Recent Articles by
Fariss Samarrai
September 19, 2014
Rivanna – a new, high-performance computer cluster unveiled Thursday – will provide University researchers with the combined computational power of 4,800 individual desktop computers linked together.
September 05, 2014
A U.Va. study that examined global food security finds that future trade may not be so secure for some countries.
September 02, 2014
It’s a technology that may have revolutionary potential similar to the PC in the mid-’80s. With a 3-D printer, you can make replacement parts for just about anything in minutes – or perhaps create something, like an outfit to wear tomorrow.
August 29, 2014
Two federal research grants, worth $3.5 million, will help U.Va. researchers develop models to predict changes to coastal zones, home to nearly half of the world’s population.
August 22, 2014
A 105-foot research tower has been built at U.Va.’s Mountain Lake Biological Station as part of a $430 million National Science Foundation ecological observatory that will monitor conditions from the Arctic to the tropics.
July 03, 2014
People are focused on the external world and don’t enjoy spending much time alone thinking, according to a new study led by U.Va. psychologist Timothy Wilson and published in the journal Science.
June 19, 2014
U.Va. environmental scientists G. Carleton Ray and Stephen Macko can comment on the possible effects and implications of President Barack Obama’s Pacific Ocean sanctuary expansion, as well as Secretary of State John Kerry’s Our Ocean conference.
June 06, 2014
Confrontational and deceptive interrogation techniques are inappropriate for the developing adolescent mind, according to Todd Warner’s psychology study at U.Va.
June 03, 2014
Students will gain a broad, interdisciplinary approach to data science through a new, one-year master’s degree program.
May 08, 2014
It takes a village to grow rice, but rugged individualists can grow wheat. That explains the differences between northern and southern Chinese, according to research by a University of Virginia graduate psychology student.