When UVA Director of Athletics Carla Williams wanted to issue a call to action at the Chamber Business Diversity Council Luncheon on Tuesday, she pulled up an illustration a friend sent her when Williams was appointed to the position in October.
In his first remarks to the Faculty Senate since coming on board Aug. 1, UVA President Jim Ryan said he was deeply committed to improving education and helping faculty do their best work. In an hour-long presentation and conversation with several dozen faculty senators, Ryan outlined administrative goals and asked for faculty input.
The warnings begin in June – hurricanes are coming, but at UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy Professor Jay Shimshack says most people ignore advice to prepare. He studied data from more than 3,000 grocery stores in nine states over a ten-year period -- before and after hurricanes. It’s information compiled by the Nielsen Company, best known for television ratings.
Political scientists say they believe Donnelly was poised to vote for Kavanaugh. "This sort of puts everything in turmoil," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan newsletter at the University of Virginia. "I think what the red-state Democrats are looking for is some Republicans to express concerns so that sort of gives them some bipartisan credibility to say they are also concerned."
A spokesperson for Sen. Kaine’s campaign declined to comment on Stewart’s attacks invoking Tibbetts. But experts suggest that the results of last year’s gubernatorial election likely offer a good indication of how such messaging will play out in Virginia. However, “not every part of the country looks like the three big urban areas in Virginia that rejected Gillespie,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the nonpartisan election newsletter of UVA’s Center for Politics. Kondik suggested that efforts to highlight immigrant crimes like the Tibbetts killing will likely reson...
New research from the UVA School of Medicine may have found a new way to treat multiple sclerosis using the lymphatic vessels in the brain.
Two social justice groups are speaking out against the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Members of the Showing Up for Racial Justice and the University of Virginia's Dreamers on Grounds oppose the county's voluntary policy of notifying ICE when suspected undocumented people are in jail.
The same lab that discovered lymphatic vessels in the brain has published new research indicating that those vessels play an important role in the development and progression of multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory diseases. Researchers in the University of Virginia’s Department of Neuroscience and its Center for Brain Immunology and Glia published findings Monday offering insight into how the brain communicates with the immune system.
Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggest that lymphatic vessels that clean the brain of harmful material may play a crucial role in the development and progression of multiple sclerosis. The vessels appear to carry previously unknown messages from the brain to the immune system that ultimately trigger the disease symptoms.
The causes behind multiple sclerosis, a progressive neurological condition, are unknown. However, a new study has uncovered a key starting point: a strange signal sent by the brain to the lymph nodes. The actual reasons behind why the immune system mistakenly strikes against healthy structures in the brain remain unclear. However, new research by the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests that it may be down to an unexpected signal transmitted by the brain to the lymph nodes.
UVA’s School of Engineering is planning to launch a training program for graduate students to study cybersecurity and Internet of Things. The program, which is funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, will operate out of the engineering school’s Link Lab, which promotes the study of cyber-physical systems through a cohort of multi-disciplinary professor- and researcher-led projects.
But “use of capital punishment is declining in America,” the University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett and co-author Ankur Desai wrote in a recent study. “Death sentencing has fallen to a modern low and executions are increasingly rare.”
Roy Wagner, 79, of Charlottesville, died Sept. 10 at his home. He taught at Southern Illinois University and Northwestern University before accepting the chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he taught for 44 years until his passing.
“What the study indicates really clearly is that if kids go to public school or private school, they end up in about the same place – once you consider their family income and background. That is crystal clear,” said author Robert Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development.
UVA’s observance of Constitution Day featured a more controversial discussion than in years past. Panelists looked at how the centuries-old document is still impacting law enforcement throughout communities in the present day.
UVA’s observance of Constitution Day featured a more controversial discussion than in years past. Panelists looked at how the centuries-old document is still impacting law enforcement throughout communities in the present day.
(Commentary by UVA Law professor Ashley Deeks) Chinese human rights practices are in the news again. The White House is reportedly weighing sanctions against Chinese officials and companies that are engaged in or facilitating the mass surveillance and detention of Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
For the 2017-18 flu season, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed only three antiviral drugs for treating flu. Unlike those treatments, the compound baloxavir inhibits the virus’s machinery for making genetic information that it needs to replicate itself. Frederick Hayden at the UVA School of Medicine and his colleagues performed two clinical trials of baloxavir in people with flu.
In the year since a white supremacist torch-lit march at the University of Virginia, new security cameras sprouted up around Grounds. It appears they are here to stay.
UVA has launched an interdisciplinary effort to examine changes and challenges affecting democracy around the world. The Democracy Initiative, led by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Miller Center of Public Affairs, will be supported by $12.9 million in gifts, as well as $10 million in matching funds from UVA’s strategic investment fund.