Top Colleges Online, a website which evaluates colleges and degree programs, released a list yesterday of the 50 "most amazing examples of college architecture" ranking the University first for the architecture of the Rotunda.
The Honor Committee yesterday evening considered making an honor system tutorial, which was previously optional for first-year students, mandatory for all students at the beginning of the fall semester.
The family of former University student Yeardley Love plans to file a wrongful death suit in Charlottesville Circuit Court, the attorney of Yeardley Love's mother Sharon Love indicated Thursday.
Charlottesville Police announced last week they have charged three University students with credit card fraud. Police arrested fourth-year College student Jake Mauriello April 16 and charged him with credit card theft.
The University Alumni Association's Jefferson Trust awarded 13 grants, totaling $523,653, to University projects Friday. Among this year's recipients were Women's Center Director Jennifer Merritt and Education Prof.
The City of Charlottesville yesterday named April Distracted Driving Awareness Month as part of a nationwide push to encourage drivers to be more cautious. Charlottesville City Fire Chief Charles Werner read a statement from Mayor Satyendra Huja in front of City Hall on the Downtown Mall yesterday morning which called distracted driving a "serious, life-threatening practice that is preventable." Werner estimated one in five road fatalities resulted from distracted driving, whereas Huja said about 80 percent of all crashes could be attributed to a driver not paying full attention.
The University, in partnership with IBM, launched the Computing for Sustainable Water project yesterday, according to a University press release.
The University yesterday hosted the first day of its fourth annual Venture Summit, a two-day event for University innovators to pitch ideas to potential investors representing about $20 billion in active capital funds. W.
The University announced yesterday the Concoran Department of History will establish a permanent position called the Julian Bond Professorship in Civil Rights and Social Justice to honor History Prof.
The Virginia Senate passed its biennial budget yesterday evening in a special session, after failing to pass the $85 billion bill Tuesday. The budget passed 21-19, with Sen.
A study presented yesterday at the American Educational Research Association's annual conference in Vancouver found college students who formed interracial friendships by the end of their first year were more likely to demonstrate liberal views on issues of race.
Student Council displayed seven sustainability projects funded by its Green Initiatives Funding Tomorrow grant on the West Range yesterday.
Gov. Bob McDonnell signed 13 bills this week to promote statewide energy production, which he said would help make Virginia the "Energy Capital of the East Coast." "We have sustained winds off of the Atlantic coast, bountiful coalfields in southwestern Virginia, rich natural gas deposits, along with some of the top scientists and research institutions in the world," McDonnell said in a statement released Tuesday.
Student Council's Legislative Affairs Committee yesterday evening proposed the creation of an education summit which would assemble state legislators and students during the summer to discuss the state's role in higher education funding. Legislative Affairs Committee Chair Jonathan Klaren, a third-year College student,, said he thought the summit was particularly important given the recent tuition increase which will affect University students in the next academic year.
Exactly one month after the 60-day regular General Assembly session adjourned, Virginia Senators yesterday failed for the third time this year to pass the $85 million budget which would fund state operations for the next two fiscal years.
Gov. Bob McDonnell Monday announced state revenue commissions rose 7.6 percent in March from February's revenue report, according to a press statement released by the governor's office, which added that sales and income tax receipts can explain the increase. "Sales tax receipts increased by 11.1 percent in the month," according to Monday's press release.
Ayn Rand Institute fellow Don Watkins spoke to the University community yesterday evening about his qualms with the nation's entitlement programs, which include Social Security and Medicare. In the two-hour long lecture, Watkins sought to answer the question, "What's really wrong with entitlements?" and first explained how he believed the nation progressed from "limited government" to an "entitlement nation." "It turns out Americans didn't starve in the streets [before entitlement programs,]" Watkins said.
Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Edward Hogshire ruled yesterday he will sentence former University student George Huguely Aug.
OpenGrounds yesterday evening invited graduate students to play the Bay Game, a simulation created by University faculty and students based on the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Charlottesville City Council heard a report yesterday evening from Psychology Prof. Dick Reppucci, Graduate Arts & Sciences student Todd Warner and Gretchen Ellis, director of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Commission on Children and Families, about the City's treatment of minorities, particularly those in the juvenile justice system.
