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.
A virus holds the key for a potentially unlocking a new indestructible material. UVA researchers believe that by examining the characteristics of Acidianus hospitalis Filamentous Virus 1 they can create a material that has a number of applications, including the pinpoint delivery of cancer drugs that only attack tumors and building materials that could better withstand an earthquake’s tremors.
(Commentary) According to the UVA Climatology Office, if the warming trend here in Virginia continues to rise at the same rate it has since the mid-1970s, it will surpass 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit of additional heat – that’s a statewide annual average – by around 2050.
The Charlottesville/UVA/Albemarle County Emergency Communications announced that Allison Farole has been hired as the new regional emergency management coordinator for the City of Charlottesville, University of Virginia and the County of Albemarle. Farole officially began her duties June 30.
Barbara Perry is an expert on presidents' first years in office, and she gives Donald Trump poor marks so far. The director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs has devised a grading system for presidents based on factors like fulfillment of campaign promises, pre-White House experience, transition to power and media relations.
(Commentary) There is no question that the communities where Trump received crucial backing – rural to small-city America – are, in many ways, on a downward trajectory. As early as 2010, a report issued by the Institute for American Values and the UVA-based National Marriage Project, “When Marriage Disappears: The New Middle America,” found that the downward path of those without college degrees stood in contrast to the experience of those with degrees.
Host Bev Jones talks with lawyer, UVA law professor and health care analyst Dayna Bowen Matthew about racial inequality in the workplace. Matthew just released a new book, “Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care.”
Bronco Mendenhall concedes that his first season at Virginia didn’t go quite as planned. Virginia has won 37 games in the last nine seasons, just one of those, way back in 2011, that ended with a winning record. Mendenhall knew when he took the job that it wasn’t going to be a quick fix, but still at this time last year he was talking about how the goal was to get the Cavs back into bowl contention, and he felt momentum moving in that direction after a solid spring. The rebuild is going to be a bigger dig than anticipated, obviously.
The world's oldest written language is the second-most commonly spoken non-English language, after Spanish, in the United States, with over 2.1 million speakers, according to a latest survey by 24/7 Wall Str. "The most significant new aspect of this ‘Chinese fever’ was that it went down to the level of primary and secondary education," said Charles Laughlin, chair of UVA’s Department of East Asian Studies.
A UVA law professor is taking a leading stance in the effort to curb the opioid epidemic. Richard J. Bonnie chaired a new study for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Bonnie played a part in an ad hoc committee of public health experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration. The committee looked at the challenges fueling the epidemic, and how to overcome them.
As a candidate, Trump tapped into voter anger with Washington, claiming often that he would use the business acumen he honed in the private sector to run government more efficiently. But now that Trump is in office, “I think it is possible that if that anger continues, at some point it gets directed at him,” said Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
Science metrics – the number of published papers, impact factor of the journals, the number of times papers get cited, etc., – continue to exert an overriding influence on the career progression of all scientists, and eventually create ‘celebrities’ in science. The publishing companies have never had it so good: most scientists want recognition for their work and many of them want to be celebrities. So the industry makes more profit by publishing more journals and more papers. As UVA professor Brian Nosek, director of the Center for Open Science, wryly remarked, “Academic publishing is the per...
Two years ago, UVA’s Larry Sabato, a prominent political scientist, co-authored a piece on Trump’s electoral prospects. “If Trump is nominated,” the analysis said, “then everything we think we know about presidential nominations is wrong. History has shown that presidential nominations tend to follow a certain set of ‘rules.’” The “rules” as we knew them no longer seemed to apply.
Hazy, unconfirmed reports of the Chennault Affair appeared in the newspapers almost immediately, and in books about the 1968 campaign by White and others, but Johnson and Rostow had the relevant Johnson administration documents locked up for decades, in a folder known as "the X envelope." It was not until recently that the release of the records and White House tapes by the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library put flesh on our then-skeletal knowledge of the affair. (For the fullest account of Nixon's intrigue, and how it has come to light over the years, see “Chasing Shadows,” a 2014 bo...
(By Jason Scott Johnston, UVA’s Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law) On May 31, the day before President Trump announced that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, the California Senate passed a bill mandating 100 percent of all electrical generation be from so-called “renewable” sources that emit no carbon dioxide by 2045. As the vote was strictly along party lines, this means that the General Assembly will also likely pass it and send it to Gov. Brown for signature.
(Co-written by Kimberly A. Whitler, assistant professor of marketing at UVA’s Darden School of Business) In our research into what makes CMOs effective, we’ve heard stories like this more often than we should. To us, they’re evidence that something is going very wrong in the relationship between CEOs and CMOs. A 2012 global survey by the Fournaise Marketing Group highlights the tensions between them: The results reveal that 80 percent of CEOs don’t trust or are unimpressed with their CMOs.
The UVA Children's Hospital is one of seven facilities benefiting from a fundraising campaign involving a grocery chain. According to a release, Giant Food Stores and Martin's Food Markets have donated more than $655,000 to help Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, like UVA.
Research at the University of Virginia revealed that singing improves the cognitive abilities of moderate to severe dementia sufferers.