Four Chi Phi brothers charged with abduction last September were sentenced Thursday to four days in jail after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct.
Police found toxic chemicals inside a ground floor apartment in the GrandMarc apartment complex at 15th Street Tuesday night after investigating reports of a strange odor coming from the apartment.
In response to pending commonwealth budget cuts preventing the Office of the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences from funding events with guest speakers and guest artists, Arts & Sciences Council has launched a departmental grant program to help fund such events at the University.
The Center for Politics and Congressional Quarterly Politics hosted the 10th annual American Democracy Conference at the University Friday with a keynote address from Senator-elect Mark Warner.In his address, the first since his election to the Senate, Warner spoke about the need for bipartisan cooperation.?The stakes are too high for our country to be about retribution, to be about payback,? Warner said.
In its first emergency warning since April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech experienced problems with its alert system last week when sending out a campus-wide emergency notice concerning reports of gunshots heard on campus.Larry Hincker, Virginia Tech associate vice president for university relations, said someone reported a sound like gunfire near a dormitory Thursday.
Hundreds of students lined the walkway near the University Chapel Friday night in a candlelight protest of the Westboro Baptist Church?s planned picketing of ?The Laramie Project,? a performance sponsored by Queer and Allied Activism as part of Proud to Be Out Week.The WBC ? a group based in Topeka, Kan.
In the November issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, University researchers in the endocrinology department published their discovery of a way to increase growth hormone levels in the elderly that may lead to advances in reversing the physical effects of aging.Asst.
As the country?s economic troubles continue, University students are getting a good deal, according to Kiplinger, which placed the University third in its 2008-09 Best Values in Public Colleges rankings.Kiplinger Senior Associate Editor Jane Bennett Clark said Kiplinger ? a personal finance and business forecasting company ? bases its ranking on cost and quality measures, using criteria such as test scores of incoming freshmen, student-to-faculty ratio and graduation rates, as well as total in-state and out-of-state costs.
The University?s Office of Environmental Health & Safety was evacuated Tuesday at about noon by University and Virginia state police, as well as HAZMAT officials and fire officials, after a suspicious letter was delivered to the building, University Police Lieut.
Employees of the University Medical Center and Medical School are no longer permitted to receive gifts from companies that do business with the University Health System, according to a new University policy.Steve Wasserman, Medical School assistant dean for research, said the policy is designed to eliminate financial conflicts of interest for employees and to ?create an environment in which patients, funding agencies and the general public are convinced that there are no external influences on what you are doing in the various missions you are fulfilling for the University.?Wasserman said pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers, among others, in the past would offer gifts such as pens, notepads and tote bags to employees.
