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The University's division of the Global Brigades participated in yesterday's nationwide event to celebrate and garner interest in student-led international development.
The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 will take effect Feb. 22, instituting a series of regulations to protect consumers younger than 21 years of age from excessive debt. According to a 2009 study conducted by Sallie Mae, 84 percent of college students have at least one credit card; the average student has 4.6 cards.
[caption id="attachment_32993" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Feda Morton, one of six Republican candidates for the fifth district Congressional seat, takes the podium during a four-round debate in Monroe Hall.
President John T. Casteen, III will deliver his farewell State of the University address today from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Following three months of research, University demographers from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service have added and corrected information about Virginia addresses for the 2010 U.S.
University employees have raised $932,000 in donations toward the 2009 Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, a statewide fundraiser for local charities.
Police forces are now confident that the person responsible for the death of Morgan Dana Harrington - the 20-year-old Virginia Tech student who disappeared Oct.
The University has canceled all Friday classes in preparation for this weekend's predicted snowstorm.
The General Assembly soon will consider a budget amendment proposed by former Gov. Tim Kaine that would shift almost $19 million from public universities to the state general fund.
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[caption id="attachment_32896" align="alignleft" width="242" caption="After a 20- year tenure as president of the University, John T.
A memorial mass for Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington will take place Feb. 5 at 3:30 p.m.
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Google announced that the University Asst. Computer Science Prof. Sudhanva Gurumurthi is among the recipients of its Focus Research Awards yesterday, which total $5.7 million of unrestricted grant money to fund 12 projects at 10 different academic institutions. The grant money will be divided among four areas of interest to both Google and the research community: machine learning; mobile phones as data collection devices for public health and environment monitoring; energy efficiency in computing; and privacy, said Sean Carlson, Global Communication and Public Affairs manager at Google. The awards are partly geared toward promoting projects that investigate energy efficiency in both hardware and software design, he added. "As more people use cloud computing, all this information is processed somewhere," Carlson said.
Dining Services announced yesterday that the West Range Caf
Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Charlottesville, incumbent congressman and stand-alone Democrat, thus far has garnered nearly five times the amount raised by his Republican competitors for the November election. The campaign raised a record $308,725 during the fourth quarter of 2009, adding to its total of $1,140,470 for the 2010 election year. "We're thrilled to have gained support from over 2,100 individual donors - nearly five times as many donors as all the Republican candidates combined - 77 percent of whom are small donors," said Anna Scholl, finance director for the Perriello campaign.
[caption id="attachment_32791" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Students have the option of taking the UVAirBus service to and from the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport for $5 and the Richmond International Airport for $15 each way.
After last semester's snow storm trapped several students in Charlottesville at the beginning of Winter Break, some students may have been apprehensive about the University's response to weather-related events. But University Services pulled together Saturday to combat the unexpectedly heavy snowfall that hit Grounds. "What we had projected as a pretty moderate event turned out to be much more significant," said Jay Klingel, director of operations and maintenance.
The state population's growth rate is beginning to return to figures close to those from before the recession, according to a study by the University's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The population grew by 87,000 people from July 2008 to 2009, said Mike Spar, a research associate with the Center's Demographics and Workforce Group.
