The current Republican uprising in the House of Representatives isn't entirely unprecedented -- but to find similar scenarios, you have to go back about 100 years. "They really had a lot of concerns about procedure and tactics and things like that, the same sorts of things that you see today," University of Virginia Prof. Jeffrey Jenkins told CBS.
UVA has partnered with facilities around the world from Stanford and UCSB to Europe and Israel, and talks are in the works with a site in Buenos Aires, Argentina. According to Dr. Daniel Chernavvsky, Assistant Professor of Research at the UVA Center for Diabetes Technology, a multi-center adult trial, AP@Home, will be completed here in the U.S. within the next couple of months. The European AP@Home is still underway. According to Dr. Kovatchev, a large-scale study is to begin next year and serve as the definitive trial intended to establish closed-loop (AP) control as a viable treatment for Ty...
It took an architect lying on the floor, sticking his head into a hole and looking up to realize: There was something there. The something initially was nothing – an empty space. But an empty space in the Rotunda that Thomas Jefferson designed at the University of Virginia is something. It’s one of the most-studied buildings in the country, said Brian Hogg, senior historic preservation planner in the Office of the Architect for the University, so renowned that it is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. They don’t expect surprises. And so the discovery led the workers to keep...
Dr. William Brady is a professor of emergency medicine at UVA, so he’s well qualified to help if a passenger gets sick or is injured in flight, but he says the job is difficult. For one thing, planes have minimal equipment, medications and space.
(By Courtney Bartholomew, a fourth-year student at the University of Virginia) My swimming career is coming to a close. In 160 days, I will no longer be a student-athlete at the University of Virginia. Who knew four years would go by so quickly? I remember sitting in the pool classroom for my first official team meeting and practice like it was yesterday. Then I was nervous for the future. What would the next four years hold for me? And now, I am still anxious for the future. However, this case of nerves is different. I feel nervous for life after swimming and college.
Michael Karnjanaprakorn thinks anyone can be a teacher -- doers, dreamers, thinkers, tinkerers. Anyone, yourself included. No college degree, formal training or accreditation required. All you need is knowledge and passion, and an eagerness to share both. The 33-year-old entrepreneur and world champion poker player’s mission in life is to democratize education throughout the world, one online class at a time. Karnjanaprakorn practices what he preaches, personally instructing four of his own classes on his passion project. All are fittingly focused on how to succeed in...
The Virginia Baseball program will hold the 2016 Step Up to the Plate event and 2015 National Championship Ring Ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2015, at 6 p.m. at John Paul Jones Arena. The annual fundraiser is one of the highlights of the Virginia Baseball calendar, but takes on a special tone this year as UVA also will present its first NCAA championship team with its national championship rings.
Another Way of Living: The Story of Reston, VA, a documentary about Reston, will make its film festival debut at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville on Nov. 7. “From the beginning, Reston was shaped by its Virginia context and it continues to grow in that context today,” she said. “The University of Virginia is an ideal setting to have a conversation about how Simon’s vision developed over 50 years and how it can inform community development moving forward.”
The new MRI facility is a modular building nestled into the University of Virginia Medical Center. The building was created off-site in Pennsylvania by a company called NRB. It was then shipped in chunks to Charlottesville where it was installed. UVa is going to use the modular building to help do more MRI scans for patients in a more permanent facility.
The same economic downturns that hurt our financial well-being help our physical health, it turns out. A new working paper on the health effects of economic crises is the latest to support this argument. The paper was written by Christopher J. Ruhm, a University of Virginia professor of public policy and economics. It was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private nonprofit based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The National Institute of Health is giving millions of dollars to a new project at the University of Virginia. Researchers at UVA are trying to save lives by determining when and why sugar causes heart failure. They say the heart usually uses fats as fuels, but it turns to sugar during high stress situations for easy energy. Their new study uses new high tech tools to monitor the deadly effects of glucose addiction.
Dr. Marcus L. Martin is the recipient of this year’s Paul Goodloe McIntire Citizenship Award, given out each year by the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce. Martin — an emergency care physician by trade and former assistant dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine — wears many hats for UVa, including vice president for diversity and equity.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has added the President of the University of Virginia to its ranks. Teresa Sullivan has been inducted as a member of the Class of 2015.
It is called Indigenous Peoples' Day, and it is an alternative to celebrating Columbus Day. The reason is to honor the indigenous people who were here before Columbus arrived. When you look around at some of the statues in Charlottesville, it is clear that the role of Native Americans is downplayed in American history, at least according to Karenne Wood from the Virginia Foundation of the Humanities. Wood says there are moves to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day in Virginia. She says the University of Virginia Native American Student Union is lobbying state lawmakers to of...
Science plays a growing role in crime detection and prosecution, but experts at four universities say a lot can go wrong in the lab, and many people may be wrongly convicted based on bogus claims. Now, the University of Virginia has launched a blog to share research on the subject.
We have a desire to go into space to find out what’s on other worlds and to learn more about dangers such as Cosmic radiation. Nine University of Virginia students have teamed up with NASA to send a cosmic ray experiment 23 miles into space on a giant high-altitude balloon to determine how much radiation is too much. The students have been working on the project for 2 years and the NASA balloon with payload will launch any day now.
The United States’ demographics diversify, so too do the nation’s youth. How best to engage with these young people was the subject of a conference this week hosted by Youth-Nex, a University of Virginia center promoting effective youth development. This year’s conference — the fifth annual — was titled Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities through Positive Youth Development.
A few dozen University of Virginia students questioning what to do after they graduate energetically played a game of Mad Libs on Grounds on Friday night. They weren’t putting off answering the question, though. Instead, they were trying to figure out their futures.
Breanna Munson, who is studying nursing and Spanish at the University of Virginia, first heard the Mayan language K’iche’ in high school. She said her friend’s grandmother, who came from Guatemala, spoke it. “I was intrigued by the fact that Guatemala had this indigenous language,” Munson said. “Something other than Spanish was spoken by millions of people.” Now in her third year, Munson is one of a handful of students learning the language at UVa, thanks to an exchange program with Vanderbilt University and Duke University.
These have not been easy days for Republican presidential candidate John Kasich. A spate of fresh polls shows he is fading not only in New Hampshire but also in his own state of Ohio. In addition, Kasich’s support in New Hampshire has tumbled at the same time that Bush has unveiled a massive TV blitz in the state, relying on his overwhelming financial advantage to launch a war of attrition. “He’s trying to kill Kasich off,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “They’re trying to kill off the credible candidate...