Within a decade, we could be using much more energy-efficient refrigerators than what we have today as researchers have now identified a new "universal" property of metamagnets, unleashing its potential applications for several items of everyday use.
Researchers at the University of Virginia found that kids who had the confidence to stand up to their parents and argue their point of view were more likely to resist peer pressure. Even when it seems that your child isn’t listening, keep calm and stay focused on the issue at hand rather than getting distracted by attitude.
The crime-mapping technology, which uses Twitter to predict possible future crime, was developed by Dr. Matthew Greber, a researcher at the University of Virginia. The system relies on contextual understanding of where crimes are likely to occur. “We might observe people talking about going out, getting drunk, going to bars, sporting events, and so on — we know that these sort of events correlate with crime, and that’s what the models are picking up on,” Dr. Greber told Motherboard.
Up to half of heart failure (HF) patients do not respond to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), and new research from the University of Virginia (UVA) Health System explains why HR patients either do or do not respond. Furthermore, the research identified which patients would benefit from CRT, allowing physicians to create a map of a patient’s heart to guide the installation of a CRT pacemaker-defibrillator for the best outcome. UVA researchers, led by Kenneth C. Bilchick, MD, said many of the patients in whom CRT fails have cardiac dysfunction from previous heart attacks.
Glen Bull, a professor of STEM Education at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, agreed that while the urge to create endures, the tools available to students have changed. He said that the current maker movement "is buttressed by accessible technology, both in terms of cost and ease of use. You can go all the way back to the 1950s and find that they had numerically controlled milling machines, but they were expensive. Now you can get reasonably priced 3D printers and computers."
Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist from the University of Virginia, said he diagnosed Robinson with malingering, which he described as “the fabrication of symptoms either to obtain pleasure or avoid pain.”
Graham’s race is so far not as competitive as some had predicted, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “For years, the tea party and others have been vowing to take down Sen. Graham,” Sabato said.
More than $2.6 billion will be spent on political advertising this year according to an estimate from Moody’s. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, is tuned in and trying to figure out how these ads will impact us.
Scientists studying climate change have focused on greenhouse gases – how we can produce less or maybe remove some of what’s already in the atmosphere, but a team at the University of Virginia will take a different approach. Eleven people from eight different fields – including business, law, anthropology and engineering – will look at how we use land as part of a massive mapping and modeling project for planet Earth. Deborah Lawrence is professor of environmental sciences at UVA. Working with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and colleagues from China ...
The overwhelming first choice is for the university to hold two ceremonies on the lawn on two separate days.
In the few years following The Great Recession, a master's in business administration (MBA) was the last degree on anyone's mind. But in 2013, after three years of double-digit decline, the MBA's popularity began to return, and many of the country's highest ranked business schools noticed a boost in application volume. The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University saw a 12 percent increase in applications to its full-time MBA program, while the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business reported an increase of 11 percent. In its recovery, however, ...
David Evans is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia and joins Les Sinclair to talk about the latest computer security threats in Internet Explorer.
A degree from a respectable law school used to all but guarantee you a job, but in today’s post-recession market, that’s no longer the case: According to statistics from the American Bar Association, only 56 percent of 2012 law school grads landed in full-time positions requiring bar passage. UVA’s School of Law, however, is sitting pretty when it comes to job placement stats. When U.S. News and World Report released its law school rankings last spring—a list that carries serious weight—it revealed UVA had an employed-at-graduation rate of 97 percent, higher ...
Driverless cars simply do not have enough miles logged to provide reliable statistics about their safety just yet, especially in navigating the complexities of urban driving; most of Google's tests to date have been on highways. This complaint has been voiced by Noah Goodall, a scientist from the University of Virginia, in a recent study, in which he calculated that at least quadruple the data collected so far is required to demonstrate comfortably that these vehicles are truly safer.
After all the effort nationwide to eliminate hazing, the news that two University of Virginia fraternities are losing their charters for exactly that reason is disheartening. One of the fraternities has a history of lapses, but also the distinction of being one of two fraternities founded at the university. The second was founded at another commonwealth school, the Virginia Military Institute — in a deliberate effort tocounteract hazing. ... Despite years of effort toward eliminating hazing by colleges and universities across the country, the perilous tradition persists. ... Of cour...
Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Atkins, representing the U.S. Air Force as a National Security Affairs Fellow in 2013–14, is known at Hoover as a funny guy. But in this interview, Atkins showed a different, more serious side. We can only suppose that the humor and gravity dichotomy are necessary qualities of an intelligence officer and man hunter. Atkins earned his undergraduate degree in economics and Russian from the University of Virginia.
The research records of climate scientist Michael Mann are exempt from disclosure under Virginia's Freedom of Information Act, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled April 17. The court relied in particular on the affidavits of scholars, quoting the vice president and provost of the University of Virginia at length, who argued that requiring release of the requested documents in this situation would chill the desire of academics to work for and with the university.
The Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corporation today announced that $1.25 million in grants have been awarded to four collaborative bioscience commercialization projects between Virginia's research universities and private companies. These awards are being matched dollar for dollar by federal grants and/or direct industry contribution, creating a cumulative $2.5 million investment. Three of the four projects, worth roughly $1.7 million, included U.Va. as a research partner with, respectively, Hemoshear, Tau Therapeutics and FirstString Research.
The recommendations stem from three months' work by the task force that was formed earlier this year, in response to widespread dissatisfaction with the way college campuses handle cases of sexual assault. A unique February conference on the issue hosted by the University of Virginia was filled to capacity by college presidents and others.
“The GOP could potentially win the Senate in November, but the party could hurt its chances if primary voters make poor decisions in some upcoming primaries,” said Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Several states with Senate contests in May feature some classic insider-outsider matchups, and national Republicans are hoping the insider/establishment candidates get the nominations.”