[caption id="attachment_34168" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Student Council President John Nelson, along with several other Council leaders, spoke positively about recruitment efforts by the organization during the past term.
[caption id="attachment_34141" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., visited the University this week to give a guest lecture in Prof.
The Diversity Action Board hosted an annual forum Wednesday night to discuss challenges related to diversity faced by the Honor Committee. The panel discussion, titled "Is Honor for Everyone?," featured Assistant Dean of Students Nicole Eramo, fourth-year College student and men's varsity basketball player Jerome Meyinsse and Graduate Arts & Sciences student Tim Lovelace. Eramo reflected on improvements the committee has made through the years, such as ensuring proper representation in random jury selections, providing diversity sensitivity training and improving minority recruitment and outreach. She added, however, that she was unsure as to when diversity problems ultimately could be resolved. "There's a lot of particular work we need to do on this issue.
Downtown traffic will be temporarily affected by the Charlottesville Ten-Miler this Saturday. Both mall crossings and both sides of Seventh Street will be closed from 8 to 10 a.m., said Donovan Branche, assistant traffic engineer of neighborhood development services for the City of Charlottesville. In addition to these closures, Branche said, the Charlottesville Police Department will limit traffic to a single lane in other streets designated for the Ten-Miler.
A woman was robbed at knife-point Monday near the 7-Eleven on Ivy Road, Charlottesville Police Sgt. Steve Upman said. The victim allegedly exited a bus near the convenience store and then was approached by two black males between 30 and 35 years old, he said. The victim told police the men came "out of the shadows," Upman said, before demanding her purse.
A new high-speed engine igniter, developed by fourth-year Engineering student Ryan Johnson, will allow hypersonic combustion ramjets - scramjets, for short - to fly at five times the speed of sound. "At that speed, you could fly from Charlottesville to Los Angeles in 40 minutes," said Chris Goyne, research assistant and director of the University Aerospace Research Laboratory. Johnson's research is part of the Hy-V, or "high five" program, a University, industry and government collaboration dedicated to researching scramjet technology.
President Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act into law yesterday at the Alexandria campus of Northern Virginia Community College. The legislation will restructure the repayment schedules for student loans.
Philadelphia resident Norman Leboon was arrested Saturday for threatening to kill Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va, in a YouTube video that since has been removed from the site. "Over the weekend, Congressman Cantor was notified by law enforcement that a threat was made against his life," Cantor's Press Secretary Brad Dayspring said in a statement Monday.
The Minority Rights Coalition announced the newly appointed members of its 2010-11 executive committee Monday. Third-year College student Heba Tellawi was chosen as the next chair of the MRC, which serves as an umbrella organization for the Black Student Alliance, the Asian Student Union, the Latino Student Alliance, the Middle Eastern Leadership Council, the Queer Student Union and Feminism is for Everyone. Second-year College student Revat Anandsongkit, meanwhile, was appointed vice chair for internal affairs, while first-year Engineering student Eric Morris was selected to serve as vice chair for external affairs.
[caption id="attachment_34104" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Student Council members took a break in their debate last night to recognize one member's birthday.
[caption id="attachment_34102" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="From left, Sen. Henry Marsh, Sen.
University students, faculty members and community members gathered to discuss issues about the minimum wage of University employees during a forum that took place in Memorial Gymnasium last Saturday. The forum was organized by U.Va.
[caption id="attachment_34067" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Former Honor Committee Chair David Truetzel addressed the Committee for the last time Sunday night, as the newly elected leadership prepares to take the reins.
[caption id="attachment_34065" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Prospective students crowd Peabody Hall, which was the center of excitement Friday after releasing admission information.
Gov. Bob McDonnell issued an executive order Friday that will establish a commission on higher education reform, innovation and investment. The commission will focus on increasing the number of degree-bearing Virginians by 100,000 through a period of 15 years, attracting more young people into the areas of science, technology, engineering and math.
[caption id="attachment_34029" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="David Baldacci, a graduate of the University's Law School and well-known novelist, will serve as this year's valedictory speaker.
Dozens of Jefferson Scholars program finalists completed the final stage of the selection process on Grounds this weekend, spending four days participating in the University's 30th annual selection weekend. Out of 101 finalists who visited Grounds this weekend, scholarships will be offered to about 30 students today, and those students will have until April 30 to accept. The weekend enabled judges to get to know the finalists beyond the information collected on paper, said National Advisory Board Member David Tolmie, who serves on one of the selection committees. "We see the background information, then we want to get to know them personally," he said. Each six-person selection committee evaluated a group of seven finalists, he said.
A collection of some of the nation's top venture capitalist firms, including many of their senior managing partners, came to Charlottesville last Thursday and Friday for the University's Venture Summit, a one-and-a-half day program organized by the Office of the Vice President for Research. The program consisted of a variety of event intended to establish the University as a global destination for technology-based ventures, Vice President for Research Tom Skalak said.
New radio technology - known as Gamma Knife eXtend - will make it easier to treat large brain tumors and tumors near sensitive brain components. The technology has a re-locatable frame without pins that can be used directly on the patient, meaning it does not require a rigid frame fixation, said Jason Sheehan, associate professor of neurological surgery and radio oncology at the University.
