The Patient & Friends Research Committee of the University’s Cancer Center hosted their annual “Hot Topics in Cancer Event” Thursday in Alumni Hall, showcasing the groundbreaking blood cancer research being conducted at the University.
The YouTube-famous Russian dashboard camcorders have regularly recorded road rage and tanks crossing streets, but even the most hardened of drivers did not expect to see a 55-foot wide meteor burning through the sky on the morning of Feb.
In 1990, 15 percent of all engineering bachelor’s degrees in the United States were awarded to women, according to statistics from the National Science Foundation.
A new post-operative care procedure will now be permanently instituted at the University Hospital, following the release in December of a seven-year study led by Assoc.
Club Red, a heart health initiative for women sponsored by the University’s Heart Center, is hosting activities this February in recognition of Heart Disease Awareness Month.
Dr. Mazhar Adli, assistant professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, contributed to a study published last month in the scientific journal Neuron.
A University student was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis, Dr. James Turner, director of Student Health, said in an email to the student body last Wednesday.
Fraternity rush has finally come to a close, but not before bringing about an unusually high number of alcohol poisonings.
After more than a year of research and control analysis, researchers at the Medical School had a paper published January in the research journal Nature Methods.
A group of researchers from a slew of different departments within the University are conducting a type 2 diabetes study investigating whether lifestyle changes can be more effective at treating the disease than the medication.
Known for striking down hundreds on cruise ships and quarantining its victims in bathrooms, the latest strain of the infamous stomach bug, norovirus, has arrived.
Climate Change. Global warming. Greenhouse effect. These are the buzzwords on everyone’s mind after President Barack Obama discussed environmental policy in his second inaugural speech on Monday — and for good reason too.
January marks Cervical Health Awareness Month in the United States, an effort by the National Cervical Cancer Coalition to promote early cancer screenings and spread information about the Human Papillomavirus. In the past 40 years, cervical cancer has dropped from being the leading cause of death among American women, largely thanks to the increased number of women getting Pap tests.
A new set of navigation apps, created by third-year Engineering student Daniel Nizri, has already been downloaded more than 500 times.
I recently finished the book “AIDS Sutra,” a compilation of stories about AIDS-susceptible demographics in India.
Every year, Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, a day for increasing global awareness of HIV/AIDS. Currently there are about 33.4 million people globally with the human immunodeficiency virus infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and more than 1 million living with it in the United States.
Although it may seem like a good idea to pull an all-nighter before that big exam, recent studies show sleep is more important than we give it credit for.
Do you ever get the urge to hold hands with someone while wearing a ridiculous-looking hat? Well if you do, you’re in luck because the The Virginia Affective Neuroscience laboratory is currently conducting a group of hand-holding studies and is looking for students to participate.
With finals fast approaching, students are willing to resort to some pretty strange study techniques to cram for their upcoming exams.
After giving people a chance to simmer down and letting ridiculous proclamations of “I’m moving to Canada if [insert politician here] wins!” meet with reason, we find it possible to reflect on the polling of the election cycle and evaluate its accuracy. It may — or may not — come as some surprise that this presidential election, when all the votes were counted, President Barack Obama edged out Republican candidate Mitt Romney by 2.7 points in the popular vote.
