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(04/04/12 1:28pm)
A group attempting to minimize the legal repercussions which accompany the possession of marijuana approached Charlottesville City Council Monday with a resolution which aims to direct law enforcement away from marijuana prosecutions. The group, Charlottesville Residents for Decriminalization of Marijuana, hopes to redirect City police resources away from targeting marijuana offenses and toward addressing other criminal activity.
(01/26/12 1:18pm)
The University Medical School announced a new joint program yesterday which offers students a master's in international public health and also requires them to serve in the Peace Corps.
(01/19/12 7:49am)
Charlottesville City Council passed a "peace resolution" Tuesday, which calls for Congress to end foreign wars.
(11/15/11 5:48am)
A fourth-year female student was hospitalized Saturday after falling off a balcony at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at about 3:18 p.m.
(11/08/11 7:42am)
The Virginia Supreme Court delivered an opinion Friday which presents an additional hurdle to The Cavalier Daily and Virginia Tech's Collegiate Times in their legal battle to gain the right to publish advertisements which reference alcohol.
(11/01/11 4:53am)
The Alzheimer's Association awarded Asst. Psychology Prof. Brian Wiltgen last month with the New Investigator Research Grant, a two-year award worth $100,000, to investigate a part of the brain essential to memory, and whether its adaptability is a factor in deterring disease. The hippocampus is a region of the brain which plays an important role in learning and memory. Wiltgen believes that hippocampal plasticity plays an important role in resisting disease.
(10/27/11 5:10am)
College student Farah Shah, facing a Class 1 misdemeanor for computer trespassing, was sentenced Tuesday to complete 50 hours of community service. She will not serve jail time. According to court documents, she pled guilty to the offense.
(10/24/11 5:29am)
Earlier this month, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the University a $2.9 million grant to help expand humanities initiatives through a series of interdisciplinary collaborations during the next five years. This funding will provide support for these academic fields, but not everyone is confident about the usefulness of the humanities. Some students graduating with degrees in humanities disciplines have voiced concerns about their job prospects.
(10/18/11 6:00am)
Dan and Gil Harrington, parents of slain Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, spoke at Copeley Bridge yesterday morning in recognition of the two-year anniversary of their daughter's disappearance.
(10/07/11 5:22am)
The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School celebrated 60 years on Grounds Wednesday with its Diamond Jubilee anniversary ceremony. The JAG School is the only federally recognized institution which grants master's degrees in military law.
(09/30/11 4:37am)
The Princeton Review ranked the Darden School and its Batten Institute's graduate entrepreneurship program the third best in its eighth annual survey of 2,000 schools last week.
(09/23/11 4:55am)
Members of the Charlottesville chapter of Virginia Organizing, a statewide grassroots justice organization, attended a City Council meeting Monday to voice their concerns regarding the underrepresentation of minorities in Charlottesville government's managerial positions. They asked Council to review its hiring practices and to conduct an anonymous survey asking employees about barriers to advancement.
(09/16/11 1:20pm)
A new study by the Graduate Management Admissions Council released this week reported a marked decrease in applications to programs offering full-time degrees in Masters of Business Administration nationwide.
(09/13/11 7:09am)
Sustained Dialogue hosted an interfaith dialogue forum last night to bring together a diverse group of students and facilitate a discussion to reflect on the Sept. 11 attacks as a human experience, not merely as a story of one single demographic group.
(09/01/11 4:28am)
Southern Living magazine named Charlottesville one of the five best college towns in the South last week.
(08/30/11 5:44am)
Abortion clinics in Virginia would have to abide by the same rules as hospitals under a new draft of regulations released by the Virginia Department of Health Friday, should they be passed by the Board of Health and signed into law by Gov. Bob McDonnell.
(08/25/11 4:59am)
Gov. Bob McDonnell appointed Laura Fornash as Virginia's new secretary of Education Tuesday, citing her commitment to access and affordability of higher education.
(04/21/11 6:24am)
Fourth-year College student David Renardy was charged with a felony for discharging a gun in his apartment on Chancellor Street Tuesday. The bullet hit the neighboring Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house. No one was harmed in the incident.
(04/19/11 4:00am)
The University's second annual Earth Week began yesterday, as students, faculty and administrators seek to promote awareness of steps that can be taken to protect the environment.
(04/12/11 5:23am)
About 300 business students, volunteers and contractors helped refurbish 16 homes in the Charlottesville community Saturday. The effort was part of Build Day, a community service initiative sponsored by the Darden School. Every April, the non-profit Building Goodness Foundation teams up with University students to refurbish and repair houses in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County areas.