Alban Gaultier’s lab was studying the sigma-1 receptor, a protein within cells that influences inflammation. Gaultier’s team typically studies inflammation related to multiple sclerosis, but doctoral student Dorian Rosen thought existing drugs might be candidates to treat sepsis.
An antidepressant drug used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder could save people from deadly sepsis, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests.
While the Charlottesville scene has its own lore, the city also occupies an important point on global hardcore punk timeline: Back in 1981, WTJU DJ Aaron Margosis was the first person ever to play releases by seminal hardcore punk label Dischord Records over the air.
(Commentary by Veronica Haunani Fitzhugh, who earned a B.A. in English literature) While an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, I risked sharing my writing as my probationary presentation to the Thomas Jefferson Literary and Debate Society. I made people cry. And, I won a sterling Jefferson cup for the best showing of that semester. It changed me as a writer.
UVA is developing an “artificial pancreas,” and is prepping to present early results from a nationwide clinical trial of the device on Friday.
Journalist Jack Crosbie ran a few scenarios by Kyle Kondik, the managing editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball, which is run by the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Everything’s sort of on the table at this point,” Kondik said.
Though Mr. Fairfax has denied the allegations and may survive in his current term in office, the likelihood of winning a future election “is dim in a Democratic primary and even dimmer in a general election,” said Larry J. Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
“We just think it’s important given current events to let survivors - both male and female - know that there are people who believe them and will speak out for them,” said Tallulah Tepper of Team One Love at UVA. Students plan to host another fundraiser on UVA Grounds Wednesday and Thursday.
In the spring, law students from across the state organized and sent letters to the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners asking it to eliminate a portion of the application that prompts the disclosure of mental health conditions, saying that students who need mental health counseling aren’t getting it out of fear that they will be denied admission to the state bar. The changes took effect Jan. 1 and were announced this week at the first Law Student Wellness Summit at the University of Virginia School of Law.
The American Jewish Committee has joined with Christian and Jewish advocacy organizations in filing an amicus brief calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to rule unconstitutional a large Latin cross on government property in a Washington, D.C. suburb. The brief was prepared by Professor Douglas Laycock, a church-state scholar affiliated with the University of Virginia and University of Texas.
“When women run for office,” point out Danny Hayes and Alexandra D. Kurtz of George Washington University, and Jennifer L. Lawless of the University of Virginia, in a recent working paper, “they raise as much money and are just as likely to win their races as men.” They also receive similar press coverage, Hayes and Lawless found in their 2016 book, “Women on the Run.”
Kathryn Crespin, a researcher at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, took a deep dive for you and put out a list of the five things baby boomers need to know. The researcher examined men and women 85 years and older.
The UVA Facilities Management Apprenticeship Program teaches a skilled trade through a combination of on-the-job training, technical education and classroom instruction in a four-year program.
Recently, the University of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation have devised the first nitrogen calculators.
Gregory B. Fairchild, a professor at the University of Virginia’s business school, said both the violence in Charlottesville and the current upheaval could give some young people pause about moving to the state. In theory, that could affect companies’ decisions as well. But he doubted that the scandals would have a measurable effect on Virginia’s economy.
The Virginia Film Festival and the Virginia Festival of the Book will welcome actor, writer, director and producer Emilio Estevez for a screening of his film “The Public” on March 22 at 7 p.m. at The Paramount Theater, as part of the 25th anniversary Virginia Festival of the Book.
(By Dr. Fern R. Hauck, Spencer P. Bass MD Twenty-First Century Professor of Family Medicine, professor of public health sciences and director of UVA’s International Family Medicine Clinic) My father-in-law, just 13 years old, and his father were deported from France to Auschwitz in 1942 and they spent almost three years in some of the most infamous Nazi concentration camps until liberated by American troops in 1945.
Hamed Joodaki, a University of Virginia Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering talks with Les Sinclair about his quest to make seatbelts safer for obese people.
The scandals may cost the Democrats their chance to take over control of the legislature in November's elections, said Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics. The scandals have eroded voters' faith in the party to put forward good candidates, and any perceived racial disparities in consequences for the three officials may cause further harm, he said. "You've got three of them in trouble, and then potentially the African-American goes and the two whites stay," he said in a telephone interview. "Now, there could be complete justification for that, but it looks terrible."
"This has really taken off in recent years," Larry Sabato, a top elections expert and the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, wrote in an email. "Big money is easy to collect, but small money gets a campaign votes, not just cash. People who give even five bucks have skin in the game. … Anybody who buys a piece of merchandise from an e-store is almost certainly a strong supporter of the candidate who will give money, volunteer in some way, and give a candidate the best kind of advertising — vocal endorsement to family and friends.”