A new operating room at the University of Virginia Medical Center is combining high-tech laboratory equipment with the operating room setting to allow physicians to use less-invasive techniques.
University of Virginia researchers secured 32 U.S. patents in 2010, including medical imaging tools, improvements in surgical training and other discoveries. The University of Virginia Patent Foundation said the number of patents marked a record for U.Va. inventors.
The University of Virginia Press financed by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission is in the process of putting the published papers of Washington, Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin on a free Web site that is scheduled to be ready in June 2012.
William Frank Johnson Jr., 88, formerly of Ridgewood, died on Dec. 26. He was born in Tientsin, China on July 24, 1922 on an American Army base. He was the son of the late William F. Johnson Sr., retired Captain in U.S. Army, and Frances (Hyatt) Johnson. He graduated from Hackensack High School and earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering at the University of Virginia...
Gerald Engh, MD —affectionately called Dr. Jerry— was named one of the top 70 knee surgeons in the United States by Becker’s Orthopedic & Spine Review. ... After graduating from North Carolina’s Davidson College, Engh earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia.
A bill waiving the one-year residency requirement for veterans and their families to be eligible for in-state tuition was approved by the Virginia Senate Tuesday. ...Even one year of in-state tuition could lead to major savings for the families of veterans. At the University of Virginia, for instance, the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition is over 20,000 dollars.
Testifying in support of the measure was Ellen J. Bass, an associate engineering professor at the University of Virginia and a lesbian. She told the committee that approving the legislation would help the state recruit and retain staff, noting that a number of other states already permit government workers to add partners to their benefits.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics has released its latest book, Pendulum Swing, drawing on the collective wisdom of nearly two dozen of the nation’s top political analysts, journalists, and academics for comprehensive analysis of the 2010 midterm elections and the subsequent policy implications.
Larry Sabato
director of Center for Politics
Arlington's Michael Williams joins U.S. Senate race
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David C. Smith
C. Coleman McGehee Research Associate Professor of Banking and Commerce
Double-edged sword
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Vivian Thomson
professor of environmental sciences
From trash to energy
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Defending traditional marriage doesn't need to begin or end with a discussion of faith in order to make a point about its deep social impacts, a leading scholar said Thursday at BYU. "Our support for the renewal of marriage is not predicated on some … religious worldview," said W. Bradford Wilcox, associate professor of sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project, at the University of Virginia.
Although many parents worry that city living could mean their children will be abducted or caught in the crossfire of a gang shooting, it is exceedingly rare for children to be harmed or murdered by strangers, says William Lucy, a University of Virginia urban planning professor who has led several studies on safe communities.
Research conducted by University of Virginia urban planning professor William Lucy shows that the iconic American quest of a home out in the bucolic suburbs is being amended.
Budding entrepreneurs at the University of Virginia’s business incubator are given a $13,000 stipend and coaching and feedback on their business plans. Participants can also attend lectures and workshops on topics like intellectual property and accounting.
A new graduate course at the University of Virginia, which allows students to get a degree in Adaptive PE, is making sure no child feels excluded.
The repartee began as soon as the two men dressed in waistcoats walked out on stage. On one side was Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, the nation's third president and father of the University of Virginia.
John Brenkus
Who designed his own major in Film and Rhetoric Communications and graduated with honors
Gov. Bob McDonnell is using Virginia Commonwealth University as a whipping boy to make a point about rising tuition costs.
Researchers in the US, including U.Va., have unveiled a new high-temperature material that is 60% better at converting heat to electricity than comparable "thermoelectrics". The material, which is a nanocomposite, could potentially be used to boost the fuel efficiency of cars by recovering energy from the vehicle's exhaust heat.
Researchers from Boston College, MIT, Clemson University and the University of Virginia have used nanotechnology to achieve a 60 to 90 percent increase in the thermoelectric figure of a common bulk semiconductor compound. Reported in the journal Nano Letters.
Virginia's Outstanding Scientists of 2011, announced today by Gov. Bob McDonnell and the Science Museum of Virginia, include Kodi S. Ravichandran, U.Va. professor of microbiology, chairman of the microbiology department and director of the Center for Cell Clearance.