A study by UVA researchers examined 30 people who were showing symptoms of the common cold and were asked to identify 10 surfaces they’d touched in their home over the previous 18 hours. More than 40 percent of the surfaces tested positive for rhinovirus, the most common virus to cause the common cold.
UVA has awarded more undergraduate degrees nearly every year since 2011, and a strong application cycle puts the University on track to enroll even more Virginians.
Virginia will open its baseball season exactly one month from Tuesday as the No. 19 team in the nation, according to the D1Baseball.com Top 25 poll.
“Not everyone needs a cash-back credit card,” says Dorothy C. Kelly, lecturer in personal finance in UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce. “Rule number 1 is there is no such thing as a free lunch. Cards offering cash back frequently charge higher annual fees, others charge higher interest rates and/or late fees. Some charge merchants higher transaction fees, known as interchange fees, to provide the cash back. The merchants, in turn, pass along the higher fees to consumers in the form of higher prices.”
“Not everyone needs a cash-back credit card,” says Dorothy C. Kelly, lecturer in personal finance in UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce. “Rule number 1 is there is no such thing as a free lunch. Cards offering cash back frequently charge higher annual fees, others charge higher interest rates and/or late fees. Some charge merchants higher transaction fees, known as interchange fees, to provide the cash back. The merchants, in turn, pass along the higher fees to consumers in the form of higher prices.”
Although menopause is natural, and can cause a host of symptoms, such as irritability, memory lapse and night sweats, in addition to painful sex, women should not accept painful sex as normal. “Women thought that it was a natural part of aging that they should accept,” said Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of the North American Menopause Society and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UVA Health System.
Rachel Martin talks to UVA professor Kathleen Flake about the expected new leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Church President Thomas Monson died this month.
Nontraditional presidents are less likely to be women than men, research from the dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business has found – raising questions about whether boards of trustees stick to a dated image of the white male college president when they consider hires from unorthodox backgrounds.
Frederick Schauer, a First Amendment expert at UVA’s Law School, said that nothing about the awards themselves would cause First Amendment problems, but that trouble could arise if Trump used them as an occasion to issue legal threats. “The First Amendment’s speech and press clauses would be implicated if the administration threatened prosecution or other legal action, but not by mere differential criticism, condemnation, and praise,” he said in an email.
Serving the oppressed and poverty-threatened men and women in the local community will create the greatest good, Derrick Alridge told attendees at Rock Hill’s 15th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Interfaith Prayer Breakfast Monday morning at First Baptist Church. Alridge, a professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education, delivered the keynote speech in the popular event that brought at least 600 attendees from across York County together in reflection and prayer.
"There are a few factors driving the House retirements," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. "One is the political environment, which seems bad for Republicans, at least at the moment. Even safe-seat members might have an incentive to retire if they believe they will go from the majority to the minority, and swing-seat members may be worried about winning reelection and instead have decided to go out on their own terms."
Last week, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue vowed his organization will “fight back against the extremes in both parties – the Steve Bannons and the Elizabeth Warrens of the world – who do not represent the best interests of this country.” UVA political science professor Larry Sabato said groups like the Chamber may see 2018 as a head start to denying Warren a path to the White House.
Toby Heytens, now a professor at UVA’s Law School, was appointed last week by Virginia's Attorney General Mark Herring to serve as the attorney responsible for leading appellate practice and spearheading major litigation for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
People use it for pain, depression, and anxiety – but doctors say many are taking too high a dosage. At UVA’s poison center, doctors are seeing people come in with opioid-like symptoms. “It's an interesting substance that is still being investigated,” says Chris Holstege, the medical director at the Blue Ridge Poison Center.
According to the American Cancer Society, there are two kinds of brachytherapy for cervical cancer; low-dose rate brachytherapy, in which the patient stays in the hospital for a few days for treatment, and high-dose rate brachytherapy, which is done on an outpatient basis, usually once a week. Recently, researchers at the UVA School of Medicine pointed out that brachytherapy runs at more than 2½ times the cost of external beam therapy and said that the higher cost “may be a potential driver of reported national trends toward poor compliance with brachytherapy.”
UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science has been selected to establish a national center to address data bottlenecking. Bottlenecking refers to the limited amount of information able to flow due to computer resources, an issue that has been holding back technological advancement.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County produces more black M.D. and Ph.D. degree-earners than any other college in the country, according to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. (UVA comes in at No. 4 nationally.)
John Tunney, the former U.S. senator who looked briefly like the future of the Democratic Party and whose rise inspired the Robert Redford film, “The Candidate,” has died. Tunney had graduated from Yale University with a degree in anthropology and from the UVA School of Law.
Families in Charlottesville celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, legacy and birthday at the Carver Recreation Center on Monday. "Having the elderly here today – our elders and young people and children – being a part of the program and the emphasis on education is very important,” says Carla Williams, UVA’s athletic director. “I think it should always be a part of any MLK celebration."
This week’s Associated Press men’s basketball poll has UVA at No. 2 in the nation, the second time the Cavaliers have achieved that ranking under coach Tony Bennett.