The Honor Committee sponsored a forum last night to discuss ethical academic responsibility and the differences between faculty and student expectations of academic ethical principles. The forum was held in the wake of strong faculty and student response to the statistical analysis of the final examination results for PHYS 142E, held in spring 2008.
[caption id="attachment_33948" align="alignleft" width="274" caption="Leonard Sandridge, executive vice president and chief operating officer, will have his name attached to the University Department of Human Resource's Outstanding Contribution Award.
Christopher Brightman, CEO of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, which manages the University's endowment, has resigned for unspecified personal reasons. According to Pensions & Investments, a financial newsletter, Brightman said he plans to return to the investment management industry in the future. "I have the utmost regard for the staff and board of UVIMCO," Brightman said.
[caption id="attachment_33882" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Three established alumni and friends of current University president John T.
[caption id="attachment_33879" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Student Council, together with the Arts & Sciences Council, will assist in putting on a celebration of women and the arts Saturday.
Experts from China, France and the United States convened on Grounds for a three-day conference that ended yesterday to discuss how non-governmental organizations help to shape public health polices. The Trilateral Conference on HIV/AIDS and Public Health Access, hosted in Newcomb Hall's South Meeting Room, was co-sponsored by the University's Center for International Studies and the Paris-based Institute for Research and Debate on Governance, an organization that in part aims to analyze the interaction taking place between NGOs and state authorities, especially through forums such as the one on Grounds, according to the conference proposal. "A Franco-Chinese forum was organized in Beijing in 2007 concerning the role of NGOs in education and health care," the conference proposal states.
The Engineering School will host a forum focused on "ethics and academic life" today from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Charlottesville City Council is in the process of amending City Manager Gary O'Connell's fiscal year 2011 budget proposal of about $140.8 million, which is about $1.7 million lower than the fiscal year 2010 budget. "Much of the challenge in developing the FY 2011 Proposed Budget was balancing revenues and expenditures given the decreases in local revenues and state funding, and the needs to maintain quality services," according to the proposal. Leslie Beauregard, director of Budget and Performance Management, said the city must cut some expenditures because several revenue sources have declined.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to provide health care to 32 million uninsured Americans in a 219-212 vote Sunday, with all Republicans in opposition.
[caption id="attachment_33862" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="President John T. Casteen, III will address students at the 181st Final Exercises.
[caption id="attachment_33860" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The University Judiciary Committee staged an open mock trial Monday evening in Newcomb Ballroom.
A local judge ruled last week that the City of Charlottesville does not have the legal authority to enforce a local ordinance that brings criminal charges against parties for not clearing their sidewalks of snow immediately, according to state code. After this winter's barrage of snow storms in the area - which ultimately cost the University $1 million in dealing with the aftermath - some local residents and businesses had been facing fines for not shoveling their sidewalks within 12 hours after the snow ceased falling, City spokesperson Ric Barrick said.
[caption id="attachment_33857" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Black netting at the top of the Rotunda's columns serve as a precautionary measure while the cracks are investigated.
[caption id="attachment_33826" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Crowds gathered outside Minor Hall and Monroe Hill last Friday, protesting John Yoo's presence on Grounds.
The recession may be easing in areas across the country, but unemployment figures in the Charlottesville metropolitan area from December 2009 to January 2010 showed a significant increase in the number of area residents looking for work. According to statistics obtained from the Virginia Employment Commission, unemployment rose from 5.4 percent in December 2009 to 6.6 percent in January 2010 in the metropolitan area.
[caption id="attachment_33823" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Amphitheater was stripped of its lawn last week to make way for new sod and a 10-foot wide gravel sidewalk.
The Charlottesville Park System will receive an additional 27 acres from local organizations to aid stream restoration projects and the city's trail development. Eighteen acres of land in the Meadow Creek Stream Valley were donated by Charlottesville firm Ja-Zan LLZ.
The No. 1 Virginia men's tennis team is set to come off bye-week with its second weekend of outdoor matchups against Maryland, Baylor and Gardner-Webb. Thus far, the Cavaliers have transitioned successfully from the indoor court to outdoor play, which began March 5 in a doubleheader against Old Dominion and Georgetown.
The Virginia Tech community remains on high alert after threatening e-mails were sent to students and university employees during the past week believed to originate from the same individual who threatened, via his YouTube page, an attack on the community in October.
