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New Weight Loss Pills Barely Worked in Mice Until Scientists Uncovered a Brain Circuit Controlling Cravings

Small-molecule GLP-1 drugs barely bind rodent receptors, stalling animal work. A humanized mouse finally revealed a reward circuit they switch off.

Medical Daily

Mouse Study Finds Oral GLP-1 Drugs Quieted A Brain Circuit Tied To Pleasure-Driven Eating

In genetically modified mice, oral GLP-1 drugs activated the central amygdala and cut dopamine during pleasure eating. Here is what that means.

Medical Daily

Children Raised Between Separated Parents Learn Something About Love That Others Never Do

The Education No One Enrols Them InYou packed a bag on Sunday nights. Maybe it was a small blue duffel, maybe a school bag repurposed, maybe you learned to leave certain things at each house so you'd never have to carry everything. The logistics of a divided childhood are mundane…

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Life Advice of the Day by Founding Father and the 3rd president of the United States Thomas Jefferson: 'I find that the harder I work...' – A true Renaissance man's powerful reminder about hard work

Life Advice of the Day : Thomas Jefferson's quote, "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have," highlights that success is often the result of consistent effort and preparation, not just chance. His life exemplified this, demonstrating that dedication to learning and relentless work…

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Top 5% Supply Chain AI Initiatives Achieve Breakthrough Gains, New GEP-UVA Darden Study Finds

CLARK, N.J., May 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A small elite group of companies has cracked the code on scaling AI in supply chain operations, delivering triple-digit productivity gains, faster response times and lower error rates, according to new joint research from GEP and the University of Virginia's Darden School of…

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How AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions

In Baltimore on Oct. 20, 2025, a 17-year-old student named Taki Allen was sitting outside his high school after football practice when an artificial intelligence-enhanced surveillance camera falsely identified the Doritos bag in his pocket as a gun. Within moments police cars arrived, officers drew their weapons and Allen was…

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Trump offered a restrictive deal to universities that almost all rejected – but the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education may not be entirely dead

In October 2025, the Trump administration made a controversial proposal to nine major colleges and universities, including Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia. The administration offered them a deal: If they agreed to adopt certain policy changes, such as revising admissions and hiring practices, they would receive advantages in…

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University of Virginia agrees to Trump administration demands over admissions and hiring

School joins University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Brown in bowing to White House to restore funding

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University of Virginia strikes deal to pause Trump administration investigations

The U.S. Justice Department has announced an agreement with the University of Virginia to pause civil rights investigations

The Independent UK

With no takers yet, White House sets meeting with colleges still weighing an agreement with Trump

Five remaining universities have been weighing an offer from President Donald Trump to sign a “compact” for higher education

The Independent UK

Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money

The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money

The Independent UK

Latin American literature contains warnings for American universities that yield to Trump

As university leaders work to make deals with the Trump administration, many college presidents are at an ethical crossroads. On the one hand, they must do all they can to restore funding for vital research. On the other, they risk ceding to the demands of a president with views that…

The Conversation

Columbia’s $200M deal with Trump administration sets a precedent for other universities to bend to the government’s will

Columbia University agreed on July 23, 2025, to pay a US$200 million fine to the federal government and to settle allegations that it did not create a safe environment for Jewish students during Palestinian rights protests in 2024.

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George Mason University faces investigation in Trump administration's anti-DEI crackdown

The Trump administration on Thursday opened a civil rights investigation into the hiring practices at George Mason University, expanding a national campaign against diversity policies to Virginia’s largest public university

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University of Virginia president resigned after ‘pressure campaign’ from Trump admin to remove him from post

James Ryan submitted his resignation last week ‘with a very heavy heart’ rather than risk the institution having its federal funding cut

Al Jazeera

University of Virginia president resigns under US government pressure

James Ryan, the university’s president, stepped down amid Trump administration scrutiny over diversity initiatives.

The Independent UK

University of Virginia president resigns under Trump administration pressure on DEI, AP source says

The president of the University of Virginia is resigning his position under pressure from the Justice Department, which had pushed for his departure amid scrutiny of the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion practices

The Independent UK

College graduates this year are not finding jobs. AI is partly to blame

“What actually can I do as a human who’s a recent graduate that some robot isn’t going to take over?” asked one recent graduate. Michelle Del Rey reports on the students trapped without a next step

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Hip-hop can document life in America more reliably than history books

Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might have merited it, the word was misleading.

The Guardian - US

‘It’s very much relevant today’: the one-woman show on Charlottesville

Priyanka Shetty combines personal and political in #Charlottesville, a play that explores the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally

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NFL Prospect Mike Green Transfers After Sexual Assault Accusations

Learn about NFL draft prospect Mike Green's journey from UVA to Marshall amid sexual assault allegations and his impressive on-field performance.

Golf Monthly

Amanda Sambach Facts: 10 Things To Know About The College Golfer

The University of Virginia's Amanda Sambach has been a keen golfer since she was five - here are 10 things to know about her

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Scholar’s new rap album seeks to turn the tables on the ‘masters’ from the Old South

Usually when a rap artist comes out with a new album, it’s released by a record label as part of their career as an entertainer. For Dr. A.D. Carson, a professor of hip-hop at the University of Virginia, his latest album – “Owning My Masters (Mastered): The Rhetorics of Rhymes…

Salon

The election the founding fathers wanted

Experts say Harris is right about Trump: America's founding fathers would've deemed him "treasonous"

The Conversation

Pluto mission: South African astronomers join forces with NASA to learn more about the dwarf planet

When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun’s ninth planet, many astronomers and non-experts alike were shocked.

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