Congress has appropriated $19.3 billion for NASA for the 2016 fiscal year. Though this constitutes less than 1 percent of the total budget, it is still a significant increase over previous years, and more than either NASA or President Barack Obama had asked for initially.
Winter is a beautiful time of year — filled with holiday cheer, snow and tons of hot chocolate.
In 2015, “Nature” journal published an article that would change the scientific community’s understanding of the relationship between the central nervous system and the immune system.
The Medical School’s Annual 5Cs Caring Break allows University students to relax from the stress of exams with loving and comforting canines through University Health System’s pet therapy program.
This semester, Dr. Michael Palmer started teaching students science-based concepts that make learning easier and more effective through his new University seminar “The Science of Learning.”
A group chaired by Nephrology Prof. Mitchell Rosner published international guidelines in the “Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine” in July discussing the issue of overhydration and highlighting its health risks.
A research team from the University Cancer Center studying obstacles to breast cancer care in Appalachia revealed nearly twice as many Appalachian women are diagnosed in the late stage of breast cancer as the U.S. national average.
Roughly 400 people came to listen to Dr. Ian Crozier speak about his experiences as both a doctor working to treat Ebola and an Ebola survivor.
A 2009 CDC survey found significantly higher rates of a wide variety of health risks, including attempted suicide, sexual assault and domestic violence, among LGBTQ youth than heterosexual youth. LGBTQ individuals are also less likely to seek and find equal access to healthcare.
Bijoy Kundu, PhD, was awarded a $1.9 million grant last week for his proposal to utilize medical imaging technologies to investigate the mechanism behind cardiac hypertrophy.
On Wednesday, the University Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, the University Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy and the Law School hosted a panel on gun violence and mental illness.
To Write Love on Her Arms curated National Suicide Prevention Week with a series of events ranging from speed friending to suicide prevention training, all tied together by this year’s theme, “We’ll see you tomorrow.”
The University of Virginia Library participates in the ongoing trend towards digital media. Last September, the University announced plans to renovate Alderman Library.
Scientists from the lab of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Prof. Edward H. Egelman, Ph.D., have found a novel interaction between the protein capsule and DNA of the SIRV2 virus that allows the virus to survive when moving from cell to cell within populations of Sulfolobus islandicus, a bacterial species that live in conditions such as boiling acid.
Pediatric resident Dr. Brock Libby received this year’s Nancy Walton Pugh Child Advocacy Award for his work in LGBTQ youth outreach and education. “The award was established to recognize outstanding efforts by a pediatric resident(s) whose efforts have led to the improved health and well-being of children and is awarded in recognition of an outstanding advocacy project initiated and implemented during residency,” according to the School of Medicine website. Libby got involved with LGBTQ youth programs while attending the University of Vermont Medical School.
Last Thursday morning, Commonwealth Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (D) addressed the University Medical School’s pediatric department on topics ranging from how a bill becomes a law, the dangers of smoking and how to best evaluate concussed high-school athletes.
The Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards provides up to $3,000 in grants for students to perform research over the summer.
Doctoral candidate Joanna Adadevoh was recently spotlighted by the University for her research into purification of contaminated groundwater through bacterial microbes. Adadevoh presented her research last fall at the ninth International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology in California.
A team of researchers at the School of Medicine, in conjunction with more than 80 other institutions, has developed a new wearable device that treats glioblastoma, one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
The Jefferson Debating Society concluded its Spring 2015 Distinguished Speaker Series Friday afternoon with a presentation from Dr. Dilan Ellegala — a neurosurgeon and founder of the Madaktari Africa Project called “Brain Surgery in the Bush.” Ellegala completed his residency in neurosurgery at the University Medical Center, under the supervision of Dr. John Jane, who was chair of the neurosurgery department from 1969 until 2006. According to Ellegala, Jane completely altered the way neurosurgery residencies were done.
