At a hospital filled with the latest technology, University emergency room doctors no longer have to carry a clipboard and scribble notes.
[caption id="attachment_30878" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Recording artist and television personality Nick Lachey visited three University students, who won significant prizes using his new reverse auction Web site, Winnit.com.
[caption id="attachment_30845" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Virginia Democratic Senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner were among the senators students were encouraged to call for Pell Grant support.
[caption id="attachment_30839" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Education School, which is co-sponsoring the conference, recently opened its newest building, Bavaro Hall.
The University received an overall B- grade on the Sustainable Endowments Institute's College Sustainability Report Card for 2010, slipping slightly from last year's B. SEI is the only independent evaluator of sustainability policies at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, SEI spokesperson Lea Lupkin said. The organization published profiles for 332 schools, which each responded to at least one survey evaluating cooperative green strategies in nine "indicator" categories: administration, climate change & energy, food & recycling, green building, transportation, student involvement, endowment transparency, shareholder engagement and investment priorities.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... first-year College student Joe Riley? Although he may not be a superhero, and although he only recently landed on Grounds, Riley has already proven to be quite the savior for some local community members, assisting in two different medical emergencies in the past two weeks. On Sept.
[caption id="attachment_30808" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Students will have the opportunity to receive the swine flu vaccine after employees in direct contact with patients are vaccinated.
[caption id="attachment_30806" align="alignleft" width="257" caption="Democratic candidate for governor Creigh Deeds, pictured earlier this spring, spoke yesterday about his plans to expand higher education in the commonwealth.
[caption id="attachment_30804" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="This artist's conception simulates an infrared view of a recently discovered giant ring around Saturn.
The Charlottesville City Council unanimously passed a resolution Monday apologizing for its role in the Massive Resistance, an effort to keep Virginia schools segregated in the 1950s. The resolution will open several discussions and help rebuild some trust in the community, Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris said. "All of this is a precursor to dialogue on race," Norris said.
The American Political Science Association's Task Force on U.S. Standing in World Affairs published a report yesterday revealing that overall favorability about the U.S.
University President John T. Casteen, III will announce the 2009 recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Award - the University's highest honor - during the Fall Convocation ceremony Oct.
University officials announced Wednesday additional plans for the ongoing restoration of Pavilion X. The University contracted construction company Bensonwood to create a new parapet that will line the roof of the pavilion.
The College will begin moving its offices from Garrett Hall to Monroe Hall today to allow the Batten School to move into the vacant offices in the summer of 2011, Batten School Dean Harry Harding said. Because of this change, the affected College offices will be closed until Oct.
The University recently began to receive research funding through the federal stimulus package, which will ultimately total nearly 10 percent of the year's research funding. The University had received more than $38 million in stimulus research funding as of last week, and though it does not have its final totals yet, Jeff Blank, assistant vice president for research, said it has "probably received another $10 million in the past 10 days." The total in funding for this year and next year will come close to $50 million, distributed through 100 to 110 separate awards, Blank said. He added that the majority of the funds are from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, which is distributing about two-thirds of the funding. The agencies had several different methods to distribute the funds. The NSF and the NIH both established new grant programs, soliciting applications that are subjected to a peer review process before making awards, Blank said. The agencies also have supplemented funding for current research, such as providing funds to continue research for a year in addition to the original time frame, Blank added.
[caption id="attachment_30737" align="alignleft" width="185" caption="The University's Nursing School was chosen as a recipient because of its "high standards," Nursing School Ph.D.
The Office of Emergency Preparedness released an online training module last week that all University employees are expected to complete, in response to an executive order from Virginia Gov.
[caption id="attachment_30734" align="alignleft" width="255" caption="Visitors with strong cravings for cigarettes will be provided nicotine lozenges because of the new smoking regulations.
As the November local and gubernatorial elections quickly approach, so is the Virginia voter registration deadline. The deadline for registering to vote in the Nov.
This semester, the University debuted Bengali language and literature courses to College students for the first time. Bengali is the primary language of Bangladesh and the second most commonly spoken language of India, making it one of the most popular languages in the world. Bengali is "politically a very strong language to get involved with," said Prof.
