Research

The new Virginia Alzheimer’s Disease Center Data Commons is helping researchers like Dr. Carol Manning better understand and treat the neurodegenerative disease.

Daria Skwarzynka (Med ’24) believes in working together to discover something big. Learn about her research and how she wants to motivate other researchers.

The goal of The RAFT project is to help Virginia’s coastal localities improve resilience to flooding and other coastal storm hazards while remaining economically and socially viable.

Critical research investments spark the invention of a diagnostic microchip with great potential.

From Darden to Airbnb and back again, Melissa Thomas-Hunt creates connections that bring people together.

University officials began a new era on Thursday with the groundbreaking for the School of Data Science, the first of several new buildings planned for the Ivy Road entrance corridor.

Joanne Walsh’s positive experience at UVA Cancer Center inspired her to fund future research on brain cancer.

Lawn Society members Sandra Stern (Ed ’85) and her husband, Evan, are also longtime supporters of the School of Education and Human Development. With Evan battling Parkinson’s-related dementia, the Sterns felt they had to act. So they created the Stern Bicentennial Professorship in Education and Neuroscience to leverage the...

Harrison Center director John Lukens is collaborating on promising advances in neurodegenerative disease research.

The Charlottesville-based Ivy Foundation has committed $2 million to accelerate biomedical research focused on COVID-19 at the University of Virginia.

The Manning family made a $1 million gift creating a fund for research efforts addressing COVID-19 challenges.

Pete Ten Eyck and UVA’s researchers join forces to save oyster reefs on the Eastern Shore.