The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of University of Virginia is the only museum dedicated to Australian Aboriginal art in the U.S., and one of two museums of its kind in the world. Working with living artists, international scholars and arts professionals, the Kluge-Ruhe provides a range of learning experiences to the university community and the public through exhibition, research and educational programs.
It is estimated that nearly half of women will develop a urinary tract infection during their lifetime. Up to 90 percent of urinary tract infections are caused by a form of E. coli. Scientists found that this byou acterium uses a spring-like shock absorber to survive and thrive. Study author Dr Edward Egelman, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, said: ‘If something is very rigid, it’s typically very fragile.
The Deloitte Foundation announced that a team from the Darden School of Business won the sixth annual National Case Competition held at Deloitte University's campus near Dallas.
One college that’s ahead of the curve is the University of Virginia. John Edwin Mason, an associate professor of history, started a peer-counseling program called Project Rise a decade ago.
College Advising Corps started at UVA in 2005. The students they work with are 30 percent more likely to apply to college and more than 25 percent more likely to apply for financial aid.
University of Virginia Men's Basketball Coach Tony Bennett is in an online contest to win money for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville. The ESPN Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge is won by popular vote. Right now, Bennett is in the top 15 on the leaderboard. Forty-eight coaches are participating in the challenge. Each is guaranteed to win at least $1,000 for their chosen charity.
A growing number of schools across the nation are installing technology that can instantly tell police when a gun is fired. State Del. Scott Taylor wants to bring that technology to new Virginia schools. Not everyone thinks the systems are necessary. Dewey Cornell, an education professor at the University of Virginia who has studied school violence extensively, said that in general, schools spend too much on preparing to respond to a shooting and not enough on prevention. Cornell found that shootings are 10 times more likely to occur in a restaurant than a school. There has not been a fatal sh...
A versatile technique for editing genomes has been called the biggest biotechnology advance since the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is set to determine who will reap the rewards. On 11 January, the USPTO granted a request to review a key patent awarded for the technique, known as CRISPR-Cas9. The outcome of the ensuing proceedings, called a patent interference, could be worth millions to the research institutions that are at war over the relevant patents. For now, it is unclear how the dispute will affect researchers who use CRISPR-Cas9, if it ...
U.S. President Barack Obama's campaign-like state of the union address seemed almost geared toward making a case for a third term in office, as he listed off his past accomplishments, priorities for the future, all the while taking repeated and not-so-subtle swipes at his Republican detractors. "The speech was essentially Obama's greatest hits," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Type 1 diabetes patients are always under constant needles and manual injections of insulin for their treatment. However, a recent announcement declared that a new smartphone system can now be used to treat Type 1 diabetes automatically and effortlessly. A team of researchers from the University of Virginia is finally releasing the product of a decade worth of development and more than 20 years of research to nine locations across the United States and Europe in order for it to be tested on 240 patients.
Anyone who needs help with federal financial aid applications will have the opportunity to get free assistance at the Jefferson School City Center next week. The center will host a “FAFSA Completion Night” from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 21. Recent graduates of the University of Virginia will be on hand to help the students fill out their Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, forms.
A few University of Virginia basketball fans will have a chance to get behind the scenes with the team and support literacy. In the Assistant Coach Program through Coaching for Literacy, fans will get to spend time with Associate Head Coach Ron Sanchez and the Virginia Cavaliers.
A literacy program in Charlottesville is asking for some cash in exchange for an all access pass to next weekend's University of Virginia men's basketball game. Book Buddies is a tutoring program within Charlottesville city schools, specifically offering literacy support to elementary school students. A national initiative created this partnership between Book Buddies and UVA’s men's basketball team.
In their forthcoming book, “Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love and Marriage Among African Americans and Latinos,” two sociologists, W. Bradford Wilcox of UVA and Nicholas Wolfinger of the University of Utah, tread where few policy makers dare.
"There is no such thing as supporters of one candidate moving en masse to another candidate even if we think it makes logical sense," says Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia.
“Any foreign TV show that’s distributed on a Chinese platform or foreign platform has to be viewed and censored by regulators even before it gets on it,” says Aynne Kokas, a UVA assistant professor of media studies.
Obama’s task on Tuesday night will be to sell his tenure to the American people -- a majority of whom haven’t approved of the job he’s been doing since June 2013, the last time his approval rating hit 50 percent in daily Gallup polls. “Most Americans are convinced the economy is still in the tank,” says Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “No question, the recession’s effects linger in some ways, and wage growth has been awful. But hard unemployment has been cut in half, GDP is decent, and other key measures have turned...
Gov. Chris Christie will deliver his sixth State of the State address on Tuesday as his record in New Jersey is under scrutiny like never before from his competitors in the Republican race for president. "The best thing you could do for yourself is to pump up the good things that happened in New Jersey during your time as governor," said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Engineering was another bright spot, with Virginia Tech ranking No. 9, while Johns Hopkins came in at 11, the University of Maryland at 16 and the University of Virginia at 22.
The father of a University of Virginia graduate who died of an opioid overdose will be at President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address Tuesday night. Don Flattery, whose son Kevin overdosed on the painkiller OxyContin in 2014, will be the guest of Sen. Timothy M. Kaine, of Virginia, at Tuesday’s address.