Last week, the University announced a new study abroad program in India, which will begin this spring. This program is a semester long and is aimed at increasing interaction and academic collaboration between University students and faculty and scholars in India.
As September comes to a close, most upperclassmen have re-entered the academic mode. First years are continuing to acclimate to a new environment.
Albemarle County Police employed the use of drone technology Wednesday in their continuing efforts to locate missing second-year College student Hannah Graham.
Libertarian Virginia Senate candidate Robert Sarvis spoke at a Students for Individual Liberty event at Clark Hall Wednesday, outlining his platform in the upcoming midterm election.
The University’s Women’s Center announced a $3 million endowment Monday from Maxine Platzer Lynn, 1951 graduate of the Education School.
The University announced Tuesday that students enrolled in the Aetna Student Health plan are now allowed to add either same- or opposite-sex domestic partners to their plans.
Students doing multiple on-Grounds jobs reported the University does not adjust its salaries for inflation, or the general increase the price of everyday purchases over time. Student wages seem to be, on average, about 18 to 20 cents lower per hour than if they were adjusted for inflation.
The Virginia Department of Health conducted a community survey of randomly selected Charlottesville and surrounding Albemarle County residences from September 30 through October 2 in an effort to assess the community’s preparedness for emergencies.
The American Planning Association has included the Lawn in its annual listing of Great Places in America, a distinction based on its cultural, historical and local significance.Three categories of great American places are enumerated, including Great Streets, Neighborhoods and Public Spaces.
By Student Council met Tuesday, hearing from Housing and Residence Life and discussing budgetary and status concerns with new and existing CIOs.
The American Academy of Pediatrics published an article Monday endorsing the use of Intrauterine Devices as their preferred method of birth control among teens, moving it ahead of the birth control pill. IUDs are small, T-shaped devices made of copper, a spermicidal material, or plastic.
Students hope to soon officially launch a University chapter of Help Save the Next Girl, a national organization founded by Gil and Dan Harrington to raise awareness for missing persons and violence against women.
Inside Higher Education released its annual College and University Higher Education Human Resources Officers Survey earlier this week.
College Council approved funding Tuesday to pave and redesign the pathway in front of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity house overlooking Mad Bowl. Proponents of the sidewalk argued that the current pathway was unsafe to walk on, especially at night when many intoxicated students use the path to cross from Madison Avenue to Rugby Road, and during inclement weather during which the path becomes muddy and slippery.
Virginia State Police released a statement Monday confirming a forensic link between second-year College student Hannah Graham’s recent disappearance and Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington’s death in 2009.
University professor emeritus Charles Wright began his term as poet laureate for the United States Thursday.
The University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education has received funding to conduct research around the U.S. to help improve teaching methods in the STEM fields - science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences commissioned an initiative early last year known as the Institute of World Languages (IWL) to promote language learning and instruction at the University.
Virginia State Police released a statement Monday morning confirming a forensic link between the death of 20-year old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington and the disappearance of second-year College student Hannah Graham.
University President Teresa Sullivan said the University would increase the number of SafeRide vans and SafeRide’s hours in an email message sent to the University community last Tuesday. The time extensions were sent to the community in error, however, and Sullivan included the correct hours in an email to students sent last Friday. While the University has added a fourth van, no changes to SafeRide operating hours has been made.
