[caption id="attachment_42268" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Rep. Robert "Bobby" Scott spoke to the Introduction to American Politics class yesterday, one year after President Obama signed the health care reform act.
Vice President Joe Biden announced Tuesday an incentives-only education reform program encouraging states to increase their college graduation rates.
A group of University students is interacting with local incarcerated residents as part of a normal course schedule this semester.
This year marks the first of a three-year period in which new and retiring professors overlap employment at the College, an effort of the Legacy of Distinction Fund to prevent an absence of qualified professors.
Researchers have found evidence they think explains why university professors tend to lean liberal, rejecting the notion that liberal bias in higher education informs their political views.
[caption id="attachment_42157" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="StudCo proposed last night making football games into 'zero-waste' events, removing the need for trash cans.
[caption id="attachment_42153" align="alignleft" width="235" caption="Chesterfield teacher Taylor Anderson, who was teaching English to Japanese students, was found dead.
[caption id="attachment_42120" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Virginia mock trial team won two bids and multiple awards after arguing both sides of a hypothetical case about whether a company that produced beads coated with a poison is liable for the death of a toddler.
[caption id="attachment_42115" align="alignleft" width="176" caption="Rep. Robert Hurt spoke to students about last year's campaign, the growing national debt and the significance of citizens' involvement in the government.
[caption id="attachment_42112" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The incoming Committee chairs include Vice Chair for Trials Emily Forrester, Vice Chair for First Years Charity Harrell, Chair Victoria Marchetti and Vice Chair for Sanctions Cliff Cutchins.
Two University instructors from the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic will argue separate cases before the U.S.
[caption id="attachment_42035" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society hosted the 48th annual Restoration Ball and raised an estimated $5,000 dollars as part of its effort to raise $57,773 to restore the University's Rotunda.
University students are volunteering to help qualifying community members file their federal and state tax returns for free in conjunction with the Internal Revenue Service's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. The University's involvement with VITA was revitalized in 2007 when the Law School partnered with Madison House's Creating Assets, Savings and Hope program.
[caption id="attachment_42027" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="After the resignation of former Honor Representative Brandon Kist, third-year College student Ann Marie McKenzie was appointed to the Committee.
Three University Media Studies professors spoke about the positive and negative impacts of Google Friday in the panel "Google, the New Media: the Present and Future." The event was part of the 17th annual Virginia Festival of the Book, a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities which lasted from March 16 to 20. Media Studies Prof.
[caption id="attachment_42595" align="alignleft" width="294" caption="LaPradd, 25, was arrested in May 2009 for child pornography possession.
[caption id="attachment_42591" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Jefferson Commons apartments, located on Jefferson Park Avenue, were sold Tuesday to the company which acquired GrandMarc last October.
The University Police Department received search warrants Tuesday for e-mail and Home Directory contents for fraternity brothers and a first-year pledge as part of the continued investigation into Zeta Psi fraternity following the pledge's hospitalization March 1.
Authors of three books about slave resistance before the Civil War discussed their works at the University Bookstore yesterday at the panel "Fleeing Slavery: Revolts and Escapes." The event was part of the five-day Virginia Festival of the Book, which began Wednesday. About 70 people attended the event, including University students and faculty, as well as Charlottesville residents and visitors.
Driven largely by a 35 percent increase in student enrollment in public colleges and universities during the past decade, state funding for those institutions reached a 25-year low in 2010, according to a State Higher Education Executive Officers Association report released March 8.
