It should feel safe to assume that the average computer science graduate from Stanford University would ace a coding proficiency test. But Stanford CS grads don’t even make the top 10 list for high scorers on the General Coding Assessment, the test designed by CodeSignal and given to software applicants at most major tech companies. Ranked ahead of Stanford (at slot 13 on this year’s CodeSignal list) are schools like the University of Virginia (1) and Swarthmore College (10).
According to Dr. Bill Petri at UVA Health, monkeypox can spread through respiratory droplets, but there’s no need to fear it because it’s not like COVID. “There’s no risk of this becoming a pandemic,” said Petri.
The University of Virginia says its newest professor is one of the world’s most noted authorities on the Holocaust. Victoria Barnett will be joining the College of Arts & Sciences and bringing with her an expert’s perspective on the Holocaust. This is a part of the University’s rotating role as the Frank Talbott Jr. Endowed Visiting Professor.
(Subscription may be required) Former UVA standouts Heath Miller and Herman Moore are on the 2023 ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation announced Monday.
(Subscription may be required) Three University of Virginia graduates who set off on a 250-mile canoe adventure to get better acquainted with the James River came away with enough discoveries to fill a documentary feature. Justin Black, Will Gemma and Dietrich Teschner directed “Headwaters Down: Thirteen Days on the James River: An Environmental Adventure Documentary,” which will be screened at a red-carpet event Wednesday at the Richmond International Film Festival.
A more traditional vaccine than some of the others, it might encourage some vaccine holdouts to get the shots, experts said. “There’s a lot of reasons that are not scientifically based for not having taken the vaccine (yet),” said Vivian Riefberg, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business. “This may convince some people because it’s traditional technology.”
Understanding the court’s reasoning first requires taking a look at the statute, said Lawrence B. Solum, UVA’s William L. Matheson and Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law. “On the surface, ‘bees are fish’ looks absurd,” he said, laughing. “Because no one thinks bees are fish. But that’s not what the court is saying.”
Dr. Amalia Miller, professor of economics and graduate studies director at the University of Virginia, notes that “behavior that for boys is socially rewarded doesn’t fit well with good student behavior.”
(Subscription may be required) Dr. William A. Petri, a UVA Health physician-researcher who has answered dozens of your COVID-19 questions this year, tested positive for the virus this week. We asked him, when he felt better, to share his experience with readers.
In Ghana’s Northern Region, families obtain water by taking buckets to the local water source and back home. That water source, however, has been contaminated with human and animal waste. In 2008, Kate Cincotta founded the non-profit Saha Global, for which she is now executive director and helps women learn to treat and sell clean, affordable water to their community. Cincotta developed an interest in international development at UVA, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering and engineering business.
Experts say the inclusion of the Taiwanese flag in “Top Gun: Maverick” may suggest a shift in Hollywood away from its culture of deference to China’s red lines. “There have been several recent instances of big-budget U.S. films not getting into the Chinese market. Studios are aware of this and are making business decisions,” said Aynne Kokas, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and author of “Hollywood Made in China.”
(Subscription may be required) The next two years will be busy for the University of Virginia as a suite of construction projects wrap up, according to an update to the Board of Visitors on Thursday. “We’re going to be doing a lot of ribbon cuttings,” said Colette Sheehy, senior vice president for operations at UVA.
The man who led the UAE’s mission to Mars, Omran Sharaf, has been elected as the director of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Sharaf earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 2005.
The UVA Cancer Center is giving nonprofits and other groups across Virginia grants of up to $10,000 to support projects that address cancer education, prevention, and detection.
(Editorial; subscription may be required) UVA law professor Richard Bonnie is part of a group that looks for the reasonable compromise in the gun safety debate. “What keeps you going is the hope that you can find a middle ground to make some steps forward,” Bonnie said a few days after an 18-year-old used an AR-15 assault rifle to slaughter 19 fourth-graders and two adults in a Texas elementary school.
Four years ago, Allison Louise Elias, a gender historian and assistant professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, learned that in the 1950s, women were welcomed into business schools as the wives of businessmen enrolled in then-new executive business programs – short, intensive courses for men aspiring to leadership positions. Think of it like a “finishing school” for executive wives, says Elias.
Danielle Collins graduated from UVA in 2016 with a degree in media studies. But what she really needed as she embarked on a career in professional tennis was a better understanding of money. Today, she is a Top 10 player and a powerful advocate for financial literacy.
A project brought to the University of Virginia by three members of the women’s soccer team – Rebecca Jarrett, Lacey McCormack, and Laughlin Ryan – hopes to shape a new narrative for student-athletes. Founded last year, UNCUT at UVA is a storytelling platform that seeks to highlight the humanity of student-athletes – beyond their jerseys and competition statistics.
(Subscription may be required) For more than 30 years, Julie Bargmann, a landscape architect, founder of D.I.R.T. Studio (Dump It Right There) and a UVA professor of landscape architecture, has focused on contaminated and forgotten urban and postindustrial sites, dedicating her practice to addressing social and environmental justice.
Virginia’s COVID-19 cases keep climbing. Just one metric from the Virginia Department of Health and the UVA Biocomplexity Institute shows every health district in the commonwealth is in the middle of a “growth” or “surge” trajectory.