Aggressive combination treatments for high blood pressure that are intended to protect the kidneys may actually be damaging the organs, new research from the UVA School of Medicine suggests.
Northam recently touted a plan to help rural Virginia, reintroducing his proposal for cost-free community college or trade school and calling for a $15 million expansion of UVA’s College at Wise in Southwest Virginia.
Those committed to a career in immigration law may also consider formally concentrating their J.D. studies in this field. Look for law schools with concentrations that offer more than a list of relevant coursework. For example, the University of Virginia's Immigration Law program gives students a chance to participate in community service and pro bono projects in partnership with local law firms, legal aid programs, committees and coalitions. These experiences are available in addition to participating in the Immigration Law Clinic.
Leading U.S. solar scientists today highlighted research activities that will take place across the country during next month's rare solar eclipse, advancing our knowledge of the sun's complex and mysterious magnetic field and its effect on Earth's atmosphere. An experiment run by researchers at UVA and George Mason University will use transmitters broadcasting at low frequencies to probe the response of regions of the ionosphere.
The University of Virginia is preparing to greet its Class of 2021. Most of the incoming students were born in 1999, and will move into first-year dorms on Aug. 18 or 19.
Joseph M. Hart, an athletic trainer and UVA associate professor of kinesiology, recently wrote about early onset osteoarthritis in the Journal of Athletic Training. In an editorial co-written by kinesiologists Abbey Thomas and Jeffrey Driban, Hart wrote that athletic trainers will play a special role in helping to prevent and treat osteoarthritis, which is affecting patients who are younger than doctors once thought possible.
Although it’s still an open question whether Trump could pardon himself, should things ever get to that point, the only thing stopping him from preemptively pardoning members of his campaign (or his family) is political backlash. And the only real restraints on the president’s pardon power, says Saikrishna Prakash, James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, are political repercussions.
House Speaker Paul Ryan made a rare visit to the Bay State yesterday to tour the New Balance factory in Lawrence, but fellow Republican Gov. Charlie Baker was nowhere to be found, avoiding a potentially haunting photo op with unpopular GOP leadership ahead of his re-election bid. “Gov. Baker seems on his way, probably, to an easy re-election. How does a Republican get in that rare position in Massachusetts? By being moderate-liberal on most things, and by running for re-election as the nominee of the Baker Party – and either ignoring or condemning the presidential and congressional GOP,” said ...
The UVA Health System and the Bon Secours Liver Institute of Virginia will be working together to care for patients. According to a release, the two organizations will collaboratively care for patients at Bon Secours' facilities in Richmond and Newport News who may need liver transplants at UVA.
A future 120-acre solar farm in Middlesex County will provide power for the University of Virginia once it is completed in late 2018. The university has signed a 25-year agreement with Dominion Energy – which will build the proposed 15-megawatt facility – granting UVA use of its entire electrical output.
The University of Virginia continues to expand its portfolio of carbon-free generation and achieve key sustainability targets with another partnership announced today with Dominion Energy. Under a 25-year agreement, the University will purchase the entire output of a proposed 120-acre solar facility in Middlesex County.
Aaron Reedy saw something was missing from high school science classrooms. A former Chicago public school teacher and current Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, he was unsatisfied with the available data analytics software options and felt that in order to simulate a professional lab setting, something had to be done.
“In the short term, presidents do have a major impact on the rise and fall of the stock market,” said Bob Bruner, economics professor and former dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business. “Presidents can declare intentions to adjust taxes, impose antitrust enforcement on industries – such as Jack Kennedy did – declare war, or undertake military actions without the sanctions of Congress. All of those things dramatically affect the expectations of the capital markets.”
The UVA Health System and the Bon Secours Liver Institute of Virginia will collaboratively care for patients at Bon Secours’ facilities in Richmond and Newport News who may need liver transplants at UVA.
(Subscription required) The individual chapters in “Money Talks” deserve the attention of specialists and the book’s central message – that the management and regulation of money should not be left to economists or bankers alone – is one we should all take to heart. Nonetheless, no one would mistake this unillustrated volume for bedtime, beach or in-flight reading. In contrast, MIT Press’s beautifully produced “Paid” (with over 80 illustrations and set in a magazine typeface) is perfect for all those situations. Its short essays vary more than the uniformly academic contributions to “Money Tal...
While most of the people who voted for Trump on Nov. 8 said they would back him again, the erosion of support within his winning coalition of older, disaffected, mostly white voters poses a potential challenge for the president. “People are still invested in the choices they made” on Election Day, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “They’re not about to admit that they’re wrong, at least not yet.”
As UVA’s Daniel Willingham puts it, “Knowledge is cumulative.” In the always-Googleable world of tablet and phone, it could be tempting for children not to fill that store, and for their teachers not to worry too much.
An indestructible virus found in hot springs at Yellowstone National Park could create major benefits for both humans and material.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine believe they have unlocked the secrets of a virus that seems nearly indestructible. Acidianus hospitalis Filamentous Virus 1 was first discovered by David Prangishvili in Yellowstone Park, but UVA has played the role in determining its structure.
Now scientists have revealed some aggressive treatments for high blood pressure could actually be damaging organs. Researchers from the UVA School of Medicine identified the potential problem while studying kidney lesions in mice that cannot make the enzyme renin.