UVA psychiatrist Dr. Jim Tucker researches cases of children who remember past lives. The children are usually around 2 or 3 years old when they become verbal, and start talking about another person.
UVA’s Center for Telehealth stands to gain a lot in a new bill introduced by Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., that would make it cheaper and easier for people on Medicare to take advantage of telehealth services in their area.
UVA men's basketball coach Tony Bennett has raised $7,500 for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville, and he may be able to raise even more. The popular coach has made it to round two in the ESPN Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge. Only the top 24 coaches made it into the next round of voting, which began last week.
The UVA football coaching staff picked up 20 commitments in the days leading up to National Signing Day — and one criminal.
“Commercial devices derived from this work could potentially affect 30 to 50 percent of the type 1 diabetes population in wealthy countries such as Western Europe, the U.S. and Japan,” said Marc Breton, an engineer at UVA’s Center for Diabetes Technology Research.
Defense attorneys and academics have long called on states to initiate safeguards so that jail cell information is either recorded or corroborated, but only Illinois has written anything into law. “There have been multiple snitch scandals in multiple places,” said Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor who studies wrongful convictions. “Since more states are looking at wrongful convictions, it’s becoming part of the conversation.”
The biotech company Amgen Inc. and prominent biochemist Bruce Alberts have created a new online journal that aims to lift the curtain on often hidden results in biomedicine: failed efforts to confirm other groups’ published papers. The project joins other efforts to promote reproducibility; the nonprofit Center for Open Science headed by UVA psychologist Brian Nosek is working with contract labs to replicate experiments from up to 50 high-impact papers in cancer biology.
The Charlottesville Business Innovation Council credits UVA for helping lure lucrative venture capital to the area.
UVA’s Darden School of Business is bringing its MBA program for executives to Greater Washington, the school said Wednesday.
UVA’s Darden School of Business is taking over a building in Rosslyn to expand its executive MBA programs. The idea is that having a new campus just across the river from Washington will entice students who don't want to go to Charlottesville, including some who will fly in just for the weekend and fly out again to go back to work.
Startup companies often pride themselves on being atypical, so it is fitting that UVA’s first Startup Career Fair was not your typical career fair. For two hours on Tuesday evening, students gathered at Newcomb Hall to meet with more than 30 startups eager for their talent. There were résumés and handshakes, but there was also a DJ, food from local small businesses like Grit Coffee, Campus Cookies and Caribe Juice, and even some colorful lighting.
(By Jennifer Doleac, assistant professor of public policy and economics) We all want to reduce gun violence, but often disagree about the best approach. One reason is that we don’t have enough information about which policies work. The good news is that better data exist.
Members of the UVA Police Department and Safety Ambassador program say they are excited to have a new space to debrief, field calls, and welcome in people who feel they are in danger. They will also share the substation with city police.
UVA moved up two spots in the Princeton Review's list of the Top 50 Schools that give the highest return on the cost of tuition. The review highlighted the school's efforts to keep the cost of tuition down.
National Signing Day 2016 marks the end of one recruiting period, but, really, it continues the beginning of a whole new era. With Bronco Mendenhall in at UVA and Justin Fuente in at Virginia Tech, there’s new blood on the commonwealth’s trails.
“This could open up years of litigation and settlements in the same way that tobacco litigation did, also spearheaded by attorneys general,” UVA law professor Brandon L. Garrett said. “In some ways, the theory is similar – that the public was misled about something dangerous to health. Whether the same smoking guns will emerge, we don’t know yet.”
Political pundit Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics said, “Kasich has focused almost exclusively on New Hampshire, so he needs a very strong performance in order for the state to reinvigorate his candidacy and generate the positive national press and fund-raising boost he needs.”
The University of Virginia Darden Business School announced on Feb. 3 that it will offer its Executive MBA and its Global Executive MBA in the Washington, D.C. area starting in August.
“The win has clarified the minds of most party activists. Basically you’ve got three finalists now in Trump, Cruz and Rubio and people can focus on that,” UVA political analyst Larry Sabato said.
Future teachers who received multimedia instruction about how to use a specific teaching strategy outperformed peers who read the same information in textbooks, according to a study from UVA’s Curry School of Education.