The creation of Tunabot was led by a team from the University of Virginia, and the wiggly little guy could help us learn more about the mechanics of fish movement. If all goes well, Tunabots could also be used for things like underwater surveillance.
The fourth annual Hannah E. Graham softball tournament will take place in Alexandria on Saturday and Sunday. The tournament is the memory of former UVA student Hannah Graham, who was abducted and murdered in September 2014.
The book, "Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s University," is co-edited by UVA architectural history professor Louis Nelson and former UVA art history professor Maurie McInnis and published by the University of Virginia Press.
An exhibit by political cartoonist Patrick Oliphant is set to open Monday at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Six professors chose from almost 7,000 drawings, watercolors and sculptures to curate Oliphant's work. The artwork will feature seven decades of Oliphant's career.
An anonymous bequest of $20 million will mark the 100th anniversary of the UVA School of Architecture and benefit primarily the school’s Department of Architectural History. The gift will enhance excellence in scholarship and expand opportunities for global learning experiences.
Local groups that support affordable housing in the area will be the beneficiaries of this year's University of Virginia Community Bridges 5K Run/Walk. The race will take place Oct. 12 at 8 a.m., beginning at UVA's Chemistry Building on McCormick Road.
In her book, “Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film,” UVA assistant professor of media and American studies Shilpa Dave said the practice of brownface can be accompanied by “brown voice” to portray stereotypical, racist behaviors and speech patterns of these aforementioned groups.
(By Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) While presidents who lose reelection historically don’t win states they didn’t carry in their earlier victories, presidents who win reelection typically do end up winning one or more states they lost previously, although there is one significant recent exception.
The slavery economy and its partner industries financed Northern schools like Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and Yale, while Southern schools like the University of Virginia and William & Mary were directly built and serviced by enslaved people. UVA has run a program called Universities Studying Slavery since 2014, which has about 40 member schools.
The Chesapeake Research Consortium, located in Edgewater, named Denice Wardrop its new executive director, to start Jan. 1. Wardrop holds a Ph.D. in ecology from Penn State and an M.S. in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia, where she also completed her undergraduate degree.
Joe Reed, a wide receiver for the University of Virginia, made the Paul Hornung Award honor roll for his performance against Florida State Sept. 14 in Charlottesville.
The 35th annual Harriman Cup between alumni from Yale and the University of Virginia will take place Sept. 29 at the Myopia Polo Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.
The University of Virginia has received official approval for its proposed School of Data Science. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia gave approval for the creation of the new school on Tuesday. The School of Data Science will be the 12th school at UVA.
Charlottesville resident Roland Wiggins is one of the greatest jazz theoreticians of our time. As part of his distinguished and varied career, Wiggins chaired the Luther P. Jackson House for African American Studies at the University of Virginia, and taught a few classes in UVA’s music department while he was at it.
The National Business Group on Health presented 50 employers with 2019 Best Employers: Excellence in Health & Well-Being awards at its Workforce Strategy 2019 Conference in San Diego this week. The University of Virginia, a first-time winner, won in the silver category.
While this case study demonstrates how technology is evolving in the medical space, telemedicine is not a new trend or solution. In facts, Interesting Engineering says that it’s been around for awhile, and used all over the globe. For example, NASA oversaw one of the first virtual clinics back in the 1990s to give astronauts medical care; the United States military adopted telemedicine to give medical care to soldiers fighting long distances; and the University of Virginia utilized telemedicine to combat the Ebola crisis.
Highland County faces an uphill battle in attracting new residents. Demographers at the University of Virginia predict that the county’s population, now about 2,260, will drop 17% over the next two decades. Of the state’s 133 cities and counties, UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service projects that 53 will lose population by 2040.
This rapidly rotating pulsar, called J0740+6620, has a mass of 2.17 times that of our sun stuffed into a sphere only 18 miles wide, according to the statement. Finding a star of that mass was "exciting and startling for sure," said Thankful Cromartie, a graduate student at the University of Virginia and Grote Reber pre-doctoral fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The University of Virginia now has a help line for those dealing with an opioid addiction. The toll-free call is for state residents who either have been diagnosed as having an opioid-use problem or are just concerned about their opioid use.
At the same time, a few state schools have tried introducing new aid programs meant to ease burden for low and middle-income students, including the University of Michigan and University of Virginia.