Politics professor Larry W. Sabato, director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics, discussed the National Rifle Association's apparent willingness to discuss some gun law reform.
(Commentary) Only 15 schools earned FIRE’s “green light” rating, meaning that they don’t maintain any codes that violate First Amendment standards. Some prominent institutions, including the University of Virginia, Dartmouth, and Penn, have polices entirely friendly to free speech, but green light schools represent just 4 percent of the campuses surveyed.
A study done by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, released in February 2011, said the recession had brought “greater commitment to stay married,” which is one way to spin it. The report acknowledged that financial strains had created “diminished marital happiness” for many, which led 38 percent of respondents to “table or cancel their plans to divorce or separate.”
Ramya Viswanathan, a graduate student at the University of Virginia, is now prepared with a one-minute rendition of her research in case she should briefly encounter a prospective employer or her department chairman. Her fellow U.Va. graduate student, Manisha Menon, also tackled the challenge of making her work on the internal architecture of cells interesting to a wide variety of people.
There are hundreds of multiple-casualty shootings every year, says forensic psychologist Dewey Cornell, director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project. People have become so desensitized to the horror, however, that they pay no attention.
APOGEE's identification of which stars are part of the bar will allow astronomers to study how stars in the bar and in the rest of the galaxy react to one another. "The bar acts like a giant mixer for our galaxy," says Steven Majewski, a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia and the principal investigator for the APOGEE project.
According to a report that came out earlier this month from the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, less than a quarter of US moms and dads believe this is a great time to be bringing children into the world, and most say it is tougher to raise children today than it was 50 years ago. But in a twist, researchers found that most parents in the U.S. think their own kids and family are doing just fine, thanks. It’s the other families out there that are the problem.
A company repositioning drugs used to treat high blood pressure for use in improving chemotherapy has secured $3 million from investors to carry its lead candidate through Phase 1 trials. Tau Therapeutics is repurposing the calcium channel blocker mibefradil for use alongside chemotherapy in patients with solid tumor cancers, starting with brain cancer. After having its investigational new drug application accepted in February, the University of Virginia spinout has just closed a $3 million round of equity financing to support a Phase 1b study in collaboration with the National Cancer Ins...
"Marriage in middle America is at a tipping point, with unwed childbearing threatening to become a new norm," Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, wrote in the study.
A University of Virginia Darden Business School course is capturing the focus and freeing the minds of some unlikely students in Fluvanna County. The Darden School is guiding inmates at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in the direction of business ownership.
State lawmakers made a stop in Charlottesville Wednesday, discussing a topic that hits home at the University of Virginia. They're ready to tackle big issues such as transparency at universities across the state.
As the nation reflects on the massacre in Newtown, students at University of Virginia are memorializing victims in their own unique way. Beta Bridge on Rugby Road is painted green and white, with bold letters spelling "Hoos for Newtown."
The number of whooping cough cases reported in the United States has doubled over the last year, but a group of University of Virginia students is making strides in making detection easier and cheaper.
Speaking in the Dome Room of the University of Virginia’s famous Rotunda, with President Teresa A. Sullivan looking on, two legislators said Wednesday they wouldn’t vote to confirm Rector Helen E. Dragas. Another two refused to make that vow.
The benefits of the proposed Sunset-Fontaine Connector might not be as significant as once thought, Albemarle County planning staff said Tuesday. The connector road was called for in the 2004 Southern Urban Area B Study, which produced a framework for, among other things, transportation plans in an area near the University of Virginia and the border between Albemarle and Charlottesville. The road would link residential neighborhoods off Old Lynchburg Road in the county's growth area to employment centers at UVa and the Fontaine Research Park.
Facing organized opposition from alumni, students and faculty, the embattled head of the University of Virginia's governing board is lobbying key lawmakers in Richmond in an effort to hold on to her position.
Jim Tobin, executive director of Piedmont Community Services, said he totally endorses comments made to USA Today by forensic psychologist Dewey Cornell, director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project at the University of Virginia. Cornell is one of the authors of a position statement titled “A Call for More Effective Prevention of Violence” in response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. The statement was endorsed by more than 100 organizations and more than 200 prevention scholars and practitioners.
Plaques and tangles pockmark the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. The extracellular protein amyloid-β makes plaques, and the intracellular protein tau makes tangles, but how exactly these might kill neurons is unclear. Work presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco, California, this week starts to connect some of these dots. George Bloom, of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and his colleagues began by following up on work that neurons exposed to amyloid-β die not from direct poisoning, but because amyl...
We know that how fast people age is only loosely linked to how old they actually are – and may have more to do with their lifestyle. A new study with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which included U.Va. astronomer Robert T. Rood, reveals that the same is true of star clusters.
Profile of Iraq War veteran and U.Va. graduate Elliott Woods, now a budding journalist who has written for Virginia Quarterly Review.