In “Antisocial Media,” University of Virginia professor Siva Vaidhyanathan gives a full and rigorous accounting of Facebook’s sins.
The UVA Cancer Center is the first place in the state to receive DigniCap, a scalp cooling treatment that's aimed to help reduce and stop hair loss in breast cancer patients.
Bringing down the high cost of prescription drugs was a staple of President Trump's presidential campaign. On the campaign trail, Trump proposed allowing Medicare to bargain with pharmaceutical firms to set prices, and letting consumers import less expensive drugs from Canada. However, neither of those ideas made it into the administration's plan to lower drug costs, which was released last month with great fanfare. What exactly is in the Trump administration's proposal, and how likely is it to succeed? In this MedPage Today video commentary, Carolyn Engelhard, MPA, director of health policy a...
The nation’s highest court would now “almost certainly” be more hostile to environmental law than it has been since the founding of the EPA in 1970, said Jonathan Z. Cannon, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
What Does It Mean to Be Canceled? “To me, it’s ultimately an expression of agency,” said Meredith Clark, a professor at the University of Virginia’s department of media studies. “To a certain extent: I really do think of it like a breakup and a taking back of one’s power.” Canceling, she said, is an act of withdrawing from someone whose expression — whether political, artistic or otherwise — was once welcome or at least tolerated, but no longer is.
Humans are more generous, cooperative, and forward-thinking when surrounded by nature, said Tim Beatley, an architecture professor at the University of Virginia and executive director of the Biophilic Cities Project, a group that works with city collaborators to implement biophilic design across the world.
“I think he’s been a voice of moderation. In many ways, he’s been the court’s balance wheel. He’s sensible, he’s close to the ground, he’s anything but ideological,” said A.E. Dick Howard of the University of Virginia School of Law, an expert on the court and the Constitution.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics wants to get kids interested in history and civic engagement through its annual political history project.
“What we’re seeing here is the standard process of Trump launching a series of lies into our media ecosystem and then watching it bounce around and amplify through the system,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at The University of Virginia. “So to respond with anything reasonable to the fact that the president basically made stuff up is to extend the message and to throw a bomb” into the political debate.
The company said in a statement that it “allows pharmacists to step away from filling a prescription for which they have a moral objection.” In such situations, it said, the pharmacist “is required to refer the prescription to another pharmacist or manager on duty to meet the patient's needs in a timely manner.” “Title VII does not say that the pharmacist can inflict harm or sabotage the prescription,” said Douglas Laycock, a professor of law and religious studies at the University of Virginia. “The minor inconvenience of going to the next store over should not override the pharmacist's rights...
Microglia -- often blamed in Alzheimer's -- actually clean neurodegenerative debris with remarkable precision and protect the central nervous system, University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers reported.
Virginia head swimming and diving coach Todd DeSorbo announced the hiring of head diving coach Drew Livingston on Tuesday. Livingston joins the program after serving as the head diving coach at Princeton since 2016.
Researchers at the University of Virginia developed an app called PositiveLinks to test out whether interactive smartphone functions and reminders could have a real-world impact on the health of HIV-positive patients.
Jamie Jirout was not the sort of student who simply took a textbook at its word. In her first semester of college, she asked her psychology professor if she could assist in the professor’s research. Jirout’s interest wasn’t fueled by the fact that she found the coursework convincing — quite the opposite. Her quest for answers has propelled her career to the present day. Jirout is now an assistant professor of education at the University of Virginia, where one of her primary research interests is studying curiosity in the classroom.
The push is on to increase minority students in classes related to science, technology, engineering and math, better known as the STEM fields. That's thanks to a new grant of more than $1 million given to the University of Virginia.
Tolu Odumosu, a science technology and society researcher at the University of Virginia, says access is a sore point among researchers in the region. While preprints can partly address the problem, other barriers also need attention, such as the prohibitive subscription rates of established journals and fees for publication. Institutions also need to invest more time, materials and space to research, says Odumosu. He would be interested in contributing his work to AfricArxiv if he knew that it would reach an active community of scientists in Africa, he says.
Teresa A. Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, talked about how her institution had handled — and mishandled — the white-supremacist rallies in Charlottesville last year. “We thought we were doing a good job of monitoring social media, but we weren’t,” Sullivan said during the opening plenary, on Sunday. But once she got wind that the racist protesters were planning to march on the campus, she got her general counsel involved right away. Campus lawyers, she said, play a crucial role when there’s unrest.
Getting and paying for good healthcare can be tricky for many of us. For transgender people, it can be a much bigger challenge. But, as WMRA’s Emily Richardson-Lorente found out, the University of Virginia is turning into a kind of hub for transgender healthcare.
In Virginia, University of Virginia Children's Hospital in Charlottesville, Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU and Inova Children's Hospital in Falls Church were selected, plus Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., also made the list.
Wise Town Council has approved a conditional use permit for the creation of a University of Virginia’s College at Wise student entrepreneurship center in town.