(By Bill Ferster, UVA research professor) The University of Virginia is offering a new way to connect students directly with faculty researchers in authentic inquiry using the latest digital technology.
A college athlete is getting a big payday and the NCAA can’t do a thing about it – and all he had to do was win the lotto. Chuck Davis, a cornerback at the University of Virginia, matched all five numbers in the Virginia Lottery’s Cash 5 game, earning a cool $100,000.
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum educated people about Aboriginal history on Saturday. Kids were making their own versions of the Aboriginal flag. Aboriginal people are the native people of Australia, who were also discriminated against when the British invaded Australia.
She came, she saw and, in her own way, Charlotte Kjellkvist conquered the Virginia town that shares her name. The Skanska construction engineer, who has been on loan to the company’s 450,000-square-foot University of Virginia Medical Center expansion project for six months, headed back to her native Sweden on Friday.
The controversial practice has been standard in many teaching hospitals for decades, its safety and ethics largely unquestioned and its existence unknown to those most affected: people undergoing surgery. But over the past two years, the issue of overlapping surgery — in which a doctor operates on two patients in different rooms during the same time period — has ignited an impassioned debate in the medical community, attracted scrutiny by the powerful U.S. Senate Finance committee that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, and prompted some hospitals, including the University of Virginia, to circums...
MONEY ranks colleges based on 27 measures of educational quality, affordability, and alumni success. In each category, we used at least one "value-added" measure, which reveals a school's performance after subtracting the impact of its average student's test scores and percentage of low-income students. The University of Virginia ranks No. 11 out of 50 best public colleges.
The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia recently released a study of population trends in Virginia, projecting the numbers more than a quarter of a century, into the 2040s.
The University boasts high freshmen retention and on-time graduation rates, while also providing graduates with some of the best earnings boosts in the country.
(By Mary Esselman, editor of Iris, UVA Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center) An essay about studying Elizabeth Bishop, American poet who wrote “The Fish,” and losing a friend to cancer.
A recent Central High School graduate and his parents credit a University of Virginia’s College at Wise Early College Academy program with going far to help him prepare for the next academic step. For Ali Qureshi, that’ll be going to Harvard University. The academy is the brainchild of UVA-Wise Provost Sanders Huguenin and is starting its fourth year on campus.
Former Virginia basketball standouts London Perrantes and Anthony Gill both wrapped up play in the NBA’s Orlando Summer League on a high note on Thursday. Perrantes had 11 points, five rebounds and two assists for the Miami Heat in their 91-72 loss to the New York Knicks, while Gill finished with eight points and six rebounds for the Charlotte Hornets in their 86-78 victory over the Orlando Magic.
On Thursday afternoon, Sampson visited the UVA Cancer Center to present his winnings from “Celebrity Family Feud.” Joining him were the likes of Craig Littlepage, Tony Bennett and Barry Parkhill, among others.
The women’s team will be led by an Olympian who has just about done it all. Christine Roper was born in Jamaica, where her father was a beach resort manager, and was once a boarding advisor at St. Michaels University School. She scuba dives and was an NCAA rowing champion at the University of Virginia.
A bit of “dramatic change” led Jenny and Daron Hollowell to form their new musical project Nights & Weekends and create the debut album “Music for Marriage” (out Aug. 25). The Hollowells – she’s a novelist (“Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe”) who got her M.F.A. at the University of Virginia, and commentator; he’s a founding member of White Iris, guitarist in Four Hundred Years, and executive producer for Best Coast, FIDLAR – had moved to Los Angeles with their two young children, now ages 8 and 5, and had gone through some job changes.
Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the former Poet Laureate of the United States is one of three inaugural winners of the Roosevelt “Rosey” Thompson Award from U.S. Presidential Scholars Foundation.
George Shields, provost and a professor of chemistry at Furman University, and UVA’s Brooks H. Pate have established a strong collaboration that has resulted in four publications on small water clusters since 2012, including two in Science. This collaboration, instigated by Pate, is built on a strong foundation of mutual respect, and was only possible because of the previous highly cited work of Shields and his undergraduate researchers.
“It sure doesn’t sound good,” Dr. Christopher Holstege, the chief of UVA’s Division of Medical Toxicology, said of the snortable chocolate, adding that he was especially concerned for people who have asthma or children with growing lungs.
Here to ask and answer the query are academics Daniel Ansari and Daniel Willingham. Willingham is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992, and whose research focuses on the application of cognitive psychology to K-12 schools and higher education.
The authors, led by a team from the University of Virginia, say that larger babies have up to 130 percent increased odds of being overweight or obese later in life.
Consider the architects who designed the buildings where University of Virginia law students have labored mightily during the past 200 years.