One fifth of students who studied abroad in 2014-15 received financial aid.The International Studies Office and Student Financial Services coordinate financial aid for study abroad programs.
Student Council discussed several safety and health concerns at their Tuesday meeting.
The University kicked off National Suicide Prevention Week Monday, featuring five days of events aiming to spread awareness about mental health issues and suicide prevention.
The Institute for Education Science has awarded University faculty members $9.2 million for four different educational research projects.
The Honor Committee decided on Sunday evening to delay any reform of the informed retraction, deciding instead to wait until February amid the general multi-sanction proposal discussion.
Last March, when Sweet Briar College officials announced they would close the 114-year-old institution, a firestorm of angry protests erupted among Sweet Briar students, alumnae and professors. They rallied to form Saving Sweet Briar Inc., arguing that the decision to close the school was without merit.
Virginia athletics announced that StubHub has replaced the Virginia Ticket Marketplace as the fan-to-fan secondary ticket marketplace for all University football and men’s basketball games.
Madison House’s Big Siblings program is kicking off the semester with new partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge.
The Office of Sustainability is partnering with Dominion Power to install solar panels on the roof of Ruffner Hall and the University Bookstore within the next few months.
Fourth-year College student Martese Johnson is set to give a TEDx talk in Charlottesville in November. He said his talk will address his bloody arrest last March at the hands of Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control officers, and more broadly the condition of black Americans throughout the country.
Piedmont Virginia Community College will offer full tuition, two year scholarships to valedictorians of public and private high schools in its service area.
As the 2015-16 academic year begins, the Student Ambassadors are working to connect University alumni and prospective students.
Fourth-year College student Margaret Lowe passed away Tuesday. She was pursuing a Classics major at the University while planning to go to medical school, and enjoyed outdoor activities such as biking, swimming and hiking.
The Roosevelt Society—a debating society focused on discussing a liberal perspective of current issues and events—recently applied for CIO status at the University.
The University Career Center on Tuesday began its first on-Grounds interview prep week, a series of events designed for University alumni within certain industries to give students feedback on resumes, interview skills and other job application materials.
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A letter penned by Thomas Jefferson to Richard Richardson, the overseer of Monticello, discussing Jefferson’s rental of slaves will on Sept. 28 be up for auction in Boston.
Charlottesville-based company Apex Clean Energy constructed two test towers in Botetourt County to explore the possibly of a large-scale wind power plant in the area. The test towers will gather information about wind in the area, and be used to determine whether Apex will install 25 wind turbines on private property that has been procured for the plant.
The presidents of many Virginia universities are among the highest paid state employees, as reported under a new state policy.
A forum held at the University Thursday afternoon gave hundreds of students, faculty and community members the opportunity to discuss the recent spate of race-related violence across the country.
The local drug enforcement task force has seen a recent surge in the number of calls related to the use of spice, or synthetic marijuana.
