Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee has some advice for Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, as budget gridlock continues in Richmond. The one-time Republican, turned Democrat spoke to students at the University of Virginia Wednesday afternoon.
It's microscopic, blob-shaped and toothless. But the amoeba known as Entamoeba histolytica turns out to be the werewolf of parasites. New research shows that this nearly transparent microbe, a significant scourge in parts of the developing world, carves chunks off a living cell and devours them, leading to the cell's disintegration and death. Never before have scientists discovered an organism that kills cells by biting. The finding could lead to new medications to treat the dysentery and diarrhea caused by the amoeba or to vaccines to prevent infection. "I've spent my entire ...
The University of Virginia’s Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department is now part of an elite group of schools providing research for Rolls-Royce. Rolls-Royce says Wednesday's announcement solidifies a connection with the university that began several years ago.
A small group speaking out against gay rights caused quite a stir at the University of Virginia Wednesday. The protest created a large and unique response from students. At first, dozens of students silently watched the group protest gay rights. Then a few students spoke up, causing quite a chain reaction. The group's protesting prompted dozens of students to join hands and belt out the university's de facto alma mater, drowning out the protester's message.
Q&A with U.Va. alumna Dawn Fields Wise, whose first screenplay, “The Poem,” is a finalist in the Nashville Film Festival’s inaugural Screenwriting Competition, which drew more than 1,500 entries in feature, short and teleplay divisions.
Most of us have heard of the brain-eating amoeba. Now let me introduce you to its cousin: the gut-eating amoeba. This nasty critter can wreak havoc in your intestinal tract and cause a dreadful case of food poisoning that may last months or years. Now scientists have figured out how this amoeba makes us sick. Its tactics are more nefarious than we thought. The single-cell animal bites off tiny chunks of intestine, chews on them for a while and then spits them out, microbiologists report Wednesday in the journal Nature. Internist William Petri and his team at the University of Virginia caught a...
In the U.S., men and women are waiting longer than ever to get married. According to a 2013 report from the University of Virginia, the average age at which men first marry in America has risen to 28.7, and 26.5 for women.
And some question whether Johnson would be as successful in the current political environment, noting he had the tide of history on his side. “We’re in a history period now of increments,” said Kent Germany, a history professor at the University of South Carolina and a scholar with the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “In the 1960s they were in the period of big gulps. This was a period of major changes.”
About two-thirds of respondents to the Association of Governing Boards survey have not discussed issues related to adjunct faculty employment status, including compensation, voice in governance, or job security. Robert O’Neill, former president of the University of Virginia and a special assistant to the president of AGB, helped design the survey. In an interview, he said he was “struck” by that finding, but that it illustrates the “general indifference of most institutions and their boards, and, I have to say, administrators, toward adjuncts.”
Malcolm “Mac” Holliday, Jr., a doctor who pioneered kidney treatments for children and retired in Inverness, died on March 26. He was 90.
While at Fox Chapel, JB Kolod rewrote the record books with his diving skills. He's now on a full-fledged assault on the diving records at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia and Virginia Tech are now a part of a worldwide network of universities helping Rolls-Royce with engineering research. UVa and Virginia Tech were named to the company’s network of University Technology Centers, a group of about 30 institutions from around the world. They, along with Purdue University, are the only American institutions with the designation.
Two University of Virginia researchers will give a presentation on teaching teens with autism-spectrum disorders to drive. Parents are invited to attend the event, led by Daniel Cox and Ronald Reeve, in Room 104 of Bavaro Hall on April 19. The talk, which begins at 11 a.m., also will cover the latest research on the subject, including some work being done at UVa.
“This is an impressive total for Warner at this juncture in the election year,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “And to have nearly $9 million cash on hand just proves what we’ve always believed: Warner will have all the money he needs and then some for his re-election contest, probably without relying on much or any of his enormous personal bank account.”
(Podcast) Siva Vaidhyanathan, chair and professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, explores “big data” – what it is and how it is launching new fields of research from science to politics, and how the University of Virginia is positioned to become a national leader. He also discusses the proposed merger between Comcast and Time-Warner Cable, in addition to the “Heartbleed Bug” that threatens web security in a frightening new way.
(Podcast) Ed Murphy, astronomer at the University of Virginia, discusses the historic news that a liquid water ocean has been discovered on a moon of Saturn. He also previews the upcoming lunar eclipse early on Tuesday, April 15.
(Podcast) U.Va. Innovation will honor Dr. J. Randall Moorman as the 2014 Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year on Wednesday in recognition of his body of research and, specifically, for the development of a predictive monitoring tool for early diagnosis of potentially fatal illnesses in infants. He discusses the technology, and the award.