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Animals

• Global Amphibian Assessment
• Sea Slug Forum

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Charlottesville

• City of Charlottesville
• Monticello

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Climate Change

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• NOAA: Climate.gov
• National Centers for Environmental Information
• Climate4your
• NOAA: Earth System Research Laboratory
• Berkeley Earth
• Real Climate
• Climate Audit
• Watts Up With That?
• CO2 Coalition
• Climate Etc. (Judith Curry)
• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• Happer Princeton talk on role of CO2
• Happer Interview on Global Warming
• US Tornadoes.com
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Real Climate Science
• Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog
• Clive Best
• Climate The Movie

Sea Ice

• Arctic Sea Ice Blog
• GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
• Polar Science Center

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Computers

PC (Windows)

• Has your id been hacked
• How to fix Apps opening off screen
• How to transfer music from PC to iPHone
• How to fix a network printer that has gone offline
• Allen's Winappslist
• Drivers
• Easter Eggs
• File extension dictionary
• File Extensions.org
• Internet traffic report

OneDrive

• How to use OneDrive
• OneDrive for Mac

Linux

• Linux System Administration for Researchers (Wright) here

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Consumer Electronics

• Guide to radios: Jay's Radio Reviews, Comparisions, and Restorations
• Component level Radio Electronics and Radio Astronomy QRP HomeBuilder

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Converters

• Zamzar video format converter
• ImageMagick Usage
• How to copy VHS tapes to DVD with combo drives
• VideoHelp.com
• pstoedit: a PostScript and PDF to vector format translator.
• AutoCAD to Gerber

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Drawing

• CAD tolerance symbols
• CAD resources
• 3D ContentCentral

AutoCAD 2D

• CAD NAUSEAM
• My CADSITE
• Restoring the Classic Workspace
• AutoCAD linetype scales
• 10 AutoCAD Layer Tools (You Might) Forgotten
• Plotting to scale using layouts
• AutoCAD Page setup and Printing Basic
• Video on how to make a layout
• Linetype Scale in AutoCAD

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Electronics

• Soldering instructions: pdf
• Circuit Expert Blog
• The circuit calculator
• PCB Design
• Wash-away spacers
• Displacement Damage in Silicon
• Electricity for beginners - 1
• Electricity for beginners - 2
• EE tools and manufacturing links: Leroy's Engineering Web Site
• Buses
• Circuit Symbols

Cables

HDMI Cables

• All about HDMI cablles pdf
• HDMI cablle Map: png pdf

• Fermilab High Voltage Coaxial Connectors ES&H Manual: pdf
• Terminal Stud Size Chart: pdf
• Confusing Cable Terminology
• Introduction to Coaxial cables
• Electrical cable diameter converter
• ConnectorCo Note: UK firm.
• Cypress Industries
• Cableco technologies
• Micro-Coax
• Cablofil cable trays

Circuit Boards

• Printed Circuit Board Software and Services
• Printed circuit board trace current capacity
• PDB Design Mounting Holes

Switches

Electronic Racks

• 19" racks
• VME Bus
• Atlee Busbars
• Elore Busbars
• CCI Rigid Bus Board Stiffeners
• Copper busbars
• Comm Con Connectors
• Vector Electronics
• BiRa Rack Protection Monitor

Power Supplies

• Universal Voltronics HV supplies
• SOLA/HEVI-DUTY power supplies

Power Electronics

• Power Quality
• Lazar's Power Electronics Guide

Radiation Damage

• Displacement damage for neutrons, protons, pions, and electrons normalized to 95 MeV mb for neutrons: pdf

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Energy Links

• UN Energy Statistics Pocketbook (2021)
• Americas_Electricity_Generation_Capacity_2022
• Art Berman
• Peak Oil news and message boards
• Peak Oil Barrel
• Visualizing the U.S. Electric Grid
• Energy Information Agency (EIA)
• Oil Price
• A good explanation of where oil comes from, from an insider: link

