunn, Morgan Brian, Alexandria native Ali Krieger, along with UVA Head Coach Steve Swanson, and former William and Mary player Jill Ellis all played key roles in the USWNT’s triumph in the 2015 World Cup.
Virginia's Brian O’Connor has been named national coach of the year by Baseball America, the fourth such honor he has won in 2015, joining those from Collegiate Baseball, D1Baseball and Perfect Game.
(By William Antholis, the CEO of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia) After Greeks delivered a shocking rebuff to Europe’s leaders on Sunday in a vote to reject international creditors’ bailout terms, it’s clear Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s accomplishment is real. He appears to have forged a consensus in Greek public opinion – a rare feat in a country with no dominant political party.
Scientists believe a new polio-like virus is responsible for dozens of unexplained cases of paralysis in children over the last year. The disease, called enterovirus C105, is part of the polio family of viruses and has only recently been discovered, they said. The study's co-author Professor Ronald Turner, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, said the findings mean people should be aware that 'there's another virus out there that has this association' with paralysis.
Researchers have found that one of the basic understandings of atherosclerosis -- that smooth muscle cells which help blood vessels operate act to prevent plaques inside of them from dislodging -- is at least partially incorrect, which may cause shifts in the way that doctors treat the disease. "We suspected there was a small number of smooth muscle cells we were failing to identify using the typical immunostaining detection methods. It wasn't a small number. It was 82 percent," said Gary Owens, Ph.D., of the University of Virginia's Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Ce...
Researchers have found a faster way to wirelessly connect to the Web using LED lightbulbs. Standard Wi-Fi uses radio waves to connect from an Internet router to a wireless router in your computer or mobile device. Researchers at the University of Virginia have found a way to transmit wireless data in light waves from LED lights, which is much faster and more reliable than radio wave Wi-Fi.
Advances in 3-D printing have given us the ability to manufacture prosthetics, auto parts and clothes on demand. Are human organs next? It’s a possibility, according to Shayn Peirce-Cottler, who heads a University of Virginia bioengineering lab. Peirce-Cottler and her team are making baby steps toward that goal using a state-of-the-art bioprinter that can fabricate human tissue and bone. In the meantime, they’re using the machine — just one of three in the United States — to solve some practical clinical problems.
The Jefferson Trust provides catalytic support to the University community for initiatives pursuing Jeffersonian ideals. It provides discretionary funding for trustee-selected projects that enhance the University of Virginia as a global institution of higher learning.
Edith Wilson has been called the country's first female President after she took a strong leadership role following President Woodrow Wilson's stroke in October 1919. The second wife of Woodrow Wilson, the couple met in early 1915 and married later that year, barely a year after the death of First Lady Ellen Wilson. Edith assumed a more active role in her husband's political pursuits, becoming an adviser and personal assistant, and was well-versed with the war in Europe, according to The Miller Center at the University of Virginia.
Most children and teenagers who attend summer camp spend time outside hiking, swimming, canoeing and the like. But many youths will go to the University of Virginia, and other campuses across the United States, this summer to learn about subjects such as computer coding and video game design.
One of the University of Virginia's more prominent efforts to promote entrepreneurship is the i.Lab, a startup incubator based out of the Darden School of Business and supported by collaborators around the university. This incubator accepts applications not just from students in the MBA program, but also take joint projects between students and faculty—and even from people in the community who might have no connection to the school. We've picked out seven of the most eye-catching startups to highlight—check them out to get a feel for the latest UVa-born innovation...
Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda at the University of Virginia is ensnared in a spider's web of scaffolding these days, the focus of a $58.3 million renovation of the World Heritage Site.
A little more than a week after leading the Virginia baseball team to its first national championship, coach Brian O’Connor was selected as the 2015 National Coach of the Year by Baseball America, the publication announced Friday. Baseball America is the fourth organization to honor O’Connor as its National Coach of the Year, joining Collegiate Baseball, D1Baseball and Perfect Game.
UVa is to college tennis what Duke has been to basketball — a juggernaut, a dream destination for any kid wishing to play collegiately in the United States. Virginia hasn’t lost an ACC match in nine years — yes, nine years. Last month in Waco, Texas, Brian Boland led Virginia to an NCAA championship for the second time in the last three years, and UVa player Ryan Shane upset heavily favored Noah Rubin to win the NCAA singles title. So much for law school.
Studying for an MBA is a huge financial commitment, but to alleviate some of the pressure, there are an increasing number of business school scholarships on offer to help ease the bank balance. At the University of Virginia’s Darden school, 111 students from the class of 2016 (34 per cent) will benefit. This will pay for, on average, 60 per cent of the tuition and required fees.
A new study by the University of Virginia found that the number of civil commitments of people in mental distress rose last year, perhaps in response to changes enacted after the fatal encounter between Sen. Creigh Deeds and his mentally ill son.
This month, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will fly by Pluto, providing scientists with some of the most detailed images of the planet they’ve ever had. Astronomers believe the data collected on the mission could provide them with clues about the formation of our solar system. Two University of Virginia researchers will be part of the historic mission, piecing together some of the data coming into the Johns Hopkins Applied Research Lab from more than 4 billion miles away.
(By Carolyn Engelhard, the director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences) Economists tell us that setting the price of a good or service depends on market forces that balance supply and demand in order to optimize output with minimal waste. This dynamic is one of the marvels of competitive markets, where, with almost magical agility, prices constantly readjust toward an ideal value as consumers gravitate toward purchasing decisions based on desire and ability to pay.
(Co-authored by David Leblang is a professor of politics and public policy at the University of Virginia) A small, peripheral country becomes ground zero for Europe’s economic crisis. Banks are insolvent, the sovereign is pursued by foreign creditors, and political leaders issue a rare call to citizens to approve creditors’ repayment terms—or not—via a national referendum. Greece in 2015? Yes. But, also, Iceland a half-decade earlier.
(Co-authored by Philip B. K. Potter, assistant professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia) Judging by recent headlines, this is not a good moment for democracy. The European Union, long held up as a model of democratic cooperation and consolidation, is threatened by the Greek debt crisis. Ukraine’s fragile democracy is under constant pressure from an increasingly autocratic Russia, and for better or worse the rest of the democratic community has proven reluctant to help. Iraq, the most prominent democratization project of the last decade, teeters...