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One
month has passed since Kirsten Beattie arrived
in Scotland as a UK Fellow. Beattie, a recent
U.Va. graduate, is spending the year teaching
and mentoring students at Fettes College in Edinburgh,
Scotland. She describes the challenges and rewards
of teaching as well as filling in as housemistress
to 70 young women. Beattie has received tremendous
encouragement from the students and staff at Fettes.
She says she wouldn't trade this experience for
anything. Full
story.
A&S
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 Technology
advancements are continually transforming computing,
as well as electrical devices we use in everyday
life. Computer chips, for one, capitalize on an
electron’s charge. An electronic field can
be manipulated, causing electrons to produce work.
Electrons have also been found to spin in one
of two directions, causing them to act as tiny
magnets. Haydn Wadley, associate dean of research
at U.Va.’s Engineering School, examines the
potential of spintronics. Full
story.
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