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Higher Education

• Inside Higher Ed
• Why books don't work
• The Heterodox Academy
• The College Fix

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History

• Perspective on History (American Historical Associate
• Warfare History Network
• After the battle
• Tank and AFV News

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Home Products

• Today's Homeownwer

Gardens/Landscaping

• Landscaping and concrete products: Techo-Block
• Removing tree stumps without stump griders here

Wiring

• Structured Wiring

Lighting

• Lutron lighting controls.
• All about lights: Don Klipstein's Web Site!
• BallastShop
• LED Christmas Lights

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Imaging and Photography

• What is a Codec and how does it differ from a File Format
• Machine vision cameras Videology
• Security Camera Warehouse
• Ken Rockwell's Camera and Lens Reviews">
• Digital camera autofocus modes explained
• DPREVIEW
• Camera Labs
• photo.net
• SLR Gear
• Steve's Digital Camera Reviews
• Imaging resource
• Test Freak
• Digital Photography Insights
• Photozone
• How to Build a Camera
• Video Cable Selector and Usage Guide
• Labeling digital photos
• EXIF editor

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Internet

World Wide Web

• Find your IP address here
• Reister for an internet domain name here
• Need help building a web site? Try Homestead
• Web hosting:
  • How to creat a website
  • Ultimate Guide to Web Hosting
  • Guide to web hosting from a home PC
  • Web Hosting FAQ

HTML

• HEX color generator
• HTML code validator
• CSS code validator
• Guidelines for visualizing Links
• CSS Tricks
• Web Design & Development I
• Learn to Code HTML & CSS
• Learn to Code Advanced HTML & CSS
• Learn CSS Layout
• How to Create a Pure CSS Dropdown Menu
• CSS Dropdowns
• MIT 6.470: Learn web programming
• Getting started with HTML
• Floatutorial: simple tutorial on CSS floats
• HTML source
• HTML 3.2 Test Page with examples of almost all tags.
• HTML Background color selector
• HTML Color Codes
• html code tutorial

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Investment Links

Retirement

General

• Market Watch
• Learn About the Stock Market for Kids!
• Insider Monkey
• MSN Money
• The Motley Fool
• Yahoo Finance
• Wall Street Journal
• Briefing.com
• Shadow Government Statistics
• Econtalk
• Econofact
• Daily job cuts
• The Money Illusions

Indexes

IPOs

• 123Jump IPO Center
• Hoover's Online IPO Central
• Renaissance Capital IPO Home
• Yahoo! IPOs

Stock Data

• Reuters

Stock Charts

• BigCharts

ETFs

• ETF Connect
• ETF Trends
• ETF Morningstar
• ETF Yahoo!
• ETF SEC

International Investing

• ADR.COM
• Meloon ADRs
• Euroland

Bonds

• Across the Curve
• Treasury bills.
• Yahoo Finance Bond Center
• BondsOnline
• Investing in Bonds
• NASD Bondinfo

REITs

• Invest in REIT
• NAREIT Online
• RealEstateJournal.com
• REITcafe

Options/Futures

• CME Group
• Commodity Futures Traking Commission

Miscellaneous

• Rate table for mortgage payments
• Bank rates
• Prudent Bear Fund
• Hoover's Online
• Tadawul All-Share Index
• Brokers:
  • Fidelity
  • Datek Online
  • E*Trade
  • TIAA/CREF

Commodities

• Oil:
  • Oil Services Industry
  • Crude oil prices
  • Oil and Gas Journal
  • Energy Information Administration
• Uranium:
  • NEI Nuclear Notes
  • Nuclear Street
  • Atomic Insights
• Copper:
  • Copper prices

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LaTeX links

• How to make a PDF-document from a LaTeX source
• LaTeX Users Group
• Pratical LaTeX Guide
• LaTeX chapter heading examples
• TUG Users Group
• Squeezing space in LaTeX.
• Text Processing Using LaTeX
• LaTeX bugs database
• Ichimusai LaTeX page
• Getting and Using LaTeX
• TeX Catalogue Online

