UVA’s School of Engineering is planning to launch a training program for graduate students to study cybersecurity and Internet of Things. The program, which is funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, will operate out of the engineering school’s Link Lab, which promotes the study of cyber-physical systems through a cohort of multi-disciplinary professor- and researcher-led projects.
But “use of capital punishment is declining in America,” the University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett and co-author Ankur Desai wrote in a recent study. “Death sentencing has fallen to a modern low and executions are increasingly rare.”
Roy Wagner, 79, of Charlottesville, died Sept. 10 at his home. He taught at Southern Illinois University and Northwestern University before accepting the chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he taught for 44 years until his passing.
“What the study indicates really clearly is that if kids go to public school or private school, they end up in about the same place – once you consider their family income and background. That is crystal clear,” said author Robert Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development.
UVA’s observance of Constitution Day featured a more controversial discussion than in years past. Panelists looked at how the centuries-old document is still impacting law enforcement throughout communities in the present day.
UVA’s observance of Constitution Day featured a more controversial discussion than in years past. Panelists looked at how the centuries-old document is still impacting law enforcement throughout communities in the present day.
(Commentary by UVA Law professor Ashley Deeks) Chinese human rights practices are in the news again. The White House is reportedly weighing sanctions against Chinese officials and companies that are engaged in or facilitating the mass surveillance and detention of Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
For the 2017-18 flu season, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed only three antiviral drugs for treating flu. Unlike those treatments, the compound baloxavir inhibits the virus’s machinery for making genetic information that it needs to replicate itself. Frederick Hayden at the UVA School of Medicine and his colleagues performed two clinical trials of baloxavir in people with flu.
In the year since a white supremacist torch-lit march at the University of Virginia, new security cameras sprouted up around Grounds. It appears they are here to stay.
UVA has launched an interdisciplinary effort to examine changes and challenges affecting democracy around the world. The Democracy Initiative, led by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Miller Center of Public Affairs, will be supported by $12.9 million in gifts, as well as $10 million in matching funds from UVA’s strategic investment fund.
UVA-Wise Professor Ryan Huish’s local flora class made an interesting discovery as they worked to identify the weeds that sprouted in planters outside the Sandridge Science Center. “On our first lab session for the local flora class, they were introduced to the basic concepts of how to identify a plant to family, genus and species,” Huish explained. “This was the first plant they practiced on, and after about 20 minutes, the identification key took them right to it: Giant Bindweed or Calystegia silvatica ssp. Fraterniflora.”
People in Charlottesville are learning the history and significance of Indian classical music. A UVA student organization, the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth, hosted world-renowned signer Kaushiki Chakraborty.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine’s talk was one of the first events held as part of the Miller Center’s new Democracy Initiative, which aims to engage a wide audience in examining and discussing the issues and challenges confronting today’s democracies.
Regardless of what city they live in, what kind of house they call home or how integrated their neighborhood, black renters can be fairly certain they'll pay more than white renters for identical housing, according to a new study from UVA economist Edgar Olsen and colleagues.
UVA demographer Hamilton Lombard says median household incomes are now above $70,000 for the first time. “It’s also just in the last year we’ve finally gotten past the all-time high for Virginia, which was actually back in 1999 during the dot-com boom.”
Mira Debs, the executive director of the Education Studies Program at Yale University, agreed about the magnitude of the contribution. “It’s exciting to see a significant amount of funding being put toward these efforts,” she said. Debs cited a 2017 study by the University of Virginia professor of psychology Angeline Lillard that found Montessori to be effective in closing the income achievement gap.
After 31 primaries had been completed by July, a Pew study found that Democratic participation came close to doubling that of 2014, rising from 7.4 million to 13.6 million. Republican turnout grew but more modestly, from 8.6 million to 10.7 million. Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, cautioned that while primary turnout is not necessarily predictive of general election turnout, the trend is clear when taken with other data, like fundraising, polling and even hiring on K Street, the Washington home to many lobby firms, which are rapidly recruiting Democrats in anticipation of...
After 31 primaries had been completed by July, a Pew study found that Democratic participation came close to doubling that of 2014, rising from 7.4 million to 13.6 million. Republican turnout grew but more modestly, from 8.6 million to 10.7 million. Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, cautioned that while primary turnout is not necessarily predictive of general election turnout, the trend is clear when taken with other data, like fundraising, polling and even hiring on K Street, the Washington home to many lobby firms, which are rapidly recruiting Democrats in anticipation of...
New research presented at the 12th Biennial Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium held September 13–15 in Seattle advances toward a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying why most patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) develop resistance to poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors, with the aim to eventually find ways to identify patients most likely to overcome resistance and respond to PARP inhibitors. “There are many challenges to studying chemoresistance, and this work addresses a couple of them,” said Charles “Chip” Landen, MD, associate professor of gynecolog...
Pennsylvania and New Jersey are flush with just those kind of affluent, highly educated suburban areas, and are therefore two of the most critical states to control of the House, along with California, said Kyle Kondik, who analyzes House races at the University of Virginia. "If Democrats get a majority in the House, it's mainly going to come from those places," said Larry Sabato, another UVA analyst.