The question is does using deer antler spray deliver the benefits its sellers claim? The consensus opinion from leading endocrinologists studying the substance, including Dr. Roberto Salvatori at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Dr. Alan Vogol at the University of Virginia, is that the chances of it delivering on any of these benefits are slim to none.
A new agreement gives graduates of the University of Virginia's College at Wise preferential admission to the Appalachian School of Law.
(By Mary Lou Perry, a University of Virginia diabetes educator, and Barbara H. Martin, a Martha Jefferson Hospital diabetes educator) Diabetes is a challenging disease that affects the entire family. November is National Diabetes Month, and a time when the entire country shines a spotlight on diabetes and encourages action to change the way diabetes is treated.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said the hurdle for Republicans doesn't look any better if you count the underlying votes by citizens, not just the electoral results. "Democrats have also won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential contests," Sabato said. "The demographic shifts heading to mid century are all pro-Democratic."
Day 3 of the Virginia Film Festival began with the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War and ended with a single bullet leading to a spiral of violence. In between, there was Dame Judi Dench in a performance that has to be the biggest stone cold lock in Academy Award history, and Slavoj Žižek giving what has to be the most entertaining 135 minutes in the history of Marxist-Lacanian cultural criticism. Yes, a good film festival can make your head spin a little (before it explodes).
ROTC members at the University of Virginia will march in a 24-hour vigil to honor Veterans Day.
(Audio) On the November 10th edition of the Wake Up Call, host Rick Moore delves into post-election politics with Geoffrey Skelley, Media Relations Coordinator with the University of Virginia Center for Politics and Associate Editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
Nearly 50 US universities have partnerships of one sort or another with Beida, as China’s premier seat of learning is known. Aside from Wellesley staff, only the University of Virginia has said anything at all in public about Xia’s dismissal.
Every July for the past 41 years at a campsite somewhere in the United States, a strange family has gathered to eat, drink, be merry and celebrate their common interest: custom vans. Filmmakers Nick Nummerdor and Andrew Morgan immersed themselves in the world of the vanners for their documentary “Vannin’,” which was screened Sunday as part of the Virginia Film Festival.
It's a wrap for the 26th year of the Virginia Film Festival. The four-day festival featured more than 100 films, and there were lots of eager audiences. Organizers said almost every screening has been full.
The University of Virginia is upgrading its computing core network. The network serves as a pipeline for the exchange of information between sub-networks. These sub-networks connect more than 300 buildings at the Charlottesville campus with each other and the rest of the world.
Robley Bates is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a University of Virginia history and French major, and a graduate of U.Va.’s Darden School of Business with experience in investment banking. With that kind of résumé, doesn’t it just make sense that he bought an oil change and auto maintenance shop franchise in Chesterfield County?
When Corks and Curls, the University of Virginia’s 122-year-old student yearbook, was declared dead in 2010, few students mourned its passing. Its demise saddened alumni, but the consensus on Grounds was that it was outdated and being replaced by social media websites such as Facebook. But the movement to bring it back recently has gained a foothold.
A University of Virginia first-year student is preparing for his first novel to hit bookshelves around the world. Author Schuyler Ebersol wrote “The Hidden World” during a difficult chapter in his own life. A mysterious medical problem kept him homebound, but it opened up the doors to a fantasy world that he is now sharing through the book.
But there are cases where abnormalities in the brain cause criminal behaviour. In 2002, Russell Swerdlow and Jeffrey Burns, neurologists at the University of Virginia medical centre, reported the case of a 40-year-old schoolteacher from Virginia who developed sudden, impulsive paedophilia and was convicted of child molestation. He was signed up for rehabilitation, but was kicked off for propositioning staff. The evening before the man was sentenced, he complained of a headache and being unsteady on his feet. He was taken to hospital, where doctors found an egg-size tumour in his right orbitofr...
Thousands of people in Charlottesville spent the weekend watching movies. The Virginia Film Festival called it a wrap Sunday night. The festival's director said attendance topped last year's record-setting audience numbers.
"There is no war on Christmas," says Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia and scholar on the law of religious liberty. He calls it a "talking point" for the right, including some conservatives uncomfortable with the nation's growing religious diversity. "A certain portion of the Christian community are accustomed to imposing their beliefs on everybody because it didn't really matter; there were not that many non-Christians," he said in an interview. "But now there's 25%."
Although Kickstarter is one of the largest and best known crowd funding platforms, in 2012, there were about 800 such applications, said Sean Carr, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
The University of Virginia Medical Center could lose hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decade, said CEO R. Edward Howell, as provisions of the new health care law kick in.
“I’m not sure he understands how thin the ice is that he’s going to be on,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “It’s not just that Republicans are going to kill everything he tries,” Sabato said. “Once the Cuccinelli threat is removed, [Democrats] are going to go after him with a vengeance if he does anything wrong.”