Topic: Academics
Gender influences perception of business leaders, study shows
Researchers looked at how we view male and female leaders in times of crisis.
Summer 2020
Study shows food choices affect when and how much you eat
Certain foods are shown to disrupt natural rhythms that influence eating patterns.
Summer 2020
Politics do not seem to affect journalists’ coverage choices
Research suggests personal ideology does not affect how journalists cover news.
Summer 2020
The surreal semester and what comes after
From the spring quarantine to the fall quandary, how UVA is confronting the coronavirus.
Summer 2020
Beloved professor Henry Abraham dies at 98
The Supreme Court scholar lived a full life with a “perpetual twinkle in his eye.”
Summer 2020
Discovery gives hope for macular degeneration treatment
Unexpected evidence appears to link two age-related forms of the condition.
Summer 2020
The semester resumes on Zoom
Students and faculty adjust to distance learning as Coronavirus forces them off Grounds.
Summer 2020
UVA researchers join fight against COVID-19
Faculty collaborate on COVID-19 testing, treatment and prevention.
Summer 2020
Study seeks better identification for a heart disease
Researchers hope to better determine risks for a cause of sudden cardiac death.
Spring 2020
Nurture shapes nature in infancy bonding
UVA study suggests early interactions affect gene expression.
Spring 2020
New report calls for better support for America’s youth
Based on multidisciplinary research, the report emphasizes the importance such a formative stage of life.
Spring 2020
One professor put UVA in the race for the A-bomb, or at least he tried
In the race for the A-bomb, Jesse Beams, UVA’s resident centrifuge expert, may have promised more than he could deliver.
Spring 2020
Walkable communities may foster upward economic mobility
The reasons, however, might not be entirely economic.
Spring 2020
Center for Politics appoints first resident scholars
A columnist and a former congresswoman will bring varying perspectives to the center.
Spring 2020
UVA takes a tumble in U.S. News’ 2020 rankings
The University fell from No. 25 to No. 28 after losing ground on the new category “social mobility.”
Winter 2019
Poets Dove, Dargan take home big honors
Rita Dove and one of her former students demonstrate the dominance of the Creative Writing program.
Winter 2019
Cars still more dangerous for women according to recent study
UVA researchers found that women are 73 percent more likely to suffer a serious injury.
Winter 2019
No lie: Even small acts of dishonesty can take a toll
Lying creates a cycle of disconnection, study finds.
Winter 2019
Sugar makes these organisms indestructible
Researchers say discovery is an example of just how much life remains to be understood.
Winter 2019
Data Science clears crucial hurdle to become UVA’s 12th school
The program received approval from the State Council of Higher Education in September.
Winter 2019
How Walt Whitman disguised his poems about male love—and how a UVA professor put it all together
Fredson Bowers discovered the original sequence of poems to reveal a more vulnerable side to America’s poet.
Fall 2019
Longtime Comm School dean Zeithaml steps down
After 23 years at the helm, Carl P. Zeithaml will continue as a strategic management professor.
Fall 2019
Law School repurposes $1M-plus from shuttered Thomas Jefferson Center
Funds will go toward the reopening of the First Amendment Clinic.
Fall 2019
Two health studies go with their gut
Researchers point to the gut as a source of information about disease.
Fall 2019