Undergraduates In The News
Little research has currently been done into the various ways in which immersion in virtual reality (VR) increases one’s understanding, empathy, and compassion for others.
Purpose: Utilizing firsthand accounts of student’s biographies as well as second-hand material to construct a better understanding of the student experience and their beliefs. UVA was a center of intellectual activity but also the students here illustrated the pinnacle of mainstream attitudes and behaviors.
The human brain is an incredibly complex machine. Mother nature has evolved to efficiently create such an intricate structure by massively overproducing neurons and synapses during human development. Over time, only half of these original neurons survive. How does the brain achieve this? How does it differentiate between those neurons that survive, and those that die?
Previously completed research in the field of motion magnification is applied to civil engineering concepts in the fields of damage identification. Motion magnification amplifies minute signals in videos to a large scale by modifying pixels based on similarities in color or motion.
The U.S. faces a crisis that is burying cities in tons of landfill waste each day. Most waste management occurs downstream after commingled material has been collected from buildings. Sorting waste at that stage is expensive, slow, and manual.
PURPOSE: Although prior work highlights an exercise dose-response relationship for glucose regulation, no study has assessed the exercise dose needed for reducing arterial stiffness. We tested the hypothesis that increased exercise dose would correlate with reduced arterial stiffness in obese adults with prediabetes.
Kinesin-6 family member, Kif20b, is a microtubule motor with a known role in microtubule bundling and neuron morphogenesis. We have previously reported that the loss of Kif20b causes microcephaly. When neurons from brains of mutant embryos are grown in vitro on poly-L-lysine (PLL) they have decreased neuron polarization.
The past is often mysterious. By analyzing firsthand accounts and primary documents, a fraction of the mystery becomes clearer. The Washington Papers assists this endeavor by collecting, editing and publishing all of George Washington’s documentary record from his colonial days to the week of his death.
Much of the scholarship centered around the May 1968 Paris protests have ignored women’s participation in the protests, and its correlation to subsequent developments in French feminism.
The research goal seeks to understand how a gene functions in the maintenance of the lungs in adult mouse lines. The gene of interest is CBP, which plays a fundamental role in early embryonic development and tumor growth.
There are many different factors that contribute to a legislator's effectiveness, and perhaps one of the strongest among armchair political scientists is a track record in a previous lawmaking position.
Particle physics research requires collecting massive amounts of particle collision data. In this data one can extract evidence for the production and decay of new, interesting types of matter.
The aging of the global population is associated with an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and functional impairments, resulting in a greater proportion of homebound patients. Homebound status prevents people from accessing hospitals, office-based medical care, and social interactions.
Photoelectron yields of extruded scintillation counters with titanium dioxide coating and embedded wavelength shifting fibers read out by silicon photomultipliers have been measured at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility using 120 GeV protons.
This research project is focused on the modeling and simulation of biomedical fluid dynamics problems that involve blood flow in veins of human central nervous system or airflows in human airway during snoring and phonation. Patient-specific 3D models such as blood vessels, uvulas, and vocal cords, are reconstructed based on CT or MRI data.