The University’s Miller Center released the first installment of interviews for the Clinton Presidential History Project Friday at the end of a symposium on the Clinton administration.
Agencies in Albemarle, Buckingham, and Greene counties will receive grants totalling nearly a quarter of a million dollars to improve emergency preparedness .
The University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education has received funding to conduct research around the U.S. to help improve teaching methods in the STEM fields - science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The first year class will vote this week to elect a class president and members of the First Year Council (FYC). The University Board of Elections (UBE) oversees the election, along with most student representative elections on grounds, said Krishna Korupolu, third-year College student and Chair of the UBE.
Jonathan Urick, a class of 2013 Law School graduate, will clerk for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in the 2015-16 term.
The Cavalier Marching Band was selected last week to perform in the 2015 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The decision was made official when Parade Creative Director Wesley Whatley arrived in Charlottesville last Tuesday and presented CMB Director William Pease with the Macy’s Day drum head — the customary way to give a band a bid to perform in the parade.
Engineering Students Without Borders, a student-run organization focused on applying sustainable engineering methods to carry out local and international development projects, held a project symposium on Tuesday to present their projects to the University community.
Tuesday marks the start of U.Va. Earth Week, seven days of events leading up to Earth Day and the annual U.Va. Earth Week Expo.
A coalition of concerned students and alumni will host an open forum this Thursday in Wilson Hall to discuss pressing issues facing the University. The event aims to transform the energy from online campaigns SpeakUpUVa and #WeAreAllUVA into definitive action and structural change, ultimately making the University a more enjoyable and accessible community.
First-year College student Abraham Axler, chair of Student Council’s representative body, recently released what he termed a “Representative Manifesto” in an attempt to solve some of the productivity and communication problems which have plagued Student Council in the past.
