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UVA’s Environmental Institute Appoints Environmental Attorney & Policy Expert Elizabeth Andrews as...

The Environmental Institute has appointed acclaimed environmental attorney and natural resources policy expert Elizabeth Andrews as the first Environmental Sustainability and Resilience Practitioner...

UVA Health, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital Enhance Stroke Care Collaboration

Reading the River

As the world’s climate changes and the threat of extreme rain events grows, a UVA professor has won the National Science Foundation’s highest honors for early-career scientists for research that...

Is Social Media Hijacking Your Brain? Spontaneity May Be the Antidote

Philosophy professor Zachary Irving says allowing our minds to wander could help make social media less toxic.

New Drug a Breakthrough for Brain Tumor That Strikes the Young

New Process May Reduce Negative Impacts of Making Plastics, Other Products

UVA research shows the promise for cleaner conversion of ethylene for use in high-demand products, such as plastic beverage bottles.

With New Grant, Researchers Will Adapt Reading Intervention for English Learners

Assistant Professor Colby Hall will lead a team to modify a technology-based reading program to meet the needs of English Learners at risk for reading difficulties.

News in Brief: Want To Buy a Humanlike ‘Soft Robot’? UVA Shares Manufacturing Secret

A new manufacturing process may result in more realistic robots and a host of other internet-based flexible products.

New Drug a Breakthrough for Brain Tumor That Strikes the Young

New Process May Reduce Negative Impacts of Making Plastics, Other Products

UVA research shows the promise for cleaner conversion of ethylene for use in high-demand products, such as plastic beverage bottles.

Can Ultrasound Waves Help People Quit Cocaine?

UVA Health researchers received an NIH grant to test low-intensity focused ultrasound on brain cells to reduce the desire for cocaine.

NSF Grant Will Fund Astronomer in Search of the Origins of the Universe

Time travel is still more science fiction than science fact, but a UVA astronomer is part of a team of researchers who are working on the technology that could at least give us a view of the universe...