A team of American and Italian researchers successfully piloted a novel artificial pancreas system that showed improvements in two key measures of folks living with the metabolic disorder. The project team extended across the country – and the world – to include Jordan Pinsker from the William Sansum Diabetes Center in Santa Barbara, Calif.; Ananda Basu at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.; Boris Kovatchev of the University of Virginia’s Center for Diabetes Technology; and Claudio Cobelli from the University of Padova in Italy.
Today, university leaders will gather where Jefferson and James Madison and James Monroe did 200 years ago to lay the cornerstone of this renowned public university. Jefferson’s ideals and his vision for this school he founded are well known, as he sought to transform American higher education. At the centennial, a five-volume history of UVA looked back with pride on decades of illustrious achievements. But the bicentennial comes at a remarkable time in the history of this state flagship school.
UVA’s Young Women Leaders Program hosted a food drive to benefit the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank at the Whole Foods Market in Charlottesville on Sunday.
A former U.S. first lady and Secretary of State will be headlining a conference on women's leadership in November. Hillary Rodham Clinton will participate in UVA's Forum on Women's Global Leadership, which will take place Nov. 13 and 14. The two-day symposium will bring in leaders from across the United States and the world to explore the role of women in 21st-century democracy.
Off to its best start in a decade, the Virginia football team is inching closer to becoming nationally ranked.
Off to its best start in a decade, the Virginia football team is inching closer to becoming nationally ranked.
Taylor Lamb had just decided to postpone a panel of LGBT speakers of color when a call went out for proposals for funding from the University of Virginia. A small grant, Lamb thought, would help her sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho, try to hold the event again.
About a year ago, Dr. Lawrence Lum and Dr. Daniel “Trey” Lee both arrived on UVA’s medical campus. They joined a growing group of physician-scientists, and brought expertise to the rapidly expanding field of immunology.
For decades, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and the University of Virginia have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site List. On Thursday, it was announced the United States would be withdrawing from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, because of what the Trump Administration sees as its "anti-Israel bias" and a need for "fundamental reform."
An expert in homeland security and national security policy, Kirstjen Nielsen previously served as a special assistant to President George W. Bush and worked for the Transportation Security Administration. She’s also the first nominee to have worked for the department, the White House said. Nielsen graduated from the UVA School of Law in 1999.
In a debate Thursday at the University of Virginia, two independent candidates for Charlottesville City Council took swipes at the top vote-getter in the June Democratic primary, criticizing her for alleged problems in the city school system. The forum was hosted by the Washington Literary Society and Debating Union.
Hundreds of families are expected to gather at the University of Virginia this weekend to celebrate, honor and remember children with cancer. The 2017 Charlottesville CureSearch Superheroes Unite event is scheduled to kick off at UVA Park at 9 a.m. Saturday.
By 2040, Virginia is projected to become the 10th most populous state in the country, jumping over New Jersey and Michigan from its rank of No. 12 in the 2010 Census (a little more than 8 million), according to an analysis by the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
The United States’ decision to withdraw from the United Nations’ educational, science and cultural organization will have no impact on the designation of Monticello and the University of Virginia on the World Heritage Site List.
For disadvantaged students, getting into a top college is a significant feat. But getting a diploma matters far more.The top performer on this measure is the University of Virginia, with a grad rate of 93 percent for Pell recipients, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal data made public Thursday.
Want efficiency? Try stable funding. Another common theme was the need for more stable state funding for higher education. Frequently mentioned was the idea of establishing a reserve fund for higher education to buffer institutions from backtracking on promised support. Del. Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, next in line to be Speaker of the House, quoted Richmond businessman and former University of Virginia Rector Bill Goodwin as saying, if the state wants universities to be more efficient, the state needs to stabilize funding. Volatile state funding creates uncertainty. Faced with uncertai...
This August, Todd DeSorbo accepted an offer to become the new head coach of the University of Virginia swim team. DeSorbo had previously been associate head coach at ACC rival NC State, and he explained his decision and his transition on this episode of Off Deck.
President Donald Trump has decided to nominate Kirstjen Nielsen to succeed John Kelly as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the White House announced Wednesday evening. Before her time in the private sector, she served during the President George W. Bush administration as special assistant to the president and as senior director for prevention, preparedness and response at the White House Homeland Security Council. She attended the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the University of Virginia Law School.
(Co-written by By Mary Peyton Baskin, a third-year student at the University of Virginia) My rules: let’s deal. Seven cards for me, three for you, and jokers are wild. But only for me. That’s how our General Assembly works now. State legislators get to draw their own district boundaries. And they are manipulated so that incumbents have nearly unbeatable odds in favor of their own re-election.
Trump has never revealed his own IQ. So can we work it out? "I don't recall ever coming across a list of presidents and their IQs," says Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. "But you can easily find a list of presidents inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in their universities."