[caption id="attachment_40982" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Texas law currently allows students to carry concealed handguns on campuses.
[caption id="attachment_40980" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="University researchers helped develop a tool that can track an individual's Nitrogen footprint.
Students and faculty gathered in Nau Auditorium yesterday to listen to Alan Pessin, Voice of America Pentagon correspondent, who spoke about this century's national security challenges. At the event, which was co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Programs and the Center for International Studies, Pessin discussed national security issues mainly focusing on China, Iran and terrorism.
[caption id="attachment_40928" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Professors Daniel Cox and Ron Reeve will use their grant money to fund research exploring the effectiveness of simulated reality in teaching teens with high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome how to drive safely.
[caption id="attachment_40926" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Honor Committee clarified its power to place transcript holds and/or registration blocks.
The Virginia women's lacrosse team will retire the No. 1, worn by former midfielder Yeardley Love. The athlete died last spring after she was assaulted by her ex-boyfriend, a Cavalier men's lacrosse player. Love's jersey number will be permanently retired in honor and remembrance of her life and her commitment to both women's lacrosse and the University.
[caption id="attachment_40826" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Current health centers do not adequately help the disabled, according to the DOJ.
[caption id="attachment_40823" align="alignleft" width="285" caption="A University study showed a level of uncertainty makes one more attractive.
The Charlottesville Free Clinic recently received state accreditation, bringing official recognition to an organization which has worked to provide free health care to uninsured individuals in Charlottesville since 1991. The process of obtaining accreditation took about two years, CFC Executive Director Erika Viccellio said, and included more than 200 specific requirements.
[caption id="attachment_40817" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Installation of a sculpture by artist Henry Moore will close Rugby Road's southbound lane.
[caption id="attachment_40763" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Downtown Business Association is advising Charlottesville establishments to install security cameras.
More than a quarter of Virginia households are at risk of becoming economically insecure, according to a report published Monday by The University's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. On average, the report stated, Virginia families require two times the federal poverty threshold in income to be economically secure. The report measures economic security by income adequacy - meaning that households earn enough to pay monthly bills - and asset adequacy - or the cash needed for "short-term financial demands such as job loss." These criterion better reflect the state's economic well-being than the federal poverty threshold, the report stated, because the poverty threshold does not account for the rising costs of household necessities other than food.
[caption id="attachment_40755" align="alignleft" width="181" caption="A revisited zoning code may affect local venues, including the Tea Bazaar on the Downtown Mall.
[caption id="attachment_40751" align="alignleft" width="205" caption="Newcomb Hall renovations will close a segment of the road until August.
[caption id="attachment_40595" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Student Council is working to continue its Hooliday dining program for Spring Break.
The number of traditional language programs in higher education has declined during the past 40 years, a study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Riverside concluded. Led by Steven Brint, sociology professor and associate dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the study looked at the number and type of institutions which offered European language degrees and later discontinued them. The study found only 59 percent of American four-year colleges offered Romance-language majors in 2006, compared to almost 76 percent in the 1970-71 academic year, though Spanish programs have not been affected in the same way.
Public universities are being forced to rely more on tuition than state funding in the wake of the economic recession and declining governmental support, according to a report from the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability. The Delta Project, a nonprofit organization that analyzes data relating to college costs, has indicated that the majority of the nation's public research universities draw more than half their revenue from tuition while other four-year public colleges are approaching the 50 percent mark.
The recession has impacted the state of marriage significantly in America, according to a survey conducted by Sociology Prof.
Gov. Bob McDonnell sent a resolution to the General Assembly last Thursday requesting a constitutional convention for the adoption of a federal balanced budget amendment to the U.S.
[caption id="attachment_40539" align="alignleft" width="190" caption="Asst. Prof. John R. Sirard researched the relationship between dog ownership and exercise in teens.
