The etiology of type 1 diabetes continues to be debated, although experts agree it is likely a mix of genetic and environmental causes. Twin studies and epidemiological data provide important information on the familial risk for type 1 diabetes, according to Stephen S. Rich, director of the Center for Public Health Genomics at the University of Virginia. Early twin studies suggested that type 1 diabetes was highly heritable. Among identical twins where one twin has type 1 diabetes, up to 50% of co-twins also had type 1 diabetes, Rich said.
Officer Simonetti of the University of Virginia Police Department has been selected as the department’s Officer of the Month for June.
(Commentary) More than four months into the pandemic, Americans are swimming – and sometimes drowning – in an ocean of information that, paradoxically, is also a desert of clarity and consensus. “We’re dealing with irrationality on all sides,” said Babur Lateef, an ophthalmologist in Northern Virginia who is chairman of the school board in Prince William County and a member of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors. In both positions, Lateef said he hears from parents who insist that school reopen entirely in person (“Get my kids in five days a week or give me my tax dollars back,” one...
(Subscription required) College teams from around the world are preparing for the October 2021 competition with a $1.5 million prize at stake. “To us, racing is a proving ground. It’s the stress test for AI, for autonomous vehicles,” said Dr. Madhur Behl, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia who is leading one of the teams.
Some people are a lot more susceptible to boredom. And from “covert narcissism” to low self-control, the reasons why can teach us about the origins of this mysterious emotion. In 2014, a team of social psychologists from the University of Virginia discovered during a series of experiments on mind wandering that many participants – around 25% of women and 67% of men – were deliberately electrocuting themselves when they were left alone in a room for just 15 minutes, purely for something to do. One person shocked themselves nearly 200 times.
The University of Virginia Foundation announced Monday that Brad Butler has been promoted to chief financial officer.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UVA is going to be online-only this fall.
(Commentary by Jennifer Rubenstein, associate professor of politics) The “new normal.” This is how journalists, politicians, doctors and companies are talking about life after the acute emergency phase of COVID-19. As a scholar of public emergencies, this phrase jumps out at me.
UVA, MIT, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology and Graz University in Austria are among the universities that will take part in the race.
As soon as the coronavirus pandemic started, and lockdown kept teammates from spending time together, UVA wide receiver Terrell Jana wondered how he could further establish his burgeoning voice and presence.
(Subscription required) Parents help steer job searches for grads stuck at home. Jenna, who graduated from the University of Virginia in May, shared with her mother a spreadsheet she created to organize applications for residencies at hospitals across the country. Her mother was helpful when it came to editing her essays, Jenna said, but badgered her about submitting applications early and not waiting for deadlines.
Students at the University of Virginia are encouraging people to donate old smartphones and tablets to give to senior and low-income patients at the Charlottesville Free Clinic for access to telehealth services.
The largest school systems in the country will likely have very different starts to the upcoming school year. Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia, said he would not feel comfortable with schools opening in communities with high rates of transmission.
Many have proposed creative child care solutions. For example, Elena Tuerk, a child psychologist at the University of Virginia, has proposed a corps of child care providers, potentially paid for by states or the federal government, that could supervise children when their parents are at work.
(Commentary) “Exposure to instructional time was different between high- and low-income schools, so if you factor that into the projections, what we saw was a widening of achievement gap on the basis of school socioeconomic status,” said Jim Soland, an assistant professor of quantitative methods at the University of Virginia School of Education. “Now, if you imagine parents in high-end schools are also going out and getting additional resources, paying for a tutor and the like, it’s hard to imagine that not further exacerbating achievement gaps.”
The performance of private-equity funds tends to go in cycles – periods of high fund raising are followed by periods of low performance. But timing private-equity investments, like timing public markets, is difficult to do, according to University of North Carolina’s Gregory Brown, University of Virginia’s Robert S. Harris, data-management provider Burgiss’s Wendy Hu, University of Oxford’s Tim Jenkinson, Chicago Booth’s Steve Kaplan, and Duke’s David T. Robinson.
More than a dozen new interactive chalkboard murals will be painted throughout UVA Health’s Department of Inpatient Psychiatry. The intent of the murals is to give patients a chance to express themselves in a comfortable environment.
Three years ago, Sen. John McCain was diagnosed with the most aggressive form of brain cancer – glioblastoma. Just over a year later he died. Today, about 200,000 Americans are dealing with the disease, and their prognosis is equally grim, but scientists at the University of Virginia have made a discovery that could lead to a cure.
The Virginia Tech team, in collaboration with Zach Adelman’s lab in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University and Chunhong Mao of the Biocomplexity Institute & Initiative at the University of Virginia, found that the Nix transgene alone, even without the M locus, was sufficient to convert females into males with male-specific sexually dimorphic features and male-like gene expression.
Petri and his team of UVA researchers – Allie Donlan, Mary Young and Mayuresh Abhyankar – may have found a puzzle piece to help detect who might suffer the most severe responses to the virus. The piece is called Interleukin 13, IL-13 for short.