Flipping through the pages of the University telephone directory or calling student locator for a friend's phone number is a thing of the past.
The Bayly Art Museum is kicking off the new academic year with a new name and big plans for the future.
Officials from the Foxfield Racing Association, Albermarle County, Virginia's Alcoholic Beverage Control, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving met yesterday afternoon to discuss new safety measures for the spring Foxfield Races, which are popular among many University students. The ABC is investigating the Foxfield Racing Association following reports by MADD of public drunkenness, drunk driving and heavy traffic in residential areas near the race track, located off of Barracks Road. The ABC plans to issue its report within several weeks.
Kids may know more about computers than do their teachers and administrators, but a new program associated with the Education School could change that. The Education School is one of four recipients of a $7.2 million grant, partially funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to train kindergarten through 12th-grade school superintendents and principals throughout Virginia to use technology in education. The Gates Foundation, run by the Microsoft tycoon and his wife, offered each state a $3.6 million challenge grant for technology training.
Although Virginia SAT scores for the high school graduating class of 2001 rose slightly, national scores remained almost the same as they were for the class of 2000, according to figures released Tuesday by the College Board.
University police arrested a Charlottesville man suspected of assaulting a party guest outside the Sigma Nu fraternity house early Tuesday morning. Police charged 21-year-old Bryan Pierre Slaughter of 114 Hartman Mill Rd.
The University may feel like a small, quaint place, but it's not so small in its property holdings.
With the Internet's quick transformation from elite and obscure to the essential and commonplace, the University of Virginia plans to join an online consortium comprised of a network of 18 universities worldwide.
The University Police Department is investigating an alleged assault, which occurred yesterday morning outside of the Sigma Nu fraternity house on Carr's Hill. According to University Police, several unidentified individuals attacked Col.
There's a growing tide of incoming students to Virginia's state colleges and universities. The problem is there's hardly enough room for them. At Old Dominion University, for example, a "large increase in the freshman class" required 24 students to live in a hotel in downtown Norfolk, and over 200 students to live in triples, ODU spokeswoman Jennifer Mullen said. Although over 19,000 students enrolled at ODU this year - a record increase from about 18,600 the year before - ODU was "able to accommodate everyone who requested on-grounds housing," she said. The story is the same at multiple colleges across the Commonwealth, including Virginia Tech and James Madison University, as administrators try to grapple with the problem of dramatically increasing enrollment coupled with shrinking state financial support. State legislators have begun to leave educators in the awkward position of adding new students without adding more money to their current budgets, which were frozen by the year's fiscal stalemate in the General Assembly. And according to future enrollment predictions, the problem is going to get worse.
The University Medical Center settled a lawsuit Friday with the family of David Allen Hudson for $1.5 million, the maximum punitive damages allowed for medical malpractice.
University student arrested at Buddist Biker Nicholson, 20, reportedly was angry after being kicked out of the club when he broke the window in a car parked out side the local hangout.
Affirmative action suffered a setback Monday, when the 11th Circuit Federal Appeals Court ruled that the University of Georgia unconstitutionally used race in admissions by giving non-white students an arbitrary advantage. Officials at the University of Georgia have not decided what their next step will be.
Earlier this month the House passed a bill banning any form of human cloning in both the private and the public sector.
Economics Prof. Edwin T. Burton is among the leading contenders for a commissioner seat on the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC regulates the nation's securities markets to ensure fair business practices for all investors. Now there are two vacant commissioner seats on the SEC and two more openings are expected soon, leaving President George W.
The University lost a devoted friend and musician on Saturday when second-year student Maria Diaz was killed on her way back to school from her Virginia Beach home. Diaz died when the 1986 Saab she was driving ran off the left side of Route 64 West and slid sideways into a tree in New Kent County, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corrine Geller said. "She died at the scene," Geller said. Police were called to the crash site at 5:17 p.m.
After looking over a year, University officials turned their search westward for a new director of Newcomb Hall. Bill Ashby, who now serves as director of business services at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, will begin his new job Oct.15.
With uses ranging from the practical to the inane, nanotechnology, the science of the small, may be the next big thing. In fact, things are getting so small that scientists need multi-million dollar microscopes to see what they are building. For example, in 1989 an IBM scientist succeeded in writing the letters of his company using individual atoms. Researchers in this growing field often manipulate objects that are a hundred thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair. Although such an accomplishment may seem pointless, futurists such as Eric Drexler say nanotechnology will become the center of a new-age revolution. Drexler's book "Engines of Creation" envisions a future where tiny machines are capable of building any object from scratch - whether it be food, cars or even more tiny machines. Nano-hype? Drexler's vision of a world filled with machines probably won't be realized for a very long time, if ever.
Jamie Fishman has a penchant for pennies. The 8-year-old Charlottesville resident proudly stands in front of the Coinstar machine at the Harris Teeter supermarket on Emmet Street as the machine counts his pennies and dispenses a voucher that can be exchanged in the store for cash or groceries. "Pennies are my favorite," Fishman says.
Pointy yellow pencils. Fresh blue jeans. Brand new bookbags. They're the items that make sitting in a plastic chair for eight hours bearable for kids who've grown accustomed to lazy summer days.
