UVA’s Darden School of Business finished second overall on satisfaction with the top score regarding their education. More than 40 percent of alumni regularly donate to the school and fundraising commitments are up 55 percent in the most recent fiscal year.
UVA’s football team recognized a local boy and his best friend we recently featured in 10 News' “Making a Difference” segment. The team named Evan Groves a “Thursday Hero.” Each week, the team honors a kid overcoming tough circumstances.
UVA has regained its momentum. Since 2012, the number of black students in the entering class at UVA is up 41.5 percent. In 2012, blacks and biracial students with African-American heritage made up 7.1 percent of the first-year students. This year the figure is 9.1 percent.
“Lifestyle modification is the cornerstone for treatment of hypertension,” said Dr. Robert Carey of UVA, who helped write the guidelines. Other research, including a new study released just this week, shows the American Heart Association’s DASH diet lowers blood pressure and reduces people’s risk of stroke and heart failure.
Former first lady, U.S. senator, secretary of state, and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is inspiring future female leaders at the University of Virginia. Clinton closed the two-day Women's Global Leadership Forum at UVA on Tuesday, November 14.
Former Secretary of State and first lady Hillary Clinton provided the closing remarks of t UVA’s two-day Women's Global Leadership forum Tuesday afternoon, as part of the University's bicentennial commemoration. Topics included sexism in politics and elsewhere, but also the protection of democracy in the U.S.
Carla Williams may have some mixed emotions this weekend when UVA’s football team takes on Miami. After all, Williams might not be in the position she is now – taking over as UVA’s new athletics director – if not for the Hurricanes’ coach, Mark Richt.
The slim volume written by Deborah and Mark Parker features a bright red lollypop on its cover – a logical image for the work they called “Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy.” Deborah Parker, who teaches Italian at UVA, said that sucking up holds a special place in Dante’s “Inferno.”
UVA is one step closer to owning Brandon Avenue. The Charlottesville Planning Commission has approved a motion that would build a model “student green community.”
Meet Michael Karnjanaprakorn, who founded online learning community, Skillshare, with the mission of using technology to democratize education and learning for people globally. Michael is a graduate of University of Virginia and VCU Brandcenter (Virginia Commonwealth University’s branding and advertising-focused graduate program).
“In the broadest possible picture, NAFTA probably provided a very minor increase in real incomes in the U.S.,” said UVA’s John McLaren, who co-authored a 2016 study documenting NAFTA’s effect on U.S. wages. “But for an important minority of blue-collar people who already had lower wages, it was a big negative ... El Paso was one of the most affected” places.
A palliative care nurse at the UVA Medical Center is one of six finalists in the nation for the Compassionate Caregiver of the Year award.
UVA law professor Leslie Kendrick, a First Amendment expert, said forcing students to stand for the national anthem is “totally unconstitutional.” She and some School Board members cited a 1943 Supreme Court ruling stating public schools could not compel students to salute the American flag or recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
“We see lifestyle modification as the cornerstone for treatment,” said Dr. Roebrt Carey, vice-chair of the guidelines committee and professor of medicine at the UVA School of Medicine.
The change is expected to triple the number of men under age 45 diagnosed with hypertension and double the number among women the same age. The vast majority will be told to improve their lifestyles, with a healthier diet, weight loss, exercise and cutting back on alcohol and salt. Only those who have other factors that put them at risk of heart disease should be given medication, said Robert Carey, professor at the UVA School of Medicine.
“Lifestyle modification is the cornerstone for treatment of hypertension,” said Dr. Robert Carey of the University of Virginia, who helped write the guidelines.
The Foothills Forum, funded mostly by individual donors, is producing in-depth enterprise well beyond the capability of the single editorial staffer employed by the weekly Rappahannock News, the only news source in Rappahannock County. Although its output is modest—four multi-part series in the last 18 months—the Forum is changing news expectations for the county’s 7,400 residents scattered across the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In the end they settled on a nonprofit that would steer away from the traditional step of setting up a newsroom; rather, it would commission major freel...
Inside a solar cell, sunlight excites electrons. But these electrons often don't last long enough to go on to power cell phones or warm homes. In a promising new type of solar cell, the solar-excited electrons have better odds going on to work. Why? A team led by UVA researchers discovered the dominant mechanism for the higher carrier lifetime that is responsible for the superior hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cell performance. The mechanism involves screening excited charge carriers by the rotating positively charged (cationic) organic molecules in the crystal.
UVA unveiled a memorial Friday afternoon that was years in the making. Proposed and executed by students, with guidance from UVA professors, staff and local architects, the University Remembrance Garden features a curved concrete wall and is designed to be a place for the UVA community to commemorate and grieve lost friends, family and peers.
Hundreds of women leaders from around the country and the world have descended on UVA for the first Global Women's Leadership Forum. The event, which will conclude Tuesday with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is part of UVA's bicentennial celebration, says the forum's steering committee chair, Stewart Gamage.