The State Department released another big batch of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails on Monday night. They don’t appear to contain any shocking policy revelations. Of the 4,368 documents released, 125 included sensitive and possibly classified information, according to State. That information was redacted to keep it from public view. “I wake up to drip, drip, drip ... not water droplets but Clinton emails. And only 25% of undeleted emails have been released," tweeted University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato on Tuesday morning.
University of Virginia student Margaret Lowe died Tuesday, one day after she collapsed while running at Lannigan Field, the university informed students and staff via email. Lowe, a fourth-year student from Nashville, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, the email indicated.
Through innovative technology, those around the world without clean drinking water can now drink clean water by using the Drinkable Book. Dr. Theresa Dankovich, a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, invented the bactericidal paper, pAge, for her PhD at McGill University in Canada. Dankovich went to the University of Virginia for her postdoc research position where she tested the filter papers in the field in South Africa.
Tom Scott, the greatest athlete in the University of Virginia’s history, passed away Monday at the age of 84.
A new theater in Charlottesville is right on track to open up just in time for the upcoming Virginia Film Festival. Organizers have seen a lot of work go into the new space. "I’ve seen a tremendous amount of energy around this in the last month or so," said festival director Jody Kielbasa. "The facade is almost finished inside and I know they're hard at work on the inside to get those seats in and the screens ready."
A massive effort to test the validity of 100 psychology experiments finds that more than 50 percent of the studies fail to replicate. This is based on a new [U.Va.-led] study published in the journal “Science.”
Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia have performed the first focused ultrasound treatments in the United States for dyskinesia associated with Parkinson's disease.
Right now, when you use Wi-Fi to try to figure out what the kids are listening to these days on this newfangled Apple Music (that might just be me), radio waves transmit the data between your computer and router. This often works just fine, but some people require wireless boosters to get the signal in their basements, for example. A team of former graduates from the University of Virginia think it’d be better if we could just connect to the Internet through our light bulbs.
Construction for a new regional firearms training center for Charlottesville and Albemarle Police on Milton Rd. is making progress. Once complete the facility will help train Charlottesville, Albemarle, and University of Virginia Police Officers.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge (BBBS) and Madison House’s Big Siblings Program are forming a new partnership. Student volunteers through Madison House will benefit from training and coordination with the professional staff of BBBS. An independent non-profit organization founded by University of Virginia students in 1969, Madison House coordinates the efforts of more than 3,000 UVA students each year as they volunteer more than 110,000 hours at approximately 170 local sites, partnering with a range of local organizations and agencies.
Downtown D.C. incubator 1776 has officially launched a $12.5 million seed fund to invest in pre-Series A ventures in five highly-regulated sectors that characterize most of 1776’s members: health, education, energy, transportation and “smart cities.” The newly-closed fund’s earliest investments include Philadelphia-based edtech startup ApprenNet, which today announced a $1.8 million round led in part by the University of Virginia’s Jefferson Education Fund.
The University of Virginia Women's Center has selected Farzaneh Milani for its 2015 Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award. She is the chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Culture and is also been the previous director of Women, Gender and Sexuality at UVa.
The University of Virginia Women's Center has selected Farzaneh Milani for its 2015 Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award. She is the chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Culture and is also been the previous director of Women, Gender and Sexuality at UVa.
If you haven't seen the Racial Dot Map, you should probably take a peek. Especially if you're a map nerd. The map was created by Dustin Cable at University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Wired Magazine called it "the most comprehensive representation of racial distribution in America ever made."
President Obama described him as a “hero” who “helped changed this country for the better.” The Rev. Jesse Jackson called him a “leader with strength, character.” NAACP Chairman Roslyn Brock said he “inspired a generation of civil rights leaders.” Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, where he taught history for many years, called him a beloved retired professor who “shaped the course of history through his life and work.”
(By Gerald Warburg, who teaches at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia) Hyper-partisanship and the politics of personal destruction are plagues of our time. So, too, is the pervasive distrust of institutions citizens have built up and looked to for generations.
Sometimes when you think of video games, you may think of kids procrastinating on homework, but the Extra Life Organization is changing the meaning of game play. The organization is doing so with a 24-hour video game marathon to raise money for a good cause. "The great thing about Extra Life and the great thing about the Children's Miracle Network at UVa, is the money that's raised in this area comes straight to UVa Children's Hospital," said Ryan Lightner, Children's Miracle Network Program Coordinator. "What we use Children's Miracle Network dollars fo...
Peer pressure is a number one concern for teens and their parents, yet a new study indicates that close friendships during adolescence could have health benefits that last into early adulthood. "These results indicate that remaining close to -- as opposed to separating oneself -- from the peer pack in adolescence has long-term implications for adult physical health," says co-author Joseph Allen of the University of Virginia. "In this study, it was a robust predictor of increased long-term physical health quality."
In the wake of a report released last week (August 28) in Science, which showed that just 39 percent of 100 studies published in 2008 in the top three psychology journals could be successfully reproduced, researchers are ready to clean up the field’s literature. Study coauthor Brian Nosek, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, told The Verge that the incentive to publish novel findings likely contributes to irreproducible results and discourages attempts to reproduce existing work. “If this occurs on a broad scale,” he said, “then the publish...
Classes began less than a week ago at the University of Virginia, and already two sexual assaults have been reported near Grounds. "It's a well documented unfortunate fact, that the first six weeks are what's known as the red zone," said Nick Favaloro, president of student advocacy group One in Four. One Less and One in Four plan on giving presentations called "Dorm Norms" to first years student in their residence halls. The presentations will teach students how to intervene if they see someone in danger, and what to do in the aftermath of an assault.