Virginia insiders expected Sanders to get in the race on behalf of Perriello. The campaign announced it hired several former Sanders staffers in February, including Julia Barnes, who served as Sanders’ national field director. Geoff Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics tried to temper comparisons between Perriello and Sanders during a January interview.
It’s never going to happen to you – until it does. And suddenly, your vacation is derailed, through no fault of your own. “You can be in a taxi and get in an accident,” notes Dr. William Brady, a professor of emergency medicine at the UVA Medical School, who also serves as the medical director for Allianz, one of the largest travel providers in the world.
The audit rate already is at a historic low, experts point out. "If they cut into that any further, it's pretty obvious what the impact would be on compliance," said George Yin, a UVA professor of law and taxation.
Scientists have started conducting experiments in a new, innovative wind tunnel recently built at Stanford University. The idea is to study how birds fly so well in both calm and turbulent air – and to use that knowledge to make better drones. Daniel Quinn, an aerospace engineer at the University of Virginia and one of the researchers who worked on the tunnel, says that birds are far more maneuverable and stable in wind gusts than even the best flying robots.
A new artificial pancreas trial in the U.S. has shown the device to be safe and effective for use in children with type 1 diabetes aged 5-8 years. This artificial pancreas has been developed by scientists at the University of Virginia and works by automatically delivering insulin to keep blood glucose levels well controlled.
Lactobacilli, beneficial bacteria commonly found in probiotics, proves to be a potential treatment for depression, according to researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Ranked No. 9, Charlottesville, Va. is rich with U.S. history. Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia and his Monticello home is only a few miles away. Charlottesville ranks quite high for economic and social opportunities, thanks to its entertainment and sports notoriety.
UVA biologist T’ai Roulston had never actually seen one with his own eyes, but the minute he saw the corpse he knew what it was. When Roulston found this bumblebee in Sky Meadows State Park back in 2014, he knew it had been 20 years since this species had been spotted in the region.
While the male birth control pill is still a fiction, a new company called Contraline is working to make at least one non-surgical, reversible birth control procedure a reality. Contraline is the culmination of four years of research conducted by the company’s chief executive, Kevin Eisenfrats, at the University of Virginia.
More than 100 girls from high schools across Virginia spent Saturday at UVA learning about careers in science from the Society of Women Engineers.
While Federal Way was confronting its advanced-learning gaps, UVA professor Carolyn Callahan, an expert in gifted education, was invited to Seattle to assess its program. Her report, released in 2007, was scathing.
“It’s a real problem to have a president that has that kind of obsession,” said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center. “The most valuable commodity in Washington is the president’s time, bar nothing. A president who elects to invest a lot of his time in tracking his own media coverage is, to some extent, debasing his own currency.”
Kushner's appearance in Baghdad – a diplomatic tour that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has yet to make – suggested that he might be adding some of the secretary's responsibilities to his ever-expanding portfolio. It can't have been a good sign from Tillerson's perspective, Ken Hughes, a governance expert with UVA's Miller Center of Public Affairs, said Monday. "If I were the secretary of state, I would not be happy about that. I would consider that a sign of my relative unimportance."
The Justice Department will likely continue the Obama administration’s efforts to aggressively prosecute those who violate environmental laws, the officials said, noting that many cases tend to be too blatant to avoid. “There has been real continuity in the approach towards environmental and workplace safety prosecutions over the past decades,” UVA law professor Brandon Garrett said. “I suspect that will continue going forward.”
An internet crystal ball – a metabolic calculator – has been developed by scientists that can predict the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes. Researchers said, the tool will prompt patients to make lifestyle changes that would spare them the suffering and expense of avoidable illnesses. Dr. Mark DeBoer of the University of Virginia said, "This boils it down to telling a patient, ‘On the risk spectrum, you are here, and you're in a position where we're worried you're going to have a cardiovascular event in the next 10 years.”
The University of Virginia reports it spends $20 million a year in compliance. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, UVA said it has added at least four full-time positions to handle increased regulations.
A local bakery is raising money for the UVA Children's Hospital with a special Easter treat.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will speak to members of UVA’s Class of 2017 at Valedictory Exercises on May 19. Santos, winner of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, will speak at UVA’s annual public ceremony, traditionally held on the Lawn the day before Final Exercises.
An artificial pancreas appears to be safe and effective for use in children ages 5 to 8 years, a new UVA-led study finds.
After a 33-year career at the University of Virginia, Cav Man announced his intention to transfer through a release from the Athletics Department early in the morning this April Fool’s Day. The announcement comes as no surprise to well-connected fans who knew of Cav Man’s discontent about his decreasing role. He has been steadily losing his battle for cheering time, as crowds chant for “Wahoos” instead of “Cavaliers,” much to the confusion of the orange and blue man dancing on the sidelines. But Cav Man was especially irate and confused after the elimination of the “Adventures of Cav Man” skit...