Some of the most effective painkillers are often a double-edged sword. While they might offer significant pain relief, some may also lead to the development of an addiction. This has led researchers to try to discover new medication that can offer chronic pain relief, but allow for the patient to stop when they need to. Now, researchers at the University of Virginia have announced the discovery of an enzyme that “chews up fat” molecules to produce signals that control inflammation.
More than 25,500 temporary detention orders were ordered in fiscal year 2018 — a rise of 294% since 2013 — and law enforcement transported 99% of the people who had a TDO, according to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. The region that includes Hampton Roads had the second-highest amount of TDOs issued after Southwest Virginia. Out of every general district court in Hampton Roads, Suffolk had the highest number of TDOs per 1,000 people in FY16, according to a February University of Virginia Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy report.
University Hall, the Cavaliers’ former home, is in the throes of deconstruction, and it’s scheduled for implosion next weekend. On Thursday, the school gave fans a chance to take home one (or a handful) of the thousands of bricks that have been removed from the “House that Ralph built.”
"Before we make a decision on if and how this might be used, we will need to hear more about the specifics and details," said Greg Roberts, UVA’s dean of undergraduate admission. "We are pleased that the College Board is offering ideas and tools designed to try to level the college admission playing field."
Andre Cavalcante, a UVA assistant professor in the departments of Media Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality, says that while he saw the app as a “playful experience,” it could also be seen as using gender identity as a “commercial gimmick.” “The app turns users into extreme simplifications, into cartoonish renderings of men and women,” Cavalcante says.
People in Charlottesville are claiming a piece of history at the former home of the Hoos basketball team. On Thursday, UVA staff members handed out bricks from the soon-to-be demolished University Hall.
The changes in brain structure and connectivity that occur between the ages of 10 and 25 present adolescents with unique opportunities for positive, life-shaping development, and for recovering from past adversity, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. “The adolescent brain undergoes a remarkable transformation that underpins amazing advances in learning and creativity,” said Richard Bonnie, Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, and chai...
The University of Virginia Medical Center has earned a top rating from a national patient safety ranking organization, following the trend of a majority of the state’s hospitals.
If you want your own slice of Cavalier athletics history, the University of Virginia will distribute bricks from the exterior of University Hall for free Thursday evening.
The 2019 Virginia football team is fit for primetime. At least, that’s what the new ACC Network believes. The Cavaliers will open the year with three night games televised on the league’s new television station.
For the first time in nearly two decades, Virginia universities will not be increasing tuition for next year. The shift is because of a budget maneuver by lawmakers. UVA is among the schools that have frozen tuition and mandatory fees.
UVA students will celebrate academic accomplishments this weekend with a variety of events leading up to and following ceremonial walks down the Lawn as part of the annual rites of graduation. The events will help fill area hotel rooms and restaurants with friends and family of the 7,090 students who are receiving diplomas.
UVA alumnus Heywood Fralin is a Roanoke-born attorney, businessman, health care executive, and patron of the arts. He’s been a member of both the Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia boards of visitors, including serving as rector on the UVA board.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court held Monday that iPhone users can bring antitrust claims against Apple over commissions charged on apps on the App Store, drawing a heated dissent from the conservative minority as technology companies warned the decision dangerously expands who counts as a “direct purchaser” able to bring such claims. If anything, according to UVA law professor Thomas Nachbar, Monday’s ruling means “Illinois Brick is probably going to be Illinois Brick for a while.”
The Senate is even struggling to perform basic functions that it traditionally accomplished in a bipartisan fashion, like approving aid to states hit by disasters. Some lawmakers worry that the partisan stalemate over disaster aid bodes poorly for talks over raising the debt limit in the fall. “It says something about the Senate that so many Dems would rather undertake a long shot White House campaign than run for a Senate seat in their own state,” tweeted Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
While Trump has blamed the pace of confirmations on the Democrats, Chris Lu, a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center and former White House Cabinet secretary in the Obama administration, said each nomination eats up a large amount of manpower. "It's chewing up a huge amount of time in these agencies and in the U.S. Senate," said Lu, who's gone through the nomination and confirmation process.
The University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs publicly announced an oral history of the Barack Obama presidency on Tuesday.
Kristin Clarens has joined the Legal Aid Justice Center as the first pro bono coordinator for the Pro-Bono Committee of the Charlottesville Albemarle Bar Association. The scope of her work will include the Charlottesville-Albemarle area, and she will also receive cases referred from organizations such as the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Center for Nonprofit Excellence and the Nonprofit Clinic at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia has a reputation as a hidebound and conservative place, where seersucker reigns supreme and change comes slowly. But progressive political activism has always been present on Grounds. For decades, UVA students have banded together to protest against all manner of injustices. Today’s students are building on the activism of their forebears.
Chief executive officers with lower integrity cost their firms money, both in higher audit fees and poorer long-term performance, according to new research from a group of leading accounting professors, including UVA Darden School of Business Professor Shane Dikolli.