Other scientists, however, worry the public might overlook the possible benefits of carbon sequestration by focusing on the risks. Andres Clarens, an assistant professor of environmental and water resources engineering at the University of Virginia, said he is concerned that Frohlich's study could slow efforts to develop the technology. "Climate change is a well understood and imminent threat, and we are in dire need of strategies for reducing emissions while we scale up carbon-free energy sources," Clarens said.
Charlottesville City Schools has opened the first in what is expected to be a string of lab schools that will put advanced manufacturing technologies in the hands of middle and high school students and serve as a training ground for science teachers. The school, the Buford Engineering Design Academy, is part of a National Science Foundation project being conducted by researchers in the Curry School of Education and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. The project is led by Glen Bull, UVa professor and co-director of the Center for Technology and Teacher ...
Since helium flows better than air, drives filled with the gas experience very little friction, and the arms suffer less turbulence. “If the arm vibrates with even a nanometer amplitude, you’re toast,” says Hossein Haj-Hariri, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who has modeled the fluid dynamics of air and helium in hard drives. “Helium spills over and behind the arm, and the turbulence in helium decays rapidly,” he says.
“It depended on the woman,” said Larry Sabato, author of the just-published bestseller The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination And Lasting Legacy Of John F Kennedy. “He could be gracious and respectful of those with power and influence,” Sabato, the director of the Centre for Politics at the University of Virginia, told AFP. “But JFK had a nearly insatiable sexual appetite - and in our terms today, he treated young and beautiful women as sexual objects.”
“His right-wing positions have become unacceptable in the new … competitive Virginia, and they have pushed many moderate Republicans to publicly or privately back McAuliffe - or to stay neutral,” Larry Sabato, a leading US political analyst based at the University of Virginia, has written on his website, Crystal Ball. “Nationally, the implications will be obvious. If Republicans continue to nominate hard-right candidates, they will probably continue to lose a state once thought to be part of their Electoral College base. “For the Democrats, McAuliffe – one ...
Shige Oishi is a professor at the University of Virginia and is one of the authors of the study. He says while income inequality may impact the happiness of lower- to middle-income earners, those at the top of the income ladder seem to be less affected. “In a time of inequality, many of the top earners do not feel unfairness, whereas most people do. The top earners tend to think that they deserve all the money they earned,” said Oishi.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the announcement could shift some of Michaud’s support from blue-collar voters to college voters. The latter, he said, appear to be in Cutler’s camp. “Exactly what that trade-off is, I don’t know,” Sabato said. “This is less and less of a shock for people. And college students will feel pressure to support the gay candidate.”
“To a certain degree I do think that the voter population as a whole is, if you look at polling, just even nationally, is economically a little more conservative, but socially a little liberal,” said Geoff Skelley, political scientist with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “That seems to be kind of the way things are going. From that perspective, I would think that kind of platform going forward could be a winning one with the right candidate,” Skelley said.
It’s Friday night, and Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den in this West Australian city is packed. Among the lineup of performers is Sami Shah, late of Karachi, Pakistan.
(Essay) We all complain about our weak students – their slacking off during group work; their bizarre inability to comprehend simple directions; their disorganization; their need to tell us how smart they really are, despite appearances; the way they sometimes put their heads down on their desks. Imagine my dismay when I enrolled in summer school and found myself exhibiting most of those behaviors. This past summer, I enrolled in the University of Virginia's Summer Language Institute.
(Commentary) At the University of Virginia, there was a 33 percent decrease in binge drinking, an 81 percent decline in drinking and driving, and a 76 percent drop in alcohol-related injuries over the decade that ended in 2010. In 1999, administrators, working with students, launched a high-profile marketing campaign that features ads – often in dormitory bathroom stalls — such as one proclaiming: “86% of UVA students usually intervene to stop friends from drinking and driving.”
Testimony by Dr. Teresa Gray, a toxicologist at the University of Virginia Medical Center, put Cruz’s blood-alcohol content at .264 almost two hours after the 6:25 p.m. crash. That is more than three times the legal limit of .08.
"The last thing the mainstream conservatives in the House GOP caucus want to see is yet another reinforcement arriving on Capitol Hill for the tea party faction," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "Business has clearly decided to fight back lest the GOP fall further behind, and many of the GOP congressmen backing Byrne are allies of business."
The University of Virginia Center for Politics is giving students a chance to become youth ambassadors to Argentina and Chile. Through the Global Perspectives on Democracy program, the center has hosted students from other countries in the past, and now they get to send students from Charlottesville abroad.
The University of Virginia is encouraging its employees to use the Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign (CVC) to support their favorite charities. President Teresa Sullivan declared Friday CVC Day to jumpstart the effort.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics is predicting Democrats will do very well in the three major state races on Election Day.
(By Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat, assistant professor of business administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, based on a case study prepared by Allison Elias, research associate at Darden’s Institute for Business in Society; Tim Kraft, assistant professor of business administration at the Darden School and Gal Raz, associate professor of business administration at the Darden School.) The big idea: Many companies employ a phased approach to product development, aiming to reduce uncertainty by noting potential issues with a product early on. In this way, less favorab...
University of Virginia Law professor Douglas Laycock, an expert on the Constitution's religion clauses, will argue for Galloway. He says a town's residents must sometimes must go to a board meeting because they need a permit or have other business. If the court rules for the town of Greece, government officials would be free to "press prayers on a captive audience," he said, "even those that promise eternal hellfire to religious minorities."
This early in the election cycle, a poll does not reflect how voters will cast their ballots on Election Day, said Kyle Kondik, a University of Virginia political analyst. “(The elections are) so far away it’s kind of hard to determine who’s actually going to vote.”
Just two of eight area races are contested in the state House of Delegates. All 100 House seats are up this year. In 43 of those contests, there are two major party candidates, said Geoff Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “This number has fluctuated quite a bit since 1995, from a high of 67 in 1995 to just 27 in 2011,” Skelley said in an email. “But over the 1995 to 2013 period, the average number of Republican versus Democrat contests is about 43, so this year is actually right on par.”