Girls from in and around the Charlottesville area are working to break down barriers in science and tech-related fields. On Sunday, they took part in “Ladies in the Lab” to get more familiar with engineering and encourage them to build those skills. Dozens of girls gathered on University of Virginia Grounds to take part in different hands-on workshops taught by different clubs from the University.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility and Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport is set to launch an Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station Wednesday. The Virginia Space Grant Consortium has four of member universities: Old Dominion, Virginia Tech, UVA and Hampton. Three student teams designed and developed small satellites, each about 4 inches cubed and weighing approximately 3 pounds.
UVA student actors and are performing their short plays, all written in a day. Over the course of 24 hours, students write, act and perform in original short plays.
This week’s scheduled Antares launch at Wallops Island will carry space satellites engineered and built by Virginia university students. The satellites will rendezvous with the International Space Station, be released by the astronauts and orbit for up to two years. For three years, 140 students from UVA, Virginia Tech and Old Dominion University have been designing and building three small satellites that are now ready for launch.
The UVA Clean Water Working Group, UVA Office of Sustainability, Westminster Presbyterian Church and other organizations around Charlottesville worked to clean up the stream underneath Beta Bridge on Saturday.
Duke University has some answers for a question echoing around Charlottesville and Albemarle County: What is the role of universities in making housing affordable?
Members of the UVA family are remembering an engineering student who died on spring break. Students, professors, families and friends held a memorial for Rehan Baddeliyanage on Sunday morning.
Hundreds of people gathered at the IMPACT action assembly Thursday at Charlottesville High School to demand city and county action on affordable housing. This was also the first time the University of Virginia was asked to commit to efforts to end the affordable housing crisis.
The University of Virginia is the best public college in the commonwealth, according to new national rankings published by Business First. Business First released its 2019 rankings Monday after analyzing data for more than 500 public colleges across the country.
The use of the hacking charge has a two-fold purpose: helping ease Assange’s extradition by making the central charge sound more like a common crime, and trying to reassure journalists and First Amendment advocates that Assange isn’t being prosecuted simply for publishing classified information – an activity that mainstream news outlets regularly engage in, UVA law professor Ashley Deeks said.
The severe drought that struck California from 2011 to 2015 had some surprising effects on the state’s notorious air pollution. A research team, led by atmospheric chemistry Ph.D. candidate Angelique Demetillo and environmental science professor Sally Pusede at the University of Virginia, examined more than a decade’s worth of satellite and sensor data that documented atmospheric conditions over two California cities that suffer from ozone pollution.
The final season begins Monday, but “Game of Thrones” and its memorable scenes will have a lasting impact on the broader TV landscape, according to industry experts and fans. Lisa Woolfork, a UVA associate professor of English, said the complexity of the characters was unique and has paved the way for future shows.
“I am a leadership fan. And I’m a principle fan. And I’m a developer-of-young-people fan,” Mendenhall said Wednesday morning, following his team’s eighth spring practice. “Which means, I’m a UVA basketball fan.”
Cairns’ NCAA Championship winner Kody Stattmann feared his University of Virginia were going to fall short of playing off for the national championship. “It was really, really nerve-wracking,” the freshman guard said on RSN Breakfast Club on Melbourne radio on Thursday morning.
Cairns’ NCAA Championship winner Kody Stattmann feared his University of Virginia were going to fall short of playing off for the national championship. “It was really, really nerve-wracking,” the freshman guard said on RSN Breakfast Club on Melbourne radio on Thursday morning.
If Ledecky needed a reminder of what is still possible at her seasoned age, it appeared in the lane next to her Wednesday night. Leah Smith, a 23-year-old University of Virginia product and a two-time Olympic medalist, rode Ledecky’s heels for the entirety of the 16-lap race — actually beating Ledecky over the race’s second half — to post a personal-best 8:16.33.
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility will launch an Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo spacecraft April 17 — and the launch may be visible across the East Coast. ODU students worked with peers from Hampton University, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech to design the satellite, and worked with members of the local aerospace industry as well.
Breadworks is working with Community Consultants of Darden to come up with recommendations on how to turn business around. Five UVA Darden School of Business students are working on the final plan and conducting customer surveys to see what’s working and what can be improved.
Amanda Gibson’s project, “Credit is Due: African Americans as Borrowers and Lenders in Antebellum Virginia,” won her a two-year predoctoral fellowship at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.
“What we’re seeing today in America is that upper middle-class Americans are much more likely to get and stay married compared to less-educated, working-class Americans - that’s the marriage divide in brief,” Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, said.