State lawmakers made a stop in Charlottesville Wednesday, discussing a topic that hits home at the University of Virginia. They're ready to tackle big issues such as transparency at universities across the state.
As the nation reflects on the massacre in Newtown, students at University of Virginia are memorializing victims in their own unique way. Beta Bridge on Rugby Road is painted green and white, with bold letters spelling "Hoos for Newtown."
The number of whooping cough cases reported in the United States has doubled over the last year, but a group of University of Virginia students is making strides in making detection easier and cheaper.
Speaking in the Dome Room of the University of Virginia’s famous Rotunda, with President Teresa A. Sullivan looking on, two legislators said Wednesday they wouldn’t vote to confirm Rector Helen E. Dragas. Another two refused to make that vow.
The benefits of the proposed Sunset-Fontaine Connector might not be as significant as once thought, Albemarle County planning staff said Tuesday. The connector road was called for in the 2004 Southern Urban Area B Study, which produced a framework for, among other things, transportation plans in an area near the University of Virginia and the border between Albemarle and Charlottesville. The road would link residential neighborhoods off Old Lynchburg Road in the county's growth area to employment centers at UVa and the Fontaine Research Park.
Facing organized opposition from alumni, students and faculty, the embattled head of the University of Virginia's governing board is lobbying key lawmakers in Richmond in an effort to hold on to her position.
Jim Tobin, executive director of Piedmont Community Services, said he totally endorses comments made to USA Today by forensic psychologist Dewey Cornell, director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project at the University of Virginia. Cornell is one of the authors of a position statement titled “A Call for More Effective Prevention of Violence” in response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. The statement was endorsed by more than 100 organizations and more than 200 prevention scholars and practitioners.
Plaques and tangles pockmark the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. The extracellular protein amyloid-β makes plaques, and the intracellular protein tau makes tangles, but how exactly these might kill neurons is unclear. Work presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco, California, this week starts to connect some of these dots. George Bloom, of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and his colleagues began by following up on work that neurons exposed to amyloid-β die not from direct poisoning, but because amyl...
We know that how fast people age is only loosely linked to how old they actually are – and may have more to do with their lifestyle. A new study with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which included U.Va. astronomer Robert T. Rood, reveals that the same is true of star clusters.
Profile of Iraq War veteran and U.Va. graduate Elliott Woods, now a budding journalist who has written for Virginia Quarterly Review.
“She is seen as someone who has endured personal tragedy,” says Meredith Jung-En Woo, a Korea expert and dean at the University of Virginia, “someone who shares the wills and woes of the people.” To her critics, however, she is the dictator’s daughter, a symbol of the country’s authoritarian past.
Often ground-breaking social innovations have humble beginnings. Such was the case with the big turnaround of the public education system in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina and such was also the case with the restructuring of the University of Virginia.
Giant has hosted the in-store campaign since 2004 and has fundraised for the Children's Miracle Network since 1996, raising more than $26 million during the last 16 years. Those funds have been used to support seven regional Children's Miracle Network hospitals: Penn State Children's Hospital at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Janet Weis Children's Hospital at Geisinger Health Systems in Danville, Pa., University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPM...
“Turning our schools into fortresses is not going to solve the problem,” University of Virginia safety expert Dewey Cornell, told Washington Post reporters Donna St. George and Lyndsey Layton for a story on school safety in Tuesday’s Post.
Neuroscientists have for the first time shown individual mouse brain cells being switched on during learning and later reactivated during memory recall. We store episodic memories about events in our lives in a part of a brain called the hippocampus, said Brian Wiltgen, now an assistant professor at the Center for Neuroscience and department of psychology at UC Davis. (Most of the work was conducted while Wiltgen was working at the University of Virginia.)
A Charlottesville judge on Tuesday sentenced Joshua Peter Gomes, a man who broke into the University of Virginia registrar’s office to alter his law school transcript, to 10 years of good behavior.
Virginia Union University no longer is under the sanction that has dealt a blow to the reputation of the University of Virginia. Their accrediting agency this month removed the warning on VUU at the same time it imposed the sanction on U.Va.
“We are already using a lot of dexmedetomidine in ICUs. This study adds to our comfort level that dexmedetomidine is cost-effective,” said Marcia Buck, a clinical pharmacy coordinator at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital. “With the downsides of using propofol in terms of its toxicity profile, it is good to have this kind of data available.”
Late last month, Kyle Bass, managing partner of Hayman Capital, shared his thoughts in a video at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Investing Conference with Professor Ken Eades.
Practice Qigong: This Chinese mind-body exercise combines breath control and slow movements to reduce stress and improve focus, but it may also help combat colds. Twenty-seven varsity swimmers in a University of Virginia study learned qigong, and during their seven-week training season, those who practiced it at least once a week got 70 percent fewer respiratory infections than swimmers who used it less.