The US House of Representatives is wading into the debate over whether human embryos should be modified to introduce heritable changes. Its fiscal year 2016 spending bill for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would prohibit the agency from spending money to evaluate research or clinical applications for such products. In fact, the IOM committee that is evaluating mitochondrial transfer includes a bioethicist, James Childress, who teaches religious studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
While students around the country are enjoying summer vacation, legislators in numerous states are still working to determine how education funding and access might be different come fall. With limited funding on the table, Texas policymakers were smart to focus on improving the quality of existing pre-K programs instead of increasing enrollment. The state still has a long way to go on that front though. For more information on the quality of Texas pre-K, check out the comprehensive report that Robert C. Pianta and Catherine Wolcott from University of Virginia released last fall.
The Affordable Care Act has survived its second and likely its last constitutional challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court, but the political battle lines over health care reform haven’t changed in Virginia. “We’re going to wait and see what happens in the next presidential election,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “All the decision has done is preserve the status quo.”
Photographer Jimmy Nelson has spent the last several years trekking across the planet to meet and visually document the rich cultures of the planet's indigenous tribes. The culmination of his work is a gorgeous collection of photographs titled "Before They Pass Away." Are these accurate reflections of indigenous peoples or simply embellished caricatures sprung from the mind of an outsider? In the opinion of John Edwin Mason, a history professor at the University of Virginia, it's the latter: “[Nelson has] staged these elaborate production shots, which in their tech...
With a temporary full-time job, Ginny Whitener considers herself to be in “the real world” now. A rising third-year student at the University of Virginia, Whitener has spent the past two summers working for the Martinsville revenue commissioner’s office as part of the New College Institute’s (NCI) internship program.
LeiLei Secor, 19, lives in upstate New York but goes to college at the University of Virginia, which means she’s paying out-of-state tuition. Even with a scholarship, the cost of her education is high -- around $40,000 a year. Though she hasn’t declared a major yet, she plans to apply to the school’s business program. The plan is to concentrate on economics and foreign affairs if she doesn’t get in but given Secor’s business acumen, rejection seems unlikely. In three years, this teenager has used her artistry, marketing abilities and time-management skil...
So … who’s going to play Brian O’Connor in the movie? If ever there were a storybook season worthy of cinema, it’s the Cavaliers’ dazzling — and astonishing — ascent to the pinnacle of college baseball. Talk about peaking at the right time. Coach O’Connor managed to take a young team from struggle to success, winning the College World Series in dramatic fashion Wednesday night.
The College World Series came to a close Wednesday night, but the University of Virginia Cavaliers and the Omaha Police Department met Thursday to thank each other for the support they've been given.
Injecting adult stem cells into patients' eyes could be used in future treatments to prevent blindness caused by diabetic retinopathy. Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVA) assessed that stem cells taken from non-diabetics would be more effective than cells taken from patients' own bodies.
The discovery of a new protein involved in sperm-to-egg fusion proves to be a groundbreaking find in the quest to create male contraception. Researchers under Dr. John Herr of the University of Virginia Health System are breaking down what happens on the molecular level during conception, publishing the findings of their study in the journal Biology of Reproduction.
Doctors at the University of Virginia Medical Center have found a way to help treat a rare form of leukemia. Cancer doctors say eight patients with terminal leukemia went into remission after having a combination of drugs and gene therapies. The study is not a cure, but saves patients valuable time while trying to find a stem cell donor.
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have taken a significant step forward in their efforts to use stem cells to block vision loss caused by diabetic retinopathy, a condition that affects millions of people with diabetes. The researchers have evaluated the best potential sources for adult stem cells to be used for that purpose, determining that cells taken from donors who do not suffer diabetes likely will be more effective than cells taken from patients’ own bodies.
Children from Central Virginia saw history come to life in Newcomb Hall on Thursday when the University of Virginia Center for Politics hosted re-enactors of some of the lesser known, but still important, political figures of Virginia’s history.
The Virginia baseball team won the NCAA National Championship for the first time in program history Wednesday night, as the Cavaliers defeated Vanderbilt 4-2 in the College World Series finals.
The University of Virginia baseball program made history with its first national title, the first baseball championship for the Atlantic Coast Conference since 1955. In the deciding game of the best-of-three finals, the Cavaliers defeated Vanderbilt, 4-2.
Brian Balogh is a Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Director of the Fellowship Program at Governing America in a Global Era Program at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. His third book, A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America, was published in 2009. His most recent book is the The Associational State: American Governance in the 20th Century. Balogh joins Coy to discuss the national conversation about the Confederate flag, the balance of civil liberties in America, and his newest book...
The Road to Omaha sculpture at the base of the steps near the home-plate entrance to TD Ameritrade Park forever means something new to college baseball after Wednesday night. The sculpture is the likeness of Brian O'Connor as a pitcher at Creighton, his alma mater and the CWS host institution. O'Connor played on the Bluejays' 1991 CWS team. On Wednesday night, he won a national title as the coach at Virginia in his fourth trip back with the Cavaliers.
On Friday, Hillary Clinton will return to Virginia, her first official visit to the Commonwealth since 2013 when she headlined a rally for Terry McAuliffe, a longtime friend vying to become governor. Many of the same people that carried McAuliffe to victory are trying to do the same for Clinton. “What is significant is that McAuliffe was able to win it even with pretty low turnout, and he did it because the Republicans gave him a far right candidate and he was relentless on the social issues,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center...
A small pilot study has shown that a new experimental treatment approach for a rare, deadly form of leukemia can put the disease into remission. Remission was even seen in patients for whom the standard therapy has failed, buying them more time to have the stem cell transplant that could save their lives. Thomas P. Loughran Jr., M.D., director of the University of Virginia Cancer Center and one of the leaders of the study, said: “It was unbelievable, really, seeing a patient who had already failed Campath [the drug typically used to treat the disease] literally going back into remis...
Researchers have discovered a protein that stabilizes the site where a sperm transforms to fuse with the egg before fertilization, which may help eventually lead to a male contraceptive. Researchers have discovered a protein that stabilizes the site where a sperm transforms to fuse with the egg before fertilization, which may help eventually lead to a male contraceptive.