Nearly half of all children who develop Type 1 diabetes don't know they have the disease until they end up in a coma in the hospital. UVA researchers have set out to see if a genetic test for Type 1 diabetes can eliminate many of those emergencies.
So what could happen if Trump were convicted in an impeachment proceeding? For starters, it’s still possible Trump could remain president despite a conviction, according to Saikrishna Prakash, a law professor and senior fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. “The constitution says, basically, the sanctions shall extend to no further than removal from office and a bar from holding office,” says Prakash, an expert in constitutional law and impeachment.
Some of the first primaries were held in 1912. Barbara A. Perry, the director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, who spoke to TIME as part of a presidential-history partnership between TIME History and the Miller Center, points out that those 1912 primaries were products of the progressive-era populist movement, as former President Teddy Roosevelt unsuccessfully tried to unseat incumbent President William Taft by forming the Progressive Party, also known as the Bull Moose Party.
Leading Democrats are licking their chops. The terrain for actual removal remains difficult, however. Said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics: “Try as I might, I can’t find 20 Republican senators who would vote to convict and thus oust Trump. I can find five or six who might, under the worst set of circumstances for Trump. … We do know that Trump’s base. … probably won’t turn on the president for any reason, ever.”
State climatologist Jerry Stenger at the University of Virginia said the amount of precipitation at the McCormick Observatory was only about 32% of normal for the month of September, and is so far only 18% for the month of October. “This is giving us some serious drying conditions in the Charlottesville area and, indeed, most of the Commonwealth. The situation is particularly bad in much of central Virginia, but there are some locations scattered around the state that have received less than 5% of normal precipitation for the last month or so.”
Finding a doctoral adviser who isn’t just a great scientist but also a skilled mentor is kind of a crapshoot. Yet while having a trainee-focused principal investigator, or PI, in the natural sciences is certainly beneficial, a new study says it’s not essential to the development of scientific skills. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, effectively compares the primary mentor-mentee model of scientific training, or the “cognitive apprenticeship,” with what’s referred to as a “cascading mentorship” model. And the authors -- including lead author Dav...
A local school division is one of six across Virginia that is getting funding to improve mental health services for students. Superintendent of Public Instruction James Lane announced on Thursday that the Virginia Department of Education has received a five-year, $2.5 million grant. According to a release, the funds were awarded under the U.S. Department of Education's Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program and will support VDOE and the University of Virginia in developing a statewide training and professional development network to increase the quantity and quality of ...
St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish, staffed by Dominican Friars and bordered on three sides by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, was established to serve the spiritual needs of UVA students who self-identify as Catholic, as well as UVA faculty, administration and friends. The Friars are in the process of fundraising for and building a new church, a traditional structure that “will serve as a catalyst for a deeper commitment to our Faith, among both regular and occasional participants in the Eucharist and other liturgies, as well as a compelling invitation to all, especially the ...
Dayna Bowen Matthew wants to get universities back to their original purpose, as she sees it, and the University of Virginia officially is on board. On Friday, UVA announced a new center called the Democracy Initiative Center for the Redress of Inequity Through Community-Engaged Scholarship – or, the Equity Center. The new center aims to repair economic and racial inequity by changing the way university researchers operate through putting their resources at the service of community questions and needs.
Tony Bennett – the 19-time Grammy winner, not the Virginia basketball coach – will perform at an outdoor concert Saturday for members of the UVA community to mark the beginning of the public phase of the school's $5 billion capital campaign.
Two UVA students plan to appeal after the dismissal of their lawsuit against the U.S. government that claimed a federal law restricting sales of handguns to people younger than 21 is unconstitutional.
As science increasingly becomes disputed, Dr. James Zimring, professor of pathology at the University of Virginia, explores in his new book how much people should trust what they read, learn and observe in our natural world.
The University of Virginia has 1,650 ultra high net worth alumni, with 84% deemed “self-made.” This percentage ties UVA with the University of Chicago as the institution with the highest percentage of self-made alumni.
“The idea is to hold schools accountable, but give them more control… so they can influence the policies you’re holding them accountable for,” said Beth Schueler, a UVA professor who has studied similar efforts in Massachusetts.
A study from the University of Virginia sheds light on women who obsess about a man. The study suggests that the obsession itself may actually fuel their fire. The study was published in Psychology Science and is based on an experiment conducted with female undergraduates. The researchers of this study, Erin R. Whitchurch, Timothy D. Wilson, and Daniel T. Gilbert, state that women find men more appealing if the men might like them, rather than men who definitely do. However, the women had to feel like there was some interest in the guy keeping them on pins and needles.
General Assembly, a company that teaches tech skills, is teaming up with an online-program-management company called Noodle Partners to develop boot camps with college partners. Their first deal is with UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Boulder’s Columbine Elementary and Lafayette’s Alicia Sanchez Elementary are putting in place strategies to improve achievement that were developed with an outside consultant. The principals at the two schools, along with district leaders, are working with UVA’s Partnership for Leaders in Education program.
Boulder’s Columbine Elementary and Lafayette’s Alicia Sanchez Elementary are putting in place strategies to improve achievement that were developed with an outside consultant. The principals at the two schools, along with district leaders, are working with UVA’s Partnership for Leaders in Education program.
Diverse workplaces are valuable in all manner of ways, so it’s perhaps no surprise that MIT research finds that the more diverse a workplace is, the more profitable it is. A second study, from UVA’s Darden School of Business, reminds us that this diversity should go beyond the traditional measures of gender, race and religion, and also take account of class diversity.
Americans increasingly see people with schizophrenia or major depression as a threat not only to themselves, but to others, new research reveals. The results, compiled by sociologists from Indiana University and Vanderbilt University and a psychologist from the University of Virginia, were published this week in the journal Health Affairs.