“The DNA evidence shows that this unique family retained control of the pueblo for as many as 350 years,” says Stephen Plog, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia who worked on the study. Previously, researchers didn’t think that such a hierarchical society existed so early in Chaco Canyon.
Archaeologists say they've figured out who ruled the ancient Chaco civilization in New Mexico, thought to be the most influential culture in the American Southwest more than 1,200 years ago. "For the first time, we're saying that one kinship group controlled Pueblo Bonito for more than 300 years," says team member Steve Plog of the University of Virginia.
From his lab at the UVA’s Center for Open Science, immunologist Dr. Tim Errington runs The Reproducibility Project, which attempted to repeat the findings reported in five landmark cancer studies. "The idea here is to take a bunch of experiments and to try and do the exact same thing to see if we can get the same results."
Tom Tom Founders Festival, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering diverse entrepreneurship in small cities, today announced the launch of the first-ever Virginia Policy Entrepreneurship Retreat this April 13-14 in Charlottesville. The retreat will be co-hosted by Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia and Babson College, and will be led by Jim Cheng, former Virginia secretary of commerce, and John Kluge, co-founder of the Alight Fund and adviser to SE@UVA.
(Commentary by Geoffrey Skelley and Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics) Republicans retain a big redistricting advantage as 2020 census looms, but Democrats have opportunities to chip away at that power.
Grant Kersey is getting to see UVA men's basketball from a new perspective this season. After graduating from Albemarle High School last spring, where as a senior he was part of the boys basketball team that made the school's first run to the state semifinals, he is a first-year manager with the UVA men's basketball program.
The Jefferson Scholars Foundation – known for providing generous awards to incoming UVA students – is helping the University with a major faculty hiring push. The foundation has awarded its first endowed professorship to Jianhua “J.C.” Cang, a renowned neurology researcher.
Scientists have coaxed sound-sensing cells in the ear, called "hair cells," to grow from stem cells. This technique, if perfected with human cells, could help halt or reverse the most common form of hearing loss, according to a new study. Jeffrey Corwin, an expert on hair-cell regeneration and a professor of neuroscience at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, who was not part of this new research, called it "a very impressive study…by a dream team of scientists" and "a big advance" in the pursuit of regenerating these sensory hearing cells in humans.
Scholars had long thought that Chaco developed a complex social structure in its latter days, perhaps 1030, and that an influx of immigrants triggered that complexity. But the new results suggest “this society, on its own, became complex much, much earlier than people expected,” says study co-author Stephen Plog of the University of Virginia. “What appears to be a fairly powerful family … probably controlled most of what happened in Pueblo Bonito for a long period of time.”
The DNA legacy of the first human settlers of the Americas has started to paint a complex picture of multiple waves of migration and genetic variation. … “Scientists in the past few decades have rethought the settlement of the Americas,” said Mark Sicoli, the linguistic anthropologist at the University of Virginia who led the work.
University of Virginia linguistic anthropologist Mark A. Sicoli and colleagues are applying the latest technology to an ancient mystery: how and when early humans inhabited the New World. Their new research, which analyzes more than 100 linguistic features, suggest more complex patterns of contact and migration among the early peoples who first settled the Americas.
The University of Virginia men’s basketball program retired the No. 15 jersey of Greater Atlanta Christian grad Malcolm Brogdon in a ceremony prior to Monday night’s home game against Miami (Fla.).
Everyone needs a good pair of jeans. That's exactly what students at the University of Virginia gave to the Shelter for Help in Emergency MondayMonday is the first day of “Celebrate Every Body Week.” Peer health educators at UVA are taking old jeans to donate to the shelter.
Traditionally, US universities have required applicants for master's programmes to demonstrate 16 years of formal education to meet eligibility requirements. But many of America's top universities - including Harvard, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina and Syracuse University - now accept three-year undergraduate degrees from India.
There are countless strong examples of how business schools are teaching their students to be ethical. One is the Giving Voice to Values curriculum based at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
Recently, new radiocarbon dates and ancient DNA analysis of the millennia-old bones revealed that the burials may represent an early Native American dynasty. “The evidence suggests it’s a long matriline, in control for a long, long time,” says University of Virginia archaeologist and study co-author Stephen Plog.
Bryan Cranston, best known as Walter White from “Breaking Bad,” will speak at the University of Virginia next month. Cranston — who won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times — will talk about his career as an artist and “the impact that the arts have on our lives, education and the world.”
Top-ranked Virginia (9-0) outfought No. 3 Ohio State (11-1) to a score of 4-1 on Monday at the Boars Head Sports Club, seizing its first ITA National Indoor Championship since 2013 and the Cavs’ sixth overall.
In her seminal study, “What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial?,” Saras D Sarasvathy of the University of Virginia drew a distinction between the "causal" thinking patterns typical of managers and the "effectual" reasoning of entrepreneurs.
“The Trump people have clearly bought into the model of harsh enforcement. They apparently think, ‘We’ll be tough, and a lot of people will leave on their own,’” said David Martin, a UVA immigration law professor. “They believe they’ll win in the court of public opinion. I’m not sure about that.”