First-year College students Caroline Kenny and Erin Murphy recently started a petition to install gender-neutral bathrooms in all first-year residence halls.
The Board of Visitors decided earlier this month to add a non-voting faculty member to its ranks. The decision comes after Board of Visitors Rector George Martin first made a formal proposal to the board in January.
Third-year students Lia Cattaneo and Russell Bogue were named Harry S. Truman Scholars this Wednesday.
The IMP Society and Black Student Alliance closed applications Wednesday for their Social Justice Fellowship grant. The grant of $3,000 will be awarded to a student or group with a project focusing on the topics of inequality or injustice.
The Students for Individual Liberty held a panel discussion Wednesday called “Incarceration Nation,” which touched on a host of emerging and long-standing law enforcement issues.
Two University students were recently awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program.
Dr. Gregory Saathoff, associate research professor in the Departments of Public Health Sciences and Emergency Medicine at the Medical School, recently partnered with a group of students at the University on a project called “A Nickel for Your Story,” in which oral histories of World War II were collected from local veterans
Charlottesville City Council passed the 2015-16 fiscal year budget Tuesday evening. The budget adoption has been controversial throughout the budgeting process due to the proposed one percent increase of the meals tax, from four to five percent.
Fourth-year College student Ashley Blackwell was recently named the 2015 recipient of the John T. Casteen III Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Leadership Award. This year marked the sixth year of the award with a total of eight recipients.
The Black Student Alliance selected its 2015-16 executive board Tuesday in an election held in Gibson Hall.
Climate Action Society members assembled and unveiled a 55-foot long pipeline on the South end of the Lawn Monday in an effort to protest the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The pipeline — proposed by Dominion Power — would transport natural gas from West Virginia to the edge of North Carolina.
U.Va. Students United and United for Undergraduate Socioeconomic Diversity (UFUSED) co-hosted a teach-in Tuesday on the new Affordable Excellence model approved during the most recent Board of Visitors session.
Take Back the Night held a panel style discussion about Title IX legal requirements and the University's new sexual misconduct policy Tuesday as a part of their week long event combatting sexual misconduct.
Jerry White, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, led a lecture Tuesday sponsored by the University’s Institute for Humanities and Global Cultures.
The thirtieth anniversary of Black Alumni Weekend was held this Friday and Saturday and featured events ranging from discussions about the changing role of the African-American community to a screening of a documentary on the history of slavery.
Take Back the Night kicked off its first series of events Monday as part of a week long initiative on sexual assault.
The Honor Committee held its first meeting of its new term Sunday headed by its newly-elected 2015-2016 Executive Board.
The University has planted a tree every year since 1970 on Founder’s Day to honor an individual who has made a significant contribution to the University.
The Middle Eastern Leadership Council announced the new 2015-2016 executive board this past weekend.
A special committee selected third-year Batten student Israel Vaughan Sunday to live in Lawn Room 1 West, the John K. Crispell Memorial Room.
