Students on their way to class yesterday found the McCormick Road pedestrian crosswalk on Monroe Hill blocked off by University Police and Charlottesville Fire Department vehicles.
The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation is partnering with University students to develop Charlottesville?s first apartment building specifically for the city?s homeless community.
The University?s chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers was named an outstanding student chapter for 2008 by the nationwide organization.?Every year our student chapters committee awards recognition to a handful of student chapters based on their level of participation,? explained Gordon Ellis, head of student awards at AIChE, an organization that aims to advance the practice and theory of chemical engineering.
Fourth-year Commerce student Miloni Shah can see the Taj Hotel from the window of her home in Mumbai, India.
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D), a 1983 Law School graduate, will serve as secretary of Homeland Security in his administration.
In its final meeting of the fall semester last night, Student Council heard appropriations appeals from two University student organizations: the Virginia Rowing Association and Mock Trial.
The Inter-Sorority Council elected its new executive board Monday night.
The University?s Parking and Transportation Committee is currently considering an initiative proposed by Student Council that would provide free late-night parking for students in the Central Grounds Parking Garage near Newcomb Hall.The initiative, headed by Council?s Safety and Wellness Committee, proposes providing free parking for students from 10 p.m.
Charlottesville City Council members heard the first of two readings regarding year-end appropriations for the 2008 fiscal year yesterday, as local leaders prepare to begin 2009 budget talks.
University Architecture students involved in a neighborhood planning course gave a presentation yesterday about foreclosure and property decay to representatives from the City of Charlottesville, Piedmont Housing Alliance and other local organizations.Second-year Architecture graduate student Adam Lovelady said the project, whose participants are all affiliated with the Architecture School?s urban and environmental planning department, was divided into four themes, each of which involved a different group of students: ?Identifying Priority Areas,? ?Correlating Blight and Prevention,? ?Forecasting Foreclosures? and ?Increasing Financial Literacy.?In discussing the methods used for the project?s data collection and analysis, fourth-year Architecture student Laura Hammett, who is also a Cavalier Daily production editor, noted that the initial data on foreclosures were collected from foreclosures.com, Piedmont Housing Alliance?s foreclosure data and The Daily Progress newspaper.
The nation?s current economic woes will affect the number but not the variety of jobs available in Virginia, according to the most recent ?Stat Chat? by the University?s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.The most recent edition of the Stat Chat, which outlines Virginia?s population and workforce statistics three times per year, also noted that despite a shrinking job market ?employment in Virginia will continue to span a broad range of occupations and will require education at all levels.?The study used data published by the Virginia Workforce Connection, the Virginia Employment Commission, the U.S.
University students and other community members seeking an easier way to visit Washington D.C.
The University officially launched its U.Va. Today Daily Report yesterday, University spokesperson Carol Wood said, noting that the new electronic daily newsletter seeks to better deliver and ?push? University-related news, updates and headlines into the hands of students, faculty and staff.An e-mail announcing the launch sent by Leonard Sandridge, University executive vice president and chief operating officer, stated that people signed up to receive the newsletter ?will receive top stories about University staff, faculty and students, calendar items and general information about what?s happening.? Links to other media outlets and University blogs will also be included, the e-mail stated.Wood said the report is an outgrowth of the current U.Va.
Democrat Tom Perriello was declared the winner in Virginia?s fifth congressional district race yesterday, following the completion of an extensive vote count and canvass by the Virginia State Board of Elections.
The Jefferson Scholars Foundation recently created the Hartfield-Jefferson Teaching Prize to acknowledge exceptional teaching in the University?s Engineering School.In determining the recipient of prize, which is limited to undergraduate professors, the foundation looks for commitment to curriculum issues as well as excellence in teaching, Jefferson Scholars Foundation President James Wright said.
Civic literacy does necessarily go hand in hand with a college degree, according to a study released by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute last Thursday.?We thought it might be good to look at how Americans of all educational attainments did, so we could compare and contrast and isolate the impact of college,? said Richard Brake, ISI director of university stewardship.
Variations in the gene for serotonin transport may affect drinking habits in alcoholics, according to Neurobiology Prof.
The Darden School proved successful at the sixth annual Innovation Challenge, where two student teams swept all three possible awards, including one worth $20,000.The Innovation Challenge is the world?s largest innovation competition available to M.B.A.
Utility installation and construction for two new science buildings, which were put on hold during the October Board of Visitors meeting, will begin Nov.
The headline for an article in yesterday?s Cavalier Daily stated ?Miller Center hosts 10th democracy conference.? The headline should have stated ?Center for Politics hosts 10th democracy conference.? The Cavalier Daily regrets the error.
