A study is being conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, to determine if an automated artificial pancreas could solve the problem of nocturnal hypoglycemia in people with type 1 diabetes. The study is conducted in collaboration with the University of Virginia and the Mayo Clinic. The researchers are exploring the capacity for the artificial pancreas system to maintain stable blood glucose levels overnight in people with type 1 diabetes.
After the account of a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia was discredited, the campus could have tried to revert to the status quo. That it chose not to go back to business as usual is a credit to university officials and to students, who realized more needed to be done to improve safety. The result has been the implementation of sensible rules to crack down on the excessive drinking and other partying abuses that too often underlie sexual assaults.
Greek organizations at the University of Virginia kicked off rush season last week, the traditional recruiting period that brings thousands of hopefuls to fraternity and sorority houses across Grounds. The whirlwind that followed a Rolling Stone article detailing an alleged gang rape at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house has not put a damper on people joining Greek organizations this semester.
(By Robert Bruner, dean at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business) The big idea: No managerial assignment is more daunting than parachuting in to lead the turnaround of a busted operation. The situation is dire; morale is at rock-bottom; remedies are urgently needed; the CEO and board of directors are breathing down your neck; you are just a middle manager. What should you do?
(By James Kraska, a Senior Fellow in FPRI’s Program on National Security, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia School of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and National Security at the University of Virginia School of Law) Who “minds the gap” in the South China Sea? The gap, that is, created in international law concerning the use of coercion or aggressive force and the right of self-defense of victim states. China exploits this gap in the international law on the use of force to compel its neighbors to accept ...
Scientists are uncertain what role genetics and culture play in determining if someone has liberal or conservative political views. In a new study, researchers at the University of Virginia have found that liberals and conservatives tend to have different styles of thought. "We found in our study that liberals and conservatives think as if they were from completely different cultures — almost as different as East and West," said Thomas Talhelm, a doctoral candidate in cultural psychology and the leader of the study. "Liberals and conservatives categorize and perceive thing...
UVA Doctorial candidate, Thomas Talhelm talks with Les Sinclair about how Liberals and Conservatives think like they're from different cultures.
Whether he's arguing for the right to wear a half-inch beard or the right to sacrifice chickens and goats, UVA Law Professor Douglas Laycock is a champion of religious liberty. Soundboard's Nathan Moore talks to him about Holt v. Hobbs, his latest Supreme Court win.
Political conservatives in the United States are somewhat like East Asians in the way they think, categorize and perceive, while liberals in the U.S. are more extreme in thought, categorization and perception, according to a new cultural psychology analysis. "We found in our study that liberals and conservatives think as if they were from completely different cultures - almost as different as East and West," said lead author Thomas Talhelm, a University of Virginia doctoral candidate in cultural psychology. "Liberals and conservatives categorize and perceive things differently, ...
The Supreme Court rules 9-0 for Muslim inmate who wants to grow beard. U.Va. Professor Douglas Laycock argued the case before the court and Les Sinclair talks with him about it.
Hillary Clinton's biggest hurdle to the White House is its current resident.According to an analysis by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, if President Barack Obama doesn’t reach a consistent 50 percent favorability rating by Election Day 2016, Clinton, should she decide to run for president, would have a difficult, if not impossible, chance of winning the race. "Even though he will not be on the ballot, however, evidence from past open-seat presidential contests indicates that the public’s evaluation of Obama’s performance in office will have...
Scientists are closer to finding a galactic 'skeleton' that they believe could be lurking inside the fabric of our galaxy. Discovering these 'bones' could help researchers get a better picture of the Milky Way looks like from the outside. A US team has already discovered one of the galactic bone while studying a dust cloud nicknamed 'Nessie'. Catherine Zucker, an undergraduate physics student at the University of Virginia, claims to have found six candidates for galactic bones in a new study. 'What I was trying to do was basically prove that the Nessie filament wasn...
Joanna Weidenmiller is an anomaly in Silicon Valley. The 32-year-old founder and CEO of 1-Page, a San Francisco-based recruiting technology company opted to go public this past October rather than continue raising funding from venture capital firms. Weidenmiller’s startup became the first Silicon Valley company to list on the ASX. The gambit paid off. The stock has gone up over 600% Weidenmiller tells Fast Company, making the company’s valuation soar to over $160 million. Yet as Weidenmiller fills in the details about her life and career, it’s easy to see why s...
Researchers at the University of Virginia have learned that what happens to the body after sustaining a major spinal injury could actually help doctors treat some serious medical conditions. Researchers have singled out an immune system response that happens after someone sustains an injury to their central nervous system previously thought to be harmful. Doctors say the reaction could not only help them treat brain and spinal injuries but also treat conditions like ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, and Alzheimer's.
Fewer than half of the elite research institutions that comprise the Association of American Universities will participate in that group's effort to anonymously survey students about the prevalence of sexual assault on campuses. The association said Thursday that 27 of its 60 U.S. members, including the University of Virginia, and one non-member college will join the effort.
Virginia lawmakers are far from consensus on legislation dealing with sexual assault on college and university campuses. That was apparent at the end of a two-hour hearing Thursday by a Senate subcommittee wrestling with the issue. Most controversial was the concept of mandatory reporting. Some of the measures would require university employees who become aware of an alleged sexual assault to report it to a law-enforcement agency within 24 or 48 hours. Failure to do so would be a misdemeanor. Several witnesses warned that such a mandate would discourage victims from reporting assaults at all. ...
My daughter is five years old, and is very bright and articulate. I will see to it she never attends U.Va. That bit of rather direct language comes from university documents retrieved through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The documents consist of more than 150 pages of e-mails that passed through University of Virginia Dean of Students Allen Groves over nearly two weeks after the Rolling Stone hit the Internet. They depict a university administrator hustling to keep up with the fast-moving response to Rolling Stone’s story, dealing with hard-edged e-mails from detrac...
In 2013 the University of Virginia official student fan group, The Hoo Crew, was recognized as the best student section in the country, winning the Naismith Award and beating out schools like the University of Kansas, Arizona, and Virginia Commonwealth University. The organization is hoping to build off their reputation and have started an endowment to raise money for the group to travel to more sporting events and support more teams at UVa.
More than 800,000 students at 28 college campuses, including the University of Virginia, will be asked about sexual assault this spring, one of the largest surveys ever on the topic. The Obama administration has made the issue a priority, and the number of federal investigations into how colleges investigate reports of sexual violence has increased dramatically. Many universities have made their own attempts to change campus culture and ensure that students are safe, but there are many students complaining that officials are too worried about bad publicity to tackle th...
Two University of Virginia economists say they have found a way to quantify love.UVa professors Leora Friedberg and Steven Stern looked at married couples' answers to two questions about the quality of their marriage, combined with their divorce rates six years later, and the results surprised even them.