LaTeX editors

• Open source web based editor from Good Docs: latexlab.org

Tips and Tricks

• LaTeX2e tricks
• Sebastian's LaTeX Tricks
• John's Small Collection of LaTeX Tips
• General LaTeX tips and tricks
• Some useful tips and tricks in LaTeX
• More Tips and Tricks
• LaTeX tips

Symbols

• Detexify - LaTeX symbol classifier

Fonts

• The LATEX Font Catologue
• LaTeX Font Selection
• Using postscript fonts in LaTeX

Images

• EPS figures and PDF conversion
• Font Help
• Digital Cameras and Genealogy

Colors

• LaTeX Colour Extensions

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Mathematics links

• Poisson Distribution Calculator

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Manufacturing links

• A fantastic laser cutter and engraver
• ToolGuyd
• Handles, levers, knobs, casters, fasteners: J.W. Winco
• Portland Bolt
• Unbrako Fasteners
• Southco latches
• Sierra Pacific latches
• Protex latches
• Pak-rite packaging.
• Fasterners,etc. Innovative Components
• Fasteners by MW Industries Accurate Screw Machine
• Machine parts WDS
• Alignment Systems Automated Precision

Materials

• Price per pound of metals, polymers, ceramics, hybrids: jpg

Tools

• Small tools MicroMark
• Milling machines Climax
• Woodworking hardware Rockler
• Great tools Newman Tools

Machining

• Specifying surface roughness: pdf png
• Types of machining: here
• Typical Tolerances of Manufacturing Processes: pdf

Plastics

• Connecticut Plastics: Precision Engineered Products
• PlasticsOne a guide to plastic products.
• Machining plastics: pdf

Epoxies

• How to properly cure an epoxy from Masterbond.
• Surface preparation (from MasterBond): pdf
• Preparation of Surfaces for Epoxy Adhesive Bonding
• Bonding Aluminum (Permabond)

ES&H

• Scaffold and Aerial Lift Safety
• Scaffolds

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Mechanical Engineering links

• A fantastic laser cutter and engraver
• Precision mechanical components BERG
• Rubber material selection guide

Online Calculators

• Online calculators from Edge
• Bolt Ultimate Strength Calculator

Material Properties

• Steel, Aluminum, etc Product Guide from Central Steel & Wire Company: pdf
• Steel Dimensional Tolerance Handbook (Bluescope) pdf

Thread, sheet metal, and pipe sizes

• Bolt types
• Two references explaining thread standards and definitions (in USA): 1 2
• Socket Head Cap Screw SIze Chart (Imperial, Metric)
• Engineers Edge: ANSI Screw and nut thread size chart
• Engineers Edge: Standard External Metric Thread and Fastener Sizes M1.6 - M18
• Unified National Imperial Screw Thread Calculator
• Engineers Edge: Drilled Hole Tolerance Chart
• Clearance hole drill sizes (Imperial): pdf
• Tap drill sizes (Imperial) from efunda.
• Tap & Clearance Drill Size from LIttleMachineShop
• Free drill and top chart
• Standard inch drill sizes
• Sheet Metal Gauges
• PVC Pipe Dimensions

Fasteners

• Socket head cap screw size chart
• BoltDepot.com
• Portland Bolt
• All about screws
• Hex Nut Size Engineering Information
• Minitaps: taps, gages, fasateners

Construction

• Hoisting and Rigger Fundamentals pdf
• DOE Hoisting and Rigging Manual pdf
• Construction Vocabulary pdf

Friction

• Understanding Coefficienets of Frication

Bearings

• Self lubricating bearings: DU

Dowel Pins

• Machine dowel pin chart (English)

