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.
UVA-Wise Professor Ryan Huish’s local flora class made an interesting discovery as they worked to identify the weeds that sprouted in planters outside the Sandridge Science Center. “On our first lab session for the local flora class, they were introduced to the basic concepts of how to identify a plant to family, genus and species,” Huish explained. “This was the first plant they practiced on, and after about 20 minutes, the identification key took them right to it: Giant Bindweed or Calystegia silvatica ssp. Fraterniflora.”
People in Charlottesville are learning the history and significance of Indian classical music. A UVA student organization, the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth, hosted world-renowned signer Kaushiki Chakraborty.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine’s talk was one of the first events held as part of the Miller Center’s new Democracy Initiative, which aims to engage a wide audience in examining and discussing the issues and challenges confronting today’s democracies.
Regardless of what city they live in, what kind of house they call home or how integrated their neighborhood, black renters can be fairly certain they'll pay more than white renters for identical housing, according to a new study from UVA economist Edgar Olsen and colleagues.
UVA demographer Hamilton Lombard says median household incomes are now above $70,000 for the first time. “It’s also just in the last year we’ve finally gotten past the all-time high for Virginia, which was actually back in 1999 during the dot-com boom.”