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The University of Virginia announced plans today to launch a biotechnology institute that positions UVA at the very forefront of cutting-edge medicine, such as cellular and gene therapies that revolutionize how diseases are treated and…

The University of Virginia today announced the launch of a new University Fellows program, which will bring expert practitioners to Grounds to engage with the UVA community on today’s most challenging problems and inspiring opportunities.…

An array of luminaries including University of Virginia President Jim Ryan and two U.S. senators dedicated the home of UVA’s Naval ROTC program on Friday to the memory of the late U.S. Sen. John Warner.In 2022, the Board of Visitors…

Calls to UVA Health’s Blue Ridge Poison Center for children unintentionally consuming edible marijuana products nearly tripled from 26 in 2021 to 77 in 2022. About 68% of those calls in 2022 – a total of 52 – involved children ages 5 or…

To expand access to cancer screenings for underserved residents of Central, Southside and Southwest Virginia, UVA Cancer Center is establishing partnerships with community health centers serving those regions.One partnership is with…

We all live in a gigantic, invisible space bubble. The “Local Bubble,” as astronomers call it, is a gas pocket in space about a thousand light years wide.As a University of Virginia undergraduate student, Theo O’Neill recently created the…

University of Virginia neuroscientists have revealed how a toxic form of tau protein, notorious for forming tangles in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease and several other neurodegenerative disorders, spreads through the brain…

Bacteria can make you ill, but if all bacteria were bad for you, you’d be in big trouble.Our bodies contain about as many microorganisms as human cells. We know that these microbes play an important role in our health and survival, but…

Ten University of Virginia professors are among 200 named in the 2023 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, making UVA home to 5% of the nation’s most influential education scholars for the first time since 2015.The annual rankings were…

Facial recognition can identify people in a crowd. Can the same be done for fish in a river with “fish-ial” recognition software?University of Virginia data scientist Sheng Li is determined to find out.In collaboration with the U.S.…