[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.
[caption id="attachment_33778" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Placards on Copeley Bridge commemorate and also call for Morgan Harrington's murderer to face justice.
Charlottesville City Council held the first of two public hearings Monday night about the fiscal year 2011 budget, which likely will contain additional spending cuts in comparison to the current fiscal year budget. City Manager Gary O'Connell proposed the city budget, while Charlottesville City Schools Superintendent Rosa Atkins presented the proposed school budget, which is prepared separately from the city's and receives some of its own state funding.
[caption id="attachment_33766" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The package of bills will establish College Partnership Laboratory schools, which will link education schools at colleges and universities with students from across the state.
The Virginia General Assembly released its budget proposal Sunday with less drastic cuts to higher education than expected.
Gov. Bob McDonnell appeared yesterday for a question and answer session in Politics Prof. Larry Sabato's introductory U.S.
The Virginia General Assembly honored deceased Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington with a House Joint Resolution offered Feb.
The General Assembly passed a bill Saturday to allow college and university threat assessment teams in the state to access and discuss the criminal and mental health records of students deemed threatening to the public. Del.
[caption id="attachment_33712" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Virginia Commonwealth University student Jonathan Dorey, pictured right, was last seen March 2.
The Academical Heritage Review - a new, student-run undergraduate research journal for historical scholarship - will debut the first week of April. The University Historical Society, the newly formed contracted independent organization behind the journal, aims to provide students interested in history with a new outlet to display their work through the publication. "I think part of what makes the experience at the University so special is that students have opportunities for undergraduate research almost anywhere they could want to find it," President Thomas Howard said.
[caption id="attachment_33707" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The University's Children's Hospital hopes to create a more efficient center with its new ground plans.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's statement that Virginia's public colleges and universities do not have the authority to expand their non-discrimination policies to include sexual orientation was answered by organized action and media attention last week. Cuccinelli sent a letter March 4 to the heads of Virginia's public colleges and universities advising them to prohibit the inclusion of "sexual orientation," "gender identity," "gender expression" and similar terms from their nondiscrimination policies without authorization from the General Assembly.
[caption id="attachment_33681" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Though BusinessWeek magazine ranked the Commerce School No.
[caption id="attachment_33679" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds will honor the outgoing president and his wife's contributions to developing the arts at the University.
College Dean Meredith Woo announced that she will donate her own money for every fourth-year student who contributes to the class of 2010 Giving Campaign to help the College. Through her "Make the Dean Pay" initiative, Woo promises to donate a dollar to the campaign for each fourth-year student who contributes $20.10 or more to the fundraising campaign.
The Board of Visitors approved plans to accelerate the construction of a new Alderman Road residence hall, which is now scheduled for completion by fall 2014. This residence hall's construction is the fourth and final phase of the Alderman Road Replacement Project and was originally expected to be completed in 2017, said Richard Kovatch, associate vice president for business operations. University officials, however, decided to complete the project sooner to save money. "In this sort of economy, the bids that were coming in on the Alderman Road Project were significantly less than what had been anticipated," said Vince Mastracco, chairman of the Board's Finance Committee and member of the Buildings and Grounds Committee.
In an effort to promote sustainability, the University plans to expand its dining hall waste compost program to Newcomb and Runk Dining Halls within the next year. Waste composting has been a priority for Dining Services, especially since fall 2008, when the program began at Observatory Hill Dining Hall.
