Memorial services were held for third-year College student Abigail Burroughs in Falls Church on Tuesday after she succumbed to cancer last weekend.
The University's Board of Visitors approved a resolution June 4 members believe will insure the future stability of the athletics department by developing options like fundraising rather than eliminating teams or creating a tier system. In April, the 2020 Task Force on Athletics released a report recommending a tiering system for the athletics department, which may have financially hurt smaller teams such as men's golf and wrestling.
Because a budget impasse prevented the General Assembly to do so in May, Gov. James S. Gilmore (R) on Monday authorized spending on several University projects, including the renovation of Monroe Hall and Lambeth Field Residence Area. In all, Gilmore approved eight projects on academic buildings worth $43.3 million, money that will come out of the University's nongeneral fund, not from the state.
Ask average Americans what they've seen in the last four years, and they'll probably give you one of a number of answers. Maybe they'll say that a president got embroiled in a sex scandal and underwent an embarrassing - and revealing - impeachment trial.
Terry Holland announced on May 2 that he will end a six-year tenure as athletics director on June 1 to become a special assistant to President John T.
Whether or not the University surrendered to Union General George Armstrong Custer during the Civil War managed to cause additional controversy recently. The accuracy of a state historical marker claiming the University did indeed surrender to Custer was questioned last August. After a lengthy ordeal the Virginia Department of Transportation took down the marker, originally located near the University Chapel.
Some graduating fourth-year students may be squirming in their Lawn seats tomorrow as the fate of their diplomas hangs in the balance, pending honor charge investigations. Throughout May, 122 current and former students - including some graduating fourth-years - were implicated in honor charges brought by Physics Prof.
The pull of his alma mater proved too strong for Darden School Dean Edward A. Snyder, who will leave the University to take over as dean of the University of Chicago's School of Business on Sept.
Commonwealth Attorney James Camblos upgraded the charges against 18-year-old Jamie Jovin Poindexter on Thursday to capital murder for his involvement in the death of University graduate student Alison Meloy. Poindexter, who was Meloy's next-door neighbor, originally was charged with first-degree murder.
More than a week after Virginia lawmakers officially adjourned without approving a new state budget, University officials, delegates and political analysts still are concerned about the precedent this action sets and the effect it will have on higher education institutions. "This is a disaster for the entire state and bad news for all our institutions of higher education," said Larry J.
Charlottesville resident Rudolph T. Johnson Jr. has been put on administrative leave by his employers at the University Health System after he was arrested Tuesday for the suspected rape of a female patient.
The University suffered a great loss Wednesday when Albemarle police found graduate student Alison Meloy dead in her townhouse on Commonwealth Road.
In one of the largest increases in two decades, state spending on student aid rose by 12.6 percent nationwide in the 1999-2000 academic year.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were one building on central Grounds where you could pay your tuition, have lunch with a professor, work in a community service office, take a dance class and enjoy dinner and a movie with your friends? Plans for a new student center that would provide such services are shaping up nicely, said fourth-year architecture student Andrew Burdick and second-year College student Steven Reinemund. To continue the current momentum, Burdick and Reinemund will embark on an "exploratory fundraising road trip" this summer.
A group of University graduate students will present recommendations to improve the Charlottesville voting system to the city's Board of Elections today. The recommendations follow a six-week study by 17 students involved in the University's new Northern Virginia-based Executive Master's Degree Program in Systems Engineering. The group chose the study to be its "capstone" project, which is required for the students to complete their degrees in May. The City of Charlottesville already had begun to review its voting system, which serves 21,000 registered voters, and readily agreed to be the group's client for the project. "The students have been doing an incredibly job, and the capstone project is designed to integrate all of the knowledge they've gained," said Christina Mastrangelo, assistant professor of systems engineering and lead instructor for the capstone course. Using their training in systems engineering, which involves the analysis and management of data, the group will provide a statistical analysis of nine previous elections, a simulation analysis of poll-site operations, a financial analysis of operational costs and a discussion of related legal issues. "The students will be making recommendations for new voting technologies and procedures to be used in the future," Mastrangelo said.
She spends 40 to 60 hours a week in meetings, and receives about 60 e-mails every day that are related to Student Council.
A huge fire destroyed Longwood College's historic Rotunda on Tuesday and damaged additional buildings in the school's Ruffner Hall complex. No injuries or fatalities were reported in the Farmville incident. East and West Ruffner Halls, used for classrooms and offices, were completely gutted in the blaze, and Grainger Hall suffered severe damage to its roof and top floor.
What qualities make a professional research paper good? Ask Susan Dalebout, academic assistant professor of communication disorders, or doctoral student Lisa Fox.
Last night, about 100 University students gathered in Minor Hall to hear a panel that included Sen.
Imagine if professors had a way to determine, with absolute certainty, if any of their students had cheated on papers, projects or exams.
