The University athletics department's 20-year-old plan to replace University Hall will come closer to fruition with a large financial gift of $20 million, University President John T.
By the end of the summer University students, faculty and staff will see five new people in some of the most prominent positions at the University. Meet the new vice president and provost, College dean, University police chief, senior vice president, and chancellor at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. "These positions are keys to success in each of several areas, and we have hired the right people," University President John T.
Businessman John W. Kluge donated his 7,378-acre Albemarle County estate to the University of Virgini Foundation in May, more than doubling the landholding of the University and its related foundations. The entire property, valued at more than $45 million, is the second largest single donation ever given to the University.
By Maria Tor Cavalier Daily News Editor Six former Medical Center employees filed a lawsuit against the University yesterday claiming their rights of due process were violated when they were abruptly fired May 29. The firings came after a patient care assistant in the psychiatric ward, Rudolph T.
Reported assault on Jefferson Park Avenue Charlottesville police are investigating a report that a woman was assaulted in her apartment Sunday night.
Memorial services were held for third-year College student Abigail Burroughs in Falls Church on Tuesday after she succumbed to cancer last weekend.
The University's Board of Visitors approved a resolution June 4 members believe will insure the future stability of the athletics department by developing options like fundraising rather than eliminating teams or creating a tier system. In April, the 2020 Task Force on Athletics released a report recommending a tiering system for the athletics department, which may have financially hurt smaller teams such as men's golf and wrestling.
Because a budget impasse prevented the General Assembly to do so in May, Gov. James S. Gilmore (R) on Monday authorized spending on several University projects, including the renovation of Monroe Hall and Lambeth Field Residence Area. In all, Gilmore approved eight projects on academic buildings worth $43.3 million, money that will come out of the University's nongeneral fund, not from the state.
Ask average Americans what they've seen in the last four years, and they'll probably give you one of a number of answers. Maybe they'll say that a president got embroiled in a sex scandal and underwent an embarrassing - and revealing - impeachment trial.
Terry Holland announced on May 2 that he will end a six-year tenure as athletics director on June 1 to become a special assistant to President John T.
Whether or not the University surrendered to Union General George Armstrong Custer during the Civil War managed to cause additional controversy recently. The accuracy of a state historical marker claiming the University did indeed surrender to Custer was questioned last August. After a lengthy ordeal the Virginia Department of Transportation took down the marker, originally located near the University Chapel.
Some graduating fourth-year students may be squirming in their Lawn seats tomorrow as the fate of their diplomas hangs in the balance, pending honor charge investigations. Throughout May, 122 current and former students - including some graduating fourth-years - were implicated in honor charges brought by Physics Prof.
The pull of his alma mater proved too strong for Darden School Dean Edward A. Snyder, who will leave the University to take over as dean of the University of Chicago's School of Business on Sept.
Commonwealth Attorney James Camblos upgraded the charges against 18-year-old Jamie Jovin Poindexter on Thursday to capital murder for his involvement in the death of University graduate student Alison Meloy. Poindexter, who was Meloy's next-door neighbor, originally was charged with first-degree murder.
More than a week after Virginia lawmakers officially adjourned without approving a new state budget, University officials, delegates and political analysts still are concerned about the precedent this action sets and the effect it will have on higher education institutions. "This is a disaster for the entire state and bad news for all our institutions of higher education," said Larry J.
Charlottesville resident Rudolph T. Johnson Jr. has been put on administrative leave by his employers at the University Health System after he was arrested Tuesday for the suspected rape of a female patient.
The University suffered a great loss Wednesday when Albemarle police found graduate student Alison Meloy dead in her townhouse on Commonwealth Road.
In one of the largest increases in two decades, state spending on student aid rose by 12.6 percent nationwide in the 1999-2000 academic year.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were one building on central Grounds where you could pay your tuition, have lunch with a professor, work in a community service office, take a dance class and enjoy dinner and a movie with your friends? Plans for a new student center that would provide such services are shaping up nicely, said fourth-year architecture student Andrew Burdick and second-year College student Steven Reinemund. To continue the current momentum, Burdick and Reinemund will embark on an "exploratory fundraising road trip" this summer.
A group of University graduate students will present recommendations to improve the Charlottesville voting system to the city's Board of Elections today. The recommendations follow a six-week study by 17 students involved in the University's new Northern Virginia-based Executive Master's Degree Program in Systems Engineering. The group chose the study to be its "capstone" project, which is required for the students to complete their degrees in May. The City of Charlottesville already had begun to review its voting system, which serves 21,000 registered voters, and readily agreed to be the group's client for the project. "The students have been doing an incredibly job, and the capstone project is designed to integrate all of the knowledge they've gained," said Christina Mastrangelo, assistant professor of systems engineering and lead instructor for the capstone course. Using their training in systems engineering, which involves the analysis and management of data, the group will provide a statistical analysis of nine previous elections, a simulation analysis of poll-site operations, a financial analysis of operational costs and a discussion of related legal issues. "The students will be making recommendations for new voting technologies and procedures to be used in the future," Mastrangelo said.
