A Charlottesville based nonprofit organization is helping to piece together a mile-long quilt to cover the National Mall in Washington, DC in support of survivors of rape and sexual abuse.
The University ranked No. 2 on the Peace Corps’ Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities among medium sized schools, below Western Washington University.
After three years of growth, job levels in the Charlottesville region are now higher than they were before the 2008 recession.
Each language department approaches the competency requirement differently, however. Where some departments emphasize immediately teaching in the target language ? conducting the entire course in the language within the first semester ? many others focus on developing grammar before speaking.
The Fourth-year Trustees launched the Class Giving campaign last week. In the email to graduating students, the committee said tuition covers just 17 percent of total University revenue — though for exclusively academic revenue, the number is closer to 36 percent.
The White House announced the launch of a new sexual assault prevention initiative Friday: “It’s On Us” Public Awareness Campaign to Help Prevent Campus Sexual Assault.The campaign was driven by the White House’s Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, convened in January 2014.
Sam Kean, author of the “Tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons” stresses the part neuroscience has in what it means to be human.
Many universities have struggled to reach their enrollment totals in recent years and are planning to increase recruiting efforts for the coming application season as a result, according to a Gallup study released last week.
The Virginia House of Delegates and Senate passed a spending bill last Thursday to solve a $2.4 billion budget deficit that is the result of a revenue shortfall.
Christopher Newport Religion Prof. Graham Schweig gave a lecture in Newcomb Friday titled “Spiritual but Not Religious.” Schweig, who earned a doctorate degree in comparative religion from Harvard, is an author, a scholar and a yogi.
More than 1,200 volunteers spent the weekend searching Charlottesville for missing second-year College student Hannah Graham. The Blue Ridge Mountain Rescue Group and the Virginia Department of Emergency Management organized the search in conjunction with the Charlottesville and Albemarle police departments.
Police have identified the man seen walking with missing second-year College student Hannah Graham on the night she disappeared as Charlottesville resident Jesse Matthew.State police have issued two arrest warrants for Matthew for reckless driving, a class-one misdemeanor.
Charlottesville Police offered what they called “the biggest development yet” in the case of missing second-year College student Hannah Graham.
Charlottesville Police obtained search warrants overnight in connection to Hannah Graham's missing persons case for building 164 in the Hessian Hills apartment complex in Charlottesville.
Thousands of University community members filled the Amphitheatre Thursday for a candlelight vigil in honor of missing second-year College student Hannah Graham.
The Virginia Department of Emergency Management will organize a community search effort for missing second-year College student Hannah Graham early Saturday morning.
Charlottesville’s general registrar and a former electoral board member are facing several felony charges regarding the improper use of city-owned cellphones.
The University released “Rivanna” Thursday, its new High Performance Computing Cluster.
Shaun Kenney, the executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia, spoke to University College Republicans at their meeting Wednesday evening. Kenney discussed the upcoming election for Senate and other races in Virginia taking place this November.
Teach For America recruitment efforts have recently ramped up at the University.
