Student Council's proposed student activities center was brought one step closer to reality last week, when Council members submitted an official request to William W.
A female University graduate student was mugged Saturday afternoon on Culbreth Road, near the Culbreth theatre. University Police Capt.
The Libertarian Party elected a University professor to be the party's national chair earlier this month at the party's national convention. On July 3 at the Anaheim, Calif.
The Nursing School's largest donation ever - a $1 million dollar anonymous gift - will be used to fund a Centennial Distinguished Professorship in pediatric nursing. "This gift is a tremendous milestone for the nursing school," said Linda Davies, assistant vice president for health system development and nursing. It will help bring a nurse leader in pediatrics to the University, Davies said. Such a leader would have a wide range of positive effects, according to administrators at the nursing school. "This person will assist us in attracting junior faculty and graduate students who want to work with this person," Davies said. In addition to bringing in competitive faculty and students, the professor hired with the gift would be expected to do research and clinical work. This gift has the potential "to really make a difference in the care of children," Davies said. With such a wide range of benefits, Nursing School Dean Jeanette Lancaster said she hopes the gift will help put the school into the top-10 nursing schools nationally - the University's Master's program is now ranked 21st in the nation and undergraduate nursing programs are not ranked. "Our goal is to move our school into the top 10," Lancaster said. The good teachers, good researchers and experience in clinical practices that this gift will bring will help accomplish that goal, she said. The nursing school plans to search for a professor to fill the position in the fall.
The Republican National Committee selected Del. Paul C. Harris, R-Albemarle this week to speak at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. "I'm very excited [about speaking] and I can't stop giggling," Harris said. Harris is scheduled to speak on July 31 for three minutes on the convention's opening night theme: "Opportunity with a Purpose: Leave No Child Behind." Harris said that when he drafts his speech he will incorporate education and personal responsibility into the talk. The delegates to the convention formally will nominate Texas Gov.
Several divisions of the University Health System received top 50 rankings in U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Hospitals Guide," which will be published in the magazine's July 17 issue. Dr. Robert W.
For the second time ever, 3,000 incoming first-year students and their parents are coming to the University in the next two months for Summer Orientation. Class of 2004 Wahoos and their parents are arriving in Charlottesville for eight different two-day sessions occurring throughout July and August.
Virginia Senator John Warner's (R) request for a $2 million appropriation for the University's Center for Governmental Studies made headway in Congress last week. The Senate passed the Labor Health and Human Services Bill, which contained "favorable committee report language indicating the Center's Youth Leadership Initiative as a worthy organization that has done important work," said Warner's press secretary Carter Cornick. This means increased federal funding could become a reality for the Youth Leadership Initiative.
A University student and his friend were arrested Wednesday night for destruction of private property. Charlottesville Police Sgt.
The Provost's Office has chosen Carol Stanley from Drexel University of Philadelphia, Penn. to replace retired University Registrar Ann Antrobus. Antrobus was in the position for six years and worked in the Registrar's Office for 26 years. A University search committee recommended Stanley to Associate Provost Shirley L.
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which has claimed that Thomas Jefferson may not have fathered children with Sally Hemmings, a former Monticello slave, has changed its name to the Thomas Jefferson Heritage society in the face of pending trademark legislation. U.S.
Documents declassified Monday reveal that although Allies knew five days in advance about Nazi plans to kill Italian Jews, they took no action to warn the Jews. The information comes from 400,000 pages of documents released by the Central Intelligence Agency's precursor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). One intercepted 1943 order from Berlin said, "to seize and take to Northern Italy, the 8,000 Jews living in Rome.
Virginia Blood Services, the supplier of all the blood for the University Medical Center is experiencing a major blood shortage. "It's the worst shortage I've ever seen," said Laura Cameron, spokesperson for VBS. Although the blood banks at the Medical Center and Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville are fully stocked, the backup supply at VBS, "has virtually no blood," she said. "We have one tenth of the blood we had at this time last year," she added. Virginia Blood Services provides blood for all the hospitals in Charlottesville and Richmond, as well as various hospitals around the state. Cameron said in addition to the usual Summer decline in blood donations, the shortage has been intensified by increased blood needs at the Medical Center. Related Links Virginia Blood Services   "There are new types of patients being treated at the U.Va.
Construction delays on a new first-year dorm will force some incoming first-years to accommodate up to three people in their dorm rooms.
All structural work on the expansion of Scott Stadium at the Carl Smith Center was completed last week. The expansion adds 16,500 seats to the stadium, a new parking garage and new facilities for University Career Services at a cost of $86 million. Work on utilities, the 44 new luxury suites and press boxes should be finished by Aug.
Scholars and intellectuals from across the nation will be gathering on Grounds for the next four days to examine and discuss slavery in America and Thomas Jefferson's complex relationship with slavery and race. The University Center for University Programs is holding its tenth annual Jefferson Symposium today through Sunday.
The late literature and art collector Paul Mellon bequeathed over 400 American historical artifacts to Alderman's Special Collections library in his will.
A female student reported that a man indecently exposed himself outside Ruffner Hall the morning of June 16. A second possible indecent exposure was reported outside Newcomb Hall at 5:30 p.m.
The 2000-2001 budget, approved by the Board of Visitors last Thursday, will include a 30-percent increase in endowment income for programs connected to the University's endowment. The Board approved the unusually high increase, which usually rises 4 percent each year, because of the fund's especially good performance this year. The fund began the year in June with a balance of $1.25 billion and finished May with $1.67 billion. "We were very, very fortunate to have invested in venture capital and private equity," University Treasurer Alice W.
Facilities management workers have spent the past week building a plywood wall around Thomas Jefferson's crowning architectural achievement. The temporary fence marks the beginning of renovations that will include a new ramp to provide handicap access to the Rotunda from the Lawn side and repairs to leaks in the roof over offices in the portico. Project Manager Mashal Afredi said the project has been a long time coming. "Actual people who are in wheel chairs always comment" on the poor handicapped access to the Rotunda, Afredi said. Afredi said she and others working on the project have taken care to ensure that the construction will not compromise the Rotunda's architectural and historical integrity. "We probably would have had handicapped access years earlier if not for so many meetings" about preserving the building's original structure, she said. Special steps aimed at retaining the building's historical value include matching materials to the Rotunda and demanding care in the work, Engineering and Design Manager John Davis said. "[University Curator and Architect J.
