Recent data support the argument for “the rebirth of cities,” according to a study by William H. Lucy and David L. Phillips, planning professors in the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. The two researchers found that the increases in per capita income and median owner-occupied housing values in 22 cities in large metropolitan areas relative to their suburbs shows improvement on their performance in the 1990s. Per capita income increased on average from 86 percent to 89 percent of the cities’ metropolitan areas’ income from 2000 to 2004. Full story.

Until now, there hasn’t been much hope for patients diagnosed with Glioblastoma multiforme, a particularly malignant form of brain cancer. It grows rapidly and is essentially always fatal. Even after surgery, a patient’s median survival time is approximately one year. The disease also has a track record of being resistant to the best efforts of medical science, therefore resulting in relatively few significant advances in treatment over the last 25 years. University of Virginia engineering professors George T. Gillies (left) and Joseph A. C. Humphrey (right) are working to put an end to this deadlock with a new method of drug delivery. Full story.

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