The University Medical Center's cardiology and heart surgery programs recently were recognized as being among the nation's best in 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success Study for 2003 produced by Solucient.
At the University, all academic departments are not created equal. Ask any politics or economics major about experiences getting into his or her classes of choice and even those he needs to graduate and he'll likely woefully share anecdotes of unpleasant time spent with ISIS at dawn's first light.
University President John T. Casteen, III announced yesterday that, after a 14-year post at Stanford University, David J.
Neighbors and acquaintances of Andrew Alston, the University student charged with second-degree murder in the Saturday homicide of Walker Andrew Sisk, 22, said there was nothing overt in his behavior that made them especially wary of him or made him stick out. A third-year College student who frequently studied for physics with Alston said she was shocked by his arrest. "I am so blown away," the student said.
It's no secret among college applicants that being a legacy can provide an edge in the increasingly competitive admissions process.
In response to concern over the adversarial nature of honor trials, the Honor Committee passed several changes to the trial format at a Nov.
A teaching assistant sees an obvious case of cheating, but wonders if it is serious enough to bring before the Honor Committee.
Eight months after a malfunctioning gasoline nozzle at UTS headquarters released over 50 gallons of diesel fuel into a local waterway, University Parking and Transportation has begun over $300,000 in facility improvements to protect local surface water from industrial pollution. Additions to the University's Motor Vehicle Maintenance Facility, located on Millmont Street near the Barracks Road shopping center, include canopies over fuel pumps, protective curbing around bus washing areas and oil-water separators in storm water drains. These improvements are part of a comprehensive Pollution Prevention Plan, developed by the Office of Environmental Health and Safety over the past two years as a University-wide approach addressing ecological issues. "It's not just us," Parking and Transportation Director Rebecca White said.
More than one week after suffering head injuries during an altercation with two Sigma Chi fraternity members, Carson Ward, a second-year College student and a member of the University football team, remained in critical but stable condition last night. The official definition of Ward's condition states that his "vital signs are stable but not within normal limits," said Brad Clore, a media relations officer at the University Medical Center.
As a part of a University Art Museum Japanese art exhibition, Sandra Kita, Japanese art historian will present a speech entitled "Edo Then, America Now: Understanding Japanese Prints and their Appeal" this Sunday in the Main Gallery of the University Art Museum. Kita's talk is part of the Museum's exhibition of Japanese art entitled "The Moon Has No Home: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection of the University of Virginia Art Museum." Kita is an assistant professor of Japanese Art History at the University of Maryland -- College Park.
By a significant majority vote, the Inter-Fraternity Council at its weekly Presidents Council meeting Thursday night rejected Eta Lodge's petition to become a local fraternity with IFC sponsorship. "Eta Lodge is not an IFC fraternity," IFC President Ryan Ewalt said.
The Women's Center and Studies and Women and Gender Program will release its 47th issue of its biannual magazine, "Iris," tomorrow.
In the wake of a second-degree murder charge against third-year College student Andrew Robert Alston, University officials Saturday issued him an immediate interim suspension. The suspension is the result of the criminal charges brought against Alston and is in accordance with the University's standards of conduct, according to an official University statement released yesterday. Charlottesville District Judge Stephen Helvin yesterday set Alston's preliminary hearing for Jan.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia recently approved the creation of a new undergraduate major in biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia.
A University student has been charged wit?h murder for the weekend stabbing death of a local volunteer firefighter. The stabbing occurred near the intersection of Wertland and 14th Streets, behind the Corner district, early Saturday morning.
The thought of part-time college work brings to mind certain jobs: Telemarketing, retail or waiting tables are common.
University undergraduates aspiring to graduate school might consider entering the newly expanded applicant pool for the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship, which will award around 30 new grants next year. Until now, the scholarship has been limited to students in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., but the Foundation recently announced that students across the nation now will be eligible for the award.
Charlottesville resident and well-known activist Priscilla Whiting, 72, died of respiratory illness Friday.
The Charlottesville Fire Department said a small fire started in the laundry room of Midway Manor on Water St.
It is late Friday afternoon and the Lawn is deserted, save a few tablers with no one left to solicit.
