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City names month to encourage driving safety

By Krista Pedersen | April 20, 2012

The City of Charlottesville yesterday named April Distracted Driving Awareness Month as part of a nationwide push to encourage drivers to be more cautious. Charlottesville City Fire Chief Charles Werner read a statement from Mayor Satyendra Huja in front of City Hall on the Downtown Mall yesterday morning which called distracted driving a "serious, life-threatening practice that is preventable." Werner estimated one in five road fatalities resulted from distracted driving, whereas Huja said about 80 percent of all crashes could be attributed to a driver not paying full attention.

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University, IBM research Chesapeake Bay ecosystem

By Greg Lewis | April 20, 2012

The University, in partnership with IBM, launched the Computing for Sustainable Water project yesterday, according to a University press release.

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University hosts annual Venture Summit

By Alyssa D'Angelo and Callie Jacobs | April 20, 2012

The University yesterday hosted the first day of its fourth annual Venture Summit, a two-day event for University innovators to pitch ideas to potential investors representing about $20 billion in active capital funds. W.

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U.Va. dedicates position

By Donald Sensabaugh | April 19, 2012

The University announced yesterday the Concoran Department of History will establish a permanent position called the Julian Bond Professorship in Civil Rights and Social Justice to honor History Prof.

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Senate passes budget

April 19, 2012

The Virginia Senate passed its biennial budget yesterday evening in a special session, after failing to pass the $85 billion bill Tuesday. The budget passed 21-19, with Sen.

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Study describes biases

By Kelly Kaler | April 19, 2012

A study presented yesterday at the American Educational Research Association's annual conference in Vancouver found college students who formed interracial friendships by the end of their first year were more likely to demonstrate liberal views on issues of race.

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Council displays seven GIFT plans

By Joseph Liss | April 19, 2012

Student Council displayed seven sustainability projects funded by its Green Initiatives Funding Tomorrow grant on the West Range yesterday.

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Gov. signs 13 energy bills

April 19, 2012

Gov. Bob McDonnell signed 13 bills this week to promote statewide energy production, which he said would help make Virginia the "Energy Capital of the East Coast." "We have sustained winds off of the Atlantic coast, bountiful coalfields in southwestern Virginia, rich natural gas deposits, along with some of the top scientists and research institutions in the world," McDonnell said in a statement released Tuesday.

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Council plans budget summit

By Emily Hutt | April 18, 2012

Student Council's Legislative Affairs Committee yesterday evening proposed the creation of an education summit which would assemble state legislators and students during the summer to discuss the state's role in higher education funding. Legislative Affairs Committee Chair Jonathan Klaren, a third-year College student,, said he thought the summit was particularly important given the recent tuition increase which will affect University students in the next academic year.

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Senate rejects budget

April 18, 2012

Exactly one month after the 60-day regular General Assembly session adjourned, Virginia Senators yesterday failed for the third time this year to pass the $85 million budget which would fund state operations for the next two fiscal years.

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State revenue commissions rise 7.6 percent

By Viet VoPham | April 18, 2012

Gov. Bob McDonnell Monday announced state revenue commissions rose 7.6 percent in March from February's revenue report, according to a press statement released by the governor's office, which added that sales and income tax receipts can explain the increase. "Sales tax receipts increased by 11.1 percent in the month," according to Monday's press release.

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Watkins talks entitlements

By Grace Hollis | April 18, 2012

Ayn Rand Institute fellow Don Watkins spoke to the University community yesterday evening about his qualms with the nation's entitlement programs, which include Social Security and Medicare. In the two-hour long lecture, Watkins sought to answer the question, "What's really wrong with entitlements?" and first explained how he believed the nation progressed from "limited government" to an "entitlement nation." "It turns out Americans didn't starve in the streets [before entitlement programs,]" Watkins said.

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Judge sets Huguely sentencing date

April 17, 2012

Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Edward Hogshire ruled yesterday he will sentence former University student George Huguely Aug.

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Students play Bay Game

By Anna Milligan | April 17, 2012

OpenGrounds yesterday evening invited graduate students to play the Bay Game, a simulation created by University faculty and students based on the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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Local report suggests justice system

By Joseph Liss | April 17, 2012

Charlottesville City Council heard a report yesterday evening from Psychology Prof. Dick Reppucci, Graduate Arts & Sciences student Todd Warner and Gretchen Ellis, director of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Commission on Children and Families, about the City's treatment of minorities, particularly those in the juvenile justice system.

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Survivor panel kicks off Take Back the Night

By Monika Fallon | April 17, 2012

Take Back the Night, a five-day series of events which raises awareness about sexual violence, kicked off yesterday evening in the Kaleidoscope Room of Newcomb Hall with a panel discussion about dating survivors of gender-based violence. Take Back the Night, an international effort against sexual violence, was organized in the United States in 1978 after anti-rape marches in Belgium and West Germany.

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BOV approves tuition hikes

By Sarah Hunter Simanson | April 16, 2012

The Board of Visitors Friday unanimously authorized a 3.7 percent and 4 percent tuition increase for in-state and out-of-state students, respectively.

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City hosts race dialogue

By Viet VoPham | April 16, 2012

The Dialogue on Race Steering Committee and the University and Community Action for Racial Equity (UCARE) hosted an event Saturday afternoon to discuss race-based issues and incidents in Charlottesville. The Dialogue on Race is a City committee which promotes on-going discussions about race, ethnicity, racism and diversity to identify solutions for any community problems, according to the committee's website. Saturday's event was designed to further these goals by creating "a space for discussion on these topics that challenge how we communicate with each other as a community," according to the website.

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Police arrest three armed robbery suspects

April 16, 2012

Charlottesville Police responded to an armed robbery which occurred Sunday between the hours of 2:30 and 3 a.m.

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U.Va. honors Founder

By Kelly Kaler | April 16, 2012

The University hosted a series of events to celebrate Founder's Day Friday, including a tree planting and the presentation of the three Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in architecture, law and citizen leadership. The tree-planting ceremony took place on the Lawn Friday morning and honored the late professor Mario di Valmarana, a Venetian professor who spearheaded the University's study abroad programs in Venice and Vicenza.