Topic: Research
Quests & Answers
From workplace productivity to global health, from cybersecurity to yogurt serenity, UVA researchers reached across disciplines, schools and the world.
Fall 2017
More New Institutes Tackle Global Issues
Training the next generation to think outside of their disciplines is a goal of the UVA Global Infectious Diseases Institute and the Environmental Resilience Institute.
Fall 2017
Galaxy Quest
Sandy Liss (Grad class of ’14, class of ’19), Sabrina Stierwalt and Chris Wiens’ (Col class of ’17) findings could give astronomers new data about how galaxies formed.
Summer 2017
Sensors & Sensibility
At what point do wearable health sensors dehumanize patients? Learn about the abilities and limitations of these advanced detection methods through the eyes of science and sociology.
Spring 2017
An immune system molecule makes you more social. Wait, what?
Current UVA Medical School research on mice may lead to a greater understanding of how immune cells affect the brain.
Winter 2016
What Can Voles Tell Us About Ourselves?
Behavioral epigenetics is the study of how emotional trauma can affect the genes passed down to the next generation, and the study of prairie voles can shed some light on this phenomenon in humans.
Fall 2016
Human Computer
Caroyl Beddow Gooch's careful calculations of astronomical measurements helped McCormick Observatory become one of the world's top observatories in the mid-20th century.
Winter 2015
Objects May Be Closer than They Appear
Beauty is not the only thing in the eye of the beholder. Height. Distance. Effort. Cognitive psychologist Dennis Proffitt studies how we see the world around us.
Winter 2015
Print Shop
UVA has two of the most precise bioprinters in the nation. What can they do? How do they do it?
Winter 2015
The Sounds of the City
Architecture professor Karen Van Lengen launches a virtual library of New York City sounds.
Summer 2015
Galactic Bones
Catherine Zucker (Col class of '15) conducts research that is helping to reveal the Milky Way’s “skeleton.”
April 13, 2015
Sexual Assault and UVA
This timeline tracks national and legal developments related to sexual assaults on college campuses, recaps UVA’s responses to the Rolling Stone article and highlights what’s specifically being done at the University to help ensure student safety—both in recent years and going forward.
Spring 2015
Weird Is Wonderful
Darden professor Martin Davidson discusses "weirdness" and explains how weird people may be our greatest resource.
Spring 2015
A World of Change
To find out exactly how a changing climate affects us, UVA professors have undertaken studies that span the globe—from Virginia to the Arctic and beyond.
Spring 2015
Two Thumbs Up
Connor Woodle was born without thumbs. A procedure performed by Dr. Bobby Chhabra at the UVA Hand Center changed his life.
Spring 2015
Difference Maker: Lauranett Lee
Alumna searches for references to enslaved people to add them to “Unknown No Longer,” a public database of enslaved Virginians who appear in inventories, bills of sale, wills and other records.
Spring 2015
The Shocking Truth
UVA psychology professor Timothy D. Wilson conducted a study that found that people would rather be shocked than be alone with their thoughts.
February 24, 2015
Love Among the Equations
Two UVA economics professors find proof of love (or, quantifiable evidence of caring) in their research.
February 20, 2015
Telling Stories, Digitally
Bethany Nowviskie, director of digital research & scholarship at the UVA library and director of the Scholars' Lab, discusses digital storytelling and what the online age has meant for the humanities.
January 19, 2015
Podcast People
Alumna Lulu Miller (Grad class of '13) and Alix Spiegel have created a new National Public Radio show with a focus on how invisible forces influence human behavior.
January 19, 2015
Bestsellers at the UVA Bookstore
See which titles are flying off the shelves at the UVA Bookstore
Winter 2014
The Facts of the Matter
More than 25 years after publishing Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, E.D. Hirsch is seeing the teaching philosophies he's championed for becoming a basis for curriculum changes across America.
Winter 2014
Better, Stronger, Faster
UVA’s SPEED Clinic uses high-tech wizardry to help weekend warriors develop a better gait.
Winter 2014
Book Traces
UVA English professor Andrew Stauffer is on a national mission to encourage readers to take a closer look at what's scribbled in the margins of books.
Winter 2014
Bee Hopeful
UVA prof. T’ai Roulston and his research team recently spotted a bumblebee that hadn’t been seen in the Eastern U.S. for five years.
Winter 2014