The Virginia women’s rowing team won a NCAA title in the Varsity Four on Sunday. It is the fifth time the Cavaliers have won the event and the ninth UVa boat to claim a national championship.
Hackers pose a real danger to self-driving vehicles, US experts have warned. Technologies like sensors, cameras, radar and the computer software that interprets the data could end up leave vehicles vulnerable to hacker strikes, according to US security firms Mission Secure Inc and Perrone Robotics Inc. According to these experts, hackers penetrate the system through wireless connections. The two security companies, working with the University of Virginia and the Pentagon, have run tests that have shown they believe it is possible to hack into and disrupt the multi-sensor system of self driving...
A May 2015 conference brought together experts and participants from across the U.S. to discuss the role of academic engagement in public and political discourse. In an opening discussion between the presidents of the University of Michigan, University of Virginia, Dartmouth College and Arizona State University, it was clear that, while there was general agreement on the importance of academic engagement, individual institutions had markedly different challenges and approaches to its practice. University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan spiced up the conversation by pointing out that...
The University of Virginia Morven Summer Institute (MSI) is partnering with Whole Foods to help students pay for spots in the summer program. MSI allows UVA students to put their classroom knowledge to the test. Students participate in a 10-day interdisciplinary summer program, studying fields like sustainability, design, food systems and ecology.
Google has proven once again that it is the king of online marketing with paid search marketing campaigns. Their latest innovation is called “Call-Only Campaigns”, a new type of ad which focus solely on mobile users. According to a study conducted in the United States by a group of marketers led by scientists from the University of Virginia, over 70% of mobile users call a company directly from search results, while around 29% call it after finding a phone number on the website.
I first saw the latter image on the Twitter feed of Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. Wilcox does a lot of work studying what’s going wrong in our society and how to help men and women and families flourish. I asked him for his reaction to the cover, and he said: “Around much of the world, we’re seeing working-class men disconnected from the key institutions that give their lives meaning, purpose, and money — work, civil society, and marriage.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of the Senate’s most experienced defense hawks, has one motivating factor behind his long-shot candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination: It’s a dangerous world out there, and he wants to do something about it. “I have a theory about Lindsey Graham … I think he’s basically running to be the anti-Rand Paul,” says Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics in Charlottesville. “Graham wants to make sure that Paul’s ideas are snuffed out.”
Here’s a simple question with a complicated answer: Why is leadership so hard? Also: What, exactly, is leadership? And how is it different from mere management? Allan Stam, dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, boils it down to this: “Leadership is the art of getting things done.”
A state task force released a list of 21 recommendations Thursday aimed at combating sexual assault on college campuses, a set of policy proposals Gov. Terry McAuliffe said would help make Virginia a “national leader” on the issue. McAuliffe established the task force in August, but it took on added urgency due to the subsequent slaying of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham and publication of a sensational article in Rolling Stone about an alleged gang-rape at UVa.
Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) announced a new state plan to combat campus sexual assault Thursday, an approach that includes proposals to improve prevention education, track the extent of sexual violence, minimize barriers to reporting incidents and coordinate response from colleges and law enforcement. The task force, which Herring chaired, includes students, law enforcement officials and higher education leaders. Among them were Angel Cabrera, president of George Mason University; Allen Groves, dean of students at the University of Virginia; and Christopher Ndiritu, student b...
Once again, California's Silicon Valley is confirming its status as a mecca of high-tech entrepreneurship and wealth creation. But it is not a model for job creation and inclusive growth that policymakers and entrepreneurs elsewhere can emulate - at least not without making some fundamental adjustments. The University of Virginia's Miller Centre recently created a commission to identify strategies to support the creation of middle-class jobs through entrepreneurship. The ideas proposed in the commission's report include providing training and mentors for prospective entrepreneurs a...
Former New York Governor George Pataki is the latest Republican to join the race for the White House. In all there are 15 declared or likely GOP contenders. Why so many? Political observers say one reason is money. A lot of the Republicans who've run in the past cashed in afterward. "They could get TV contracts. they could get a book contract. They can increase their speaking fees," notes Larry Sabato, Directo of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
A swingers club in Nashville has skirted angry neighbors and a hostile zoning board by turning itself into a church. Eventually, the United Fellowship Center “will be called upon to prove they’re religious based on common-sense criteria,” said Kathleen Flake, a religious studies professor at University of Virginia. “I think they’re just having some fun at the public’s expense,” she explained to The Ledger.
You may have had leg cramps before, but it's unlikely you've had one this bad. Check out this guy's unbelievable, skin-crawling cramp. His leg muscle undergoes some extreme contraction, and makes his calf look like a deflated football. As he stretches his foot, his skin appears to bubble. But, "there are no worms here," Mark D. Miller, head of University of Virginia's Sports Medicine division, told Business Insider in an email. "The muscles violently contract and spasm giving the impression of bubbling. The skin itself just reflects the action of the underlying m...
The project is called Teachers in the Movement and it is led by Derrick P. Alridge, a professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. Dr. Alridge hopes to record 200 interviews of teachers by the end of 2016.
Pediatrics experts gathered at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital Thursday to discuss obesity and other problems that face youngsters. Research shows more and more kids in the U.S. are growing in ways they really shouldn't, leading to long-term effects on their health.
The governor’s task force on college campus sexual assault will release its recommendations Thursday, which Gov. Terry McAuliffe said will include suggestions for legislation and executive actions designed to further protect students. Lawmakers addressed the issue during this year’s General Assembly session following a series of incidents on college campuses and in response to a now-discredited Rolling Stone magazine story detailing an alleged gang rape of a University of Virginia student.
It's part of the lab's Incubator Program that teaches people how to turn a business idea into an actual business. The iLab is part of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
Students with the University of Virginia and Charlottesville entrepreneurs are building new businesses from the ground up over the next 10 weeks. Twenty-three groups are participating in the university's i.Lab Incubator Summer Accelerator, which gives them $5,000 to develop their business ventures over the next few months. The groups made their 1-minute pitches on Wednesday, the first day of the session.
University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have unraveled the mystery of a strange virus in the hopes of creating more effective tools in the war against human disease. The secret weapon this virus may offer? "Armor" for disease-fighting DNA courtesy of the SIRV2 virus, who calls acid at almost boiling temperatures home.