Matthew Gerber, a research assistant professor of systems and information engineering at University of Virginia, has researched how tweets by residents in urban areas can be analyzed by computer programs to predict criminal activity.
The enthusiasm for good teaching soared at the Teagle Foundation gathering, but the primacy of publication remains a lead weight tied to graduate students’ feet. For example, a Teagle-financed pedagogy seminar held at the University of Virginia offered students no course credit. It speaks to the character of the graduate students who took it that they participated enthusiastically and made it successful, without any tangible reward. But how much commitment can we expect of graduate students—and faculty members—when we pile extra training in teaching on top of everything they ...
Fusing that steely will with a markedly improved forehand, Danielle Collins — a 20-year-old University of Virginia sophomore — won the NCAA women's tennis singles title Monday, 6-2, 7-5 against California's Lynn Chi in Athens, Ga. Collins, who transferred after an injury-marred freshman year at Florida, became the first Cavalier women's singles champion and first to even reach the quarterfinals.
The University of Virginia will serve as a regional host for the NCAA baseball tournament for the 5th straight year and 8th time overall this weekend.
Josh Bundick always knew he wanted to work outside, so when the time came to decide on a college major, he chose environmental science. The 2003 University of Virginia graduate and Eastern Shore of Virginia native had no idea at the time he would end up working for NASA, which people typically associate with rocket science, not environmental science.
Angela Newnam's undergarments are all-around intelligent: Her company, Knock Out!, combines hardware with software partly by using a technologically advanced textile originally developed for hunting apparel. The cloth itself masks the smell of a hunter's sweat, and in Knock Out's case, the panties absorb odor and wick away moisture. ... It's an innovation that caught the attention — and major support — of Harvard Business School.
Kim "Kylla" Dylla is not your average fashion designer. She's also not your average academic or heavy metal musician, and yet she's all of those things. Dylla makes custom stage and ready-to-wear clothing for musicians and their fans out of her Charlottesville, Virginia, home. ... That was about three years ago, while Dylla was still working in digital humanities at U.Va. creating three-dimensional models for Rome Reborn, an international initiative that uses computer technology to bring the ancient city back to life.
Former retirement system board member and current University of Virginia economics professor Ed Burton voiced skepticism that full funding will ever come to fruition.“It’s a tradition that one group of politicians promises something is going to be done by a future group of politicians … and there’s always a reason they can’t do it,” he said.
Oppenheimer now starts each semester by describing his research on note-taking, and very few students go on to use laptops in his class. Some instructors go even further. University of Virginia history professor James Loeffler banned laptops from his classrooms a few years ago, fed up with how the devices turned even attentive students from big thinkers into transcribers. “My policy stems from my own critical reasoning—precisely what I am trying to teach students—not social science data,” he said by e-mail. But, he added, “It’s nice to have some reinforcemen...
Kyle Kondik, managing editor for Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said endorsements probably don't matter very much. They can be a way for campaigns to get good press, but he said they probably are not meaningful unless they come from someone prominent or someone from the opposite party.
“They certainly know that the Clintons take note and keep score,” said Larry Sabato, a political historian at the University of Virginia. “This is not a couple that easily forgives and forgets. So this is kiss-and-make-up time for most of these people.”
“It’s an oldie but goody,” says Larry Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, noting that Democrats won the Senate back in 1986 in large part on the strength of their promise to protect those programs.
Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, echoed that assessment, saying a black candidate would have a good chance of winning the Democratic nomination with 40-45 percent black voter pool.
They practically write themselves," said Larry Sabato, who heads the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Gillespie's success as a political insider who helped shape public policy in Washington while earning millions as a lobbyist or consultant is indicative of how the political system works in America today, said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political science professor.
"Christie's got far more serious national problems than this," said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia.
By Larry J. Sabato, university professor of politics and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics
There have been 316 post-conviction DNA-based exonerations to date in the United States. University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett studied the first 250 and published his findings in 2011. Among the findings were that 76 percent of the cases involved at least one mistaken witness identification, and 36 percent of the cases involved mistaken IDs from multiple witnesses.
A 2009 study from the University of Virginia also recognized malnutrition as an “enteric infectious disease with long-term effects on child development.” Enteric means intestine-related.
According to recent research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, researchers determined exercise during pregnancy prevented a damaging epigenetic effect of the mother’s obesity, believed to put chemical marks on genes and lead to diabetes in the offspring.