Even though the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was enacted into law only a few weeks ago, the plan has already begun affecting both the University and the Charlottesville area.The stimulus bill, which President Obama signed into law Feb.
City Manager Gary O?Connell presented the proposed City of Charlottesville budget for the 2009-2010 fiscal year to community members and City Council last night.
The Student Information System, which officially replaced ISIS yesterday as the University?s course registration system of record, saw a test run yesterday as its creators walked first-time users through the new setup.
A recently implemented Commission on the Future of the University initiative aims to change the way faculty and graduate students use digital technology, said Michael McPherson, associate vice president and deputy chief information officer.
A recent study from Psychology Prof. Timothy Salthouse found that human cognitive processing speed, memory and reasoning abilities peak at age 22 and begin to see noteworthy declines after age 27.
Asst. Ophthalmology Prof. Paul Yates recently developed a new portable, inexpensive camera to take diagnostic images of the back of the eye, with help from second-year Engineering student Kenneth Tran.
The rooms along the Lawn comprise the oldest and ? as many may believe ? most prestigious residences on Grounds.
The Honor Committee last night discussed two legislative changes respectively intended to incentivize the expediency of accused students? trial date requests and ease the selection of jury members for some high-profile trials.The first proposal affects how a student chooses his or her trial date.
Two University students reported being robbed at 2:15 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of Virginia Avenue and 15th Street N.W., Charlottesville Police Sgt.
The National Pan-Hellenic Council elected seven students to make up its next executive board last night.Representatives of each of the University?s six active historically black fraternities and sororities elected third-year College student Isaac Bawuah as president and third-year Engineering student Jaleesa Boykin as executive vice president.
Grade inflation is highly prevalent at many top higher education institutions, including the University, according to two decades of data recently cited by a retired Duke University professor.Stuart Rojstaczer said his studies show that the average GPA among students at public colleges and universities has risen from 2.85 in 1991 to 3.01 in 2007.
Though voter turnout in the recent University-wide spring elections was the highest in four years at 38 percent, a mere 10 voters took part in the Education School?s later elections for Education Council.Despite efforts from the University Board of Elections to improve voter participation ? including the creation of a separate voting period for Education School races ? several other factors may have lessened the impact of those changes and contributed to the low turnout.?None of the races were contested,? current Education Council President Jesse Rine said.
University administrators and students are currently working to create a new initiative to promote common courtesy and manners among today?s youth.The Papers of George Washington, a University grant-funded project, is leading the initiative, called ?The Civility Project: Where George Washington Meets the Twenty-First Century.?Theodore Crackel, editor-in-chief of the Papers of George Washington, said the initiative will be based on 110 rules of civility, hand-copied and adhered to by Washington as a young man.
Future research conducted at the University could help NASA and the United States Air Force design the next generation of hypersonic aircraft, perhaps one day capable of travelling 12 times the speed of sound.NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory?s Office of Scientific Research recently designated the University as the National Center for Hypersonic Combined Cycle Propulsion and awarded it $10 million for research, said James Pittman, principal investigator for the Hypersonics Project of NASA?s Fundamental Aeronautics Program at NASA?s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
The University will build a memorial to a community of free blacks who in the 1880s lived in the vicinity of what is now land set aside for the South Lawn Project, officials said.The memorial also will be dedicated to Kitty Foster, a free black woman who in 1883 purchased the property where the memorial is to be constructed.
Though the heyday of metal-core is long gone, Lamb of God has risen from the ashes to make its bid for the title of today?s top heavy metal band.
For the 15th consecutive year, the University boasts the highest black student graduation rate among the nation?s public undergraduate institutions, according to a report released by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.88.9 percent of black students at the University graduated in six years or less, according to data from the University?s Institutional Assessment and Studies office.
The current state of the economy is causing some colleges and universities to attempt formulating new ways to gauge whether high school student applicants will accept admissions offers.
Research conducted by University and University of Michigan professors may help future efforts to treat addictions of all types, said Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences Prof.
The Days of Dialogue planning committee within the University?s Dean of Students office presented an Evening of Dialogue on Race last night, allowing a panel of professors and a doctoral candidate to speak about the role of diversity in the University community and across the United States.The panelists included Hanadi Al-Samman, assistant professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Culture, Assoc.
