University English Prof. Lisa Spaar was chosen as one of three finalists for Baylor University’s Robert Foster Cherry Award, an honor designed to distinguish exceptional professors from across the English-speaking world.
Three people were held in police custody after refusing to leave George Washington Hall at the University of Mary Washington Wednesday.
The Jefferson Trust held an award ceremony Friday in Pavilion III, honoring and granting money to organizations and efforts in the Charlottesville area that have worked to better and uphold the University community. The group will give grants in 2015 totaling over $630,000 to at least 14 initiatives.
The Center for Undergraduate Excellence hosted an information session Thursday led by Dr. Daniel Kramer, Director of the Fulbright US Students Program, on Fulbright grants for students in the Special Collections Library Thursday.
University Law School Profs. Richard Bonnie, Rachel Harmon and Brandon Garrett were recently elected to the American Law Institute.
Take Back the Night held its annual vigil Thursday as the culmination of its week-long campaign to combat and raise awareness about sexual assault and misconduct.
First-year College students Caroline Kenny and Erin Murphy recently started a petition to install gender-neutral bathrooms in all first-year residence halls.
The Board of Visitors decided earlier this month to add a non-voting faculty member to its ranks. The decision comes after Board of Visitors Rector George Martin first made a formal proposal to the board in January.
Third-year students Lia Cattaneo and Russell Bogue were named Harry S. Truman Scholars this Wednesday.
The IMP Society and Black Student Alliance closed applications Wednesday for their Social Justice Fellowship grant. The grant of $3,000 will be awarded to a student or group with a project focusing on the topics of inequality or injustice.
The Students for Individual Liberty held a panel discussion Wednesday called “Incarceration Nation,” which touched on a host of emerging and long-standing law enforcement issues.
Two University students were recently awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program.
Dr. Gregory Saathoff, associate research professor in the Departments of Public Health Sciences and Emergency Medicine at the Medical School, recently partnered with a group of students at the University on a project called “A Nickel for Your Story,” in which oral histories of World War II were collected from local veterans
Charlottesville City Council passed the 2015-16 fiscal year budget Tuesday evening. The budget adoption has been controversial throughout the budgeting process due to the proposed one percent increase of the meals tax, from four to five percent.
Fourth-year College student Ashley Blackwell was recently named the 2015 recipient of the John T. Casteen III Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Leadership Award. This year marked the sixth year of the award with a total of eight recipients.
The Black Student Alliance selected its 2015-16 executive board Tuesday in an election held in Gibson Hall.
Climate Action Society members assembled and unveiled a 55-foot long pipeline on the South end of the Lawn Monday in an effort to protest the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The pipeline — proposed by Dominion Power — would transport natural gas from West Virginia to the edge of North Carolina.
U.Va. Students United and United for Undergraduate Socioeconomic Diversity (UFUSED) co-hosted a teach-in Tuesday on the new Affordable Excellence model approved during the most recent Board of Visitors session.
Take Back the Night held a panel style discussion about Title IX legal requirements and the University's new sexual misconduct policy Tuesday as a part of their week long event combatting sexual misconduct.
Jerry White, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, led a lecture Tuesday sponsored by the University’s Institute for Humanities and Global Cultures.
