It goes without saying, UVA is a school of tradition and tradition dictates that Final Exercises take place on the Lawn. The somber weather was no match for the excitement in the air.
Between 35,000 and 40,000 family members and friends came to Charlottesville to celebrate their UVA graduates. Hotels, restaurants, and shops say they count on graduation weekend to boost their bottom lines going into the slower summer months.
The resume Malcolm Brogdon has put together leading up to next month’s NBA draft has been years in the making. His four-year career at the University of Virginia ended with him being one of the more decorated players in school history, a unanimous First Team All-American as a senior who became the first player in ACC history to be named league Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season.
It's a familiar question: Do the liberal arts need saving? The answer here Thursday at a conference on the topic — yes — was familiar, too. For Talbot Brewer, professor and chair of philosophy at the University of Virginia, the liberal arts need saving in part from the “black mirrors” so many of us are glued to each day. Cellular phones, computers and, especially for children, television, facilitate a kind of “reverse-Weberian,” late capitalistic assault on our collective attention, he said.
On Thursday morning, the University of Virginia Children's Hospital hosted a symposium to highlight important research from the past year. The research dealt with a range of children's health topics such as the development of an improved method for diagnosing treatment-resistant asthma.
Scientists have discovered a gene that is believed to protect against heart attacks and stroke. They also believe that this gene might be able to delay the aging process. The strand of DNA responsible - dubbed the 'fountain of youth' gene - had previously been thought to be inactive in adults. Some questionable studies have implied that it may have other function later in life; however the researchers from University of Virginia School of Medicine are the first to give conclusive evidence that the gene plays a critical protective role during the formation of atherosclerotic plaques ins...
UVA Alzheimer's researchers now have more money to understand how the disease works and ways to slow it down. The Alzheimer’s Association is giving researchers at UVA a grant for $450,000.
Want to see someone age five years in under five minutes? UVA student Sam Reid did it by taking a picture of himself every day for five years and turning the photos into a video set to Coldplay’s “Life in Technicolor ii.”
Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English at UVA, published a collection from 30 years’ worth of poems, reviewed here.
A former Craig County student will intern at Google this summer. Craig County High School graduate and second-year UVA student Kacey Price will spend the next three months working on virtual reality games at Google’s Los Angeles campus.
Bob Gibson, executive director of UVA’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, will step down to take a position at the University’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
China’s rapid growth over the past two decades has been accompanied by rising wage inequality, an issue highlighted by two conference participants. UVA’s Dennis Yang explored the distributional effects of trade openness in China and found a significant impact on wage inequality of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.
UVA medical researchers say they've discovered a way to help slow the effects of aging on the heart. At the core of the research is “Oct4,” a gene many believed the body stopped producing when we are embryos.
A 2014 study by UVA researchers suggested that the fast kids – the ones who were smoking or drinking before their peers or whose relationships with the opposite sex had moved at a faster pace than those of their classmates – weren’t doing as well when they were young adults.
A UVA study released earlier this year found that, compared to 1998, children today are spending far less time on self-directed learning – moving freely and doing activities that they themselves chose – and measurably more time in a passive learning environment.
A gene, thought to be inactive in adults, may actually play a vital role in preventing heart attacks and strokes and could also delay some of the effects of ageing, scientists have found. Finding a way to augment the expression of this gene in adult cells may have profound implications for promoting health and possibly reversing some of the detrimental effects with ageing," said Gary K. Owens, from the UVA School of Medicine.
People who run small companies are learning how to do business with UVA. The Procurement and Supplier Diversity Services Department hosted a vendor training session at the University Wednesday morning.
UVA’s Rotunda has been restricted to the public for two years now, but most of the fences have recently been taken down for the upcoming Final Exercises.