John Summers is responsible for the second life of The Baffler, which relaunched in 2012. The Baffler was a zine founded in 1988 by Thomas Frank and Keith White at the University of Virginia that grew up into a sort of anti-academic journal in Chicago.
Checking out the maps above created after the 2010 census at the University of Virginia, the city seemed to divide into a clock face with each quarter mark set aside for a different racial make up.Now some say that is changing with the half a million extra people who've come to Houston since then changing the dynamic of our city.
Shenandoah National Park has joined a nationwide study to sample mercury levels in national parks to identify threats to natural resources, officials said. ... SNP has done research with a mercury specialist, Dr. Ami Riscassi of University of Virginia, throughout the past decade and the park wanted to continue its efforts, Cumming said.There is a mercury deposition station within the park that monitors mercury release in the water, Riscassi said. ...
The blended and extended families created by high rates of divorce, remarriage and cohabitation – along with the worldwide migration prompted by economic turmoil and war – have combined to change forever the view of family as limited to a mother, father and their children. “The family is the core institution for child-rearing worldwide, and decades of research have shown that strong families promote positive child outcomes,” said Laura Lippman, co-director of the World Family Map and senior program director for education at Child Trends.The report, co-written by Li...
Charlottesville based company Psikick has been working on a technique called subthreshold processing, that could solve this kind of problems and ...
We have 3D printed keys, guns and shoes -- now a research team at the University of Virginia has created a 3D printed UAV drone for the Department of Defense.In the works for three years, the aircraft, no bigger than a remote-controlled plane, can carry a 1.5-pound payload. If it crashes or needs a design tweak for a new mission, another one can be printed out in a little more than a day, for just $2,500 (£1533). It's made with off-the-shelf parts and has an Android phone for a brain."We weren't sure you could make anything lightweight and stron...
But a new study of the sleek little brown anolis lizard in the Bahamas is challenging the notion that tropical lizards can’t stand the heat. Yes, researchers at Dartmouth College and University of Virginia say, the expected two-degree rise in temperatures over the remainder of the century will likely do a number on lizards. However, they said, researchers should give more consideration to the lizard’s ability to adapt and evolve.The scientists moved male lizards from the cooler and more forested end of a Bahamian island to a peninsula that baked under the sun. The results showed th...
The University of Virginia Center for Politics Global Perspectives on Democracy program is hosting students from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru this week as a part of its Youth Ambassadors Program for South America.Tuesday the teenagers talked to UVA Center for Politics director Larry Sabato about getting involved back home. They also experienced some American culture at Monticello High School, where they learned more than how classes are different - and took part in a dance party.
The search continued Tuesday for a missing University of Virginia student with ties to the Washington area, and her family said it would be unusual for her to go this long without having any contact with her family and friends.
Police adjusted their search area Tuesday for a missing University of Virginia student, at least the fourth young woman to go missing in the area in the past five years.
Police have released details about surveillance video regarding 18-year-old Hannah Elizabeth Graham, a second-year University of Virginia student who has been missing since early Saturday.Wednesday, police confirmed that surveillance video places Graham outside of the Shell gas station on Preston Avenue at 12:55 a.m. on Saturday. She is seen walking then running in the video. She is by herself. Police do not know at this point why Graham starts running, no one is behind her on the tape.Police also confirmed Wednesday that Graham made it to the Charlottesville downtown mall...