Virginia is projected to get a 12th U.S. House seat after the 2020 U.S. census, according to demographers at the University of North Carolina, which portends continued upheaval over the state’s district boundaries. A 12th U.S. House seat would give Virginia its largest congressional delegation since the 1850s, when the state had 13 representatives and it still included the territory now known as West Virginia, said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Virginia is projected to get a 12th U.S. House seat after the 2020 U.S. census, according to demographers at the University of North Carolina, which portends continued upheaval over the state’s district boundaries. A 12th congressional seat also would raise Virginia’s number of electoral votes to 14, further fueling this swing state’s importance in presidential elections. That would be Virginia’s largest number of electoral votes since it had 15 in the 1860 presidential election. A 12th U.S. House seat would give Virginia its largest congressional delegation since the 1...
Novant Health and the University of Virginia Health System are finalizing details of a joint venture that will bring community hospitals in northern Virginia from both groups under the same umbrella. UVA Health System officials and Novant Health leaders are working out the last details of the partnership's structure, with the expectation it will be launched next month.
Donna Spruijt-Metz, professor of psychology (research) and director of the Mobile Health Collaboratory at USC’s Center for Social and Economic Research, and Kayla de la Haye, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, have teamed up with researchers at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science to devise a data-driven method for combating obesity. But instead of focusing on what people eat, the study will observe family dynamics while eating — and what triggers overeating.
Researchers at the University of Virginia are gauging the community's support for a study of patients who have a condition that causes prolonged epileptic seizures. Usually no data can be collected from people receiving treatment without their prior consent but because patients suffering from this condition cannot provide consent during a seizure, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed a special set of rules.
Students at the University of Virginia are trying to make people think more about sustainability when it comes to the food that they buy. Environmental science students are wrapping up a two week study of Clark Café at UVA, tracking people's choices. They give foods a sustainability rating label of one to five stars based on the amounts of pollutants, in the form of carbon and nitrogen, used in the food's production.
A student bus service bound for a stop at the University of Virginia crashed on a Richmond highway Sunday night. The accident happened around 7:15 p.m. on the Powhite Parkway in Chesterfield County. Representatives from Home Ride of Virginia confirmed to NBC29 that the bus was traveling from Virginia Commonwealth University with its next stop in Charlottesville when it crashed.
“People feel like the future is hopeless and they don’t know where to begin,” said Carol Manning, director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
The University of Virginia is leading a growing effort to reduce its “nitrogen footprint” — its net impact on nitrogen pollution.
“Trump’s constituency has been shown to be both deeply angry and disproportionately non-college-educated,” said UVA’s Larry Sabato. “Trump gives voice to their frustrations, and they don’t particularly care about his constant stream of insults and outrageous bragging.”
University of Virginia fourth-year student Russell Bogue is one of 32 Americans to receive the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship this year. The scholarship covers two years of study at Oxford University in England. Bogue made it through a demanding application process that included a personal statement, eight letters of recommendation and multiple in-person interviews to be selected.
Logan Dandridge, a 21-year-old Patrick Henry High School graduate, is using his photography passion and skills to make a difference on the University of Virginia’s campus. Dandridge created a semi-permanent digital installment called Beyond Skin Deep: The UVA Experience, which features a 50-inch TV screen that shows portraits of the university’s community members and their responses to a few questions. He said he hopes it will encourage students, faculty, and others who may have been affected by racial and social issues to engage in conversation to “foster change” that ...
A simple PVC eraser has helped an international team of scientists led by bioarchaeologists at the University of York to resolve the mystery surrounding the tissue-thin parchment used by medieval scribes to produce the first pocket Bibles.Bruce Holsinger, Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Virginia and the initial humanities collaborator on the project, said: "The research team includes scholars and collaborators from over a dozen disciplines across the laboratory sciences, the humanities, the library and museum sciences—even a parchment maker. In additio...
An economics professor at the University of Virginia is making sure students have a home during the Thanksgiving holiday. Ken Elzinga is opening his doors to students who want to join his family for a feast. Elzinga says any student who wants to attend can but he finds that international students are really the ones who need a home during the holidays.
As she grabbed her car keys and sprinted out of her office, Kimberly Almarode struggled to control the terror that surged through her body. Her son’s preschool teacher had just called to say that Almarode’s 4-year-old son, Bentley, had fallen asleep in a classroom playhouse and teachers were having trouble rousing him. During the previous two weeks, Almarode had grown increasingly worried about her previously healthy middle child. Bentley complained of frequent headaches that had worsened from bothersome to debilitating. But Almarode’s insistence that something serious was wr...
Tysons Corner is a model for what urban planners call an Edge City – located outside Washington, D.C., it’s the commercial center for Fairfax County, with two major shopping malls and countless corporate headquarters. This year, the Metro arrived there, sparking new residential development and the prospect of much more pedestrian traffic – people walking to and from the train. That prompted a team from the University of Virginia to launch a walking study of the place – hoping to document just how hard it is to get around Tysons on foot or bicycle, and to exp...
On Nov. 26, the 330-plus members of the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Marching Band will take part in a tradition almost as iconic as the Thanksgiving turkey — the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
University of Virginia School of Law has named legal historian Risa Goluboff as its new dean to succeed Paul Mahoney, who will be returning to the law school's faculty next summer. She will be the first woman to hold the position.
Scaffolding on the south and west sides of the Rotunda will come down on grounds at the University of Virginia. The iconic building was recently outfitted with a new roof and a completed installment of new capitals. Planners said the architectural upgraded are just one piece of the larger restoration project.
A fourth-year student at the University of Virginia has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar. Russell Bogue of Guilford, Connecticut is one of 32 Americans who get to study in Oxford next year.