Now, researchers believe they have found possible indications of an exomoon orbiting a giant, scorching exoplanet in the Lepus constellation, 550 light-years from Earth. Researchers, including the UVA’s Bob Johnson, have previously demonstrated that large quantities of sodium present at exoplanets could suggest the presence of rings or even hidden bodies like moons.
In a separate study published as a working paper, researchers and administrators at another community college took a slightly different approach. This school was worried that students might be borrowing too much and offered loan counseling in text messages. The texts encouraged students to think carefully about how much they borrowed. The college worked with the professors Andrew Barr of Texas A&M and Kelli Bird and Benjamin L. Castleman of the University of Virginia to randomly assign students to receive these texts.
Liz Schwab, Google’s public affairs manager for Virginia, said the company is getting the state, the Virginia Community College System and the University of Virginia’s Nudge Lab to help with collecting and analyzing data so that Google could build something that could be replicated elsewhere.
Virginia football fans descended on Charlottesville's Downtown Mall for the annual Paint the Town Orange pep rally on Thursday night to show their school spirit before the Cavaliers' first home game. UVA hosts William & Mary at 8 p.m.
(Commentary) The University of Virginia had the highest public graduation rate (88.3% four-year rate and 94.6% six-year rate). Interestingly, UVA is frequently considered the best deal for public institutions.
Four Virginia universities are ranked among the top 100 institutions in the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings, released Thursday. In this year’s ranking, the University of Virginia notched No. 50.
Three out-of-state institutes of higher learning, which have local ties, assembled current students, parents, alumni and friends for send-off socializing. The buzz was about the University of Virginia, Stanford University and Rhodes College, all three with some of the most impressive collegiate grounds in the country.
University of Virginia football fans got excited for Friday’s home opener against William & Mary at the annual Paint the Town Orange pep rally downtown Thursday evening.
One of Sampson’s favorites though was a pair of orange suedes he wore to every NCAA Tournament game played by eventual champions and alma matter, the University of Virginia. He ended up autographing and giving those shoes to a team manager, the grandson of an NBA referee that Sampson knew well.
Dozens of UVA students and staff were up early Friday morning to go on a run with the big man on Grounds.
It’s been a long road, but a tribute to the University of Virginia’s only graduate killed in action during the Iraq War will be held Monday. In July 2017, then-U.S. Rep. Tom Garrett filed a bill to honor Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in Baqubah, Iraq, in 2004 when a vehicle packed with IEDs drove into the gate of his compound.
A pair of UVA School of Medicine scientists revealed how E. coli finds the most oxygen-free crevices of the colon to cause the worst infection possible. They hope the discovery could let doctors prevent infection by allowing E. coli to pass harmlessly through the body, according to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
In a 2017 paper, researchers from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Virginia found that sea-based transport has a significant environmental impact on the climate and water quality.
The University of Virginia has released a new video urging fans in athletic venues who sing “The Good Old Song” to keep it “good.” The video features students, prominent faculty — such as Dean of Students Allen Groves and Center for Politics Professor Larry Sabato, athletes Bryce Hall and Bryce Perkins among others, alumni such as Tina Fey, and others. Athletic Director Carla Williams says in the video the University of Virginia is a place “that competes and wins with class.”
As the UVA gets ready for its first home football game of the season, the University is asking some fans to change the way they sing "The Good Old Song."
(Subscription required) More than two dozen public schools placed in this year’s top 100 of the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings, with 10 public schools, including the University of Virginia, making the top 50. These schools ranked highly in providing desired outcomes for graduates, despite lacking the resources of many private schools.
Charlottesville activist and writer Zyahna Bryant will complete her first year of studies at UVA while acting as an adviser to Gov. Ralph Northam. Bryant was appointed to the Virginia African-American Advisory Board on Friday.
“You could find lots of examples of candidates who were kind of pilloried as being, quote, ‘unelectable’ who ended up becoming president,” says Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Obviously, Donald Trump is a great example of that.”
At the national level, “policy work is increasingly being done by people with no training in it, and who don’t care about it, because they’re drawn into national politics purely as culture warriors,” said Philip Zelikow of the University of Virginia, who worked as a national security official for both Presidents Bush. “There’s a fiction that mass politics is about policy.”
“If Lizzo is an artist who supports body positivity, feminism, and an unapologetic being in the world, then all of those things become stand-ins for what those particular candidates support,” says University of Virginia professor of hip hop A.D. Carson.