If minor league baseball leaves North Boulevard, and ultimately, Richmond, its fate was sealed by General Assembly actions dating to the 1970s. State legislators began imposing moratoriums on city-county annexations in 1971. “By 1986 the General Assembly again felt it appropriate to apply a ‘temporary’ moratorium on annexation with the intent to study the issue and determine methods for improving the process,” according to a 2012 article by Andrew V. Sorrell and Bruce A. Vlk for the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
It’s hard enough to figure out just how many parts a body really has – what with all those bones, tissues, cells, and organs – now we have to add another one. According to The Guardian, researchers at University of Virginia discovered vessels that link our brains to our central nervous systems. “These vessels were just not supposed to be there based on what we know,” Jonathan Kipnis, from the University of Virginia, told The Guardian. “I thought the body was mapped and that these discoveries ended somewhere around the middle of the last century. But apparent...
A device acting as an artificial pancreas has got to pass two more stages of testing before being approved for used by the public. It was developed to stop the need for manual injections in diabetes sufferers, which could be needed multiple times per day. "To be ultimately successful as an optimal treatment for diabetes, the artificial pancreas needs to prove its safety and efficacy in long-term pivotal trials in the patient's natural environment," said Boris Kovatchev, lead researcher of the artificial pancreas from the University of Virginia.
In the age of trigger warnings, safe spaces and bias reporting systems, faculty at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise have passed a resolution in support of free speech and academic freedom, declaring a campus atmosphere that allows open debate “develops the mind and intellect.”
The largest universities in Maryland and Virginia remain two online behemoths: the public University of Maryland University College, with more than 49,000 students, and the private Liberty University, with more than 80,000. New data from state higher education authorities show that fall enrollment was relatively stable at most schools. The University of Virginia placed No. 5 in rankings under public universities in Virginia: 23,883 (up 1 percent from 23,732).
The Republican Party of Virginia's plans to require voters to pledge allegiance to the GOP is causing a major rift among the commonwealth's conservatives three months before voters head to the polls on Super Tuesday.
Brian Nosek, a UVA professor of psychology, attempted to replicate the findings of 100 psychology studies and found that only 39 percent of the results held up under rigorous re-testing.
UVA Researchers will head a $12.7 million project studying a smartphone application that wirelessly reads a sensor measuring a person’s glucose level and that tells an insulin pump to deliver the correct dose.
It’s almost time for Kate Tamarkin to pass the baton, but she’s already busy starting an upbeat new movement. The music director and conductor of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia will be retiring in the spring of 2017 after a decade at the helm. Audience members can see her in front of the symphony for the rest of the current season, and for the first and final concerts of the 2016-17 season.
My name is Savannah Lane and I am the current reigning Miss Virginia 2015 in the Miss America Organization (an organization known for scholarship and service). I am a student at the University of Virginia studying Foreign Affairs and Middle Eastern studies with a concentration in the Arabic language.
“We did not expect to find hints of a nitrogen-based glacial cycle on Pluto operating in the frigid conditions of the outer Solar System,” adds Alan Howard of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. “Driven by dim sunlight, this would be directly comparable to the hydrological cycle that feeds ice caps on Earth, where water is evaporated from the oceans, falls as snow, and returns to the seas through glacial flow.”
In less than 30 days, actual votes will finally trump the polls in one of the most unpredictable presidential races in recent memory, marked in large part by the sudden rise of a brash-talking political phenomenon known as The Donald. “No one absolutely has to win Iowa, but it would be very helpful for both Trump and Cruz. They’ll have to explain why they lost, if they do. The others have an excuse: ‘We weren’t expected to win anyway,’ ” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia.
In less than 30 days, actual votes will finally trump the polls in one of the most unpredictable presidential races in recent memory, marked in large part by the sudden rise of a brash-talking political phenomenon known as The Donald. “No one absolutely has to win Iowa, but it would be very helpful for both Trump and Cruz. They’ll have to explain why they lost, if they do. The others have an excuse: ‘We weren’t expected to win anyway,’ ” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia.
A commission charged with evaluating Haiti’s Oct. 25 presidential and legislative elections has found that egregious irregularities and a high presumption of fraud plagued the vote, while the electoral machine requires sweeping changes in order to hold a postponed runoff. “The commission is in fact saying that legitimate elections are impossible by Jan. 17. If elections were to take place under current conditions, they would not resolve the existing political impasse but instead would plunge the country into a deeper crisis,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti expert and political s...
(By R.K. Ramazani, the Edward R. Stettinius Professor Emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia) After years of discussion, Iran’s nuclear agreement of July reached a turning point last week on Dec. 28. A Russian shipment carried almost all of Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium out of the country, a major step toward implementing the nuclear deal struck last summer. For the first time in nearly a decade, Iran was left with too little fuel to manufacture a nuclear weapon.
The Hospice of the Piedmont is inviting the public to an open house at its new Center for Acute Hospice Care. The open house will take place Jan. 6 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the center's location on the third floor of the University of Virginia Transitional Care Hospital in the Northridge Medical Park on Ivy Road.
Engineers are planning to construct the nation’s first offshore energy-producing wind farm off the Virginia coast in the next 15 years. First, Eric Loth — chairman of the University of Virginia’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering — will have to solve a major engineering obstacle. Loth is leading a team of researchers tasked with designing turbines that can withstand hurricane-force winds.
University of Virginia students hit the runway Saturday night to help Charlottesville and Albemarle County high school students go to college. The "Fashion for a Cause" show featured designers from Washington D.C. to California.
Gerry Yemen, a senior researcher at the Darden School of Business, co-writes about lessons businesses could learn from the challenges of global health.
UVA’s Dr. Karen Maughan, whose office handles care for all refugees who are settling in Charlottesville, is lauded for her work with both patients and the community at large.