
Researchers apply new technology to identify plant pathogen strains in Virginia
When emerging plant pathogens go undetected, they have the potential to negatively affect food industries, conservation efforts, and even human health.

When emerging plant pathogens go undetected, they have the potential to negatively affect food industries, conservation efforts, and even human health.

Gov. Ralph Northam today announced more than $1.3 million in state grants to support the implementation of Virginia’s Computer Science Standards of Learning.

When you walk or bike around your city or neighborhood, how do you choose your route? Does pollution factor into that decision? If it doesn’t, it probably should.

The UVA School of Medicine received $146.3 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal-year 2019, the largest amount in the school’s history.

Imagine strolling past the handpicked furniture, elegant kitchenware, and artful accessories of your dream home — before that home is even built.

Without their keen sense of smell, mosquitoes wouldn’t get very far.

Like animals, fungi derive energy by breaking down large molecules into smaller compounds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president when the entire country was in the midst of what historians term the Great Depression.

South Island has become the nesting site for 25,000 migratory birds since the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel was built in the 1950s.

Researchers at UVA have determined that a rare childhood cancer, medulloblastoma, forms an unexpectedly intricate network to drive its growth.
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