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Measurement

• Hamar Laser

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Medical links

• Medicine Net
• Medical Imaging.
  • A very good MRI tutorial by Joseph Hornak of Rochester Institute of Technology.
• 15 ACL Surgery Recovery Tips

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Miscellaneous Links

• A fantastic laser cutter and engraver
• Amazing Maps
• Printable calendars
• Print free graph paper
• spaceweather.com
• Best of the Web
• HP-35 Caclulator simulator
• Dukes genealogy
• Rick Dobbertin
• The time
• Free Graphics/Photo Editors
• Urban Legends Reference Pages
• Mortgage Calculators
• Paris American High School (PAHS)
• Sophie's Funky Design Blog
• Sophie Dukes
• A trick on passing a kidney stone for someone who has had more than 200! here
• Voting software:
  • Ballotbin
  • ballotgin
  • Condorcet Internet Voting Service
  • SurveyMonkey
• Tax Foundation

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Music Links

• Merging audio tracks online (Audio Joiner)
• Steve Hoffman's Audiophile Mastering
• Best iTunes Alternative Software
• All Music Guide
• English Folk Music
• Hard to find music
• GQ's 100 Best Jass Albums
• The Lefsetz Letter

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Nuclear Power and Radiation

• OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
• Uranium Information Center
• The Nuclear Energy Option
• The WISE Uranium Project Caclulators
• Run your own reactor
• Radiation:
  • Radiation Dose Chart: here
  • A few facts about radiation

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Nuclear Weapons

• Nuclear Weapons Education Project (MIT)

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Particle Physics

Fermilab

• Training portal
• Printing at Fermilab
• Fermilab LISTSERV
• Fermilab at Work
• Individual Training Summary
• Zoom

Neutrinos

• The Ultimate Neutrino Page
• All things neutrino
• Design your own neutrino oscillation experiment
• Princeton neutrino factory technical notes
• Neutrino Oscillation references
• Neutrino Unbound
• Neutrino Oscillation (mark Messier)

Supersymmetry

• Supersymmetry

Magnetic Monopoles

• Elementary classical discussion of magnetic monopoles from Steven Errede

Misc

• DPF Newsletters
• HEP Job Rumor Mill
• Department of Energy: Office of HIgh Energy Physics
• Advances in High Energy Physics
• SPIRES data base of particle physics publications.
• The particle data group
• The Los Alamos preprint archive
• The Data Analysis BriefBook at CERN
• HEPDATA: REACTION DATA Database Durham
• NIST Physiccal Reference Data
• National Nuclear Data Center BNL
• Links to other high energy physics websites worldwide
• Home pages of high energy physics experiments
• Virtual particles
• PAW Information and Help
  • CERN's PAW manual
  • Introduction to PAQ
  • Ken Young Paw Primer
  • PAW Primer
  • PAW Contributions (CERN)
  • BaBaR PAW page

Particle Detectors

Scintilators

• Scintillation Properties
• Optical Grease

Spark Chambers

• Spark chambers
• What is a spark chamber?

Photodetectors

• Care of SiPMs (Hamamatsu) pdf

Experiments

• MEG

Accelerators

• Eric Prebys Accelerator Physics Lectures

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Personal Products

• Panama Fedora Village Hats
• Panama Hat Mall (Gamboa)
• Rollable felt hats from stoffa

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Physics Links

Blogs

• Of Particular Significance Matt Strassler
• Not Even Wrong Peter Woit
• The Reference Frame Lubos Motl
• BackReAction Sabine Hossenfelder
• Preposterous Universe Sean Carroll
• Of Particular Significance Matt Strassler

News Sites

• American Physical Society
• symmetry
• Science 2.0
• Quanta Magazine
• Interactions.org
• HyperPhysics
• Physicsweb

Astronomy

• Behind the Black

Conferences

• High Energy Physics conferences (CERN)
• Science conferences
• Neutrino Meetings

