Plans for increasing access to healthy, nutritious food in Virginia will be discussed at a symposium at the University of Virginia this week. The second Virginia Food Security Summit is set for Dec. 5-6. The theme is "Connecting Our Farms, Food, Health and Environment."
Five former Transportation Secretaries are among those taking part today in a forum on infrastructure investments and economic growth. The summit is being hosted by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Ridge Schuyler and colleague Meg Hannan unveiled the Orange Dot Project, which quantified the annual local income deficit (“the difference between what these parents currently earn and what they would need to earn to become independent”) and proposed a solution. Now, Orange Dot’s answer – creating a job hub to connect underrepresented local businesses with “economic powerhouses” like the University of Virginia, and subcontracting employees from low-wealth families – is moving closer to reality.
"Troy is Burning" may be the first play written by an undergraduate to make it into the UVA Drama Department’s main-stage season in 25 years, but its first step toward production was just another day in the undergraduate grind for fourth-year student Matthew Minnicino.
In type 1 diabetics, the pancreas makes very little or no insulin, a hormone that controls glucose levels, or the amount of sugar in your blood. … An artificial pancreas developed at U.Va. monitors blood sugar continuously and delivers precise amounts of insulin when it's needed.
This year, the University of Virginia reinstituted an early admissions program. But the new program is not binding. Students who applied early will receive notification by January 31. But if accepted, they are not required to enroll. The results show a dramatic increase in minority student participation in early admissions.
After University of Virginia engineering student John Paul Huguley discovered slippage in Fallingwater's foundation in 1995 -- ironically in a project meant to show the brilliance of the design -- experts were called in.
Ronald T. Wilcox
Professor, Darden School of Business
Ed Hess
Professor, Darden School of Business
University of Virginia researchers have developed a replacement pancreas for people with diabetes that runs on a cellphone.
In the first week of 2008, at the University of Virginia Medical Center, an electrode array was implanted into his inner ear to take the place of hair cells and to stimulate the hearing nerve electrically.
While many University of Virginia law students spend their evenings stressing about internships or logging countless hours in the library, members of the Migrant Farmworker Project are putting their knowledge of the law to use ensuring that the region’s migrant workers are being treated fairly and paid in compliance with the law.