Neuroscientists at the University of Virginia are now a step closer to finding a cure for multiple sclerosis. A new study reveals that cells that had typically been ignored could actually be one of the things causing MS.
Previously ignored cells are key contributors to multiple sclerosis, according to new research from the University of Virginia.
Universities can, for the most part, afford to share the pain, although endowments vary greatly. The University of Virginia, which announced a plan last year to waive tuition for in-state students whose families earn less than $80,000 annually and have “typical assets,” has an endowment of about $10 billion. That’s about $400,000 per student (graduate and undergraduate).
A new national research center is looking into how to ensure that electronic devices and systems of connected devices are designed to protect the interests of consumers and the communities that rely on them. The UVA School of Engineering is a founding partner of the Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust, or CHEST.
Psychologist Marisa Malone, a UVA graduate student, found that sixth- and seventh-graders who started at separate middle schools were less likely to pass tests than those who were still grouped with their elementary-school peers. The transition to a new school, she concludes, may be exacerbated by the disproportionately high rates of bullying and pervasively low self-esteem that occur in those intermediary years.
UVA’s Board of Visitors unanimously approved President Jim Ryan’s strategic plan to make UVA the best public school in the country by 2030. Now the administration has to figure out which initiatives to prioritize – such as increasing diversity – and how to fund them.
(Commentary co-written by Barie Carmichael, senior counselor at APCO Worldwide and a Batten Fellow at UVA’s Darden School of Business) The ramp speed of business-disrupting social issues has accelerated in 2019. Mother’s Day triggered a backlash for Nike’s policy of reducing pay for some sponsored female athletes while pregnant, extending the criticisms and litigation on its gender equity issues. And, in Silicon Valley the modus operandi for many has been to build scale and worry later about social impact. This has resulted in a public reckoning for companies like Palantir, which is facing mou...
The services provided through Medicaid waivers to children with the most severe disabilities vary wildly from state to state, researchers say, leaving many families to pick up the pieces. “It’s not just how much we’re spending to support these children and families,” said UVA nursing professor Jessica Keim-Malpass, who led the study. “It’s how well we’re supporting these children and families. By most accounts, we’re not doing it well.”
A population study by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service forecasts 53 of Virginia’s 133 cities and counties will lose population by 2040. Most of the declines will be in rural areas, and among the hardest hit will be Accomack County.
The population of Fredericksburg and the four counties that border the Rappahannock River in the region — Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania and Stafford — have swollen by more than 50% since 2000, census figures show. That number is projected to grow another 30% by 2040, creating a sprawling metropolitan area of almost 500,000 people within a few dozen miles of the bucolic waterway, according to UVA demographers.
One course that would have made the list, Birdwood at the University of Virginia, is not included this year because it is closed while it undergoes a major renovation by Davis Love III’s design firm.
As more conservative states enact laws banning abortion after fetal heartbeats have been detected and implement prohibitions on surgical abortion procedures, the court is under increased pressure to consider the hot-button question of when life begins. “We will just see more and more. At some point, they are going to have to step in,” said Lois Shepherd, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
Elizabeth Ellcessor, a UVA assistant professor of media studies who researches access to digital media technologies and cultures, particularly with respect to disability and bodily difference, points out that mainstream representations of disability are few. “Creating content can be so important because so little mainstream content is made by or for disabled people,” she said.
(Commentary co-written by David W. Lehman, associate professor of commerce) Legal rules are in force to protect shareholders, employees and consumers from risk. Many of the most notorious corporate accidents and failures have resulted from noncompliance with these rules. Consider the examples of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Wells Fargo’s account scandal, and even Chipotle’s foodborne illness outbreaks.
History is certainly on Doyle’s side, explains Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. “More than 98% of all House members who have sought renomination by their parties since the end of World War II have, in fact, been renominated.”
Members of the Planning and Coordination Council solidified plans to dissolve two groups, including their own, with hopes of replacing them with something better. The group helps to shepherd growth challenges the city of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the University of Virginia are facing. It also makes sure the three jurisdictions are working with, not against, each other.
A UVA fraternity found a sweet way to raise autism awareness on Thursday, and the frat also found a good sport in the UVA administration. Dean of Students Allen Groves took a pie to the face as part of the pie-tossing event held by the Theta Delta Chi fraternity to benefit the Virginia Institute of Autism.
Officials at the University of Virginia Press, which works in conjunction with Founders Online, told PolitiFact that they see no evidence it was said by Jefferson. "It is very unlikely that this is a verbatim quotation from anything Jefferson ever wrote himself. The style and phrasing is uncharacteristic," David Sewell, managing editor of Digital Initiatives at the organization, wrote in an email.
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers – included UVA’s Daphna Bassok and Vivian Wong – working in a school district near Denver examined the impacts of enrolling children in full- versus half-day preschool programs.
(Commentary by Ken Hughes, a researcher at UVA’s Miller Center) Whatever Donald Trump does, Richard Nixon usually did it first and better. Trump’s imitation of the master has proven far from perfect, and that may cost him the presidency.