On Thursday morning, the University of Virginia Children's Hospital hosted a symposium to highlight important research from the past year. The research dealt with a range of children's health topics such as the development of an improved method for diagnosing treatment-resistant asthma.
Scientists have discovered a gene that is believed to protect against heart attacks and stroke. They also believe that this gene might be able to delay the aging process. The strand of DNA responsible - dubbed the 'fountain of youth' gene - had previously been thought to be inactive in adults. Some questionable studies have implied that it may have other function later in life; however the researchers from University of Virginia School of Medicine are the first to give conclusive evidence that the gene plays a critical protective role during the formation of atherosclerotic plaques ins...
UVA Alzheimer's researchers now have more money to understand how the disease works and ways to slow it down. The Alzheimer’s Association is giving researchers at UVA a grant for $450,000.
Want to see someone age five years in under five minutes? UVA student Sam Reid did it by taking a picture of himself every day for five years and turning the photos into a video set to Coldplay’s “Life in Technicolor ii.”
Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English at UVA, published a collection from 30 years’ worth of poems, reviewed here.
A former Craig County student will intern at Google this summer. Craig County High School graduate and second-year UVA student Kacey Price will spend the next three months working on virtual reality games at Google’s Los Angeles campus.
Bob Gibson, executive director of UVA’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, will step down to take a position at the University’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
China’s rapid growth over the past two decades has been accompanied by rising wage inequality, an issue highlighted by two conference participants. UVA’s Dennis Yang explored the distributional effects of trade openness in China and found a significant impact on wage inequality of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.
UVA medical researchers say they've discovered a way to help slow the effects of aging on the heart. At the core of the research is “Oct4,” a gene many believed the body stopped producing when we are embryos.
A 2014 study by UVA researchers suggested that the fast kids – the ones who were smoking or drinking before their peers or whose relationships with the opposite sex had moved at a faster pace than those of their classmates – weren’t doing as well when they were young adults.
A UVA study released earlier this year found that, compared to 1998, children today are spending far less time on self-directed learning – moving freely and doing activities that they themselves chose – and measurably more time in a passive learning environment.
A gene, thought to be inactive in adults, may actually play a vital role in preventing heart attacks and strokes and could also delay some of the effects of ageing, scientists have found. Finding a way to augment the expression of this gene in adult cells may have profound implications for promoting health and possibly reversing some of the detrimental effects with ageing," said Gary K. Owens, from the UVA School of Medicine.
People who run small companies are learning how to do business with UVA. The Procurement and Supplier Diversity Services Department hosted a vendor training session at the University Wednesday morning.
UVA’s Rotunda has been restricted to the public for two years now, but most of the fences have recently been taken down for the upcoming Final Exercises.
Alternate plans are in place in case of harsh weather for this weekend's graduation ceremonies. The University says in the case of inclement or severe weather on Friday, Valedictory Exercises will take place at John Paul Jones Arena.
About 35,000 visitors will be in Charlottesville this weekend for UVA’s commencement ceremonies. More than 6,000 students from the University’s 11 schools will walk the Lawn from the Rotunda to Old Cabell Hall, continuing a graduation tradition that began in 1904.
For liberals, the next best thing to Sanders in the White House might be Elizabeth Warren in the White House – as Clinton’s veep. "[They] seem like oil and water," says Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. "This would be a match made in purgatory, rather than heaven."
UVA’s Geoff Skelley says the vast majority of people involved with campaigns are volunteers. “How many professional staff actually work on those campaigns? You know maybe one or two for an individual campaign. And how many campaigns are actually professionalized? I mean think about the number of incumbents who actually get challenged."