Omran Sharaf, who earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 2005 and his post-graduate in science and technology policy from the Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, in 2013, had always dreamt in his formative years to work on a project or a mission that was related to space.
Gas prices are up a whopping 34 cents from last month and local drivers say they don’t like it. "I came here today and I was just like ‘what.’ Pretty sad about it. I’ll try to be a little more hesitate, but I drive home a lot. I live in Northern Virginia and I visit my family a lot, so I’m gonna have to take the 'L' [loss] here," said Ahmed Hassan, a local driver and student at the University of Virginia.
Some graduates continued with their original plans, moving on into higher education. One such student is Livie Nute, who last spring had already committed to attend the University of Virginia in the fall. “Last summer, I went back and forth whether I should apply for a gap year or just go ahead and hope there are some fragments of normalcy,” she says. Livie decided to go ahead with her original plans and is now in her second semester at UVA. “It’s been great and I definitely don’t regret my decision.”
(Commentary) Liberal University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock (in whose class I once sat) has recognized the breathlessly slim religious liberty exemptions that could still be maintained by religious schools post-Equality Act:”Schools would still have the ministerial exception … which should protect them with respect to teachers teaching a religion class, or leading chapel services, but courts have generally held that other teachers are not ministers for purposes of the exception.”
News articles, opinion pieces and Twitter hot takes comparing the two have proliferated in the past week. “#Cuomo is pulling a Northam,” tweeted veteran political analyst Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
The split between corporate PACs and big-money donors and the growing number of grassroots donors "reinforces that the biggest divide in today's Republican Party may be between the elites and the base," J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, told Salon by email. "While some higher-up Republicans — such as Sen. Mitch McConnell — have, at times, hinted that they'd want the party to move beyond Trump, the base seems perfectly comfortable supporting — and donating to — Trumpian candidates."
The astronomers studied the cloud at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths, which demonstrate that the Antlia object is indeed a supernova remnant. In particular, the visible light shows spectral signatures of shock waves, which result when high-speed gas from a supernova slams into gas around it. “The evidence for it being shocks in a supernova remnant seems to be very good,” says Roger Chevalier, an astronomer at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville not involved with the new work. He notes that the team detected red light from sulfur atoms that are missing one electron, a hallmark of ...
Last month, Marlene Daut, a professor of African diaspora studies at the University of Virginia, called out mainstream publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian for including phrases about Haiti being the “poorest country in the Western Hemisphere” in their coverage.
Anhthu Nguyen, a geomonics research specialist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said that in order to move past hate crimes it is important to address the racism that causes it. Different races experience discrimination in differently, she said, but the next step toward overcoming racism and hate crimes is combining power across marginalized groups in America.
“I hope the infrastructure will be of a more fundamental nature than was the case in Obama’s ‘shovel-ready’ investment projects. That is to say, projects need to be carefully thought out to yield high returns over an extended period. These are not ‘stimulus’ measures. Though they stimulate demand to some degree, that is not their primary purpose. Their purpose is to expand the potential of the economy to grow,” Eric Leeper, an economics professor at the University of Virginia, said.
Last year, Virginia, Nevada and Illinois sued the US archivist in an attempt to get him to "carry out his statutory duty of recognizing the complete and final adoption" of the ERA. This month, a federal district judge dismissed the case and ruled that the deadline to ratify the ERA "expired long ago" and that the three states' recent ratifications of the ERA arrived "too late to count." University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Prakash, who supports the ERA but believes the deadline has lapsed, called the ruling a "complete defeat for the States bringing the suit." He added that the ruli...
Social media sites operate in an environment shaped by years of jurisprudence. “Courts have stretched Section 230’s legal shield far beyond what its words, context, and purpose support,” Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, told lawmakers at a 2019 hearing. “It has led to the rise of social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. But it also has subsidized platforms that encourage online abuse,” Citron said. “It has left victims without leverage to insist that platforms take down destructive activity.”
Achieving educational milestones can take extra persistence during the pandemic, too. Four graduating student members of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia will present their Distinguished Major Recitals with livestreams on UVa Music YouTube — cellist Brent Davis at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, violinist Amelia Bailey at 3:30 p.m. March 27, cellist Isabella Tucker at 8 p.m. April 3 and violinist Sophia Park at 1 p.m. April 10. Get details at music.virginia.edu/student-recitals.
Most dissertations are written. One doctoral student at Clemson University broke the norm during his doctoral studies. A.D Carson wrote a 34-track rap album instead and went viral on YouTube along with being called a doctor after his successful unconventional defense. In July 2017, it was announced that Carson will begin teaching at the University of Virginia as Assistant Professor of Hip-Hop and the Global South.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics published an article that looked at the research done in this area and drew some interesting conclusions. That article acknowledges that a candidate’s “platforms, personalities and party affiliations matter most, along with the circumstances of the election year” and that the “theory has always been that the most desirable position on the ballot for any candidate to be listed first.” A review of the research did indicate that “there is an advantage to being listed first on the ballot,”according to the article. “Voters who do not have well defined ...
UVA researchers are studying the long-term effects of soldiers' traumatic brain injuries. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has partnered with UVA to help develop new guidelines for preventing serious brain injuries in the armed forces. The goal is to reduce the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a serious and often fatal brain disease caused by repeated traumatic brain injury or concussions.
UVA researchers are studying the long-term effects of soldiers' traumatic brain injuries. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has partnered with UVA to help develop new guidelines for preventing serious brain injuries in the armed forces. The goal is to reduce the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a serious and often fatal brain disease caused by repeated traumatic brain injury or concussions.
A brief report by researchers at the University of Virginia proposes using an antibody-based treatment with a plug-and-play strategy to inhibit the ability of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to invade human cells.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise has announced in person Commencement ceremonies for the Class of 2021 and the Class of 2020 following Governor Ralph Northam’s new guidance on graduations issued Wednesday.
Exploring nature became a trend amid the coronavirus pandemic, but a local nonprofit is looking to make it a permanent experience for as many as possible. Wildrock is underway with a collaborative assignment with the University of Virginia called the "Green Space Mapping Project." The project will give a snap shot of where all the green spaces are in the Charlottesville area.