Math professor Ken Ono, who has dabbled in film and television over the years, spent two days in New Jersey to answer the profound question: Is 64 less than 80?
Could climate change quicken the pace of evolution? Scientists still don’t fully understand the impact of the environment on the evolutionary process, but NSF CAREER award winner Alan Bergland’s work with regional gardeners and the common fruit fly may be the key.
UVA's third annual Research Achievement Awards honored faculty pursuing research in areas that range from nanocrystals to international law to muscle signaling, and included 21 honorees from Arts & Sciences.
Pandemic, war and environmental disaster push scientists to deliver quick answers. A UVA sociologist recently investigated how researchers maintain rigorous standards in difficult situations.
In the popular course “How Things Work,” physics professor Chris Neu has developed “Physics Idol!,” a new method for students to demonstrate their learning, modeled after the popular performance competition TV show, “American Idol.”
Art history major Ansleigh Graeff focuses on the 1980s to champion the work of three female painters whose work she thinks was overlooked by the art world.
Industrial production of petroleum-based products introduces massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Chemist Brent Gunnoe’s research could make those processes cleaner and much less expensive.
Sundberg co-wrote what is considered the preeminent graduate textbook in organic chemistry and served in many administrative capacities in addition to his teaching and mentoring.
Professor Simone Polillo explores the uneasy relationship humans have with money, markets and morality through his professional lens of “the sociology of money.”