(Video) Some middle school students in Charlottesville and Albemarle County are learning about all things engineering this week at a summer camp held at the University of Virginia.
Researchers at UVA and Purdue University are now able to create “tiny, thin-film electronic circuits peelable from a surface,” the first step in creating an unobtrusive Internet-of-Things solution. The peelable stickers can sit flush to an object’s surface and be used as sensors or wireless communications systems.
Experts in international risk say there are immediate, tangible effects of the president's recent trip. "What's different now is perception, and perceptions really matter in alliances," says Todd Sechser, a UVA politics professor who specializes in deterrence and international security.
When it was established in 1982, UVA’s apprenticeship program was the first of its kind at a major public university. Thirty-six years later, it has become a model for other programs and changed many lives, including those of the 10 who graduated Tuesday.
Some middle school students in Charlottesville and Albemarle County are learning about all things engineering this week at a summer camp held at the University of Virginia.
The Papers of Martin Van Buren project is sponsored by Cumberland University and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and is produced in partnership with the University of Virginia.
(Commentary by Mariah Kenny, third-year UVA computer science student) While Ada Lovelace is credited with developing the world's first computer programming concepts back in 1842, I had never heard about her, let alone the cybersecurity field, until I entered college nearly two centuries later. And nearly two centuries later, in a field pioneered by a woman, very few women can be found.
In recent months, researchers and some journalists have strung cables around the necks of at least three monuments of the modern psychological canon. “This is a phase of cleaning house and we’re finding that many things aren’t as robust as we thought,” said UVA psychology professor Brian Nosek, who has led the replication drive. “This is a reformation moment – to say let’s self-correct, and build on knowledge that we know is solid.”
(Commentary co-written by Vikram K. Jaswal, associate professor of psychology) One of the most widely held beliefs about autistic people – that they are not interested in other people – is almost certainly wrong. Our understanding of autism has changed quite a bit over the past century, but this particular belief has been remarkably persistent.
According to Saikrishna Prakash, professor at University of Virginia School of Law, the decision is "about whether the court can second-guess Congress. (It can.) It doesn’t say it’s only the duty of the court to decide constitutional questions." Instead, each branch has a duty to stay faithful to the Constitution, even if it clashes with another branch’s view.
It is indeed in states like Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan where a winning coalition of energized Clinton voters and disillusioned Trump voters could save these incumbents from defeat in 2018. "In Wisconsin or Pennsylvania or even Ohio, you probably have to win some Trump voters, but you don’t necessarily have to win Trump approvers -- a subtle but important difference," said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Most lawmakers who are even aware of the issue of D.C. statehood continue to see it as morally righteous, but politically irrelevant. “Few, if any, Democrats would give D.C. statehood a higher priority than policy issues that directly concern the voters in their state,” says Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “This subject is well down the agenda for almost all senators, and I doubt that changes.”
But historic wins in those and other races are far from assured, cautions Geoffrey Skelley, an associate editor at Sabato's Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan political analysis website run by UVA’s Center for Politics. Omar's chances of emerging from a field of five Democratic candidates in Minnesota's Aug. 14 primary was bolstered by a recent endorsement from the state Democratic Party, but El-Sayed is an underdog in his gubernatorial race, he said.
The UVA Medical Center’s heart failure team has received national quality awards for the fifth year in a row.
Similar to a carbon footprint, the ability to calculate the nitrogen footprint of an organization could prove a vital step on offsetting emissions, as part of ongoing efforts to combat climate change. The study was undertaken by researchers at the University of Melbourne, Australia; the University of New Hampshire and the University of Virginia, USA; and Zhejiang University, China.
“Sunday Morning Wake-up Call” host Rick Moore talks with UVA Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences and Public Policy Carolyn Engelhard about Medicaid expansion in Virginia.
Nia Augustine knew she was destined for medical school as soon as she donned a white coat. “I looked at myself in the mirror and smiled and knew this was for me,” she said. Augustine and 29 other college students from across the country completed UVA’s six-week summer medical leadership program on Friday with tears, hugs and a video slideshow.
For NBA scouting departments, there are certain collegiate players throughout the country that continually pop up onto the radar. For Thunder Vice President of Identification and Intelligence Will Dawkins, it was a sturdy guard from the University of Virginia who kept crossing into his path. A redshirt senior, Devon Hall, a 6-foot-6, 206-pound guard from the University of Virginia continually made an impression on Dawkins, Thunder General Manager and Executive Vice President Sam Presti and the rest of Presti’s staff.
Adam Haseley spent part of his first professional baseball season trying to live up to the expectations that came with being the eighth overall pick in the 2017 amateur draft. The University of Virginia product then decided to work on the things he could control. Four levels and 380 days later, Haseley made his Double-A debut with the Reading Fightins.
The new network isn’t political, per se, but its participants say they are motivated by the Trump administration’s retreat from science. “Most of these groups have popped up in the last year or two are concerned that their work is in jeopardy,” said Michaela Rikard, a biomedical engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia. Young scientists are wondering, “How is this affecting my future career options?” she said.