News articles from UVA Today.
UVA Helps Educators Wrestle With How to Appropriately Teach Current Events
A team of faculty and students from the School of Education and Human Development worked with practicing educators to launch a new online resource hub, "Educating for Democracy."
New Report Says Eliminating Carbon Emissions by 2050 Can Benefit State's Economy
The study, released this week by UVA's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, details the ways Virginia's goal to eliminate carbon emissions by 2050 is achievable, affordable and can be a net benefit to the state's economy.
4 Things Your Teen (or Pre-Teen) Needs
Build stronger relationships with the teens and pre-teens in your life by understanding these four underlying developmental needs that drive adolescent behavior.
Focused Ultrasound Shows Promise for Treating Parkinson's Disease
The treatment may benefit patients with symptoms that are more severe on one side of body.
Is a Peloton Worth It? An Engineering Professor Weighs In On the Craze
With the craze over the Peloton stationary bike showing no signs of slowing down, UVA Today turns to engineering professor and avid cyclist Gavin Garner to see what all the hullabaloo is about.
Stretching Possibilities: Researcher Imagines Super Rubber, and Has a Strategy to Make It
UVA Engineering assistant professor Liheng Cai is designing a new rubber that is 1,000 times softer than a tire, but as tough as metal.
UVA Tests 'Radically Different' Approach to Managing Type 2 Diabetes
Researcher Daniel Cox said his program's approach defies conventionality in that it doesn't insist on weight loss.
Research Breakthrough Could Transform Clean Energy Technology
A recent discovery from a team led by two UVA researchers could eliminate a significant obstacle to making solar energy work on a large scale.
Research That Saves Lives: Four COVID-19 Therapies Being Tested at UVA
Q&A: A Pandemic Modeler Looks Back - and Forward
Biocomplexity researcher Madhav Marathe has been tracking and modeling the COVID-19 pandemic since it began. Here's what he has to say.