The University of Virginia is challenging college students around the world to come up with ways to eliminate hunger.http://www.nbc29.com/clip/13133623/uva-hosts-competition-to-simulate-elimination-of-world-hunger
University of Virginia students are fighting President Donald Trump's decision to remove protections for transgender students using bathrooms of their gender identity. UVA's Queer Student Union organized a last-minute march in response to Trump's decision.
The University of Virginia estimates it spends $20 million a year complying with unfunded federal mandates just for its academic division. The state’s public universities last month submitted reports on how much they spend on the bureaucracy of federal regulations as part of a congressional review of unfunded mandates.
UVA media studies professor Aynne Kokas, author of the new book "Hollywood: Made in China," breaks down how the movie market in China is exploding.
After almost 20 years of distinctive coverage of religion on mainstream television, this is the final episode of Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. UVA Professor Vanessa Ochs reflects on some of the many religious practices and rituals the series has spotlighted.
(Commentary) Late last year, Inova inked a $112 million deal with the UVA School of Medicine allowing medical students to participate in the discovery and commercialization of treatments for cancer and other diseases. Stottlemeyer sees the launch of a new center of research and innovation as a booster shot for Northern Virginia’s economy.
You might think Thomas Jefferson built the University of Virginia. But a group at UVA is trying to change that perception. A team of designers are set to unveil their latest proposals for a memorial to the enslaved men and women who built and operated the University for much of the 19th century.
Rank-and-file Republicans are more concerned about leaks to the media of conversations between Trump advisers and the Russian government than they are about the conversations themselves, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released Wednesday. The poll shows how President Trump has shifted opinions within the party of Ronald Reagan, where national security has been a top issue since the Cold War, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Frank Dukes, the former director of and a current fellow at UVA’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation, said Monday that a number of people were involved in the creation of the petition, which seeks to name the building after someone who adheres to the city’s latest efforts to bring wider recognition of “Charlottesville’s racial history.”
How America was originally colonized is a topic of perennial interest at the AAAS. … The meeting heard from Mark Sicoli, a linguist at the University of Virginia, a different model of linguistic evolution brings the common ancestor of Native-American tongues forward.
Lawmakers and senior Democratic aides said that they do not expect a boycott of the State of the Union speech, nothing like the more than 60 who refused to attend the inauguration. Because every lawmaker gets to invite one guest to sit in the gallery above, many Democrats are planning to use that ticket as a form of protest. Pascrell is bringing George K. Yin, a UVA law professor who has argued that Congress has the power to compel Trump to release his tax returns.
The Virginia General Assembly is poised to hand Hampton University a major victory in its bid to boost the use of its seven-year-old, $225 million cancer treatment center that uses proton beam radiation therapy to help eradicate the disease in its patients. That could potentially boost the number of patients receiving treatment at the center from around 60 people a day to more than 100 a day and make it easier to finance development of another proton beam treatment center that INOVA and the University of Virginia are planning in Northern Virginia.
UVA researchers have discovered two asthma and allergy drugs that may offer a way to prevent a form of pneumonia that is extremely dangerous and sometimes fatal.
A UVA researcher has discovered that two common asthma drugs may help prevent a serious form of pneumonia. The research shows that the early administration of the asthma drugs Accolate and Singulair could keep the flu virus from spreading deep into the lungs and causing influenza pneumonia, a serious complication that is rare but can be deadly.
Melur K. “Ram” Ramasubramanian will take over as vice president of research at the University of Virginia in August. Ramasubramanian is currently department chairman of mechanical engineering at Clemson University and director for the Engineering Research Centers program at the National Science Foundation.
Imagine an $850,000 piece of equipment, one so special that it’s one of only two of its kind in the entire world. Then imagine a guy, who not only has a degree in exercise physiology, but two more in nutrition and biochemistry, operating that machine.
The University of Virginia is hosting a yearlong series on diversity, helping students, faculty, and staff members understand what it means to be diverse.
Students at the University of Virginia School of Law and the Charlottesville Legal Aid Justice Center have formed the Civil Rights Litigation Pro Bono Clinic.
The poll, conducted between Feb. 16 and Feb. 20, shows how President Trump has shifted opinions within the party of Ronald Reagan, where national security has been a top issue since the Cold War, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. "Republicans have now put a higher priority on their partisan identification and support for their current leader than principles they have had for many decades," Sabato said. "We live in such a polarized era."
The Republican Governors Association raised more than $60.7 million compared with the Democratic Governors Association’s $39 million in 2016, according to the groups. “The RGA is formidable, and I do think that the money they have been able to pump into these governorships over the years explains why they have so many Republican governors,” said Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “In close races, the extra bit of money makes all the difference.”