Diabetics may soon have a smarter diabetes management assistant, thanks to a new smartphone-based system developed by researchers from the UVA School of Medicine that can automatically control blood-sugar levels.
Clearly, GOP front-runner Donald Trump isn’t even trying to be the next President Reagan. “He just doesn’t have Reagan’s personality,” says Larry Sabato, director of UVA's Center for Politics. “Rubio’s the only one who fits that mold.”
Michael Pace, an aquatic ecologist from the University of Virginia, said it is well known that coal ash contains toxic materials, especially heavy metals. “These metals can be harmful to aquatic life. Some of them accumulate and biomagnify in food chains.”
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Maurie McInnis, UVA's vice provost for academic affairs and a professor of art history, will serve as the next provost of the University of Texas at Austin.
UVA English professor Gregory Orr, author of 12 poetry collections, including “Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved” and nonfiction, such as “Poetry as Survival," is one of four living poets included on this list.
Proud parents chart the growth of their children, but astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have taken on a bigger task: charting the growth of our own Milky Way. The researchers mapped the Galaxy by observing red giants, bright stars in the final stages of their lives that can be observed out to large distances from our Sun, into the very inner and outer reaches of the Milky Way. The team started with spectra taken from one of the SDSS's component surveys, the Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment (APOGEE). "APOGEE is the ideal survey for this work becau...
Now that 2015 is behind us, it’s time to start thinking again about fresh starts. But whether that entails making a small change or a complete life overhaul, finding a new or better job will be a top New Year’s resolution for many Americans. David Lapinski, Director of Employer Relations at the Career Center at the University of Virginia offers commentary on job opportunities and employment growth.
If you have young kids in school, or talk with teachers of young children, you've likely heard the refrain — that something's changed in the early grades. Schools seem to expect more of their youngest students academically, while giving them less time to spend in self-directed and creative play. A big new study provides the first national, empirical data to back up the anecdotes. University of Virginia researchers Daphna Bassok, Scott Latham and Anna Rorem analyzed the U.S. Department of Education's Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which includes a nationally representativ...
A discovery about the human brain that was made at the University of Virginia Schools of Medicine is being called one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2015 by several organizations, including Scientific American, Science and the National Institutes of Health.
An artificial pancreas may soon be as close as your smartphone, as researches prepare to begin final clinical tests for a device that would ease the burden of type 1 diabetes. The device one can automatically measure sugar levels and support insulin delivery. After 183,708 hours of clinical trials since 2008 and 20 years of research, the University of Virginia School of Medicine is bringing its brainchild to nine locations across the US and Europe to try it on 240 patients.
The University of Texas on Monday named Maurie McInnis, an administrator and scholar at the University of Virginia, as executive vice president and provost.
Kindergarten is the new first grade. That's the big finding from UVA researchers who compared kindergarten and first-grade classrooms and found that over a 12-year period, kindergarten classes have become startlingly like first grade.
Ben Williams, who overcame a rough childhood to earn three degrees from UVA, will lead Washington, D.C.’s first all-male public high school.
Psychologist Brian Nosek believes that reproducibility is a core principle of science. To promote the idea, he co-founded a nonprofit organization in 2013 that allows scientists to publish a description of their experiments before they conduct them. This week Nosek’s Center for Open Science (COS) went a step further, offering $1000 to every scientist who preregisters their protocol with COS. The payment is meant to be a carrot leading to greater transparency and accountability in research, says Nosek, a professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was widely criticized in 2013 for suggesting that the nation's largest banks are too big to jail. In Delaware, the addition this week of Wilmington Trust as a defendant to the criminal indictment already pending against four top-tier bank executives stands in contrast to that. "This is absolutely part of a shift," said Brandon Garrett, author of "Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations" and a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. "The Department of Justice has be...
Researchers at University of Virginia School of Medicine are working to determine whether an extended-release medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can improve highway safety and help prevent accidents.
The idea of putting a pedestrian bridge over Richmond Road at Pantops in Albemarle County has been postponed for the moment. Their reason comes down to cash: it would cost a total of around $100,000 to study traffic patterns, and analyze the need for pedestrian bridges at that and other locations. Supervisors aren't giving up on the project yet. They are supporting a proposal for the University of Virginia School of Architecture's Urban and Environmental Planning class to complete the study for the county for free.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have started a study to determine whether a new, long-lasting drug can minimize the risk for ADHD drivers behind the wheel.
It will be tough for Bennett Sousa to top his first season of college baseball, in which his Virginia Cavaliers clinched the College World Series. “But we’re in a good spot this year.”