UVA researchers are making strides when it comes to developing an artificial pancreas that can be controlled using a smartphone. The device is currently in the testing phase and will be sent to the FDA for approval upon completion in 2018, according to the university.
According to the University of Virginia's Miller Center, Theodore Roosevelt was "the first [president] to use the media to appeal directly to the people, bypassing the political parties and career politicians."
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, says the move to eliminate the Office of Congressional Ethics was likely motivated by personal unhappiness with the agency. “It deserves the label: stupid,” he tells Newsweek. “They’ve got all these issues on the table and they’re trying to project the image of a party that’s draining the swamp, and they’ve just opened a new swamp.”
A new call to abolish the concept of "applied research" comes from a surprising source: the founding dean of Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Narayanamurti and co-author Tolu Odumosu, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia's engineering school, present their argument in a recent book, "Cycles of Invention and Discovery."
(Co-written by Craig Volden, professor of public policy and politics) Though Republicans retained control of the House of Representatives after the 2016 election, there is once again significant turnover in committee and subcommittee chair positions. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Republicans limited their chair positions to three terms (six years). For the new Congress, that means new chairs on many subcommittees, as well as new leadership in committees from Appropriations to Energy and Commerce.
By focusing on a new calendar-defined cycle, like the beginning of a new week, month, or year, we can make any date feel more distant than it really is, thus allowing ourselves to become overly optimistic and less focused on future obstacles. The two authors of the study – including Benjamin Converse, a UVA professor of public policy – outline their latest research, which will soon be published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
In July, a group from the University of Virginia published a study in Nature showing that the immune system, in addition to protecting us from a daily barrage of potentially infectious microbes, can also influence social behavior.
Web-based therapy for insomnia is an effective option that could reach “previously unimaginable numbers of people,” according to Dr. Lee Ritterband of the UVA School of Medicine and colleagues.
An online program designed to help people overcome insomnia significantly improves both the amount and quality of sleep, a UVA study has found.
In a study conducted at the University of Virginia, professor Timothy Wilson found that reflecting on our feelings about a relationship or a past situation may not help us feel better about that relationship or situation, and may even make us feel worse. Instead, he suggests that we stop thinking so much about those failures, get on with living in the present, and make plans for the future.
A new, UVA-led study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrates that automated monitoring systems that identify "regime shifts" - such as rapid growth of algae and then depletion of oxygen in the water - can successfully predict full-scale algae blooms in advance, and help resource managers avert their development.
The Infiniti Coaches Charity Challenge goes on for the next 10 weeks. Forty-eight Division I men's basketball head coaches are competing for $100,000 that will go to their charity of choice. UVA men's basketball coach Tony Bennett selected the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank as his charity partner this year.
(Editorial) Downtown Charlottesville has become a magnet for start-up companies and tech businesses. It doesn’t hurt that the University of Virginia is just up the hill and down the street. UVA is a business generator – both through companies spun off from university research and also from graduates who leave the university with their own ideas for new businesses.
The University of Virginia has announced a surprising new partnership. Charlottesville’s largest medical center is teaming up with one of Northern Virginia’s power players in what experts say could be a win/win for UVA, Inova and their patients.
The University of Virginia book lovers were ready to lend their titles to anyone who wants to get a good read during the winter break. These also make great gift ideas, as reported by the University of Virginia. With the help of Associate Professor Lisa Woolfork, from the English department, Roy Cadoff, the university's general books manager and Molly Schwartzburg, the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library authority, they are able to round up some good titles to recommend for that long winter break.
That's right, mindfulness. For teachers. Patricia Jennings wrote the book on it (literally). It's called Mindfulness For Teachers. Jennings was a teacher herself for two decades and now studies stress in the classroom as a professor and researcher at the University of Virginia. The Journal of Educational Psychology will soon publish a study of her work in New York City, teaching mindfulness to more than 200 educators in high-poverty schools.
Meg Heubeck has connected with 70,000 teachers across the country as director of instruction for the Youth Leadership Initiative at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, giving them full lesson plans meant to prepare students to be lifelong citizens and constructive participants in American democracy.
Heller assumes the mantle following the retirement of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, who is leaving office after three decades of public service when Congress convenes on Tuesday. “Reid aggressively pushed the Democratic agenda. He provided the funds and other support that elected quite a few members of the caucus,” said Larry Sabato, director for the Center of Politics at the University of Virginia.
“There’s really no doubt this was a step beyond the normal political jockeying, to interfere in an active peace negotiation given the stakes with all the lives,” said John A. Farrell, who discovered the notes at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library for his forthcoming biography, “Richard Nixon: The Life,” to be published in March by Doubleday. “Potentially, this is worse than anything he did in Watergate.”Ken Hughes, a researcher at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia, who in 2014 published “Chasing Shadows,” a book about the episode, said Mr. Farrell had found a smoking gun. “Th...
Ohio’s population has been growing, but at a much slower rate than many other states. Kyle Kondik with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics says if that trajectory continues, it's very possible the state could lose one of its 16 seats in Congress.