The ability of cancer cells to develop resistance to chemotherapy drugs, known as multidrug resistance, remains a major cause of tumor recurrence and cancer metastasis. A team including UVA researchers has made a major breakthrough in the fight against multiresistant cells with a technique using nanoparticles to administer drugs to cancer cells.
UVA’s Darden School of Business has announced a new business analytics master program, which will be run partially online to allow working professionals to keep up with work commitments while they study.
UVA has now invested nearly $1 million in the early stages of student and faculty startups, joining the growing number of schools investing in homegrown enterprises.
This free tax preparation program relies on the work of more than 200 community volunteers, many of whom are UVA students. Creating Assets, Savings, and Hope (CASH) is the division within Madison House, a student volunteer center that assists the United Way program.
Dozens of UVA students left Fashion Square Mall on Sunday night feeling ready to dress to impress and land their first professional job. JCPenney partnered with the UVA Career Center for a "Suit Up Event.”
When Sarah Jane Holbrook Freeman wakes up on Mardi Gras, Feb. 13, she will be participating in not only a long-standing New Orleans Carnival tradition, but also one deeply intertwined with her own family.
For amateur athletes, having some flexibility is important for healthy living, said Jay Hertel, a UVA kinesiologist and professor of sports medicine. “You need to be able to go through a functional range of motion from the standpoint of being able to do activities of daily living.” But too much of it isn’t a good thing.
Not even Mother Nature could keep a thunderous UVA student section away. "It's a little rain, but we're not letting that stop us," fourth-year student Sean Crow said, who started camping out at John Paul Jones Arena on Thursday. "But I'd say it's the best one so far."
In a show of support, Becket, a law firm that defends religious liberty, and UVA law professor Douglas Laycock filed a friend-of-the-court brief in favor of Blaine Anderson, the owner of Hands On Originals.
On Dec. 22, Trump signed into law a major tax reform package that will lower income tax rates for many Americans. On Jan. 22, he signed a temporary spending bill to end a three-day government shutdown that was at least partially blamed on congressional Democrats. And on Jan. 30, while the Iowa Poll was in the field, Trump appeared on primetime television to deliver his first State of the Union address. The upswing coincides with a national rise in Trump’s approval rating, likely driven by those developments as well as fewer than average “self-inflicted controversies” in recent weeks, said...
Charlottesville officials are continuing their efforts to manage downtown parking despite a decision by the City Council in early January to terminate a parking meter program before its six-month pilot program ended. “There is an existing plan that has certain recommendations in place that included the on-street meters, but are much more than that,” said Andrew Mondschein, a UVA School of Architecture professor and member of the PLACE Design Task Force.
Roger Dean Huffstetler, who is both outraising and outspending his Democratic opponents in Virginia's largely rural fifth district, announced his campaign less than a year after he moved in the summer of 2016 to Charlottesville, a blue city located near the center of a rural red district. Geoffrey Skelley, an expert on Virginia elections for UVA’s Center for Politics, said Huffstetler's lack of local ties could hurt his chances to win the Democratic nomination, which will this year be decided by a convention and not a primary. "Having strong local ties could be vital in the nomination process,...
UVA research has shown that between 1969 and 2011, cancer incidence declined in every region of the country except rural Appalachia. Lung cancer, in particular, is a major contributor to the high cancer incidence and mortality rates in Kentucky, and accounts for 35 percent of all cancer deaths.
Scientists have developed a novel technique that uses specially designed nanoparticles and near-infrared laser treatment to cause cancer cells to lose their multidrug resistance capabilities for days at a time. This creates a therapeutic window for chemotherapy to combat even the most drug-resistant cells left behind after surgery or earlier treatment, according to the researchers. The team, which also included researchers from the University of Virginia targeted a specially designed nanoparticle to the mitochondrion.
The new degree program, offered through weekend classes and online instruction, will be available to those with at least two years of full-time work experience.
They held their annual "Strong Men and Women in Virginia History" awards ceremony Wednesday night. Seven renowned African-Americans were honored for their accomplishments and leadership, including Mavis Claytor-Ford, the first African-American to earn a bachelor's degree in nursing from UVA.
The UVA Press and UVA’s Center for Digital Editing plan to create a cooperative to discuss the challenges of developing and publishing digital scholarly editions and projects, according to a news release.
Internet pioneer John Perry Barlow, who championed ideals of a free and open internet, has died. Barlow’s Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, written 22 years ago, was a rallying cry for cyberpunks and a warning to governments. “His optimism was infectious and he played such an important role in allowing people to be bold about what they might build,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA professor of media studies.
A $160 million renovation to UVA’s Alderman Library may limit access to book collections and squeeze storage and study space even tighter during the work. Students and faculty on Wednesday and Thursday got more details about proposed renovations to the University’s biggest library.
President Donald Trump’s visit to the Sheffer Corp. near Cincinnati was billed as a chance to discuss the recently enacted tax law. While Trump did discuss the tax law, most coverage of the speech led with a digression in which Trump accused Democrats of treason. "Being rude and partisan does not come close to the constitutional definition of treason," agreed Robert F. Turner, a fellow at UVA’s Center for National Security Law.