Third-year College student Michelle Elizabeth Collier was pronounced dead at the scene when Charlottesville police arrived at her house on University Court shortly after 10 a.m.
The dismissal of Dena Bowers from her position as a senior recruiter with the University's Department of Human Resources has been surrounded in controversy, as Bowers' supporters assert she was denied due process and wrongfully fired, while the University claims that every dismissal procedure was properly followed.
The State Board of Elections certified the results of the Nov. 8 election yesterday, naming Republican Del.
The Miller Center of Public Affairs' Web site, Whitehousetapes.org, has won distinction from the National Endowment for the Humanities, according to the Center's Director of Development Maurice Jones. Whitehousetapes.org, run by the Center's Presidential Recordings Program, is among over 100 Web sites that the National Endowment for Humanities has selected as "the best at introducing the humanities to students," PRP Director Timothy Naftali said.
University Medical Center nurse Annette Silver recently was named Advance for Nurses Magazine's 2005 Best Nurse Leader. Silver received first place in the region of Maryland, D.C.
Student interest in residing in language houses at colleges across the country is on the rise, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Randolph Pope, Chair of the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, cited immersion in the language as the main advantage of living in language houses. "It brings a language to life and I think that is absolutely crucial to discover that the language is useful in daily exchange with people," Pope said.
Tomorrow's football game against Virginia Tech is expected to draw a crowd of approximately 62,000 fans, according to Leonard Sandridge, University executive vice president and chief operating officer. "It is likely to be an all-time capacity crowd," Sandridge said. As the last home game of the season and one for which students have been camping out since Tuesday, security is a top concern. "Knowing that this is a big game and that this is the last home game of the season, there will be a great deal of security at the game," University spokesperson Carol Wood said.
There is a market in the business community for a commuter rail between Charlottesville and the Washington, D.C., metro area, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce. The survey sought to gauge the interest of the Chamber's membership of 2,200 local businesses.
A University-based group of architects and students have unveiled an exhibit for their plan to connect vital parts of Charlottesville with a single-track trolley system, according to a University press release. The team includes former Charlottesville Mayor Maurice Cox and Gary Okerlund, both current adjunct professors in the Architecture School, as well as Architecture graduate students Justin Laskin, Justin Walton, Tommy Solomon and Jayme Schwartzberg and Shannon Yadsko and Architecture undergraduate Sally Foster.
If you are one of the many people who are in search of a "science-y" class to fulfill an area requirement -- simply out of interest but do not want to get into a "weed out" class full of potential science majors -- you're in luck.
An oft-quoted statistic in the field of biogerontology, the study of aging, is that slowing down the aging process would amount to a greater gain in lifespan than curing cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes today.
Two University astronomy professors are the recent recipients of a NASA grant, NASA Public Affairs Officer Erica Hupp said. Prof.
President John T. Casteen, III announced Tuesday that Robert F. Bruner accepted a five-year appointment as dean of the Darden Business School. According to Casteen, Bruner has been serving a one-year term since August, but was offered the five-year contract after a special search committee decided he was the proper choice for a long-term position. "This committee unanimously recommended that I appoint Dean Bruner to a full five-year term, as I did yesterday," Casteen said in an e-mail.
The two students who were acquitted in the open honor trial last Sunday said the experience changed some of their opinions of the honor system. Although they were acquitted of honor charges on the seriousness clause, third-year College students Joe Schlingbaum and Lindsey McClung said they believe there was confusion that led the jury to decide the students' committed and had the intent to commit an honor violation. Act, intent and seriousness are the three criteria for a guilty verdict in an honor trial.
Next semester the University's Information Technology and Communications services will begin to look for an e-mail client to replace Mulberry. This comes in light of a recent announcement that Cyrusoft International, Inc./ISAMET, the company that developed the Mulberry e-mail software, had filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Because Cyrusoft International, Inc./ISAMET is now defunct, there will no longer be any new versions or updates for Mulberry available, and when the current version of Mulberry becomes too outdated for newer versions of Windows operating systems, or in the unlikely event that Mulberry begins to have major problems, an alternative e-mail client has to be found, said James Jokl, Director of Communications and Systems at ITC. The fact that Mulberry has to be replaced is not an immediate problem of the University, however, nor does it mean that Mulberry e-mail services are going to be diminished, Jokl said. According to Jokl, the fact that the company that created Mulberry has folded does not affect the University's license or right to use the software.
Gov. Mark R. Warner's administration announced that the University, the College of William & Mary and Virginia Tech all have passed the requirements in the higher education restructuring act to receive the highest level of autonomy, according to University spokesperson Carol Wood. The University applied to be a level three institution, which would give the Board of Visitors full responsibility for managing the University's operations. The autonomy will eliminate extra procedures that add time and resources to the daily functioning of the University, Wood said. Tuesday was the last day for an institution to submit a management agreement to the Commonwealth, which lists the responsibilities of the institution and proposes a six-year operating plan. Because Warner has approved the management agreements, they will be sent to the General Assembly, which will vote on the agreements during its session that begins in January.
