Jason Downer, a research associate professor in the Curry School of Education, discusses what makes a high-quality school.
Nearly 200 people gathered on the north steps of the University of Virginia’s Rotunda on Tuesday for a rally against hate crimes.
"There's some questions as to beyond Kaine and Warner who the Democrats have to run credibly statewide, so there's some people who have come out of the woodwork, and we'll see how they do," said Kyle Kondik with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
As a pediatric dentist in the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Jim Mason traveled to bases around the world and treated children. As one of just 14 pediatric oral surgeons in the U.S. Air Force, he stayed busy.
“Only a fool would be irrationally exuberant about the outcome,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. “What is in the national interest--a solid, comprehensive deal on taxes, spending, entitlements, and debt--contradicts, in different ways, the political preferences of both parties."
In their second and final joint meeting Tuesday, the 16 members of the Albemarle and Charlottesville planning commissions continued their discussion about cooperative planning goals. University Architect David Neuman also participated in the discussion.
Coursera, the largest platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs), on Tuesday announced Coursera Career Services, a match-making tool aimed at connecting its most talented students to companies that are looking to hire.
Diffusion Pharmaceuticals LLC, a biotechnology company developing innovative cancer treatments, announced that it has successfully completed a Phase I clinical trial of its lead compound. A Safety Monitoring Committee comprised of expert, independent clinicians and researchers met Nov. 14, reviewed the Phase I patient safety data and authorized immediate open enrollment for the follow-on Phase II study. Dr. James Larner and Dr. Jason Sheehan of the University of Virginia Health System are study co-chairs for this multi-institutional trial.
MeadWestvaco has partnered with a US university to support the development of a new material to improve resealable product packaging. The firm has joined with the University of Virginia to back the work of Louis A. Bloomfield, professor and associate chair of the physics department in the College of Arts & Sciences, for the enhancement of a material he has developed which has the potential to transform packaging adhesives.
The University of Virginia is getting ready for the 12th annual Lighting of the Lawn. The trustees of this year's graduating class will also do some fundraising during the Thursday night event.
A call center is now open for University of Virginia Medical Center patients who want to know if their personal information is at risk, after the medical center announced the loss of a device on Friday.
Monday morning, University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan and Executive Vice President Pat Hogan brought out their bells in front of Mincer's to help the Salvation Army.
"For many women with PCOS, (the risks) will be small," said Dr. Christopher McCartney, an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, who was not involved in the new work. "For some women, they might be high enough to say we really shouldn't use the Pill, such as for women over 35 who smoke."
Before Facebook... before Email... before TV... even before radio, there were books. Could it be that, through-out the last century, book-buying and book-reading altered millions of Americans’ religious beliefs? An interview with Matthew Hedstrom, assistant professor of American studies and religious studies.
Kyle Kondik, director of communications with University of Virginia's Center for Politics, talks about the politics surrounding the fiscal cliff.
NBC correspondent and University of Virginia graduate Sara James is back in Charlottesville Monday night to share her passion for a special type of education.
Virginia Beach attorney Kevin Martingayle, a 1991 U.Va. Law graduate, has been voted the next president-elect of the Virginia State Bar in the first contested election in 11 years.
Katie Dorset remembered Monday how Casey Schulman buoyed the spirits of Semester at Sea classmates over Thanksgiving as they suffered repellent poisoning under mosquito nets in the Amazon.
The nameless graves follow the line of a long-gone fence. They’re mostly marked with fieldstones, if they’re marked at all. And though they sit just outside the stately stone wall of the University of Virginia Cemetery, it’s unlikely anyone today will know who was buried there generations ago.
University of Virginia students and the people who live around them tried to compromise to turn down the volume on noisy parties in the surrounding neighborhoods.