Scientists have identified an enzyme that can help control inflammation and may pave the way for non-addictive painkillers which produce few side effects. Ken Hsu, a professor at the University of Virginia , and his graduate student, Myungsun Shin, identified an enzyme that "chews up fat" molecules to produce chemical signals that control inflammation.
Dr Peter Belmi of the University of Virginia and lead author of the study, said: 'Advantages beget advantages. Those who are born in upper-class echelons are likely to remain in the upper class, and high-earning entrepreneurs disproportionately originate from highly educated, well-to-do families.'
“Individuals with relatively high social class were more overconfident, which in turn was associated with being perceived as more competent and ultimately more hirable, even though, on average, they were no better at the trivia test than their lower-class counterparts,” said lead researcher Peter Belmi, of the University of Virginia.
There must be something in the water in Virginia, Pharrell Williams said at the University of Virginia on Friday — and UVA graduates, whether born and bred or transplants, have an obligation to use their talents to help others. “Virginia has continued to produce icons, and I know that there are a bunch of future icons in this room waiting to reveal yourself,” he said in a fiery Valedictory Exercises address at John Paul Jones Arena.
Fourteen years after his own graduation, Dr. B. Cameron Webb held up a nickel in front of thousands of newly minted University of Virginia graduates. “You can get a lot out of this moment and a lot out of this day if you think of it like that nickel you got at opening convocation,” Webb told graduates of the Graduate and College of Arts & Sciences at UVA’s Final Exercises on Saturday. “Today, in this moment, I want you guys to realize you are standing on the edge of a nickel, and there’s a lot of power and potential in that space.”
UVA graduates received money, presents, and even balloons to celebrate their hard work. Some of those balloons are being used again to bring smiles to the UVA Children's Hospital.
UVA has formally closed the book on its 190th academic year. Retiring Nursing School Dean Dorrie Fontaine spoke to thousands of new Wahoos after they walked the Lawn. Fontaine’s audience included new alumni of 10 schools at UVA.
A partnership for a pilot autonomous shuttle program has led local entities to pursue a larger, self-driving vehicle project. Perrone Robotics, JAUNT and the county, along with UVA and other partners, have applied for a U.S. Department of Transportation Automated Driving System Demonstration Grant for the larger-scale project.
Pluto is no place to party down. This cold, dark neighborhood of our solar system might be the last place you’d expect to find liquid water. Now, a group of scientists might have an explanation for how this supposed subterranean sea keeps from freezing over. “This study could be paradigm-shifting,” says Anne Verbiscer, a UVA planetary scientist who was not involved in the study. “This isn’t just about Pluto ... this could be the case on many other ocean worlds, and that’s the No. 1 significance of this work.”
Technology historian Peter Norton is an associate professor in UVA’s Department of Engineering and Society. “The automobiles were killing people at an incredible rate,” Norton said. “In the large cities, that would have been three out of four people killed by cars were pedestrians. Many of them are children.”
Peter Belmi, a UVA assistant professor of business administration and lead author of the study, commented: “Advantages beget advantages. Those who are born in upper-class echelons are likely to remain in the upper class, and high-earning entrepreneurs disproportionately originate from highly educated, well-to-do families. Our research suggests that social class shapes the attitudes that people hold about their abilities, and that in turn has important implications for how class hierarchies perpetuate from one generation to the next."
UVA alumnus Malcolm Brogdon played a big role in the Milwaukee Bucks’ playoff win Friday night. But after the game he was more excited about a larger contribution. On the set with TNT’s “Inside the NBA” crew, Hall-of-Famer Charles Barkley made a surprise $45,000 donation to Brogdon’s Hoops2O initiative, which raises funds to build water wells in East Africa.
Trump seems to have a stronghold on his party that no candidate can shake. As Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center put it, Trump has simply proven, time and time again, "that all previous rules do not apply." "When we look back at the lessons of history, they may repeat themselves, but they haven't so far," Perry said.
Shortly after the flyby, New Horizons returned images that revealed MU69 to have an odd two-lobed structure, earning it the nickname “the snowman.” It later transpired that the two lobes were actually flattened disks, believe to have stuck together early in the Solar System. “The New Horizons flyby of MU69 is humanity's first look at one of the building blocks of our Solar System,” says Anne Verbiscer from the University of Virginia, one of the co-authors on the paper. “We knew very little about this object before the flyby.”
Northern Virginia has the highest levels of education. But that’s only one way to look at the data. Spencer Shanholtz at the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service says a closer look at the numbers show something kind of surprising.
Jews in Virginia and across the country are facing troubled and perilous times, says professor Phyllis Leffler. The University of Virginia professor of 30 years, an expert in public history, oral history and the Jewish history of Charlottesville traveled to Colonial Williamsburg Wednesday to deliver a lecture on the history of Jews in the state.
Two shows in New York offer profoundly different views of art from Indigenous Australia, and establish the stakes for exhibiting work made very far from our white cubes. At Gagosian through July 3, the radiant show “Desert Painters of Australia: Works from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia and the Collection of Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield” features 10 artists, mostly of the Pintupi people, whose understanding of time, land and value operates in productive tension with that of the global art world.
Researchers with the University of Virginia have detailed the discovery of a potential new pain reliever that shows promise for offering relief without the addiction potential of existing opioid pain medication.
Researchers are seeking non-addictive chronic pain treatment options that produce few or no negative side effects. Ken Hsu, a chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, and his graduate student, Myungsun Shin, has identified an enzyme that "chews up fat" molecules to produce chemical signals that control inflammation.