The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an innovative incisionless surgery for debilitating Parkinson’s disease that offers an outpatient alternative to invasive deep-brain surgery. Insightec’s Exablate Neuro ultrasound device was successfully tested at UVA Health, which is now one of only 37 U.S. medical centers able to offer the procedure.
Fluvoxamine contains a protein called the sigma-1 receptor, which regulates the release of inflammatory molecules — including some that are believed to increase in people with severe cases of COVID, Scientific American explains . A 2019 study from the University of Virginia focused on mice with sepsis. Many who didn’t have the sigma-1 receptor developed inflammation and died, but many of the mice who received a shot of fluvoxamine survived.
On Oct. 26, the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia hosted a virtual Sustainability Abroad Panel discussion. It was an open discussion led by four panelists with input from the audience about their own experiences, perspectives and approaches. The College’s Global Education Special Programs Advisor Marina LaMastro and UVA’s Education Abroad Advisor Haley Spear were the discussion moderators. LaMastro started by explaining the collaboration between the College and UVA.
The University of Chicago Law School has the greatest percentage of recent alumni working at the 10 highest-grossing U.S. law firms, followed closely by the University of Virginia School of Law and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, according to a recent study tracking graduates’ outcomes.
Two of Virginia’s children’s hospitals are teaming to help children and families have convenient access to cardiac care. According to a release, the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University and UVA Children’s have developed a regional collaboration to provide heart surgery for children.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at the UVA Center for Politics and the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball) One of the likely outcomes of the ongoing redistricting process would be the already-huge Republican edge in a region we’ll call the Greater South growing even larger. If the Republicans capitalize on this opportunity, it will continue what has been perhaps the most important story in House elections since the middle of the 20th century: The South’s transition from a heavily Democratic to a heavily Republican House delegation.
Many observers worry that deepfakes could become a major threat in politics, used to humiliate political figures and advocates like Martin or even make them appear to say things they never said. “What it could do to diplomacy and democracy – we’re holding our breath,” UVA professor of law Danielle Citron said.
Nashville-based musician Essy taught herself how to play piano at the age of 11, ultimately attending NYU’s summer program as well as attending the University of Virginia. Essy will be releasing her third EP this fall, and recently released her single, “No Prisoners,” which she describes as “a more ‘live sound’ combining modern synth mixed with ‘70s funk and ‘80s rock.”
For Abigail Henry, a ninth grade African American History teacher at Mastery Charter School — Shoemaker Campus in West Philadelphia, discussions about racial justice — about these and other incidents, historical and contemporary — are central to her work. Henry, who was born in London, has an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, and master’s from University College London, recently received a Pulitzer Center grant to incorporate into her lessons The New York Times’ 1619 Project, developed by journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
(By Prince Verma, graduate student in chemical engineering) Recently, I visited Boston for a conference and attended a session on ‘how to network’. I learned a lot of things during the session but one thing stood out for me.
In 1920, a mysterious woman surfaced in a German mental hospital. claiming to be the duchess. She knew some facts about the family and suggested that amnesia was the cause of any errors in her recall. She moved to America and eventually married a former University of Virginia professor and settled in Virginia. For decades, Anna Anderson and her husband fought for her to be legally recognized as the long-lost royal. The legal battles were balanced with enough doubt to keep the guessing game going. Her case was fueled by high public interest and exposure, which ranged from novels to a ballet to ...
According to Brad Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, in a recent interview with Christianity Today, “Tough and traumatic times can change our priorities, our perspective, and our devotion to friends and family for the better when we face trials with a strong social network, the right perspective, or a deep faith. That may partly explain the remarkable finding that the share of married men and women ages 18-55 saying their marriage is in trouble declined from 40% in 2019 to 29% in 2020. …in the face of major collective trauma, …a lot of people becom...
(Commentary) Gatherings like COP26 are basically all we have when it comes to global cooperation. But I still think meetings like this, and the officials who attend them, frame the problem all wrong. A recent edition of the solutions-focused climate newsletter Hothouse quotes Peter Norton, an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia, who teaches through the lens of climate issues. He believes coming up with climate solutions requires us to reprogram certain deeply-held beliefs about progress and innovation.
“There are lots of other problems that have emerged this summer. COVID hasn’t gone away, inflation, gas prices. The public is just in kind of a surly mood and the results from two weeks ago were not good for Democrats,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, who pointed to Biden’s sharp drop in approval ratings after the messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which he called “a catalyst” for the changing political environment.
While winning the presidency last year, Democrats faltered in the undercard, losing 13 House seats and both houses of the New Hampshire Legislature. That trend is likely to continue, said political scientist Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “There’s almost no chance Democrats will make progress in controlling legislative chambers while a Democrat is in the White House,” Sabato told State Net Capitol Journal. “And even when a controversial unpopular president such as Trump gives an opening to Democrats as in 2020, Democrats can’t seem to capitalize on it.”
Saikrishna Prakash, a UVA law professor, said the position of the incumbent president will matter to the courts, but the legal questions at issue are significant and far from settled. “If the rationale for the privilege is candid advice giving, then it would be reasonable for the privilege to extend beyond a president’s term,” he wrote in a Washington Post column. “After all, Trump’s aides may not have supplied unfiltered advice if they knew that all their advice could be aired the week after Trump left office. President Biden faces the same issue with the counsel his aides now supply him.”
Of the long list of worries frontline health care workers face, Dr. Taison Bell at UVA Health says a potential stronger variant is at the top. Bell, a critical care provider at UVA, has an important message going into cooler months. “The thing about the coronavirus is that it keeps coming back,” he said. “But I fear coming into winter that our cases might go up like we’ve seen happening in eastern parts of Europe and we have to be prepared for the winter.”
(By Julie Cohen and Vivian Wong, associate professors in the School of Education and Human Development) At the University of Virginia, we have spent the last five years supplementing traditional methods for practice with a curriculum of digitally mediated simulations, administered online over Zoom. These simulations focus on a range of critical teaching scenarios – from providing students feedback during a discussion about a literary text to engaging a parent/guardian during a conference about a student.
The University of Virginia Nov. 4 announced that Madhur Behl was among 12 university science and engineering faculty to be honored with a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.
Five research projects have received pilot funding from the integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia, or iTHRIV. The National Institutes of Health-funded Clinical and Translational Research Award Hub awarded $200,000 to the multi-institutional research projects. There are teams of researchers, physicians, sustainability experts and software engineers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Virginia Tech, Inova Health System and Carilion Clinic getting funding.