The iTHRIV consortium includes the University of Virginia, Inova Health System, Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic, and is the first cross-state effort in Virginia to integrate clinical and translational research resources. Affiliates of the iTHRIV include the Center for Open Science, a non-profit technology organization based in Charlottesville, and UVA's Licensing & Ventures Group.
According to UVA law and religious studies professor Douglas Laycock, the state of California will have lots of legal precedent and a strong case for why cannabis churches do not deserve a religious exemption to the state’s system of licensing, regulations, and taxes.
For Vanessa Ochs, an expert on Jewish ritual who teaches at the University of Virginia, “my Orthodox friends describe seven days of shiva as a nightmare. It’s arduous and exhausting to have to be available for visits for such a long time. No one can sit for that long – it causes a panic. What remains powerful is the getting up from shiva and walking around the block and having to re-enter life.”
Prospective college students from New York down to Mississippi now have a school to consider with in-state tuition: the University of Virginia's College at Wise. Gov. Ralph Northam has signed off on House Bill 1666 that grants in-state tuition privileges to students in 13 states at the Wise County school.
Leigh Middleditch, a cofounder of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia, has won the institute’s first annual Founder’s Award.
Data from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service shows that over the last 10 years, Roanoke's population has jumped more than 3 percent, from 97,032 residents in 2010, to 100,033 residents in 2018. Hamilton Lombard, a UVA demographer, says much of that growth is thanks to more available housing in Roanoke's downtown area. "We've been doing some preparation work for the 2020 census and when we were doing that we counted almost 1,000 new housing units created in the downtown, mostly former offices or commercial spaces converted to apartments," said Lombard.
Wally Smith’s foray into citizen science started with him “getting in trouble.” Smith, a biology professor at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, was conducting research on green salamanders for his graduate degree in the early 2000s and was having a hard time finding the small creatures. So Smith applied for a federal grant to conduct research through citizen science, utilizing public participation for his studies. Smith hosted one of several workshops on Grounds over the weekend as part of partnership between UVA and the National Geographic Society for a two-day science and storyte...
The University of Virginia is already in discussions with third parties to develop and operate a hotel and conference center on the Ivy Road corridor, according to discussions at Board of Visitors meetings Thursday.
The community is encouraged to go to www.ClimateActionTogether.org to learn about the City of Charlottesville, the University of Virginia and Albemarle County’s participation opportunities, previous regional climate action efforts and more information about sustainability and climate action.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former NATO supreme allied commander, spoke to dozens of UVA students recently, encouraging them to change the political atmosphere.
Design. Innovation. Disruption. Those buzzwords are driving strategies and decisions from boardrooms to bullpens across the globe. And yet: What is good design worth, and how can that value be measured? Measuring the effects and results of design involves “a complex set of issues,” cautioned Jeanne Liedtka of UVA’s Darden School of Business, author of the forthcoming book “Designing for the Greater Good.”
The UVA Health System’s executive vice president announced Monday that he will step down in May. Dr. Rick Shannon has been at UVA for six years, overseeing the Medical Center, the schools of Medicine and Nursing, the Health Sciences Library and physicians’ group.
The 2018 midterm elections saw a record number of women elected to Congress. Now, women are organizing to make the ‘moment’ into a movement. “In politics there are these jolts to the system and something fundamental happens,” said Jennifer Lawless, a UVA professor who writes extensively about women in politics. “It’s likely that 2018 was that year.” But the 116th Congress is still only 23.7 percent female.
Gov. Ralph Northam appointed Jim Ryan, president of the University of Virginia, to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority.
Gov. Ralph Northam appointed Jim Ryan, president of the University of Virginia, to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority.
“The exact cause for the loss of the rusty patched is unclear,” says UVA biology professor T’ai Roulston. “But it’s almost certainly related to disease,” especially a fungal gut parasite that “can shorten the lives of worker bees and disrupt mating success and survival of queens and males.”
One reason for India’s declining rural poverty rates could be MGNREGS itself. In a 2016 review of MGNREGS studies, Sandip Sukhtankar of University of Virginia, suggested that the program has boosted wages in agriculture and unskilled labor and, when implemented well, it is associated with increases in income.
(Audio) Joe Topinka and Dr. Jennifer Lawless, a professor at the University of Virginia discuss the anticipation of the city of Chicago’s first African-American female mayor. How will a woman conduct herself and govern differently in this prestigious position?
The Charlottesville community is coming together to commemorate the end of slavery in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered at the Rotunda Dome Room at the University of Virginia for a service to honor those who were enslaved.
Confronting the history of slavery is a tall task, particularly in creating a monument to slaves who labored at the University of Virginia. “It has really taken a village to get here,” said Mabel Wilson, a professor of architecture at Columbia University. About 120 people filed into the Rotunda on Sunday to commemorate Liberation and Freedom Day and wrap up a weekend of events.