When the University's Darden School completed its new facilities with 14 wired classrooms in 1996, it was one of the first schools in the nation where nearly all classrooms had Internet access. Now Darden is one of the schools leading a new trend: restricting Internet access. The business school has installed a system that prevents students from accessing the Internet during class time.
What qualities make a professional research paper good? Ask Susan Dalebout, academic assistant professor of communication disorders, or doctoral student Lisa Fox.
There have been 434 cases of the foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom since the outbreak first appeared last month - the worst epidemic of the disease in the area since a devastating outbreak occurred in 1967.
Imagine for one horrifying second that you, your sister or your best friend were sexually assaulted.
Five years ago James C. Turner watched five University students fight for their lives after contracting bacterial meningitis. "I was in intensive care with the patients," Turner said.
James Demas likes his work because "it's pretty." But as a chemistry professor, he confesses that he researches chemicals that give off light also because the research has practical applications. Demas and his group in the Chemistry Department study luminescence, a process where chemicals absorb energy from their environment and release that energy at some later time in the form of light.
A computer program created at the University is changing the way technology experts think about computer networking. University researchers led by Associate Computer Science Professor Andrew Grimshaw invented Legion, a software system that acts like a sandwich between a normal PC and other PCs on a network to create a giant virtual supercomputer. "Legion is in a good position now," said Associate Computer Science Prof.
Environmental Science Professor Stephen Macko can tell exactly what you ate just by analyzing a snip of your hair.
The diversity of life on Earth is much more threatened by the extinction of animals and plants than previously thought, due to the non-random nature of extinction patterns, according to a study published in the April 14 issue of the journal Science. University Assoc.
Environmental Science Professor Stephen Macko can tell exactly what you ate just by analyzing a snip of your hair.
