Tom Bateman of UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce interviews Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist, professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. She is also an award-winning climate communicator and (among many other honors) has been named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers, and an American Geophysical Union’s Climate Communication Prize winner.
The FDA has approved a supplemental new drug application for Trintellix, which will now include labeling data from a randomized trial showing improved treatment-emergent sexual dysfunction, according to a press release. "Sexual dysfunction is one of the most common and bothersome side effects patients with depression struggle with when prescribed an SSRI," Dr. Anita Clayton, chair in the department of psychiatry & neurobehavioral sciences at UVA School of Medicine and study investigator, said. "We designed the study to specifically look at these troublesome side effects. Changing to a medi...
Information about how a small group of bacteria interact and influence one another could lay the groundwork for understanding how human microbiomes change — and, eventually, for engineering probiotic solutions for sickness. New research from the University of Virginia’s Department of Biomedical Engineering has produced a computational model for how six species of bacteria interact and create an ecosystem. By identifying rules of behavior and translating findings into parameters for the model, the researchers distilled a complex system into a model and discovered new behaviors of a bacterium.
Virginia students who graduated in the Class of 2018 had an average score of 1117, compared with a 1068 average nationwide, according to the College Board, the company that administers the college readiness exam. The SAT is taken voluntarily by high school students and is often used by colleges, along with the ACT, to help determine admission. More than 3 in 4 test takers had their scores sent to higher education institutions, with the most being sent to Virginia Tech, James Madison University, VCU, George Mason University and the University of Virginia.
Modest little college museums? Maybe they exist somewhere, on quiet campuses across the nation, but there are also magnificent university-affiliated institutions like these. And in terms of this season’s wide-ranging exhibitions, none seem limited by geography. George O’Keeffe, queen of the Southwest, is in the Jeffersonian South (at UVA); Andy Warhol, king of New York night life, is hanging in Silicon Valley; and lots of ancient Middle Eastern objects have settled in Philadelphia.
Political handicappers think the GOP could add to its 51-49 seat margin, despite a political environment that otherwise favors Democrats. "This is a tough, tough map for Democrats,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. "If they can even hold 49 seats, they will be very, very lucky.”
Among the many messages of support, inspiration and comfort that have come Tony Bennett’s way since UVA’s stunning first-round NCAA tournament loss was a copy of a letter legendary college coach Clair Bee sent Bobby Knight after his Indiana team’s undefeated season ended prematurely, with a loss in the 1975 Elite Eight.
The University of Virginia on Friday imposed a four-year ban from campus on Richard Spencer and nine other people who participated in a white-supremacist march on the school’s grounds last year.
Dr. Robert Battle is a professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Virginia Health System and serves as a cardiologist for the University of Virginia, James Madison University and other schools in the area. He is also co-director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center of Excellence and director of sports cardiology there. He began his career working with adults with congenital heart disease, but has expanded to work in pediatric cardiology, sports cardiology, and cardiovascular structural genetics.
“The Midwest is the most consistently competitive region of the United States, and it oscillates between the two parties,” said Kyle Kondik, who follows elections at UVA’s Center for Politics and wrote a book on Ohio politics. “Trump’s election may suggest a longer-term realignment toward Republicans given how white the Midwest is, but for the time being it remains hard to classify as being solidly in either camp.”
The stars will soon be making their way to Charlottesville. Preparations are underway for the 31st annual Virginia Film Festival, with its headquarters and box office opening up downtown. Jody Kielbasa, the director of the film festival, says this is Charlottesville’s largest cultural event.
Two local health care providers will receive funds from the state's new $6 million contraceptives initiative. The initiative, announced by Gov. Ralph Northam last week, will enable low-income women who don't have Medicaid or insurance to receive long-acting reversible contraceptives at no cost. It's a positive step for women's health in Virginia, said Christian Chisholm, medical director of obstetrics at the UVA Health System.
A team of U.S. computer scientists are receiving a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation to make machine learning more secure. The grant will be led by researchers at Pennsylvania State University and includes researchers at University of Virginia and four other institutions.
The University of Virginia plans to waive tuition for in-state students whose families earn less than $80,000 annually and have "typical assets" while students from families earning less than $30,000 annually would be eligible for free tuition and room and board, according to The Cavalier Daily, the student-run campus newspaper.
On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine visited two groups he says are especially important to the mid-term elections on Nov. 6. Kaine was at UVA to congratulate the students who helped register more than 8,000 voters.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, who is running for re-election in November, stopped by UVA on Wednesday to meet and greet students. Kaine thanked the University Democrats for registering 800 people around Grounds to vote.
Sen. Tim Kaine will launch a campaign swing aimed at energizing young voters and boosting youth turnout in advance of the Nov. 6 midterm elections. Kaine began the swing Wednesday by launching a canvassing event on the campus of the University of Virginia. Next Wednesday morning, Kaine will join college Democrats in the Lynchburg area for breakfast before concluding the swing back at the campus of the University of Virginia, where he will join students and supporters at a text bank in the evening.
On Tuesday, a daylong summit at the University of Virginia gathered education leaders, policymakers and researchers to discuss teacher retention in Virginia. The summit was hosted by the Office of the Secretary of Education.
More than 160 companies were at UVA for the internship and jobs fair on Wednesday.
"I'm particularly excited about this agent because it's a novel mechanism in antiviral action," said Frederick Hayden, a professor of medicine and pathology at the UVA School of Medicine who was among a group of researchers studying Xofluza in the U.S. and Japan. "We haven't had any new influenza drugs in term of how they work in inhibiting the virus in about 20 years."