Neurosurgeons are using a new procedure called MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound to stop certain types of tremors. Jeff Elias, MD, Neurosurgeon, University of Virginia Medical Center, explains what the new procedure involves, "It involves high resolution MRI scanning as well as ultrasound technology."
The federal government lacks effective tools to change the contradictory financial context of increasing need for post-secondary education at a time of state spending reductions on higher education, writes David Breneman, Curry School professor of education and public policy.
John Herr, professor of cell biology at the University of Virginia Medical School, said Sperm Check is similar to home pregnancy tests and is 98 percent accurate, FDA approved and the results take just 10 minutes.
All schools listed [including U.Va.] report they met, on average, 100 percent of their full-time undergraduates' financial need in fall 2010.
The Cavaliers are ranked 17th in the nation in the preseason coaches poll, and will open up the season Friday in South Carolina against Boston College.
Astronomer, author and blogger Phil Plait [Ph.D. astronomy 1994] spoke about an asteroid impact potentially destroying human life last night to a packed auditorium at Eastern Michigan University’s Student Center.
Clark County District Judge Elissa Cadish (Law '89) has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as a U.S. district judge in Nevada, Sen. Harry Reid announced Thursday.
The students are taking an Introduction to Law class and one of their assignments is to watch trials play out in Charlottesville
Dewey Cornell
Linda K. Bunker Professor of Education
Police 'Tank' Purchase Riles New Hampshire Town
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Phillip Trella
Assistant vice president for graduate studies
More students getting graduate degrees
Washington Post / Feb. 16
Ten scientists specializing in environmental health and green chemistry have been named Environmental Health Sciences’ 2012 Science Communication Fellows. … Jennifer T. Wolstenholme, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia, School of Medicine. Her research with mice investigates changes in social behavior and associated differences in gene expression in the brain following exposure to chemicals in plastics – specifically BPA.
Rita Dove, Miami University graduate and former poet laureate, was awarded a 2011 National Medal of the Arts by President Barack Obama. Dove, who graduated in 1973, was one of eight people presented with the medal on Feb. 13.
Even as Americans feel freer to find a marriage partner without race as a barrier, the institution of marriage faces strains on other fronts, however. The National Marriage Project, a research group based at the University of Virginia, has documented what it calls a worrisome decline of marriage, particularly among poorer and working-class Americans.
The University of Virginia Department of Drama is examining complex issues of discrimination through its new production of Caryl Churchill’s “Vinegar Tom.” The play can be seen at the Helms Theatre.
The audience at The Lodge at Old Trail traveled decades back into American history Thursday night to listen to U.S. presidents air their deepest fears and their most mundane requests. Presidential conversations provided by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia revealed President Lyndon Johnson agonizing over the future of the Vietnam War with Georgia Sen. Richard Russell in 1964. But on another tape, the audience was amused to hear Johnson speak to an official of Haggar Clothing and talk about ill-fitting slacks and jackets he ordered.
Cites the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, developed by researchers at the Curry School of Education, which were used in both the MET study and the most sweeping studies of preschool classroom quality.
Kim Lowry, principal of South Elementary, a 500-student school in rural Kennett, Mo., was wary when her superintendent enrolled her in a part-time, two-year business school program. …That changed in the summer of 2009, when she attended her first classes at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
To mark Presidents Day, the Miller Center at the University of Virginia has launched Presidential Classroom, an online resource to teach students about the U.S. presidency and government.
SpermCheck, an over-the-counter male fertility test, is one of the most recent and high-profile products to emerge from research led by the University of Virginia. But Mark Crowell, UVa’s executive director and associate vice president for innovation partnerships and commercialization, says other noteworthy breakthroughs are on the horizon.
The latest annual college fundraising figures out Wednesday show donations to colleges and universities rose 8.2% in fiscal 2011, crossing back over the $30 billion mark for just the second time ever, and improving many schools' financial footing after several lean years during the economic downturn. But the very richest universities accounted for nearly half the growth.
Washington area colleges earn generally high marks for quality-of-life issues among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, according to an ”LGBT-friendly” index. (U.Va. received 3.5 out of 5 stars.)