There are people in the world – chemical engineers, astronomers, national defense scientists investigating an explosion – who need to know just what something is made of, down to the molecular level.
Technology developed at the University of Virginia is speeding that process from days or weeks to just minutes.
more >At 47 pages, the latest book by bestselling author John Grisham is a quicker read than his best-known works and not centered on legal issues or in a courtroom. Instead, Grisham said, he delved into the medical realm to write “The Tumor” because he wanted to help promote a promising treatment with technology that UVA and other health centers around the world are developing: focused ultrasound.
more >Is it just Uber drivers and other gig workers, or all we all temps now? Are the stable career and the 9-to-5 job on the verge of extinction? Are we now all free to make our own futures? Or fated to perpetual insecurity?
Addressing those increasingly common questions, The Hedgehog Review, an interdisciplinary journal published by the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, devotes its spring issue to “Work in the Precarious Economy.”
more >Judge John Gleeson, known for his active support for criminal justice reforms related to sentencing, served as a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He was nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and will step down from the bench on March 9 to become a partner at the New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton.
“John Gleeson has been a remarkably thoughtful judge who never lost sight of the fundamental importance of promoting justice,” UVA Law School Dean Paul G. Mahoney said.
more >Gordon Moore is an American engineer, technologist and entrepreneur whose pioneering work in semiconductor electronics helped establish Silicon Valley and drive the Digital Age.
In 1965, while an entrepreneur at his Silicon Valley startup Fairchild Semiconductor, Moore made a prediction that would set the pace for our modern digital revolution.
From careful observation of an emerging trend, Moore extrapolated that computing would dramatically increase in power, and decrease in relative cost, at an exponential pace.
more >Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families. The Children's Defense Fund's “Leave No Child Behind” mission is to ensure every child a healthy start, a head start, a fair start, a safe start and a moral start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
more >Cecil Balmond, OBE is widely considered to be one of the most significant creators of his generation. An internationally renowned artist, architect, writer and engineer, Balmond transcends the conventional boundaries of discipline.
more >The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello will present their highest honors, the 2016 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in Architecture, Law, Citizen Leadership and Global Innovation, respectively, to:
more >Forty years ago this week, the University of Virginia men’s basketball team made history. Time marches on.
“I can’t believe young men like us played 40 years ago,” Wally Walker said, laughing. “I can’t get my head around that at all.”
Walker, of course, was the star of that UVA team, a smooth senior who averaged 22.1 points per game in 1975-76. Its head coach was Terry Holland, then only 33 years old and in his second season at Virginia.
more >From studying honey as a wound-healing additive in Rwanda to assessing the effect of mobile banking on women in rural India, 52 University of Virginia students will use Center for Global Health scholarships this summer to address public health problems in the far-flung corners of the globe.
more >Ateriovenous malformations, the most common cause of strokes in children and young adults, are sometimes left untreated, but a sweeping new study strongly suggests that is generally a mistake.
The challenge that doctors have faced in treating patients with arteriovenous malformations – tangles of blood vessels prone to leaking and causing strokes – is that the treatment options are not without risk. So one approach commonly advocated has been to leave the condition unaddressed.
more >University of Virginia scientists have demonstrated that neurons in the brain that have been supplemented with a synthetic gene can be remotely manipulated by a magnetic field. The finding has implications for possible future treatment of a range of neurological diseases, such as schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease.
more >The University of Virginia community is mourning the loss of Cornell University President Elizabeth Garrett, whose death was announced Monday.
Garrett, a 1988 graduate of the School of Law whom the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center last month named the 2016 recipient of the UVA Distinguished Alumna Award, recently underwent aggressive treatment for colon cancer.
more >University of Virginia fifth-year guard Malcolm Brogdon was named the Atlantic Coast Conference’s 2016 Player of the Year and its Defensive Player of the Year – the first player ever to earn both honors in the same season, the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association announced Sunday.
more >By 2050, the world population is projected to be about 9 billion people – about 1.6 billion more than the Earth supports today. What will that world be like? How much of the Earth’s surface will be used for agriculture, for housing, for managed and wild forests? How much of the land, and sea, will be used to power that world? What will the climate be like, as more humans demand more from the planet’s resources?
more >College students living off campus often report little or no income, causing them to inflate the poverty rates of college towns, according to University of Virginia researchers in the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Demographics Research Group. Smaller localities hosting large universities have some of the state’s highest poverty rates.
more >While grinding out three months of chemotherapy for breast cancer, Charlotte Matthews spent a lot of the time doing what she had devoted her life to: she wrote.
more >Though she towers over her mother and sister these days, when third-year University of Virginia nursing student Marya Jazouli was born nearly 21 years ago, she fit snugly in the palm of her mother’s hand – all 2 pounds, 14 ounces of her.
Born at 28 weeks because of a detached placenta, Jazouli’s parents would spend their daughter’s first 66 days in the UVA Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, where tiny Marya struggled against apnea, tubes and wires snaking across her thatch of black hair and liquid brown eyes.
more >As strategies for energy security, investment opportunities and energy policies prompt ever-growing production and consumption of biofuels like bioethanol and biodiesel, land and water that could otherwise be used for food production increasingly are used to produce crops for fuel.
more >Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has been selected to be the first recipient of the University of Virginia’s new Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Prize for Global Leadership.
The University will present Albright with the award March 29 in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. The honor’s namesake is a former UVA student and U.S. Secretary of State who supervised the Lend-Lease Act program and helped found the U.N.
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