Twenty-three days after graduating from the University of Virginia, a group of young entrepreneurs is now flourishing as restaurant owners and operators in Charlottesville.Alberto Namnum, Alvaro Anspach and their business partners had to do some research before starting Roots Natural Kitchen, the Corner's newest restaurant.
“This will be amazing,” said Byungkyu Brian Park, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Center for Transportation Studies. “Right now the sensors aren’t two-way, and get used for things like toll tags, but soon you’ll be approaching an intersection and the car will know how long a light will be green.”
The companies, working with the University of Virginia School of Engineering, have run tests that they say demonstrate how it is relatively easy to hack into such systems and disrupt critical functions such as braking and accelerating.
As reported by CBS News, a team of researchers at the University of Maryland, University of Virginia, and the California Institute of Technology has discovered that the most recently found ring of Saturn, the Phoebe ring, is the biggest ring in the solar system. Image from NASA’s WISE spacecraft revealed the ring in its totality for the first time.
The study, which will be done in part by the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia, is part of a larger effort by the county to develop a strategic plan that helps strengthen local farms and promote agritourism.
Fluvanna County, as distinguished from the area served by the Lake Monticello Volunteer Rescue Squad, did not have adequate rescue coverage. Because of the seriousness of the situation, supervisors voted to hire a second contract crew from the University of Virginia (U.Va.) to cover night as well as day shift.
The University of Virginia’s software mapped the working relationship between 1,250,000 actors and actresses, and found the most connected person at the “centre of the Hollywood Universe” was Lee.
"For the first time ever, we have the ring image in its entirety," said University of Maryland's Douglas Hamilton, who along with University ofVirginia's Michael Skrutskie and Anne Verbiscer discovered the ring. CalTech's Frank Masci contributed to the latest Nature paper.
The spread of hysteria is described in a new book, "Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692" by Benjamin Ray, a religious studies professor at the University of Virginia.
Caitlin Flanagan, a senior at Rockbridge Academy, was awarded the Jefferson Scholarship by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia.
Two of the seats Republicans are defending, in Illinois and Wisconsin, will be particularly tough to hang on to. Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics ranks the former race – where first-termer Mark Kirk hopes to retain a seat he narrowly won in 2010 – as a tossup.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, joked that Rubio's now got "a new slogan. He's just like you -- right down to the flaws. There are millions of Americans," Sabato noted, "who don't have trust funds and who struggle as we have and who've made some mistakes on the road."
By Dorrie K. Fontaine, dean of the U.Va. School of Nursing, associate professor Kathryn Laughon and professor Linda BullockIt has been a dramatic, emotional year on the University of Virginia’s Grounds. As facts emerge in these months after the controversial Rolling Stone article (Erdely, 2014) published in late 2014 and then retracted in April 2015, it remains that there are no clean, easy, gold-standard answers in the fight against sexual and other forms of gender violence on campus—a problem that affects every American college and university. As the University of Virginia contin...
A study comparing federal government surveys of kindergarten teachers in 1998 and 2010 by researchers at the University of Virginia found that the proportion of teachers who said their students had daily art and music dropped drastically. Those who reported teaching spelling, the writing of complete sentences and basic math equations every day jumped.
Four University of Virginia Children's Hospital specialties have earned national rankings in the 2015-2016 U.S. News & World Report “Best Children's Hospitals” guide. The four ranked specialties are Pulmonology – 37th; Urology – 41st; Orthopedics – 47th; Neonatology – 50th.
What’s amazing about Bruce Holsinger’s “The Invention of Fire” is how authentic the novel feels, as if Holsinger used a time machine to investigate the dirt, violence and fear of England in 1386. In reality, he’s a professor specializing in Medieval Critical Theory at the University of Virginia with a scholar’s attention to historical detail.
A project out of the University of Virginia called The Papers of George Washington also confirms that the first president’s natural hair color was light brown.
New Canaan High School senior Ted O'Rourke was recently named a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia, according to a press release.
The University Singers set out for Europe on May 18 for an 11-day trip that took about 90 vocalists to Cambridge and London in England; Krakow, Poland; Brno, Czech Republic; and Vienna, Austria.
“Part of it is Americans connect the presidency with other executive jobs – governor, cabinet secretary, supreme allied commander in World War II,” said Larry Sabato, who directs the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Senators are vulnerable because they have to vote on so many things. Governors don’t have to vote, they make executive decisions.”