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President John T. Casteen, III delivered his 20th and final State of the University address yesterday in Old Cabell Hall auditorium. During his address, Casteen focused on assessing the University's current condition and the evolution of the institution during the course of his 20-year-long presidency.
[caption id="attachment_33030" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Student Council President John Nelson discusses the logistics of the new bill with fellow Council members.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear Abbott v. United States of America, in which the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic of the University Law School will represent the petitioner, Kevin Abbott. With the help of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Abbott is contesting a sentence he received from the U.S.
Greek organizations part of the Inter-Fraternity and Inter-Sorority Councils saw an increase in student participation this year, despite inclement weather during recruitment and continuing economic troubles. The IFC reported that 812 students participated in its spring rush this year, compared to 693 students in 2009, IFC President Charles Gamper said.
[caption id="attachment_32998" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="'Roy' Willis graduated from the College in 1962 with a degree in chemistry.
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.
[caption id="attachment_32841" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="According to Consumer Reports Health, the Medical Center reported twice the amoutn of average IV-related infections.
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.
