In February, UVA’s School of Engineering debuted its interdisciplinary Link Lab, a 17,000-square-foot space where researchers are developing innovative, dynamic systems that connect the cyber and physical worlds. The $4.8 million lab was designed to support a team of more than 30 faculty members and 100 graduate students.
Each year, UVA’s School of Nursing sponsors a writing competition for its students – a chance to reflect on the career they've chosen. This year's winner was graduate student Kit Barger, who recalled the case that taught her to speak up for her patients.
“We’re learning that exercise is a type of medicine that has broad effects on the brain,” says Wendy Lynch, a UVA associate professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioural sciences. “Initially, when somebody starts using a drug, it’s pretty much about dopamine and that is linked to euphoria. But, after a while, you get less and less of a dopamine response. Drug addiction becomes more about the need to relieve the negative symptoms – the craving, the withdrawal symptoms.”
Nearly two-thirds of the women running for governor are Democrats. "Women are generally more Democratic than men are, so you're seeing a tremendous amount of candidates emerging on the Democratic side, fueled by anger at Trump's victory," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a campaign-tracking project of UVA’s Center for Politics.
The latest data from the Federal Election Commission and the Center for Responsive Politics shows that more than 80 percent of Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s itemized campaign donations in the current two-year election cycle came from outside Hawaii. “When you see fundraising from outside the state at that level it suggests that a candidate has at least some pull nationally or has gotten attention nationally,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics.
“Not many of the hundreds of leaders who have led American universities in modern times have influenced their institutions as powerfully as Charles Steger influenced Virginia Tech, or as gently and wisely,” noted UVA President Emeritus John T. Casteen III, whose presidential tenure coincided with Steger’s. “Charles imagined a future of service and achievement, and led Virginia Tech toward it.”
Charlottesville families gathered on Sunday afternoon at the Sprint Pavilion to learn about how injuries can affect the brain. The UVA Health System hosted the Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke Awareness Fair to show people how sports injuries, military service, falls at work, and other factors can affect the brain.
National health care publication Becker’s Hospital Review has named the UVA Medical Center to its 2018 list of 100 Great Hospitals in America.
The University of Virginia Medical Center, part of the UVA Health System, is the academic health care center partner of the University of Virginia. The UVA Medical Center was ranked the No. 1 hospital in Virginia by U.S. News & World Report for 2017-18. The publication also ranked six specialties among the top 50 nationally: cancer; ear, nose and throat; orthopedics; urology; diabetes and endocrinology; and cardiology and heart surgery.
An analysis, conducted by a team including UVA researchers, of more than 2,000 college classes in science, technology, engineering and math has imparted a lesson that might resonate with many students who sat through them: Enough with the lectures, already.
UVA now requires people unaffiliated with the school – including alumni – to reserve space in advance if they wish to give a speech or hand out information.
UVA’s solar car team finished designs for the school's first sun-powered car since 2001 on Sunday. The team was relaunched in the fall of 2015 and consisted of six people who didn't exactly know what a solar car was. Now, the only solar car team in Virginia is close to finishing part of the body of their car.
UVA on Friday announced changes to its rules on the use of campus by groups unaffiliated with the University. The University has been considering its rules since last year's march through the campus by white nationalists shouting Nazi chants.
To increase young women’s interest in and education of construction and the building trades, UVA’s Facilities Management department will host its third annual Girls Day on June 14 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
In his second season at Virginia, Lars Tiffany has led the UVA men back to the NCAA lacrosse tournament. If the bid for the Virginia men’s team was a step toward returning to the sport’s upper echelon, the women’s program never left. Sunday, the UVA women received their 23rd straight NCAA invitation.
Across the nation, 23 locales – including Monticello and the University of Virginia– have risen to become UNESCO World Heritage sites. And they’re all breathtaking.
He’s moving from Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village to James Madison’s homestead. Doug Trout, the executive director of UVA’s Miller Center Foundation, will become Montpelier’s chief advancement officer and executive vice president on June 4, Montpelier officials announced Thursday. He will lead the Montpelier Foundation’s fundraising efforts in this newly created position.
When Minnesota in 2013 retroactively eliminated its statute of limitations for a three-year period, the deluge of lawsuits resulted in four Catholic dioceses filing for bankruptcy protection, according to local reports. “The real problem is just the sheer lapse of time between the events and trial, which makes it almost impossible to figure out what happened, and that’s true whether the change is retroactive or prospective,” said Douglas Laycock of the UVA School of Law.
As print journals search for ways to adapt to evolving attitudes and new technologies, the New York Times Magazine has taken a bold step. The Times Magazine has been edited since 2014 by Jake Silverstein, formerly editor of the Texas Monthly, who upon joining the Times promised “the kind of long-form impactful [sic] journalism that has made the magazine one of the most influential publications throughout its history.” His latest bold and impactful move isn’t about long-form journalism, though. He’s made the poet Rita Dove the magazine’s poetry editor.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded 31 Andrew Carnegie Fellows stipends of up to $200,000 each for their research and writing in the humanities and social sciences. Among them is Grace Elizabeth Hale, a UVA professor of American studies and history, for "Reckoning: How the Southern Past Haunts the Present and Limits the Democratic Future."