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These little kids have a lot of energy at 7 a.m.!” exclaimed third-year University of Virginia student Rachel Moore.Moore is one of dozens of UVA students helping Charlottesville elementary school children walk to school safely because of…

The scientific consensus is that the Earth is heating with the continued addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. But predicting how much the temperature will increase in the future, and how quickly, has been an inexact science.A…

Many neurodegenerative diseases, or conditions that result from the loss of function or death of brain cells, remain largely untreatable. Most available treatments target just one of the multiple processes that can lead to…

Two University of Virginia faculty members, Mool Gupta and John Hossack, have been named to the National Academy of Inventors.Gupta, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, currently serves as a Langley Distinguished…

The University of Virginia Board of Visitors’ Buildings and Grounds Committee reviewed plans and preliminary drawings Thursday for the future home of the Karsh Institute of Democracy, a 65,000-square-foot facility, the project that was…

Asurprising discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has torpedoed a key principle used in the development of new drugs to treat diseases – a finding that, somewhat ironically, could speed the drug-development process…

Facial recognition can identify people in a crowd. Can the same be done for fish in a river with “fish-ial” recognition software?University of Virginia data scientist Sheng Li is determined to find out.In collaboration with the U.S.…

UVA Health researchers have developed an important new tool to help scientists sort signal from noise as they probe the genetic causes of cancer and other diseases. The tool also could help improve cancer diagnosis by making it easier for…

This year is going to be different. That’s what student organizers are saying about the University of Virginia’s 2022 Lighting of the Lawn.The event was born out of tragedy 21 years ago following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and is…

The University of Virginia, in collaboration with Nerds Without Borders, reported some egg-citing news Wednesday in the scientific journal PLOS One.Nerds – a collection of volunteer engineers using off-the-shelf technology – created a…