Tuxedos, toile tablecloths and the buoyant sounds of a string quintet characterized last night's annual dinner reception to recognize retiring faculty, held in the Dome Room of the Rotunda.
Biomedical Graduate Engineering student Kristen Wieghaus won first place along with a $1,500 research grant at yesterday's fourth annual University of Virginia Engineering Research Symposium.
Though the decision to move Inter-Fraternity Council rush for first-year students to the spring was controversial 10 years ago, the IFC has since adapted, now preferring the second-semester rush process. Former Dean of Students Robert T.
The Tuesday, April 8 News article "Athletic department leading fundraising initiative" incorrectly stated that the athletic department recently achieved more than 78 percent of its fundraising goal of $300,000.
The University has selected the final three candidates for the permanent Dean of Students position, each of whom will make a presentation and answer questions in sessions open to the University community in the upcoming weeks. A search committee comprised of faculty members and students formed in mid-January to examine applicants, said Christina Morell, assistant vice president for student affairs.
University policies concerning mental health issues were the main topic of debate at the Board of Visitors' Student Affairs Committee meeting yesterday.
Some students and family members affected by the Virginia Tech shootings plan to commemorate the tragedy's one-year anniversary by hosting a lie-in on the university's Drillfield April 16.
A University professor recently received a U.S. Office of Naval Research grant valued at about $6.5 million for her research on a proposed underwater vehicle with similarities to a manta ray. Hilary Bart-Smith, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, who received the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Program grant last month, said she and her team of researchers from the University, West Chester University and Princeton University, are trying to create an unoccupied vehicle that will imitate a manta ray in its movement.
The University Medical Center and Culpeper Regional Hospital have taken initial steps toward a new partnership slated to begin in January 2009. "We've established a statement of shared values and principles and we have both signed [a] letter of intent about what we want to do," said R.
If you're looking to start a new business or pursue a new career, the City of Charlottesville is one of the best places to be, according to recent rankings released by Fortune Small Business and Forbes magazines.
The homeless population in the Thomas Jefferson Planning District has increased 12 percent? during the past year, with an increase of 109 percent in the number of children reported homeless, according to census results released by the Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless this week. According to the results, 231 adults and their 46 dependent children were reported homeless by shelters in the City of Charlottesville and surrounding areas when the census was taken in January. This is the sixth year a homelessness census has been issued by TJACH and other service organizations in the area, said Jeffrey Cornelius, homeless management information systems administrator of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission.
The City Planning Commission of the City of Charlottesville passed a proposal yesterday to rezone several Downtown districts and limit the height of buildings in the area, a decision that could affect off-Grounds housing options for University students. The proposal divides the Downtown area into three districts: the Downtown Corridor, the Water Street Corridor and the South Street Corridor.
Last night Student Council proposed resolutions that would create an Ad-Hoc Committee on International Student Affairs to research issues and problems that impact international students at the University as well as an ad-hoc committee to organize a University Unity Project. "If you look around Grounds you will see international students are a unique group, and currently there is not a mechanism to voice their concerns and effect change," former Council Rep.
As the 2008 presidential election approaches, the University Programs Council and the argHOOers, a student debate group, sponsored a debate between the College Republicans and the University Democrats last night.
First-year college students are more likely to withdraw from school if they take large introductory classes from part-time or adjunct professors, according to the results of a new study. Audrey Jaeger, assistant professor of higher education at North Carolina State University , and University of California, Los Angeles graduate student M.
The third annual Jefferson Trust grant recipients were announced Friday, with a total $470,000 to be dispersed among various University schools, departments and organizations. Jefferson Trust Executive Director Michael Clarke?
