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(04/24/17 5:30am)
U.Va. Sustainability led an Earth Day effort to clean the stream beneath Beta Bridge Saturday. More than 40 volunteers armed with trash bags and grabbers hiked along the stream below the bridge, collecting garbage and hoping to protect the ecology beneath the bridge.
(04/10/17 5:08am)
The Food and Drug Administration on March 28 approved the first drug to treat primary progressive Multiple Sclerosis, offering a promising treatment option to patients who previously had few options in coping with the unpredictable, disabling disease.
(03/28/17 3:21am)
The Medical Center Hour’s annual A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture Wednesday featured Brandon Butler, the Director of Information Policy for the University Library. Butler discussed the role of fake, “predatory” journals and conferences in the modern academic world of medical research. He stressed the relevant consequences of these predatory publishers and deemed them a distraction, suggesting that academic research faces crucial threats as it grapples with the need to share knowledge quickly and honestly.
(02/20/17 8:08am)
The Jefferson Scholar Foundation announced last Wednesday the recipient of its first endowed professorship — J.C. Cang, a neurobiology professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. As recipient of the Paul T. Jones Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professorship, Cang — along with his wife, Xiaorong Liu — will become a joint member of both the psychology and biology departments within the College in Fall 2017.
(02/06/17 6:45am)
The Medical Center Hour’s annual Moore Lecture featured Jay Baruch, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, last Wednesday. Baruch stressed the necessity of interdisciplinary expertise when approaching the uncertainty and ambiguity associated with modern day medicine — specifically expressing the importance of inter-professional collaborations with artists, writers and humanities scholars.
(03/28/16 5:06am)
In last Thursday’s “Rediscovering Pluto” panel, Alice Bowman, the Mission Operation Manager, or MOM, and Anne Verbiscer, a University planetary geologist and associate research professor of astronomy, discussed the revolutionary New Horizons Mission to Pluto. The mission completed the first ever flyby of Pluto this past July, which received the first clear image of Pluto.
(03/17/16 4:18am)
Last week, a School of Medicine research team announced that doctors may be able to predict a patient’s risk of having a second (recurrent) ischemic stroke using a simple blood test. Researchers also announced that the blood test in conjunction with a genetic profile could offer the most accurate prediction, helping doctors more easily identify patients at the highest risk.
(02/26/16 7:21am)
At the “Distinguished Alumni Seminar Series” Friday, presented by the computer science department, University alumnus Jason Mars, a recognized global expert in some of today’s most compelling issues in computer science, introduced his design of Sirius, which he described as an “end-to-end [intelligent personal assistant] web-service application that accepts queries in the form of voice and images, and responds with natural language.”