Crops such as corn and sugar cane have been increasingly cultivated to produce biofuels. About 4 percent of the world's farmland is used to grow crops for fuel rather than food, according to a University of Virginia study published in March.
Kevin Eisenfrats, the young co-founder and president of the biotech startup Contraline, is racing them to the finish line with a gel-based male contraceptive called Echo-V. But whereas Vasalgel requires a tiny incision prior to the injection, Echo-V will use an imageable gel along with ultrasound technology researched by the University of Virginia (UVA) to guide the injection without an incision—a technique that Eisenfrats jokingly compares to “taking a strand of spaghetti and injecting it with a viscous polymer.” The imageable gel will also simplify check-ups after the initi...
In an effort to increase interest and education in construction and the building trades among young women, the University of Virginia’s Facilities Management Department will host its first Girls Day on June 14. Modeled after a traditional Take Your Daughter to Work Day program, Facilities Management employees will bring girls between the ages of 12-18 to participate in various planned activities to show off their work.
Creative, bright, selfless and gritty. That’s how Bent Mountain resident and pipeline opposition organizer Roberta Bondurant described the college students who recently participated in the student-led Mountain Valley Pipeline Resistance Road Trip. Students from coalition affiliates at the University of Virginia and the University of Mary Washington also participated. They traveled on their own time, without expectation of earning course credits.
A young entrepreneur out of UVA has come up with an exciting idea for a male contraceptive gel that blocks sperm, but is easily reversible if you change your mind. And unlike vasectomies, the product won't involve having surgery.
Construction crews are putting the finishing touches on a new library at the College at Wise. State bonds totaling $37 million are being used to fund the project. That makes it the largest project ever in campus history.
“Nitrogen pollution is one of the biggest environmental challenges that we face,” says James Galloway, a UVA biogeochemist who has been studying the issue for nearly 40 years.
Beinstein often points to the 2014 Republican primary in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District where David Brat upset then House Majority Leader Eric Cantor as evidence that he could pull off a monumental upset himself. That’s unlikely to play out in a low-profile primary race, by nationwide measures anyway, such as Colorado’s 3rd District, said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics, who is intimately familiar with the Cantor-Brat contest. “There are a lot of reasons to question Beinstein’s ability to beat Tipton,” Kondik said. “Beinstein has ...
Richard Cordray isn’t running for governor – at least not yet – but an outside group is spending money to try to shoot down the possibility. Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics said that although he has heard of ads targeting senators expected to run for re-election in 2018, the ads against Cordray are unusual.
Several drug makers hired their own auditors to perform compliance reviews that are required as part of government settlements over allegations of paying kickbacks or off-label drug promotion. The issue raises questions of conflicts of interest. “Work with a major company is an important contract, and an established contractor isn’t going to be independent,” Brandon Garrett, a UVA School of Law professor, said.
On the one hand, recent research from a pair of economic professors at Emory University suggests that those who spend large sums of money on a wedding are more likely to end up divorced. On the other hand, UVA researchers, as part of the National Marriage Project, found that having a formal wedding (presumably costing more) is associated with happier marriages.
Americans live in fear of terrorists exploding a dirty bomb in their city, and those living near nuclear plants dread a terrorist incident or accident that exposes them to potentially deadly radiation. "If you're exposed to a very, very high dose, it's rapid deterioration and immediate death," explained John S. Lazo of UVA’s Department of Pharmacology. Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine are working on a solution and have identified compounds that could pave the way for the first radiation antidote.
It turns out that cars have been safety-tested against the traditional physical parameters of the average western male, not the average woman. As a result, one UVA study looking at a decade of car accidents to 2008 found that female drivers were 47 percent more likely to be seriously injured than men. U.S. regulations were changed only in 2011.
Many of pop artist Andy Warhol’s most iconic works – from his portrait series of Marilyn Monroe to a diamond-dusted portrait of Queen Elizabeth II – are now on display in The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia.
Half of all pregnancies in this country are unplanned, and experts worry that some sectors of the population don’t have good access to family planning services – among them disabled women. Jeannne Alhusen, an associate professor at the UVA School of Nursing, has a grant of nearly half a million dollars from the National Institutes of Health to study the needs of women with disabilities.
Cities sound like traffic, car horns, commuter trains and sirens, but if UVA Professor Tim Beatley had his way, there’d be a whole lot more bird song and bubbling brook.
Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, wrote an article in September that also cited sequestration as a reason people were leaving Virginia. Lombard added that more retirees are exiting Virginia than coming into the state.
The population of prime working-age adults, ages 25 to 54, will decline in 16 states, most of which are in the Northeast and Midwest, from 2010 to 2040, according to a Stateline analysis of projections released by the Demographics Research Group in UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
A new relationship between the University of Virginia Health System and the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is allowing pediatric transplant patients in Virginia to get some of the best care in the country much closer to home. India Johnson from Norfolk was the first to reap the benefits of this new and improved partnership.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday at Baker-Butler Elementary School only marked the beginning of a unique project – created by UVA art students and faculty – that will continue over the next 30 years.