A report from the University of Virginia released to the commission late last year cited a dramatic rise in involuntary admissions to state psychiatric hospitals from 2014 to 2018. Over the same time period, involuntary admissions to private hospitals have fallen.
A previously unknown, rapid-fire connection between the gut and brain. A CRISPR-based test for viruses such as Zika and dengue, with results that can be read as easily as a pregnancy test. A pill that mimics the effects of gastric bypass surgery. These are just a few of the 64 discoveries and inventions that made the cut for the third annual STAT Madness, the bracket-style competition for scientific glory modeled on college basketball’s March Madness. The University of Virginia is among the finalists who were selected from a record 160 entries submitted by universities, medical schools, and re...
As the University of Virginia razed the iconic Cavalier Inn, a vision for the site that focuses on welcoming, collaborative and safe spaces was beginning to take shape.
A first-of-its-kind event is bringing together dozens of diplomats from across the world to UVA. They were on Grounds Tuesday to meet with state and local leaders for a summit to discuss citizen engagement, hosted by UVA’s Center for Politics to promote a better understanding of the political culture outside of Washington.
“Go abroad, young man and woman” isn’t the motto for UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, but it might as well be. The school offers a slate of master’s programs that may be the most globally oriented in the United States.
UVA law professor and former Joint Committee on Taxation chief of staff George Yin laid out how the process would work in testimony earlier this month. He explained that the authority of Congress to request tax return information was added in 1924 as a co-equal branch of government, and before, only the president had such authority to request and disclose tax returns.
This year’s Virginia Film Festival will take place from Oct. 23 to 27, festival officials announced Monday. And for the first time, the opening events will set the festival’s screenings, panel discussions and other events into motion a day earlier, on a Wednesday. The festival, a program of the University of Virginia and the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts, brings a variety of events to Charlottesville each autumn.
In a new study, investigators from UVA and James Madison University discovered the skills teens learn in friendships with peers of the same gender are the strongest predictors of later romantic satisfaction, more so than experience learned from teen romance.
Researchers have identified an unexpected contributor to rheumatoid arthritis that may help explain the painful flare-ups associated with the disease. Dr. Sanja Arandjelovic, a UVA research scientist, was seeking to better understand what causes the inflammation associated with inflammatory arthritis when she noted that deleting a gene called ELMO1 alleviated arthritis symptoms in mice.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine think they have found out why so-called "killer T cells" are unable to destroy cancer tumors. Scientists have found a defect in these kinds of immune cells, and they believe repairing this defect will make the cells better at killing cancer.
The conference also hosted panelists from UVA and a number of hemp and bioscience companies. They offered their perspectives on the emerging industry to an auditorium filled with interested entrepreneurs.
In 2017, researchers at UVA’s Darden School of Business published a study that found when Southwest Airlines enters a market with nonstop flights, fare prices fall an average of 15 percent. At the same time, the number of people flying increases by 28 percent to 30 percent.
A dream come true for insomnia patients has helped earn a University of Virginia professor the highest honor bestowed upon UVA innovators. Lee Ritterband, the director of UVA’s Center for Behavioral Health & Technology, received the Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year from the school’s Licensing and Ventures Group.
Some Southern voters, particularly in Texas, have drifted away from Republican candidates because of a lack of enthusiasm for Trump, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. “I think the hope for Democrats is that maybe with more resources from the national party – and potentially a national environment where the president may be something of a drag in those districts – that the Democrats can make further inroads in Texas," he said.
"The president personally has been publicly hostile to Muslims," said Douglas Laycock, a professor of religious liberties law at the University of Texas and University of Virginia. "The encouraging news here is the Justice Department and its career people working in an apolitical way and filing briefs in other kinds of cases as well."
Marc Short left UVA’s Miller Center just six months into his one-year fellowship. The former Trump administration official, whose controversial appointment led two historians to resign their posts with the center, has not caused any major changes to how the center’s leadership sees its mission or how it selects its fellows, officials said. It has, however, come in the midst of an ongoing effort to balance the center’s budget, attract new projects and fundraising and enmesh more of its operations within UVA.
The UVA Health System’s ALS Clinic has been named the state's first certified treatment center of excellence by the ALS Association.
The third proposal I have is potentially the most exciting and game-changing. The NFL data is limited in a couple of ways. One is that the shoulder pad sensors, because they only measure your position every 100 milliseconds, they don’t really tell you about the forces you experience, the acceleration you experience. … What I was proposing is to require players to wear some sort of helmet sensors, whether it be these mouthguard accelerometers the NFL has been testing out at the University of Virginia. By requiring these mouthguard sensors, you can monitor if a person experienced 50 Gs or 100 Gs...
General Assembly budget negotiators have reached a compromise that boosts higher education spending by more than either the House of Delegates or state Senate had previously proposed. The compromise would add nearly $565 million to the state's cash reserves and includes new spending for the Hampton Roads region, including $4 million for a new biomedical research initiative involving the Eastern Virginia Medical School, Old Dominion University, the University of Virginia and local medical facilities.
Hundreds of students from across the country visited UVA for the 2019 National IMPACT Conference, the largest annual conference focused on getting college students engaged in civics. The conference was all about giving a place for students to connect and share ideas about ongoing issues.