Scaffolding is going up at the University of Virginia in preparation for a roof replacement project of the East Range.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered that the deadly ebola virus uses a "molecular fist" to punch its way out of vesicles - the secure pockets that cells keep captured viruses and other unwanted agents in until they can be disposed of. Once it has punched its way out of the vesicle, the virus escapes into the fluid environment inside the cell - the cytoplasm - where it wreaks havoc by converting the cell machinery into a virus-replication factory.
A smartphone app - called STEMISend - developed by U.Va. researchers is helping emergency responders in Orange County get heart attack patients into surgery much faster.
Robert O’Neil, former president of the University of Virginia and a senior fellow at the Association Governing Boards, said it was “crucial and compelling” to involve the faculty in presidential searches. “At whatever level,” he said, “substantial faculty involvement in senior administrative searches strikes me as crucial.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, told CBSDC that the administration tried to sell this “great story” of praising Bergdahl as a hero.
Dr. Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, chief executive of the Cleveland Clinic hospital system and a decorated Vietnam veteran, received his medical degree from U.Va.
Virginia wants to keep men's basketball coach Tony Bennett in Charlottesville for many more years. Coming off the program's best season in decades, the school announced Tuesday that Bennett has signed a new seven-year contract that will keep him courtside with the Cavaliers through the 2020-21 season.
Bennett has talked about his blueprint, his pillars of building a program ever since he arrived. He talked about building a program to last. He refused to take short cuts. We’ve witnessed a program in the making. Each year, his Cavaliers have improved their record.
One man is leading the charge to eliminate medical mistakes at the UVA Medical Center, and he’s set up a war room to do the job. Each weekday morning at 7 a.m. Dr. Richard Shannon, UVA’s Vice President for Health Affairs, assembles 15 top administrators. ... He also takes issue with a medical care pyramid that puts doctors at the top. That’s music to the ears of Dorie Fontaine, Dean of the School of Nursing. Shannon and Fontaine agree -- nurses need to be on the team - making rounds with the doctors and sharing essential information.
The debate between those who want students to specialize quickly and those who advocate for a broad, contextual education is as old as America itself. The health of a republic, Thomas Jefferson argued, depends on the education of its citizens. Against those arguing for more technical training, he founded the University of Virginia, emphasizing the freedom that students and faculty would exercise there, unlike Harvard University and its many imitators.
The Room of Errors is helping medical professionals put an end to everyday mistakes that could become life-threatening. Errors are part of the job, but this time, it is all staged.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors will get a makeover in the fall with the addition of four members, including Norfolk State University’s former rector and a couple of major contributors to Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s campaign.
Charlottesville civil rights activists are being honored for their work training teachers and administrators in the wake of desegregating city schools, a process that took decades of work between the 1960s and the 1980s. Monday, Charlottesville's Office of Human Rights is recognizing The Consultative Resource Center for School Desegregation, which was based in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and opened because of massive resistance. Curry School professor Patrice Grimes led a presentation called “Beyond Beta Bridge" to spotlight the center's histo...