Scientists have discovered why obesity causes high blood pressure, and the protein it affects to do this. Could this lead to a more effective anti-hypertensive drug that may bring down readings without having to lose weight? Based at the UVA School of Medicine, Dr. Swapnil K. Sonkusare and his colleagues proclaimed the importance of a TRPV4 protein.
Claudrena Harold, a UVA history professor whose academic expertise focuses on African American and U.S. labor history, the civil rights movement, and the Jim Crow South, has made something of a departure to pen her latest book, which chronicles gospel music over the last three decades of the 20th century.
While there are many Muslims active in Hollywood from Mahershala Ali to Riz Ahmed, who is drawing awards buzz for his role in “Sound of Metal,” UVA alumna Serena Rasoul thought they were among the few. Rasoul has launched Muslim American Casting and is building a database of Muslim and Southwest Asian/North African talent.
(Commentary) Neighborhoods, cities and nations are safer, healthier and more prosperous where nuclear families are the norm. But for the sake of social justice and modern progressivism, we are all just supposed to shake our heads politely and keep our alarm about the sexual slippery slope to ourselves. As University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox summarized in a 2020 article reviewing the benefits of two-parent married households for The Atlantic magazine, "sadly, adults who are unrelated to children are much more likely to abuse or neglect them than their own parents are."
New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for fully-vaccinated individuals allows them to gather with other vaccinated people and allows vaccinated people to visit unvaccinated people who have a low risk of developing serious symptoms. Dr. Bill Petri at the University of Virginia says these new guidelines are taking some of the shackles off that people have been working under for the past year.
(Podcast) A UVA professor of psychology, Daniel T. Willingham joins Education Next editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss how findings in education research can be better translated to help teachers in a live classroom setting.
According to C. James Taylor at UVA’s Miller Center, Talleyrand demanded $10 million for a loan and a $250,000 personal bribe. The U.S. ambassadors saw the event, rightfully so, as an insult. The Americans previously saw Talleyrand as a good choice for foreign minister, since he had lived in the United States from 1794 to. 1796. However, Talleyrand wanted either Aaron Burr or James Madison, leaders who had professed friendship to France.
(Commentary) According to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, Virginia has a long history of bipartisan and equal-opportunity gerrymandering, dating back to 1779 when Patrick Henry attempted to redraw Virginia’s 5th Congressional District to the advantage of his own party.
Although the experiment will use existing equipment with minor modifications, it was still challenging to build. “SpinQuest leverages the power of Fermilab’s Main Injector accelerator, but this has created some challenges for the custom-built, polarized target,” said SpinQuest co-spokesperson Dustin Keller and professor at the University of Virginia. “In overcoming these, we might very well set some records.”
Scientists at the University of Virginia have a new brain sensor tool that could have huge implications for people with neurological diseases. This new technology allows scientists to see how brain cells communicate in both healthy and diseased brains. Researchers say this could help us better understand diseases and disorders from Alzheimer’s to autism.
New contact lens technology to help diagnose and monitor medical conditions may soon be ready for clinical trials. A team of researchers from Purdue University – that also includes Baoxing Xu, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia – worked with biomedical, mechanical and chemical engineers, along with clinicians, to develop the novel technology.
Playwright Henrik Ibsen coined the phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” The University of Virginia, one of New America’s recent Public Interest Technology University Networks grantees, is a living example of this. Barbara Brown Wilson, associate professor of urban and environmental planning at the UVA School of Architecture and co-founder and faculty director at the UVA Democracy Initiative Center for the Redress of Inequity through Community-Engaged Scholarship – more commonly known as the UVA Equity Center – and Michele Claiborne, the center’s director of equitable analytics, along...
In partnership with the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, our team is designing a bespoke education module on Leading for Racial Equity. The course will provide our Young Global Leaders with the knowledge and tools to drive meaningful change within their organizations, with the potential to affect hundreds of thousands of employees and accelerate greater inclusion across sectors.
An anonymous gift is going to create new opportunities for Piedmont Virginia Community College students who want to transfer to the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia students living in Lawn residences next year may still post profane four-letter oaths on their dorm room doors, but the size of the print will be a lot smaller.
UVA football players are refusing to sit back and watch history unfold. They want to be a part of the discourse to help change the narrative. “Changing one person’s life is changing their world,” Terrell Jana said. He and teammate Nick Grant have been vital to the formation of The Groundskeepers, a group created in response to the killings of George Floyd and Breanna Taylor in the summer of 2020.
About halfway through the second meeting of Read What You Sow, a book club founded by New York Liberty forward [and UVA alumna] Jocelyn Willoughby, a member clicks to raise her hand and participate in the virtual discussion. For an hour the topics are manifold, loosely guided by Willoughby’s own questions. One in particular rouses a response.
“All else being equal, when we’re alone, our brain is a little more vigilant for any signs of danger. Also, our brain perceives demands from the world as more demanding than they would be if we had someone with us,” UVA psychology professor James Coan said. “And there’s a really simple reason for it: It’s that the world is more demanding when we’re alone, because anything that the world demands of us when we’re alone, we have to do by ourselves.”
Kitty Joyner was not only the first woman to graduate from the University of Virginia’s engineering program, but she also went on to become the NACA’s first woman engineer, getting her first job with the agency in 1939. She worked first for the NACA and then for NASA until her retirement in 1971, making significant contributions to research on aeronautics, supersonic flight, and airfoil designs.
(Commentary) Originalist legal scholars such as UVA Law professor Larry Solum have delved deeply into analytic philosophy of language to articulate how their efforts to find the original meaning of constitutional language relate to social and historical facts that bear on that interpretive enterprise. In no sense is this a kind of “literalism.”