An assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Virginia is being honored with an early career development award from the National Science Foundation. The Charlottesville university says Cameron Mura is being given $728,000 to investigate a specific type of protein and the role it plays in the functioning of cells.
An orthopedic surgeon was killed Wednesday morning when the plane he was piloting crashed in a yard less than a half-dozen miles from Charlottesville Albemarle Airport. Dr. Gregory Arnold Voit, 52, of Northfield, N.J., was flying a single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza from Woodbine (N.J.) Airport near his home to pick up his son, a University of Virginia student, when the aircraft went down in the 3100 block of Preddy Creek Road at about 11:15 a.m., authorities said.
(Editorial) Virginia’s hospitals are getting whacked, and it would be naïve to expect that the pain will not spread. Proposed state budget cuts would ding private hospitals a total of $34 million next year. Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and the University of Virginia Health System, which care for the largest numbers of the uninsured, face a hit of $24 million in Gov. Bob McDonnell’s budget plan and a devastating $500 million in federal cuts over five years starting in 2017.
Medicaid expansion, gun control and mental health are on the minds of Charlottesville-area legislators as the General Assembly prepares for its January session. Several of them talked with constituents about their priorities at a forum Wednesday afternoon in the University of Virginia Rotunda.
Dr. George Hambrick, a dermatologist who in 1987 helped establish the American Skin Association, which has contributed to dermatologic research and helped educate the public about skin diseases, died on Dec. 10 at his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 91.
(Audio) Ed Murphy, astronomer at the University of Virginia, discusses the exciting and historic discovery by the Hubble space telescope of 125-mile plumes of water erupting on the Jupiter moon Europa.
Black male students in Virginia are twice as likely to be suspended from public schools as white male students, according to a report released Wednesday that says punishment is often doled out for such minor offenses as talking loudly and disrupting class. The report, based on data from more than 600 Virginia schools, found that suspension rates were lower in secondary schools that used threat assessment guidelines, which provide a procedure for examining the intent and risk associated with student misbehavior. The report, titled “Prevention v. Punishment: Threat Assessment, School Suspe...
Another key issue: deciding who pays for producing the courses. Many of them have proved costly – an estimated $3,000 for each final produced hour of content, according to Kristin Palmer, the director of online learning programs at the University of Virginia. The expenses include teaching assistants, copyright clearances, filming, postproduction editing and hardware.
But as a socially conservative governor of a state that borders Iowa, it is hard to imagine that Walker could forfeit the first presidential contest of the season without dire consequences. "How can he explain away not winning Iowa?" said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia professor of political science who has ranked Walker as the top Republican presidential candidate on his website. "People know what the math looks like."
According to Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia and the author of Convicting the Innocent, eyewitness misidentifications have played a leading role in nearly 75 percent of 250 convictions overturned by DNA evidence between 1989 and 2010. In more than one-half of those exonerations, the eyewitnesses start off unsure, a “glaring sign” of potential trouble as Garrett puts it, yet appear to become increasingly certain over time.
Black male students are twice as likely to be suspended from school as white male students, and black students in general tend to be put out of school for relatively minor infractions, according to a new report from the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and the Legal Aid Justice Center. The report also says schools that use Virginia’s new Student Threat Assessment Guidelines suspend students at lower rates and with a smaller racial divide than schools that do not use it.
VCU Medical Center and the University of Virginia Medical Center stand to lose about $500 million in federal funds to care for people with no health insurance from 2017 to 2022 through looming cuts under the Affordable Care Act.
Colleges and universities, including UVa, will soon receive notifications telling administrators what students bought IDs from the ring. The customers could be the target of university discipline. At UVa, for example, the Honor Committee or University Judiciary Committee could consider taking action. But a UVa spokesman says the university hasn't received any information from federal prosecutors yet.
The 53-year-old Matheson, son of former Utah Gov. Scott Matheson, first ran for Congress in 1999 and has held onto the seat for seven terms in a largely red state. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, tweeted that Matheson's announcement Tuesday was a political game changer.
The University of Virginia is preparing to respond to a prosecutor's release of names of students who bought fake IDs from a busted Charlottesville ring.
The Winchester Medical Center is one of the few hospitals in the country that has access to stereotactic treatment, thanks to its partnership with the University of Virginia and the UVA Physicians Group.
According to Ashley Spinks, a University of Virginia student and a columnist for The Cavalier Daily, “Selfies can help us keep in touch with friends in a very personal way. My best friend from high school goes to college 13 hours away from me. And although I stalk her Facebook and Twitter religiously, it is easy to feel disconnected from her life. Receiving a Snapchat or seeing a selfie she took before a party is far more comforting than reading an empty status update. Selfies can portray so much more than words — allegedly, a thousand words’ worth of meaning. It’s a cl...
“Sabato’s Crystal Ball,” a political newsletter run by the University of Virginia professor Larry J. Sabato, moved VA-10 from “Likely Republican” to “toss-up” after Mr. Wolf’s Tuesday announcement, and UT-4 from “Leans Democratic” to “Likely Republican” after Mr. Matheson’s announcement.
Another history professor, Melvyn Leffler of the University of Virginia, weighed in with it being "probably the most effective program the United States launched during the entire Cold War."