Elevated levels of uranium in water supplies is an environmental safety and health concern, but current methods of detecting it are cumbersome, costly and time consuming. Gary C. Tepper, Ph.D., chair of the Department of ...
Materials Science
Jul 8, 2017
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Boxes upon boxes filled with the fossilized remains of a mastodon that died in Virginia more than 18,000 years ago are being hauled up the steps to Virginia Commonwealth University's Virtual Curation Laboratory, where the ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 3, 2017
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In the wake of President Donald Trump's travel ban—which blocks refugees from entering the United States for 120 days and halts the issuance of new visas to people from Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Syria—the plight ...
Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2017
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While Toucans' diets consist primarily of fruit, new research co-authored by a Virginia Commonwealth University biology major suggests the bird species' dining habits are actually more opportunistic than previously believed ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 10, 2017
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As Donald Trump is sworn in today at noon as the 45th president of the United States, Virginia Commonwealth University political science professor Deirdre Condit, Ph.D., says the country remains deeply divided, and she ...
Social Sciences
Jan 23, 2017
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When a Southern chorus frog calls in the night from its wetland home, its voice sounds like a thumb being drawn across a fine toothed comb. At least that's how it's described by James Vonesh, Ph.D., associate professor of ...
Ecology
Dec 13, 2016
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A new study by a Virginia Commonwealth University criminal justice professor analyzed data from the Department of Juvenile Justice in South Carolina to test the "racial threat hypothesis"—a theory proposing that localities ...
Social Sciences
Dec 7, 2016
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As big data and cloud applications flourish, one of the grand challenges for future computing is finding energy-efficient methods for data storage.
General Physics
Nov 30, 2016
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The recent shootings of African-American men by police in Louisiana and in Minnesota, followed by the shootings of five police officers in Dallas, have once again sparked protests across the country and debate over racial ...
Social Sciences
Jul 15, 2016
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Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have developed a new technique for analyzing DNA molecules. Their new research article, "Infrared laser heating applied to nanopore sensing for DNA duplex analysis," suggests the ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 22, 2016
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