A team of engineers from UVA and the University of Texas at Austin developed a first-of-its-kind light-detecting device that rapidly amplifies weak signals bouncing off of faraway objects. In doing so, it could massively improve the vision of self-driving cars, robots and digital mapping technologies.
She came into town the same weekend that Nazis marched in downtown Charlottesville; helped the Cavalier football team beat Virginia Tech on its way to the Orange Bowl; took her third-year finals from her childhood bedroom; and won high honors in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. No doubt about it, Catherine Barton made the best of her four years at UVA.
Amadita Singh was born in Nepal and came to the U.S. in 9th grade. It was a struggle to adjust at first, but things have gotten better. Now, she’s graduating in the top 10 of her class and heading to the University of Virginia.
Rubio won’t be easy to beat. The two-term Senator has considerable sway with the state’s influential Latino population, which tilted Republican in the last election. “Part of the problem is erosion for Democrats in some places that are heavily Latino,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Rubio is not the kind of candidate who you would expect that would struggle with Latino voters,” he said. “Whether it’s Demings or somebody else, how are they going to assemble the kind of coalition you need to beat Rubio?”
(Audio) More than 100 million people worldwide have interacted with COVID-19 misinformation since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a new study in PLOS One. We speak to Professor David Nemer, from the University of Virginia, to explain the impact of social media misinformation in Brazil. WhatsApp’s No. 1 market.
(Video) A new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research study shows 34% of people who remain unvaccinated say they definitely will not get the COVID-19 shot. So how do we increase the vaccination rates? Dr. Ebony Hilton, a practicing physician and professor at the University of Virginia, joined Richard to answer that question.
“It has to be on an honor system at this point,” UVA law professor Margaret Riley said. She said it was unlikely that businesses would require proof of vaccination, especially while COVID-19 vaccines only have emergency use authorization. However, she said that businesses were within their rights to ask customers and employees to wear masks if exemptions were offered.
Naomi Cahn, a legal expert in reproductive technology at the University of Virginia, said the Supreme Court’s decision on the Mississippi case could be a turning point for reproductive rights. “We are all guessing, but we certainly think that the impact could be quite critical for the future of Roe v. Wade,” Cahn said. … Lois Shepherd, a UVA law professor, said Virginia and other states also have been cutting back on some requirements such as eliminating an ultrasound requirement and a waiting period before an abortion. “You are seeing more of a polarization in the states with how liberal or c...
UVA Dean of Students Allen Groves says although he is leaving Charlottesville in a few weeks, he’s not entirely done with the city.
The event also celebrated the upcoming return of a further 17 items belonging to a number of Indigenous nations, which are being held at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia in the United States. The collection is the only museum outside Australia dedicated to the exhibition and study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. “They’ve been very proactive about returning, particularly restricted items that largely just sit in storage, to the community,” Craig Ritchie, CEO of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, sai...
Demand for electricity is likely to balloon in Virginia over the next three decades as data centers flock to the state and electric vehicles increasingly replace traditional ones, a forecast from the University of Virginia’s Energy Transition Initiative recently found.
Researchers at the UVA Cancer Center just released a discovery that could boost treatment efforts for prostate cancer. The findings focus on how hormones called androgens act on our cells. It sheds light on how these hormones interact inside the cell affecting gene activity.
Adventures of Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian with daughter Olympia have won many hearts on social media. From making pancakes together to playing soccer and having conversations about the current investment market, the father-daughter duo continues to rock the internet. Recently, the three-year-old Olympia crashed her father’s commencement speech for the University of Virginia. Although Ohanian Sr. called it an unexpected help, it was not the first time her daughter sorted him out.
The University of Virginia’s School of Architecture recently announced that Malo André Hutson will take the helm as the school’s new dean.
Malo A. Hutson, a Columbia University professor and expert in community development, environmental justice and urban health, will take over as dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
Charlie Spivey is putting his UVA chemistry degree to good use, pairing some of what he learned with a passion for sustainability to create Homesteader, a gluten-free, carbon-neutral vodka that’s now available at select Lowcountry bars, restaurants and liquor stores.
In the 1910s, private car owners began picking up strangers in their horseless carriages and charging a small fee to transport them on their way, giving rise to the “jitney.” Street railway companies mounted furious opposition to these new competitors. “The jitney took all the high-profit, high-density trips, leaving the low-density, low-profit trips for the railways,” says Peter Norton, a UVA history professor who focuses on transportation.
According to UVA economist Leora Friedberg, “there are many factors” contributing to the labor shortage. Friedberg points to the range of health risks service workers must consider before taking on a job. “Some of it is related to government payments, but that part of it is largely going to be temporary,” she says. Friedberg also says child care is a big factor keeping people from returning to work.
A political consultant who now calls Chesapeake home will be back on “Jeopardy!” Tuesday night. Karen Farrell moved to Hampton Roads last year with her husband, Dan, a Navy judge advocate general. Karen Farrell, a Maryland native and Princeton graduate with a doctorate in foreign affairs from UVA, had her first run on the show last year while living in northern Virginia.
Sasheer Zamata’s having a blast playing Denise in “Home Economics,” a fresh representation of “social class” lived by millennials, who audiences don’t normally see portrayed on network television. “Home Economics” is about three adult siblings with diverse incomes living in San Francisco. BGN recently spoke with Zamata, a UVA alumna, via Zoom about her new role and the power of comedy to create social change.