Researchers from the University of Virginia set out to test a hypothesis that a faulty immune system plays a role in Rett Syndrome.
Also in attendance were members of the Innocence Project of the University of Virginia School of Law, which is preparing a petition to send to the governor to have Weakley’s name cleared (a jury found Kloby not guilty of Scroggins’ murder).
Low BMI should be recognized as an important risk factor for death following surgery, study researcher George Stukenborg, associate professor of public health sciences.
The School of Engineering at the University of Virginia is celebrating a big anniversary. The school is 175 years old this year, and students studying mechanical engineering have built quite the birthday gift. It took them around 400 man hours to complete a one-of-a-kind electric guitar shaped like the rotunda.
The University of Virginia is launching a new recycling program at its newest residence halls. Thanks in part to the Alcoa Foundation, grounds is about to get a whole lot greener. UVA is about to receive over 2,000 new recycling bins. For many students, that means being eco-friendly just got a whole lot easier and portable.
Few people, if anybody, in women’s basketball have known Dawn Staley longer than Debbie Ryan, who coached Staley at Virginia from 1988-92 and started recruiting her when she was an eighth grader growing up in the housing projects of North Philadelphia.
Paul Ries
Graduate student in astronomy
"What makes Iapetus unusual is that it has one side that is dark and one side that is bright," said Paul Ries, a graduate student at the University of Virginia and a researcher at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Over winter recess, more than 200 students donated their time and legal services, logging about 10,000 hours in less than a month.
Brandon Garrett
Law professor
UVa professor 'not surprised' by Hash case
Media General / March 18
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Garrett: Convictions need to be policed
Culpeper Star-Exponent / March 18
Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
Conflicting Moralities
Wall Street Journal / March 18
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Talk to the elephant
National Post / March 17
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Science Asks: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
The Atlantic / March 16
T’ai Roulston
Curator of the State Arboretum at Blandy Experimental Farm and associate professor of Environmental Sciences
Warm winter = early pollen
Northern Virginia Daily / March 17
Larry Sabato
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Jonathan Haidt
Psychology professor
Despite what you might have learned in Economics 101, people aren’t always selfish. In politics, they’re more often groupish. When people feel that a group they value — be it racial, religious, regional or ideological — is under attack, they rally to its defense, even at some cost to themselves. We evolved to be tribal, and politics is a competition among coalitions of tribes.
Bob Gibson
Executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
A diverse range of courses and workforce training opportunities allows students to successfully transfer to the University of Virginia or James Madison University after two years or to study wine making or nursing.
Bernie Frischer
Classics and art history professor
Mentions researchers at the University of Virginia who in 2005 reviewed 70 studies found yoga promising as a "safe and cost-effective" way to improve heart health.
The study was done in mice, not humans, but the genes that determine sex are similar in mammals, so the results might be applicable, especially in males with Klinefelter's syndrome, who are genetically XXY. "Whether this is a specific phenomenon to mice, or even to this particular inbred background strain of laboratory mice, is still an open question, but we did find similar results in two different genetic models of mice," study researcher Paul Bonthuis, a graduate student at the University of Virginia.
Researchers have gained federal approval for the next key testing phase for a new, University of Virginia-designed, cell phone-based artificial pancreas they hope could soon help millions of diabetes patients
A University of Virginia-developed artificial pancreas that could potentially automate care for millions of Type 1 diabetes patients has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a key testing phase.
A team led by neuroimmunologists Noël Derecki and Jonathan Kipnis of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville set out to explore a hypothesis that had received little if any previous consideration: that immune cells called microglia might play a role in Rett syndrome.
Scientists from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, speculated that the brain-dwelling immune cells called microglia are defective in those.