UVA’s new Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory formed in January through a $27.5 million grant to tackle the “memory wall” — a bottleneck in computers that cannot process massive modern datasets.
The vast majority (98 percent) of threats in Virginia involved current students with just over half of the threats being against other people, according to the 2015-16 report from the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, the latest full report available. “We’re just surrounded by this issue,” said Dewey Cornell, a forensic clinical psychologist and education professor at the University of Virginia. Cornell also serves as the director of the UVA Virginia Youth Violence Project.
The midterms that November were a bloodbath for Democrats. Led by Newt Gingrich, and with the support of an energized National Rifle Association, the GOP gained 54 seats in the House and another eight in the Senate. Among the casualties was the Speaker of the House, Tom Foley, the first speaker to lose his re-election since 1862. “The fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress,” Clinton said that January. “The NRA is the reason Republicans control the House.” And with that, a legend was born. As Russell Riley, co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at ...
The questions Andrew T. Jebb and three other researchers set out to answer were more specific: How much money does it really take to be happy? Is there a point where money no longer changes feelings of well-being? Their answers were published in January by Nature Human Behavior. The senior author on the paper is Louis Tay, an assistant professor of psychological sciences. Ed Diener and Shigehiro Oishi from the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia also contributed to the study.
Trump received the third-worst average rating among presidents dating back to the 1950s. The 45th president is ahead of only Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, with a score of 4.20 out of 10, according to the survey by Ipsos and the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
The University of Virginia Foundation is ready to move forward on renovations to one of its high-profile properties. Members of the foundation presented eight renovation plans to the Planning and Coordination Council on Thursday.
A celebration for a Virginia tribe brought various groups of people together at the University of Virginia. In January 2016, the Pamunkey Indian Tribe officially became the first federally recognized tribe in the state, and is one of 11 tribes recognized by Virginia.
UVA professor Dewey Cornell, who helped develop the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guideline, told PolitiFact that it may be impossible to prevent all school shootings, but a simple focus on building security is "terribly short-sighted."
Former New Jersey Gov. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie will be featured in the penultimate episode of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center’s “American Forum.” The hourlong conversation he had Monday with host Douglas Blackmon is set to air on PBS stations in Virginia on Feb. 25 and nationally on Feb. 28. It is focused on the future of the Republican Party and Christie’s connection to President Donald Trump’s administration.
Throughout the offseason at Davenport Field, two things have been happening. The players have been out on the diamond in any weather conditions getting ready for the upcoming season, set to start Friday in Orlando. Meanwhile, the stadium has been undergoing a massive, $18.76 million renovation.
Presidents Day resulted from an agglomeration of George Washington’s (Feb. 22) and Abraham Lincoln’s (Feb. 12) birthdays. Now it’s really a day to celebrate everyone who has held the office. Herewith, a collection of facts about each of the 45 American presidents, gleaned from the White House website, UVA’s Miller Center and presidential libraries.
Presidents Day resulted from an agglomeration of George Washington’s (Feb. 22) and Abraham Lincoln’s (Feb. 12) birthdays. Now it’s really a day to celebrate everyone who has held the office. Herewith, a collection of facts about each of the 45 American presidents, gleaned from the White House website, UVA’s Miller Center and presidential libraries.
UVA has now invested nearly $1 million in the early stages of student and faculty startups, joining the growing number of schools investing in homegrown enterprises.
UVA economist Jennifer Doleac analyzed the data and concluded “black and Hispanic men without college degrees are significantly less likely to be employed after 'ban the box' than before." Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow observed: “The fact that more African-Americans are hired when employers utilize criminal background checks indicates that in the absence of better information, employers use race as a proxy for criminal history.”
A dry fall and an even drier January are creating some concerns for Virginia farmers. That’s worrisome if the dry spell continues much longer, said Jerry Stenger, director of the state office of climatology at UVA. “We could be in a bad situation regarding water supplies for everyone once we get to the beginning of the growing season,” Stenger said.
Reputable health information and medical advice is widespread on the internet. But, in spite of abundant material, patients are far from equipped to consume the complex literature, a team of Pennsylvania-based researchers has reported. According to the research, the only hospital whose articles required less than an eighth-grade reading level was the University of Washington Medical Center, which reached a 7.9-grade level. The UVA Health System, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University were close behind, all floating around the eighth-gr...
There is an optimal point to how much money it takes to make an individual happy, and that amount varies worldwide, according to new research. The research by Jebb and Tay was supported by Purdue's Department of Psychological Sciences. Also contributing to the study were Ed Diener and Shigehiro Oishi from the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
To study how lasers transform metal surfaces to create complex, multiscale roughness and drive the ejection of nanoparticles, a team led by UVA materials scientist Leonid Zhigilei used Titan to simulate more than 2 billion atoms over thousands of time steps. “The initial attempts to visualize the atomic configurations were very time-consuming and involved cutting the system into several pieces and reassembling the images produced for different pieces,” Zhigilei said. “SIGHT, however, enabled the researchers at the University of Virginia to take a quick look at the whole system, monitor the evo...
The UVA Police Department is using the social media monitoring program Social Sentinel in an effort to more effectively respond to threats made online. The program will cost UVA $18,500 a year, according to documents provided by the university.
The University of Virginia’s main library is preparing for a major renovation, and while the work is going on many books will be stored in a new location. A few will be digitized or sent to special collections, and the older ones have been checked for surprising contents.