Poet Rita Dove received The Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry and Historian Elizabeth Varon won the Literary Award for Nonfiction for her book "Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War."
The Law School's Immigration Law Program and the Journal of Law and Politics held a symposium Friday to discuss the future of immigration enforcement, focusing on problems in the United States’ immigration enforcement system.
In conjunction with the University Guide Service and the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, the Miller Center hosted the sixth annual “Secrets and Traditions” event Friday. Wayne Cozart, vice president of development of the Alumni Association, led the presentation and examined the history of the secret societies at the University.
Though perhaps little-known to most University students, the Office of the Dean of Students has an endowment funding a no-interest Honor Loan to undergraduate and graduate students in need of emergency financial assistance.
Voters in Charlottesville have just two days left to request a mail-in absentee ballot, and one Charlottesville official says requests so far have been low.
Advising reform is taking shape through several initiatives, including career development programs, an expansion of the first-year COLA advising seminars for Engineering students, a Student Council-led peer advising program and a planned advising center in Clemons Library.
Student Council President Jalen Ross and Sara Surface, External Chair of the Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition, traveled to the White House last week to discuss sexual assault prevention strategies with other college students.
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill recently announced the results of an independent investigation into academic fraud at the university.
Student leaders constructed a memorial to honor and celebrate late second-year College student Hannah Graham Sunday morning at the Whispering Wall.
With the advent of online textbooks, large-scale publishing houses have been forced to evolve to allow quick, affordable access to printed texts — or else risk financial failure.
To conclude Disability Acceptance Week at the University, keynote speaker Robert McRuer gave a lecture in Minor Hall Friday.
The Medical Examiner’s Office in Richmond positively identified the remains found last Saturday as belonging to second-year College student Hannah Graham.
The Graduate Student Consulting and Beyond Club held a panel Thursday night to discuss Science and Technology Policy and various careers surrounding the field. The panel, held at Garrett Hall, aimed to discuss such issues as the disconnect between the sciences and policy, how society and government uses technological knowledge, how science and technology policy decisions are made and how to start a successful science and policy career.
The Alumni Association hosted its annual “Cocktails and Conversations” for Fourth Years in the College of Arts and Sciences on Thursday.
The bystander awareness campaign #HOOSGotYourBack held Pledge Day Thursday to promote its message of bystander intervention. More than 300students signed a pledge committing themselves to combat sexual violence on Grounds as part of the event.
The Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic will present Henderson v. U.S. in front of the Supreme Court next February. The case concerns individual property rights in the face of government restrictions on convicted individuals possessing firearms.
The Virginia Department of Health has launched an Ebola hotline to help answer concerned Virginians’ questions and provide the most up-to-date information available on the highly contagious virus.
The Virginia Tech chapter of Help Save The Next Girl held a candlelight vigil to honor Hannah Graham Wednesday night. The vigil featured speeches from Erica Grant, president of Help Save The Next Girl, and Faculty Advisor Jane Vance.
Charlottesville Bus Lines, a local association that solicits poetry from students and Charlottesville residents to display inside city buses, announced its annual contest this week.
The Honor Committee decided on a temporary solution to the procedural ambiguity it has faced in cases of bad debt, opting to deal with cases by relying on previous bylaws while Committee members continue to explore long-term solutions.
