The most complex life forms ever developed entirely in Petri dishes can pump blood through tiny beating hearts, gradually growing nerves and muscles in a laboratory. These little collections of mammalian cells form rudimentary mouse embryos, built from scratch out of stem cells - cells that have the potential to develop into any other cell type in the body. "Watching an embryo develop is a marvelous thing to behold," said developmental biologist Christine Thisse from the University of Virginia, one of the authors of the study.
Members of the community have a chance to provide feedback regarding the UVA Police Department. According to a release, the department is set for a virtual on-site assessment as part of a program to maintain its internationally accredited status through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.
Starting Thursday, all UVA students who live, work or learn in person have to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Some students say the vaccine is well worth the return to pre-pandemic life.
(Podcast) “Sunday Morning Wake-up Call” host Rick Moore talks with University of Virginia assistant dean and assistant professor Shilpa Davé about the role the Muppets have played in reflecting modern culture.
AT&T Business CEO Anne Chow is a rare exception to the typical path, said Laura Morgan Roberts, a business professor at the University of Virginia. She added that bias continues throughout a woman's career and is often amplified for women of color.
A.E. Dick Howard was a confident young college professor, only 34, when he got the assignment of a lifetime: Oversee the writing of a new constitution for Virginia. Hope was hard to come by that year — 1968 — with cities in upheaval over the assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. But Howard’s task amounted to a stroke against the darkest forces of society.
(Memoir by Nancy Slonin Aronie, graduate of the University of Virginia’s Mary Washington College) In my junior year of high school, my principal called me into his office and asked me where I wanted to go to college. I said, “Duke.” He said, “Duke?” I said, “Yup.” He said, “Why Duke?” I told him I heard it was the Yale of the South, and “Yale doesn’t take girls.” The year was 1958. He said, “What about the University of Virginia? They have a great theater department.”
Some housing experts are wary of new home construction as a means of increasing homeownership among low-income households, because of the high cost. Edgar Olsen, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Virginia, said subsidizing new houses is less efficient than having renters buy existing homes. “Subsidizing the construction of new houses and selling them at below-market prices is a highly cost-ineffective approach to increasing the homeownership rate,’' Olsen wrote in an email. It “concentrates huge subsidies on the fortunate few who are offered units while offering n...
Higher acquisition costs, however, have made the strategy of gobbling up smaller providers more tricky. And there's an open question of whether there's "too much money chasing too few deals," according to University of Virginia professor Susan Chaplinsky, prompting investors to begin to factor in more of their traditional cost-reduction tactics to their long-term strategies to compensate for a potential decline in valuations. "You can still make a healthy return even if you're not able to sell at a higher multiple or at the multiple you purchased at," Chaplinsky said.
Jonah Fogel, a program manager for UVA’s Environmental Resilience Institute, says it’s not unusual for local officials to be concerned about the ever-increasing number of developers seeking to build solar facilities on Virginia’s rural properties. He suggests the Frederick County Board of Supervisors – as well as other county boards with similar concerns – may want to consider addressing solar energy specifically in county planning documents. “It may be that solar kind of came along, and they tried to be as welcoming as possible,” Fogel says, “and then realized that these projects are [getting...
Many brain imaging researchers are optimistic about what the tools can do. They don’t dismiss the problems other scientists have raised, but they tend to view them as growing pains in what is still a relatively new field. Some problems, particularly those that arise through data collection and analysis, can likely be solved; some may be more endemic to the methods themselves. But none are as dire as many tweets and headlines proclaim. “It doesn’t hurt to remind people that you’ve got to keep those limitations in mind, no matter how advanced the field gets,” says Kevin Pelphrey, professor of ne...
Depression severity can be evaluated across four dimensions, including: frequency and duration of distress, intensity of the symptoms, number of symptoms and overall impairment, says Bethany Teachman, a UVA professor of psychology.
Youngkin appeals to both grassroots and establishment Republicans. “He seems acceptable to them all – but I always add the words ‘so far,’” says Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “One of his main problems is that Donald Trump is never going to yield center stage until he’s six feet under. That’s going to be tough for Youngkin. The only way he wins is by doing what he’s obviously going to do: Spend an unbelievable amount of his personal money, combined with Biden becoming unpopular – if he does.”
Larry Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia, said polling showed that Democrats, including Biden, were “not rated highly on the immigration issue, [and] seen as too soft. Immigration has consistently been one of Trump’s best issues.”
(Podcast) State constitutions influenced the drafting of the U.S. Constitution and continue to shape constitutional rights today. As we get ready to celebrate Independence Day, National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen joined experts for a two-part conversation on state constitutions. First, Rosen was joined by A.E. Dick Howard of UVA, an expert on the Virginia Constitution of 1776 and Virginia’s current constitution, which he helped draft and is commemorating its 50th anniversary this year.
A UVA professor was the executive director of the commission Virginia Gov. Mills Godwin appointed to revise the Constitution. A.E. Dick Howard is the Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of Law at the UVA School of Law now. Fifty years ago, he directed the referendum campaign for the ratification of the new Constitution. “Thomas Jefferson famously called for each generation to consider the extent to which a constitution serves the needs of its own time,” said Howard. “In 1971, the revision commission’s purpose was to repudiate the racism of the 1902 constitution, and to put Virginia on a soun...
Four Southwest Virginia companies targeted for expansion – AMR PEMCO, West River Conveyors & Machinery Co., Simmons Equipment Co. and Lawrence Brothers Inc. – all make components related to batteries or electrical systems and all have “already taken steps to diversify their companies into new markets so they’re not just exclusively serving coal,” according to Wells. It’s not yet clear exactly which new sectors the companies will branch out into serving with battery and electrification manufacturing. Project-funded studies by the University of Michigan’s Economic Growth Institute and UVA’s ...
The top reason for hesitancy is concern over side effects, according to analysis of Facebook survey data performed weekly by a team of researchers at the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute. But respondents are increasingly citing distrust of the government or vaccine science, and the feeling that the vaccine is unnecessary, as reasons to take a pass for now, said Bryan Lewis, a computational epidemiologist at the institute.
UVA research has found that even new babies have some behavioral traits that are already hardwired into their brains. According to a release, co-author Tobias Grossmann, a professor of psychology at UVA and director of the UVA's Babylab, led the study and says the findings are deceptively simple.
A mouse embryo has just been grown in a laboratory from stem cells. The breakthrough mouse features a gut, nervous system, developing muscles, and a beating heart at the University of Virginia. Researchers believe that the discovery could propel organ growth research forward.