Recent Articles by
Fariss Samarrai
May 01, 2015
How to address some of the major challenges brought about by humans’ interactions with the environment is the subject of a forum this week, designed to explore the possibilities for a new multidisciplinary initiative.
April 27, 2015
UVA and five other major universities on Monday signed a charter with Virginia Sea Grant to cooperate on coastal research, outreach and education activities.
April 10, 2015
Life experiences have guided the direction of chemical engineering student Joanna Adadevoh’s career as she works to find new ways to purify polluted water.
April 01, 2015
Two young faculty members in the physical sciences have earned large grants through NSF’s Early Career Development Program.
March 24, 2015
Denis Nekipelov, an economist and advisory board member with U.Va.’s Data Science Institute, is forming coalitions among researchers and students who use big data.
March 06, 2015
The Max Planck Society – the world’s foremost non-academic research institution – selected U.Va. as its only U.S. partner, touting the quality of the University’s faculty in the energy research field.
February 24, 2015
Computer simulation expert Shane Davis is a new Sloan Research Fellow, a $50,000 award that has launched other scientists on a trajectory toward the world’s most prestigious prizes in their fields.
February 20, 2015
U.Va. psychology professor David Hill operates one of the few labs in the world to study the development of taste.
February 19, 2015
What’s with this weird weather, and what happens in the U.Va. Climatology Office when it happens? Here’s what.
February 06, 2015
A new agreement with the Navy, facilitated by U.Va.’s Applied Research Institute, is bringing new research opportunities to the University in a range of disciplines.