Statistics

• Statistical software
• Hans Rosling best stats you've ever see
• A course on statistics
• Phystat Physics Statistics Code Repository
• An Intuitive (and Short) Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem
• Visualizing Bayes Theorem

Publishing

• PACS scheme
• Physical Review
• Physics Letters B
• Physics Letters B
• ScienceDirect
• APS website

Miscellaneous

• Volume conversion
• Physics and fusion
• Virginia Academy of Sciences
• Visualizing acoustics
• Physics Animations
• Cold Fusion Times
• Physics Comments

Reference

• Atomic and Nuclear Properties of Materials (PDG)

Radioactive Sources

• A monochromatic beta source using Sr-90: pdf

Quantum Mechanics

• Eitan Geva lectures
• Bras, Kets, and Matrices
• Matrix Methods in Quantum Mechanics

Flight

• Airplanes
  • See how it flies
  • Airfoils and Airlfow
  • Analytic fuctions, the Magnus Effect, and wings

Magnets

• Radiation Damage Studies in Magnets: pdf

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Postscript

• A first guide to postscript
• Dan Lancaster's guide to postscript resources
• Poscript colors

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Reference

• Encyclopedia of Symbols
• WolframAlpha
• Parent movie reviews
• A guide to information: About
• Country calling codes
• USA area codes
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• How things work: HowStuffWorks.com
• Time and date
• Calendar
• Legal advice: Nolo.com
• National Weather Service
• National Hurricane Service

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Research Links

Funding

• DOE conference funding guidelines
• Grants.gov

Mu2e

• Training Lecturs for FNAL Summer School Students
• DAQ Wiki
• Neutron Absorbers:
  • Neutron shielding (John Caunt)
  • Premadex Neutron Shielding
  • Shieldwerx
  • Metamic
  • Borated Polyethylene
  • MarShield borated polyethylene
• Neutron Generators:
  • Thermo Scientific
  • Portable neutron generators

NOvA

• Shift instructions:
  • NOvA Shift Website
  • What to do while on shift
  • Electronic log book
  • Shift bulletin board
  • What the screens should look like
  • Nearline plots
  • Problems:
    • Problem?: call the expert. The expert for your shift period is found on the shift calendar under "shifts"
    • On-call telephone number list: here

EGP

• EGP Indico Website

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Science Links

• Science
• Quanta Magazine
• What if?
• Periodic Table
  • Periodic table.
  • Periodic Table (Chemicool)
  • Photographic periodic table
• Worried about solar activity? Find out what is happening with our sun here
• Resources from space.
• Jobs in science.
• Ask Dr. Universe if you have a question about science.
• Notes on ionizing radiation.
• Asymmetries
  • The left-handed DNA hall of fame.
  • Ecletic Reflections on Biological Asymmetries
  • Mirror Symmetry
• The Observable Universe

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Shopping

• All about firewood
• CarsDirect.com
• eToys
• Consumer Review
• Raven Maps and Images
• Need some fossils? Try Four Directions in Ann Arbor.

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Software

• Software for Free:
  • Statistical software
  • FreewareArena.com
  • ISP-Planet: software for Windows computers
  • Where to get ghostscript
  • Where to ge GIFconverter
• Excel:
  • Taking a list of with redundant items and making a unique list

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Travel Links

• Need to find where your train is: Amtrak Train Locator Map
• Joe Brancatelli's links
• John diScala's links
• Airplane seat charts
• Flight status
• Trails.com
• Maps: Mapquest
• Maps: MapBlast!
• Distance Calculator
• Foreign exchange rates.
• Foreign exchange rates dating back to 1990
• Visa requirements from A Briggs
• Foreign per diem
• Colorado Dude Ranch Association
• 10 great long-distance bike routes in Europe

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UVA Links

Miscellaneous

• UVA email portal
• UVA email list server
• 25LIVE Information Portal
• Requests from UVA Facilities Management
• UVA logos
• Library: Virgo
• UVA EH&S
• St. Anselm Institute
• Travel notification for UVA

