UVA President Teresa Sullivan presented former Secretary of State Madeline Albright with the Edward R. Stettinius Prize for Global Leadership at the Boar's Head Tuesday night.
UVA honored former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright her with an award for her leadership around the globe. UVA President Teresa Sullivan presented Albright with UVA’s new Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Prize Tuesday night.
UVA has sent acceptance letters to more than 9,350 students this year, an increase of 4.2 percent over the previous year. A total of 32,426 students applied for an undergraduate spot at the university, widely regarded as one of the top public institutions in the United States.
Cutting-edge technology is helping researchers develop treatments for neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and ALS. Doctors and clinicians from all over the commonwealth came together for what they call a "Brains in a Dish" symposium at the UVA Medical Center.
UVA students got a behind-the-scenes look at where some of their unwanted water bottles, soda cans and used food containers go to be given a new life Tuesday.
"This report is a one-stop shop to try to understand the prevalence of kidney disease, how it's being treated and how the burden affects various populations," said researcher Rajesh Balkrishnan, a professor of public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine.
In 2009, UVA law professor Brandon L. Garrett was poring over old trial records, looking for questionable forensic science evidence, when he came across the case of Keith Allen Harward, convicted of rape and murder in Newport News in 1986. Now, the Innocence Project says recent DNA testing proves Harward didn’t commit the brutal 1982 crimes.
The UVA guard was named a first-team All-American by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. He earlier earned the same honor from Sporting News and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
"I do think if you’re Clinton, it wouldn’t hurt to pick someone a little more well-known,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
They are able to provide these services at a free or reduced cost to clients like Mary because the Wagon closely collaborates with universities and organizations around the country such as the UVA Health System and The Virginia Healthcare Foundation.
The Locust Grove neighborhood of Charlottesville topped the study’s list of five neighborhoods in small cities across the country for living well based on its high concentration of quiet streets, parks and health care amenities, as well as its proximity to the bustling University of Virginia.
UVA now is one of 19 colleges across the country to receive the HEARTSafe Campus designation. The designation means a person has one of the best chances for survival if their heart stops beating while at the university.
Fourth-year UVA nursing students are visiting Louisa County classrooms teaching kids cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
A research study by Darden Professor Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt suggested that when higher-status people in a collaboration delayed their response to messages, their delay added to their perceived competence, but when lower-status people responded with delay, they were seen as less competent.
Margaret Riley is a UVA law professor and head of the school’s Animal Law Program, so you might expect her to advocate stronger laws for the protection of hogs on American farms. In fact, she doesn’t think that’s the best way to go.
Recently, UVA political scientist Larry Sabato projected the most likely scenario for Trump to get past 1,237. It requires Trump to carry both Wisconsin and Indiana handily – which polling suggests he won't manage – and even then he lands at only 1,239.
In 2009, UVA law professor Brandon L. Garrett was poring over old trial records, looking for questionable forensic science evidence, when he came across the case of Keith Allen Harward, convicted of rape and murder in Newport News in 1986. Now, the Innocence Project says recent DNA testing proves Harward didn’t commit the brutal 1982 crimes.
For Geoff Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, the unusual factors at play in this campaign could upend the usual coattail effect, in which parties generally win Senate races in states that their presidential candidate won. But that’s where McCain’s long tenure could come in to play, he said. “I have a difficult time thinking McCain will lose his primary,” Skelley said, who was optimistic about McCain’s chances in the general election as well.
Hamilton Lombard, a research specialist at UVA's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service who tracks statewide population estimates, said the Peninsula's geography makes it conducive for continued suburban expansion.
After a first round of convention balloting, Michigan’s delegates would become free agents, no longer bound to vote for the candidate they were sent to the convention to nominate. “If that happens, you want people who are sort of secret agents, if you will, even if they’re not so secret,” UVA political analyst Geoffrey Skelley said. “It’s been a while since this mattered in a way that might make or break someone’s nomination.”