A report from UVA researchers at says soft bedding caused nearly 70% of sleeping-related suffocation deaths. They say unintentional suffocation is the No. 1 cause of death in babies less than a year old.
U-Hall on the University of Virginia Grounds is being torn down, but you can still visit it and see how it looked online. The 50-year-old sports arena which opened in 1965 and closed in 2015, has been preserved through 3-D images.
After a lengthy search process, UVA has named an interim dean to lead the School of Nursing once longtime dean Dorrie Fontaine steps down. Pamela Cipriano is a research associate professor of nursing at UVA. She was also president of the American Nurses Association from 2014 until December, representing the interests of the nation’s 4 million registered nurses. She will take her new role on Aug. 1, according to UVA, and will serve until a permanent successor is named.
MGT has enlisted the help of a program within the University of Virginia to help train principals and improve district leadership. The MGT proposal calls first for identifying the schools that need the most help and creating “learning labs” on some campuses for intensive work with the university.
At the University of Virginia, a student-led campaign of petitions and contacting donors, state legislators and local school districts successfully led administrators in Charlottesville to heighten their commitment to financial aid. Dannenberg said the UVA model could be applied at Northwestern.
(Commentary by Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics) President Donald Trump thrives on chaos, much of it his own creation. But it would be a mistake to assume that the re-election campaign of this most un-traditional president will mirror the tumult of his 2016 effort.
People in Charlottesville will soon say goodbye to the former home of the UVA basketball team. However, its history and architecture are being preserved for generations to come.
UVA is one of two colleges in Virginia that had the highest six-year graduation rates among U.S. public institutions.
The inventor of the “front page of the internet” and Initialized Capital cofounder (and Mr. Serena Williams) takes our career questionnaire.
George Yin, a UVA professor of law, said that it is rare for the judiciary to step in and block a congressional subpoena based on lack of a legitimate legislative purpose. “In 1880, the Court refused to enforce the Congressional subpoena because the investigation related — as the court interpreted it — to a purely private matter, the influence of a bankruptcy on a private company,” he said.
U.S. death certification data show that the number of bed-related accidental suffocations nearly quadrupled with increased bed sharing, from 6 deaths per 100,000 infants in 1999 to 23 per 100,000 in 2015, the report noted. Dr. Rachel Moon, a UVA pediatrics professor not involved in the study, told the Associated Press that the study's results are not surprising. “Every day I talk to parents who have lost babies. They thought they were doing the right thing, and it seems safe and it seems OK, until you lose a baby,” Moon said.
Friday's outbreak of 15 confirmed tornadoes left several areas in Virginia with extensive damage. UVA climatologist Jerry Stenger says it was not a record tornado outbreak for the commonwealth. "The [National] Weather Service is still conducting additional investigations to see if there were other tornadoes that can be confirmed. So we don't have a final count yet," he said.
The concept of the fully autonomous vehicle is enticing – a place where you could catch up on email, check the news of the day, or even play in augmented-reality games while commuting to work, as the vehicle does all the driving. Nicola Bezzo works at the intersection of the physical and cyberworlds. An assistant professor in UVA’s Department of Systems and Information Engineering with a dual appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he researches autonomous systems and assesses the threats to them.
Accidental suffocation is a leading cause of injury deaths in U.S. infants and common scenarios involve blankets, bed-sharing with parents and other unsafe sleep practices, an analysis of government data found. These deaths "are entirely preventable. That's the most important point," said Dr. Fern Hauck, a co-author and University of Virginia expert in infant deaths.
“Between 2010 and 2040, we predict the nation’s 65-plus population will grow by roughly 90 percent,” Hamilton Lombard, a UVA demographics researcher, said. “In some areas of the country, most of the population growth will come from retirees.”
On Monday, Democrats Kathy Galvin and Sally Hudson squared off in a debate at the University of Virginia. These two women are hoping to win the 57th District seat that’s currently held by outgoing Del. David Toscano. Among the people represented in that district are UVA students, so Hudson and Galvin attempted to show these young voters why they are the best choice for the job Monday night.
The University of Virginia is reversing course on a planned increase in in-state tuition for undergraduates. The University’s Board of Visitors said Friday that it would roll back the previously approved 2.9% increase for 2019-20 and hold base tuition for all in-state undergraduate students at the 2018-19 level for another year.
In a debate at the University of Virginia, state delegate candidates Kathy Galvin and Sally Hudson leaned into themes of equity and encouraged the students present to participate in the election process.
It started with Amazon’s announcement of HQ2 in Northern Virginia. Virginia Tech announced it would build a $1 billion innovation campus next door, then the University of Virginia and George Mason University announced investments in computer science schools. At this point, universities across the region are joining the race to train the next generation of computer scientists.
Bill Ruddiman, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia, believes the Anthropocene began thousands of years ago, when humans first cleared land for agriculture. This, he argues, reduced the extent of ice cover globally by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, thereby warming the planet.