Graduate School Admissions

• (Graduate school applications) Slate
• Slate Instructions (pdf)

Teaching

Course Listings

• Lou's Class Schedules
• University Registrar Course Listings
• CANVAS
• UVaCollab

Calendars

• Academic Calendar
• Exam schedule

Miscellaneous Course Information

• Student Information System
• Student Information System Help Center
• Forms
• Student Disability Access Center (SDAC)
• Start of semester memo
• Demo Lab
• Test scoring services
• Pearson support

Old Class Homepages (Dukes)

• Physics 1425 (2019 Spring) here
• Physics 1425 (2018 Spring) here
• Physics 1425 (2017 Spring) here
• Physics 1425 (2016 Spring) here
• Physics 1425 (2015 Spring) here
• Physics 1110 (2014 Fall) here
• Physics 2020 (2013 Spring) here
• Physics 2010 (2012 Fall) here
• Physics 1429 (2012 Spring) here
• Physics 2419 (2011 Fall) here
• Physics 1429 (2011 Spring) here
• Physics 2419 (2010 Fall) here
• Physics 1429 (2010 Spring) here
• Physics 2419 (2009 Fall) here
• Physics 1429 (2009 Spring) here

Arts & Sciences

• College of Arts & Sciences
• Graduate admissions: Slate
• Undergraduate Information
• Undergraduate Record
• Graduate School Requirements

Research

• PI Portfolio and Budgets
• Payments and Expensing
• Workday
• Workday Tutorial for faculty
• Workday guide for PIs
• Workday Dashboard (RAD) Training guide for PIs
• Workday Dashboard Tutorial for faculty
• Jefferson Trust Grant Recepient Portal
• Link needed to edit physics department research descriptions
• Dashboard
• Dashboard (Departmental accounts)
• OSP Contacts
• Rates
• Integrated System
• ResearchUVA: funding status
• Faculty Account Dashboard
• Organizational Excellence
• Free Technology Workshops at UVA: Cadre Academy
• Export Control Policy
• Office of Sponsored Programs
  • Important Institutional Information
  • Office of Sponsored Programs
  • Time and Effort Certification (Note: click on top link.)

Advising

• Advising Homepage
• Stellic@Virginia
• Need Help? Advising in the Collage
• Start of Semester Memo
• College advising calendar
• Degree Requirements
• Rules on Declaring a Major
• New College Curriculum
• Engagements Pathway Checklist
• Dicsiplines Pathway Checklist
• Requirements
• Faculty advisior cheat sheet (pdf)
• East Asian Placement Exams
• Navigate Your Undergraduate Journey
• Student Council Academic Resource Center
• Stellic:
  • Uva Stellic Webpage
  • Stellic for students
  • Stellic for advisiors
  • Stellic FAQs
• For faculty members:
  • SIS Advising

Benefits and Retirement

• Benefits
• MyChart
• Faculty Retirement Guide
• Retirement links
• Human Resources
• Human Resources contact information
• Faculty Benefits
• Teladoc
• Faculty & Employee Assistance Program

UVA Computing

• Galileo
• Using Thunderbird, Pine, and Mutt with Office365 and Multi-Factor Authentication (Duo)
• Faculty Website Provisioning here
• Interface to create or manage UVA groups here
• Faculty web sites
• ITS home
• ITS Software Gatewary
• Physics Print Queues
• Physics Dept. Computer Support Request form

UVA Phone system

• Phone Portal
• Tutorials
• Voicemail use and activation

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Writing Links

• Online books page
• Journal title abbreviations from the Caltech library
• Lulu

Dictionaries

• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Dictionary
• Dictionary
• Famous Quotes & Authors

Grammar

• VoiceNation
• Webgrammer
• Guide to Capitalization
• Ten Common but Easily Corrected Errors

Acronyms

• Acronyms
• Acronyms and Initialisms