[caption id="attachment_45260" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Students participated in an Interfaith Dialogue forum yesterday.
Gil Harrington, mother of the late Morgan Harrington, visited the University last Thursday in support of House Bill 2490, a piece of legislation which would require oversight of murder and rape investigations on college campuses in Virginia to be transferred to the appropriate local police departments.
[caption id="attachment_45257" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A 26-year-old male was shot inside Wild Wings Cafe at 1:07 a.m.
The standards of graduate medical education nationwide need to be updated to reflect new population patterns and emerging technology, according to a report released last Thursday by the Josiah Macy Jr.
[caption id="attachment_45216" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="About 1,000 members of the University community participated in a candlelight vigil last night to remember Sept.
A federal appellate court in Virginia threw out a suit filed by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli which challenged President Obama's 2010 health care reform bill, ruling Thursday that the law's mandate which requires individuals to buy health insurance "imposes no obligations" on the commonwealth. The three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an attorney general has no legal standing to sue the government on behalf of the individuals who may be affected, according to the opinion issued by the court. Cuccinelli filed his lawsuit in direct response to Obama's health care legislation, which was signed March 23, 2010.
[caption id="attachment_45213" align="alignleft" width="205" caption="Barbara Schaedel, president of Families for Honor, gave a speech to the Honor Committee to share the organization's concerns about the honor system.
The long-standing battle between Virginia Attorney General and University alumnus Ken Cuccinelli and the University concerning access rights to private research documents met another delay Friday when a judge approved the University's petition for a temporary stay. Albermarle County Circuit Judge Cheryl Higgins approved the requested postponement of the court's decision during a Friday court hearing, citing a need to defer to the Supreme Court of Virginia's anticipated decisions on appeals related to the case, according to numerous reports. Cuccinelli's revised demand for the documents will be considered once more after the Supreme Court of Virginia issues its rulings on these appeals. Cuccinelli is seeking documents pertaining to the climate change research of former University Environmental Sciences Prof.
Michael Mann may be one of the most highly-scrutinized scientists in the world today. Since Virginia Attorney General and University alumnus Ken Cuccinelli filed subpoenas demanding the release of his research in April 2010, the former University professor has made headlines worldwide. Mann, who taught at the University from 1999 to 2005, now directs the Earth Science Systems Center at Pennsylvania State University.
Philip Barton, deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Washington, visited the University yesterday to speak to Assoc.
[caption id="attachment_45134" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Researchers were surprised by their findings that students with later classes did not perform as well as those who started earlier in the day.
[caption id="attachment_45132" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Heart Rate Observaton System, described by the Medical Predictive Science Corporation as a non-invasive bio-informatic sytem, examines abnormalities of heart rates in infants.
[caption id="attachment_45095" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="President Teresa A. Sullivan spoke yesterday at the Miller Center, explaining why higher education is an important investment for the national economy.
M. Rick Turner, president of the local NAACP chapter, publicly accused businesses on the Downtown Mall of racism in their hiring practices during the Charlottesville City Council meeting held Tuesday night. Turner quoted from a letter to the editor placed in The Daily Progress Aug.
Former University Environmental Sciences Prof. Michael Mann began legal procedures last Friday to intervene on the attempt of the American Tradition Institute to acquire documents of his research on global warming. The move comes a week after the University submitted nearly 4,000 pages of Mann's documents to ATI, which requested the information through the Freedom of Information Act.
Rep. Robert "Bobby" Scott, D-Newport News, announced Monday that he will not run for U.S. Senate in 2012, instead endorsing fellow Democrat and former Virginia governor Tim Kaine. "Though I believe I can win the Democratic nomination and the general election, a winning campaign would require me to devote all of my time for the next 14 months to that campaign," Scott said in a statement.
Market Central, a non-profit created by vendors and patrons of the weekly farmers' market downtown, helped these same growers host market customers at 19 local farms around the area Monday. As part of Market Central's 2011 "Meet Yer Eats!" Farm Tour, farmers opened their doors to market regulars, families, students and Charlottesville residents to see the working farms and farmers who live near the City. Event programs included guided tours of greenhouses, meet and greets with farm animals, and seminars on topics such as incorporating culinary and medicinal herbs into daily life.
[caption id="attachment_44925" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Members of the Law School's Innocence Project Clinic posed outside the federal court building in Norfolk where the evidentiary hearing for Justin Wolfe's case took place.
Gov. Bob McDonnell issued an executive order last Thursday, establishing a task force to confront the potential loss of state revenue from cutbacks in federal spending. McDonnell created the Multidisciplinary Task Force on Economic Competitiveness and Versatility after Virginia's AAA credit rating was placed on review for downgrade July 19 by the Moody's credit-rating agency.
