As the past week of voting came to a close yesterday night, the University Board of Elections announced the winners of this year's Class Council elections. Charlie Miller and Suraj Mishra, who served as First Year Council president and vice president, respectively, now hold the same positions on Second Year Council.
The Board of Visitors appointed second-year Law student Stewart Ackerly as its new student member at its Thursday meeting.
The Board of Visitors voted Thursday to eliminate the differences between tuition for in-state and out-of-state students for two specialized graduate programs within the Commerce School and Engineering School for the 2010-11 academic year.
[caption id="attachment_33511" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Elizabeth Bass, a graduate of the University and former Madison House employee, served as the organization's Interim Executive Director before taking her new position.
The Faculty Senate unanimously voted last Wednesday to endorse giving University faculty members more rights to their published works and allowing those articles to be more accessible to the public. The Senate voted to do so through its Resolution on Scholarly Publication and Author's Rights, which states that faculty members may provide electronic versions of their work for an open access electronic repository.
As students await the results of this year's University-wide elections for positions in the Honor Committee, Student Council and University Judiciary Committee, Student Council's Diversity Initiatives Committee is currently looking into excessive campaign financing and how it may reverberate into the demographics of student leaders within those organizations. Proliferation of funds Though most candidates spend less than $20 on their campaigns, third-year College student and Honor Committee representative hopeful Adam Michel spent more than $800 on his unsuccessful campaign last year.
The Board of Visitors voted yesterday afternoon to approve the renovation and expansion of Newcomb Hall, a project estimated to cost between $16 and $18 million. "We are going to make it a more efficient and inviting space," said Colette Sheehy, University vice president for management and budget.
Local business owners are optimistic about the future of Charlottesville's economy, according to the latest survey from the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce. "Our survey indicates that our members are looking at the business environment as being half-full.
[caption id="attachment_33488" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The elected chairmen hope to advance the organization's goals through their positions by implementing new objectives.
The University awarded Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards to 35 students this year, studying topics as diverse as investigating shipwrecks off the Carolina coast to researching edible rain gardens. The awards provide grants to support independent study projects during the coming summer.
Budget proposals released Sunday by both the House of Delegates and Senate rejected former Gov. Tim Kaine's proposal to transfer $18.8 million from state universities to the commonwealth's general fund, a plan that would have ultimately raise student fees.
The University is considering applying jointly with the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County to become a pilot community for the installation of Google Fiber, a fiber-optic network that could produce Internet speeds greater than 1 gigabit per second, more than 100 times faster than the broadband connections most Americans can currently access, all at a price that Google says is competitive. "Google has announced publicly that it's looking for communities to install ultra high-speed Internet," Charlottesville City Council member David Brown said about the nomination process, which Google will conduct by accepting applications and online votes until March 26.
[caption id="attachment_33462" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Altria released a statement Monday naming Casteen as the 10th board member.
[caption id="attachment_33460" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Residents spent many hours clearing snow from walkways after this winter's record precipitation.
Four small, rare galaxies are on the verge of merging into one larger galaxy, according to University Asst.
[caption id="attachment_33407" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Last fall, Clark Library remained open for two additional hours during final exam week to accommodate students who wished to continue studying into the early morning hours.
The House Appropriations Committee released its amendments to the state budget for fiscal years 2010-12 Sunday.
The University decided last Friday to move the Papers of the George Washington Project, a comprehensive publication of the first president's papers and correspondence, to Mount Vernon's new Library for the Study of George Washington. The project, which was established in 1968 as a collaborative effort between the University and Mount Vernon, currently contains an excess of 135,000 copies of documents, said Theodore Crackel, editor-in-chief of the project.
[caption id="attachment_33403" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Hand Center recently opened at the University Hospital.
The University Board of Elections experienced technical difficulties during the first hour of student-elections voting at 8 a.m.
