The new estimate for the pulsar's mass makes it heftier than the previous record-holder, a spinning neutron star weighing in at about 2.01 times the mass of the sun, said lead author Thankful Cromartie, a graduate student at the University of Virginia.
“Neutron stars are as mysterious as they are fascinating,” said Thankful Cromartie, a graduate student at the University of Virginia and a pre-doctoral fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. She is first author of a paper accepted by Nature Astronomy.
The University of Virginia announced Tuesday that it's leading a group of five universities, including Virginia Tech, in forming a consortium that will work with a state agency to provide more resources to local grassroots groups. Funding comes from a federal grant, but Virginia will handle the implementation.
UVA plans to work with other universities within the commonwealth, including George Mason University, Virginia Tech, and others. Each school will have a representative on the newly formed Virginia Higher Education Opioid Consortium.
The University of Virginia in August began a pilot for an EV bike for on-campus activities. This vehicle replaces a diesel grounds vehicle for safer clean campus activities.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia on Tuesday gave final approval for the creation of the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science, the 12th school at the University.
Dr. Chris Holstege, the medical director of the Blue Ridge Poison Center, is teaming up with the Virginia Department of Health to figure out how vaping affects the body.
On Tuesday, educators from Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville visited the construction site of the monument to enslaved laborers being built at UVA. Other teachers also traveled to James Madison's Montpelier. A $299,500 grant from the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation is supporting the trips and curriculum development sessions.
Dr. Ronald Turner, a UVA pediatric infectious disease specialist, led a study to investigate how the mix of bacteria found inside your nose can correspond with the severity of your cold symptoms.
Wayne Taulapapa ran for two touchdowns, the second with 2:34 remaining, and No. 25 Virginia hung on, barely, to beat Florida State 31-24 on Saturday night.
The Virginia football team has its highest ranking since 2007, as the Cavaliers moved up to #21 in the AP Top 25 following the 31-24 victory over Florida State.
The Cavaliers are currently the kings of college lacrosse in 2019, winning the NCAA Tournament for the sixth time in the program’s history. Over the past five years, Virginia has also celebrated having a pair of players taken in the top-10 in the NLL Draft.
After leading the Virginia men’s basketball team to its first national championship in program history, head coach Tony Bennett turned down a raise, the school announced Monday morning. Bennett also pledged $500,000 to a career development program for current and former UVA players.
Maddie Rennyson and Mary Blankemeier, third-year University of Virginia students, are helping some Charlottesville youth find their footing on the track.
“The approaches we’ve taken to take these strategies to scale haven’t worked,” said Ben Castleman, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia. He directs the Nudge4 Solutions Lab at UVa, which uses tools honed by behavioral economics and social psychology to try to improve college and employment outcomes.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Centre for Politics and author of The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President, said: “From Trump’s perspective, he is a proven commodity now with white evangelical Christians to the point where I don’t think he needs outside validation from figures in the white evangelical movement such as Falwell … It also leads on to the question [of] how much value Mike Pence has to Trump now.”
“I’m assuming the city will appeal whatever the ruling is” on a number of grounds, said Richard Schragger, a University of Virginia law professor whose expertise includes constitutional and state law. “One is they have always contended that the statute doesn’t apply to them because it only applied to cities starting in 1996.”
In a piece in The Washington Post arguing that marriage offers tangible benefits to men, W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, wrote: “Men who get married work harder and more strategically, and earn more money than their single peers from similar backgrounds. Marriage also transforms men’s social worlds; they spend less time with friends and more time with family; they also go to bars less and to church more. In the provocative words of Nobel Laureate George Akerlof, men ‘settle down when they get married; if they fail to get married,...
The India Student Association (ISA) at the University of Virginia recently held its second zero-waste event in an effort to promote a more sustainable and eco-friendly lifestyle among its students, reports The Cavalier Daily. More than 250 people attending the event, using only compostable or recyclable materials to consume their dinner.
The University of Virginia has recently begun urging students to stop singing allegedly homophobic lyrics to the school’s fight song, “The Good Old Song.” The school is also urging students to stop using vulgarities when slamming their collegiate football rivals.