Student group Action Against Ebola is hosting Ebola Awareness Week this week to raise funds for and student awareness of the outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Student Council, the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures and the Disability Access Committee are sponsoring Disability Acceptance Week this week in an effort to increase acceptance of and foster discussion about disabilities within the University community.
The City of Charlottesville held its annual City Services Fair Friday afternoon at City Hall Plaza on the Downtown Mall.
The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday the publication of final changes made to the Clery Act by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013. The new changes include requiring institutions to report incidents of stalking and incorporate a statement of policy about programs aimed at curbing dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in its annual security report.
A Texas nurse has been infected with Ebola on American soil, after treating a Liberian man who died from the virus in Dallas Oct.
In remembrance of the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, Harrington’s parents hosted a memorial service Friday on Copeley Road Bridge, where Harrington was last seen before her body was found in January 2010 at a farm 10 miles away from Grounds.
University of Hong Kong visiting Prof. Alejandro Reyes addressed University students Friday regarding current protests in Hong Kong, often called the “Umbrella Revolution."“I have been working on the Hong Kong protests all summer long,” said fourth-year College student Gabriel Noronha, one of the organizers of the event.
John Simon, University executive vice president and provost, will become the next president of Lehigh University, the school announced last Friday. He expressed that he was particularly proud of the Provost Office’s work in establishing the Advance Research Institute and the Data Science Institute, in addition to addressing faculty pay through the salary equity study released earlier this semester.
A search team with the Chesterfield County Sheriff's office found human remains in an area off Old Lynchburg Road in southern Albemarle County shortly before noon Saturday. The remains have not yet been identified, but Albemarle County Police Chief Steve Sellers said the investigation into the disappearance of second-year College student Hannah Graham is now a "death investigation" which will be handled by the Albemarle County Police Department.
The President’s Commission on Slavery and the University hosted a commemorative ceremony at the African-American burial site in the University Cemetery Thursday in part of this week’s Universities Confronting the Legacy of Slavery symposium.
Charlottesville is a finalist for the Georgetown University Energy Prize, a contest aimed toward increasing energy efficiency in small- to medium-sized communities. Two other Virginia cities, Blacksburg and Roanoke, are also in competition for the prize.
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner raised $2 million in the third quarter of this year, bringing his total funds for the campaign to $8 million. Republican challenger Ed Gilespie raised $1.8 million in the third quarter.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe held a press conference Wednesday in Richmond, addressing the savings actions he will enact in order to eliminate the revenue shortfall in Virginia’s budget for the Fiscal Year 2015.In a press release, McAuliffe outlined the process of approving the budget savings plan for the coming fiscal year.
The appeal of former University student George Huguely V, who was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love in May 2012, also a University student at the time, went before the Virginia Supreme Court this week. The Court received the initial petition in April and the court record in June. A hearing was scheduled this week to determine whether the Court would hear the appeal.
University Police discovered the body of second-year Engineering student Connor Cormier Wednesday. A medical examiner has not yet determined the precise time or cause of his death.
Libertarians believe in individual choice. “More often than not, when people are given a choice, they make the right choice,” Teixeira said. So libertarianism favors the free market over government involvement.
The deadline for implementing the University’s proposed bike-share program, known as UBike, has been pushed back indefinitely. The program was set to start this month.
The Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission recently released a report examining the cost efficiency of Virginia’s higher education institutions, finding that the University is one of three institutions in the commonwealth which spends more than 50 percent above the median of similar institutions nationwide.
Same-sex spouses may now legally adopt across the commonwealth, Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced in a bulletin sent to social service offices Friday. The legalization comes in response to the Supreme Court's refusal to hear an appeal of lower courts' decisions to overturn state bans on same-sex marriage, which legalized same-sex unions in Virginia.
Batten Prof. Craig Volden and Vanderbilt Law Prof. Alan Wiseman have published a book, Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: The Lawmakers. The book, published in conjunction with the launch of a website, thelawmakers.org, measures the legislative effectiveness of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
