Sam Boochever and Maximilian Huc, students at UVA’s Darden School of Business, won the Tom Tom Founders Festival’s Crowdfunded Pitch Night with their pitch for 1Degree, a mobile app that enables users to have one-on-one conversations with celebrities and public figures.
UVA law professor George Rutherglen has filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of a Buckingham Correctional Center inmate alleging that prison officials have failed to provide him treatment for a deadly infection.
Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock outperformed fellow Republican Donald Trump in her sprawling Northern Virginia district last fall winning her first re-election battle by six points. But her next race could be tougher. “Northern Virginia has become increasingly Democratic over the years,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball newsletter at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Jeffery Renard Allen, English professor and fiction writer, discussed his world travels and how they have informed his historical fiction and other literary.
(Commentary) One policy decision that could significantly help in our work to improve our mental health system, ties back to our work during the reconvened session. Since 2013, we have talked about and worked to expand Medicaid in Virginia. Steven Stern at the University of Virginia has produced significant work that has shown among other things that around 60,000 to 70,000 Virginians who struggle with serious mental illness would be eligible for Medicaid if we expanded under the Affordable Care Act.
(By Carolyn Long Engelhard, director of UVA’s Health Policy Program) During the seven years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have maintained total agreement in their hatred of the legislation. In their view, the federal takeover of the insurance industry alongside taxpayer-funded subsidies to purchase health coverage is particularly egregious.
A small study of elementary school-age children with type 1 diabetes has shown that an artificial pancreas system can offer better control of blood glucose levels with fewer cases of hypoglycemia. The study from researchers at the University of Virginia – one of the world’s leading sites for research on this technology – found that a dozen children ages 5 to 8 spent more time in range when using the system.
Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, an allergist-immunologist who is head of UVA’s Department of Allergy and Immunology, is one of the researchers who recently discovered the existence of this syndrome.
The recent declassification of tens of thousands of images from Cold War spy satellites is helping UVA climate scientists compare Siberian terrain between then and now, and they're showing some obvious signs of climate change.
Hundreds of University of Virginia undergraduate students served the greater Charlottesville community Monday as part of the third annual "Big Event."
The Miller Center at the University of Virginia is taking a look at how Latinos in the United States have helped shaped presidencies both historically and as it relates to current election cycles.
Former U.S. Senator John Warner has donated his public papers to the University of Virginia. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library opened the papers to the public last week, after a nine-year effort to catalog and organize the documents.
UVA physics professor Lou Bloomfield covers the damage certain objects would do if dropped from the Empire State Building, including a penny, a baseball, a pen and a bullet.
A national financial advice website says UVA is the best in the state for value for the third year in a row. SmartAsset lists colleges and universities where students can get the "most bang for [their] buck." According to the site, UVA is No. 1 in Virginia and No. 16 in the country for best value.
UVA students Payam Pourtaheri and Ameer Shakeel had an idea, but no way to bring it to life. They sought out the help of Elizabeth Pyle, associate director of the University’s technology entrepreneurship program.
With Brian Boland’s impending departure from Virginia men’s tennis at the end of this season, every match seems to mean just a little more for the No. 4 tennis team in the country, a team that’s enjoyed unimaginable success under Boland’s leadership. This past weekend, as Virginia defeated No. 11 North Carolina, 4-3, the Z Society put together a heartwarming letter and ceremony in honor of Boland.
Radio interview (in French) with Eric van Wincoop, a professor of economics at the University of Virginia
From 2007 through 2013, instead of building services, Virginia cut spending on mental health by $4.5 million. “In 2007 and 2008, that initial investment was made with unanimous approval of all these bills in the General Assembly, and the appropriations. Everyone was patting everybody on the back saying this is good. Everybody, at the time, said ‘We know this is a down payment,’” said Richard Bonnie, a UVA law professor who has steered mental health policies for several decades. “I felt there was clearly a bipartisan consensus to giving this priority. What happened is we had a recession. Just h...
The baby box is certainly inexpensive and portable, but what about the claims out there that it reduces infant deaths? "I think that the enthusiasm for the box has outpaced any evidence that we have for the box. It hasn't been tested," says Dr. Rachel Moon, a UVA pediatrician who chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics' Task Force on SIDS.
The baby box is certainly inexpensive and portable, but what about the claims out there that it reduces infant deaths? "I think that the enthusiasm for the box has outpaced any evidence that we have for the box. It hasn't been tested," says Dr. Rachel Moon, a UVA pediatrician who chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics' Task Force on SIDS.