“Our understanding of major processes involving this important component of the earth system is evolving rapidly,” agreed atmosphere researcher Bill Keene of the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia Health System is now part of a national network designed to explore new treatments for neurological diseases. The first clinical trial UVA is taking part in tests whether one medication for progressive multiple sclerosis will work.
National political analysts have noted the change. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, has moved the race from “likely Democratic” to “leans Democratic,” commenting that “Gardner should give Udall a stiffer challenge than the other Republicans in the field.”
The Saffir-Simpson scale, which assigns 1-5 ratings for hurricane intensity, has become a household term each summer and fall when destructive tropical tempests threaten our coastlines. On Saturday, meteorologists from as far away as Florida and Texas convened for a luncheon in Washington Saturday to celebrate the visionary behind the scale, Robert Simpson, a former U.Va. faculty member.
For nearly 15 years, Randy Lichtenberger has been shedding light on the long-buried secrets of the Lynchburg region's history.
It's one thing to get a college education and quite another to get a job with that degree. Now, the University of Virginia is trying to better connect students with the real world that will be waiting for them once they've graduated.
In honor of Women’s History Month, MTS had the opportunity to interview a woman of strong, righteous character. Ms. Monica Wright. Monica is a prominent female basketball player who has excelled on the collegiate level setting records at the University of Virginia, and in the pros with already two WNBA champions (2011 & 2013) in her young, promising career (3 years pro, Minnesota Lynx).
Gregory Holt is serving a life sentence for burglary and domestic battery in Arkansas, one of seven states, including Virginia, that bars prisoners from growing a beard. His lawyer says that's a problem, because Holt is a Muslim. "There are hadiths, which are sayings of the prophet and people close to him that say you're not supposed to shave your beard," explains Douglas Laycock, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Virginia.
In 1989, German graffiti artist Dennis Kaun painted a mural on four panels of the Berlin Wall. The mural, titled “Kings of Freedom,” depicted two kings – one blindfolded and painted in gray, representing communist East Germany, and the other painted in bright red and yellow, representing capitalist West Germany. Just days later, the wall came down, allowing East German citizens to cross over in to West Germany for the first time in more than 28 years. Next month, students and local residents will get the chance to see the wall on Grounds at the University of Virginia.
The Virginia men’s basketball team knew all along it would have an unusual eight-day gap between games to end the regular season. But coming on the heels of a 75-56 romp over Syracuse last Saturday, a victory that propelled the No. 5 Cavaliers to their first outright ACC regular season title since 1981, this break in the schedule before Sunday’s regular season finale at Maryland has also allowed for reflection: On how far the program has come in five seasons under Coach Tony Bennett, how far it could go this season and, perhaps most significantly, how it arrived here after appearin...
(By Robert Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business) The 2014 Winter Olympics games are now behind us. The cascade of newly created celebrities sparks a reflection about the winner-take-all phenomenon: The asymmetry of rewards, where the winner reaps an outsize share of the rewards in the game, leaves little or nothing behind for the others.
(By Tomicah Tilleman, senior adviser for civil society and emerging democracies at the U.S. Department of State; Teresa A. Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia; and Taylor Reveley, president of the College of William & Mary) Thomas Jefferson, our first secretary of state, a graduate of William and Mary, and the founder of the University of Virginia, frequently reminded his contemporaries that freedom and good governance depend upon an educated, engaged citizenry. In the spirit of Jefferson, the State Department, the University of Virginia, and William and Mary partnered earlie...
Rick Webb has spent plenty of time on the brook trout streams of Virginia, some as an angler and more as a scientist. As a member of the department of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia for 25 years, Webb served as project coordinator on two long-term studies of brook trout habitat, the Shenandoah Watershed Study and the Virginia Trout Stream Sensitivity Study before retiring in February. It’s safe to say Webb has probably forgotten more about brook trout and where they live than most people could hope to know.
Three college presidents—Teresa A. Sullivan of the University of Virginia, Mary Sue Coleman of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Ricardo Azziz of Georgia Regents University—sat down with Chronicle reporters here at the American Council on Education’s annual meeting to talk about leadership. Watch the linked videos to hear Ms. Sullivan’s thoughts on managing relationships with Boards of Trustees, Ms. Coleman’s strategies for juggling the many demands of a major research institution, and Mr. Azziz’s reflections on the challenges of merging two unive...
There are many forms through which one can analyze architecture—drawings, models, digital renderings—but they nearly all cater exclusively to the eyes. University of Virginia architecture professor Karen Van Lengen wants us not only to look outside the box, but to listen to the environment inside the box, expanding our sensorial experience of architecture for a deeper understanding of design. She recently launched a digital project meant to do just that.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, told CBSDC that Putin’s actions are allowing Obama to be perceived as weak. “It’s never a good thing for the United States when the president speaks and an adversary doesn’t listen. Power is partly perception, and in circumstances like this, Obama is perceived to be weak,” Sabato said. “Of course, Putin isn’t listening to the other world powers opposed to his move either. Those leaders know that the only potentially effective solution in the short term would be military ac...
Terry Rephann, a regional economist with the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, has researched the labor impacts of expansion on various areas of Virginia’s economy. While he hasn’t researched the specifics for local Departments of Social Services, he said expansion would require more people to handle applications and cases. “If you’re just talking about people who do the paperwork, I would imagine it would have to increase because you have a lot more people who are going to be eligible,” Rephann said. “But how much they&...
“An ideal substance would be readily available, inexpensive, long-lasting, natural-feeling, and would not cause adverse immunologic reactions,” writes Dr. Thomas J. Gampper, vice chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at University of Virginia School of Medicine. Fat, he concludes, has the potential to hit all of those marks, though, for the moment at least, it’s not necessarily a less expensive option because of the labor involved in removing it, processing it, and injecting it back into the body.
Other experts say that unless a big name jumps in at the 11th hour, Graham appears well-positioned against any of the current crop, since only one of them has ever held office, and none has raised significant money. "The lack of a strong, credible opponent - say, a congressman - is potentially Graham's ticket to another term," University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said.