University of Virginia

If you’re looking for a touching story about babies, you’re in the right place. And this one starts the way every newborn’s tale begins: with drooling.Baby Aspen – tiny, drowsy, with big eyelashes – and new mom Mara Roman were asked to…

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators have created a powerful new tool they say will benefit essentially every area of biomedical research, from understanding how healthy cells function to the…

It’s August, which means it’s time for the annual flood of back-to-school photos: kids standing on front steps, sporting brand new outfits and comically large backpacks, posing with signs declaring “First Day of School!”But behind the…

For several years, Julia Taylor had one of the nation’s most underappreciated jobs: middle school counselor.“I was in the trenches for a decade before higher ed,” said Taylor, now an associate professor of counselor education in the…

Rachel Letteri digs polymers because, in them, she sees so many possibilities.“Polymers are big molecules that string together many different building blocks and play so many important roles in medicine and engineering,” said Letteri, an…

UVA Health researchers are pioneering brain stimulation as a new way to treat chronic pain that does not respond to medication.Their innovative approach will receive more than $5 million from the National Institutes of Health to fund a…

Anew University of Virginia study has found that a new mother’s ability to recognize positive emotions of the faces of other adults predicts how sensitive and responsive she will be with her baby four months later.A team in the Department…

AUniversity of Virginia engineering professor imagines a day when people living in small towns far from big hospitals can get life-saving operations performed, in part, by a robot surgeon that does the cutting and stitching.And the…

The Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVA Health saw a fivefold increase over the past year in calls for adverse reactions to Delta-8 THC, a substance extracted from hemp and marijuana plants or created synthetically. Delta-8 THC is…

Four panels of the toppled Berlin Wall – a unique piece of Cold War history – are likely standing on Grounds at the University of Virginia for their final year.Called “Kings of Freedom,” the panels – with graffiti art on one side by West…