Computer science researchers at the UVA School of Engineering and University of California, San Diego, jointly published a paper outlining new Spectre variants that they say affect "billions" of AMD and Intel PCs. The researchers also say they are immune to all existing hardware and software mitigations, and worse yet, potential fixes would have a major impact on system performance.
Nobel Laureate William Faulkner (probably unwittingly) did all aspiring writers a solid by tracking his submissions to literary magazines for a year. The chart, which is part of the University of Virginia Library’s collection, catalogues Faulkner’s 94 submissions to seven magazines from 1930 to ’31. Of those, he placed a total of 12 stories. To be clear, that’s a lot of yeses! But it’s also a lot of nos.
We’re going to dive a little deeper into the list (the Top 20) and highlight the schools you may not realize are some of the top clerkship contenders. Here they are for your viewing pleasure:1. University of Chicago: 27.59%2. Yale University: 25.49%3. Stanford University: 23.08%4. University of Virginia: 17.46%
(Commentary) America’s Founding Fathers supported the right to keep and bear arms, but they also saw that guns didn’t belong on a college campus. In 1824, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison attended a board meeting of the University of Virginia, which was opening the next spring. Minutes from the meeting show that the board decreed: “No student shall, within the precincts of the University, introduce, keep or use any spirituous or vinous liquors, keep or use weapons or arms of any kind…”
The University of Virginia recently released a statement acknowledging Herring’s opinion, but has not yet updated its policy. Emily Porter, a UVA student majoring in media studies and Chinese, said there is support for the vaccine among UVA students, but some students oppose it. “The student population is largely liberal, though I would say there are contrarians and conservatives who might have an issue,” she said. “As a proportion of the student population, the latter is much less. I would also guess that the majority of the faculty and staff would also be in support of it.”
A big event that will help is Final Exercises at the University of Virginia. Clark said at the Draftsman, they're happy both the classes of ’20 and ’21 will be graduating, and separate weekends help, too. The hotel plans to be booked solid.
A first-of-its-kind network of autism centers across the country is aiming to better address the needs of those with the developmental disability by putting the latest research into practice faster. The newly launched 20-site (including UVA) Autism Care Network is a “learning health network,” according to Autism Speaks, which is behind the new collaboration.
In the last few years, university administrators and philanthropists have begun to direct large sums of money to data science, an interdisciplinary field of study. The University of Virginia received $120 million, the largest gift in its history, to establish a school of data science. Data science draws especially from computer science, mathematics, and statistics, but its ambitions sweep across the university. UVA has launched an initiative to hire faculty members with expertise in data science from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Regardless of their disciplinary home, ...
(Commentary by Barbara A. Perry, Gerald L. Baliles Professor and director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center) President Franklin Roosevelt served an unprecedented 4,422 days in office, but his first 100 set a benchmark by which his successors are inevitably measured.
Computing experts thought they had developed adequate security patches after the major worldwide Spectre flaw of 2018, but UVA's discovery shows processors are open to hackers again.
The health district, UVA Health’s site at the Seminole Square shopping center and area pharmacies are also now offering shots to anyone 16 and older regardless of where they live.
“I think the major brood in (the Charlottesville area) is Brood II, but it would not surprise me if you experienced Brood X in Northern Virginia in 2004, as it is common in the D.C. area,” said Doug Taylor, Commonwealth Professor of Biology with the University of Virginia. “The distinctions can be a bit fuzzy and sometimes there are stragglers.”
It’s not unusual for Republicans in Virginia to gripe about the arcane rules of party-run nominating conventions, which attract a small fraction of the voters of a state-run primary. But this year’s complaints from Chase and other candidates come at a fraught moment for the party, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “The pieces and factions of this state party are simply reflecting the kind of paranoia we’re seeing from the Trump national party,” Sabato said. “This has been instilled in the GOP now and I think we’re gonna see a lot more of this in a...
Simply rewriting the asylum rules may not be easy. “It’s going to be difficult because the issue is difficult,” says David Martin, a former top lawyer at the Department of Homeland Security who also taught at the University of Virginia School of Law. Martin thinks the recent surge of migrants at the border complicates the situation because the Biden administration doesn’t want to encourage more unauthorized migration. The challenge, Martin says, is to protect vulnerable women who cannot find protection in their home countries — without opening the door too widely.
"Certainly, with Joe Biden, he has this problem of a narrow, almost infinitesimal, majority" in Congress, as opposed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, another president who passed big federal programs to bring the country out of a crisis, says Barbara Perry, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. "It's hard to say he's going to continue to have smooth sailing."
Said University of Virginia economics professor Jonathan Colmer: “By decomposing disparities in fine particulate matter into their component sources, their research shines a light on where researchers, policymakers, and communities might focus efforts going forward.” Colmer, lead author on a 2020 paper about disparities in air pollution, was not part of the new study.
On Thursday evening, a group that has led the way for helping Charlottesville communities of color learn about and get the vaccine held a virtual town hall. It featured medical experts, community leaders, and an area pastor, touching on a number of topics. The conversation started with a reminder of why getting your shot is crucial to ending the devastations of COVID, which have unfairly and disproportionately hurt Black communities. “We have the most to lose, frankly, by not becoming vaccinated as quickly and early as possible,” said Dr. Michael Williams, a surgeon at UVA Health.
UVA Health administered its 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine Thursday. Nearly 45,000 people have been fully vaccinated through the UVA Health vaccination site as of Thursday. UVA Health's Dr. Costi Sifri says they began the vaccination process on Dec. 15. He says hitting 100,000 shots administered within five months wouldn't have been possible without everyone involved.
Researchers from eight Virginia universities [including UVA] will soon take part in $1 million worth of state-funded cybersecurity and autonomous vehicle-focused research projects through a statewide research initiative, Virginia Tech announced on Thursday.
The UVA Facilities Management department says it will accept applications for its Apprenticeship Program through May 16.