Graduate Labor Alliance members saw a significant victory in their campaign for affordable health insurance yesterday after University officials said they would recommend that the Board of Visitors create a $900 per person annual subsidy for graduate student coverage.
The National Endowment for the Humanities continued its long-standing relationship with the University this week by handing out over $500,000 in grant money to faculty members. Four faculty members received grants from the NEH, which recognizes exceptional humanities programs at colleges, universities and historical societies across the nation.
M. Rick Turner, dean of African-American Affairs, voiced concern yesterday that suggested changes in the athletics department might considerably decrease the number of black athletes at the University.
A new era dawned for the land of the rising sun when a team of three Japanese health care workers traveled to the University for a month-long training program in infection control. The International Health Care Worker Safety Center at the University Health System organized the program, which started in 1998.
Although there is no cure for asthma, researchers may be one step closer to combating this common and deadly illness. According to a new study from the University Health System, exposure to cats may lead to a decreased risk of developing asthma.
Mathematicians are not widely known for a combative nature, but the construction that began in Kerchof Hall ahead of schedule Monday has some in the University's math department fuming.
President Bush's proposed budget may disappoint students who rely on federal aid to finance their undergraduate educations.
(This is the third in a four-part series examining the way members of the University view the honor system.) University faculty members initiate more than 50 percent of all honor cases.
Yesterday, the Dave Matthews Band official Web site posted the cancellation of the band's second Charlottesville show scheduled for Sunday, April 22.
Few may remember filling out those mind-numbing census forms that appeared in our mailboxes last year - maybe because many did not bother to fill them out at all.
It's official - University professors are interested in having an on-Grounds faculty dining facility in which they can enjoy lunch with one another, University guests and students. Faculty Senate members recently learned the results of a survey asking faculty about potential plans for an additional University dining facility.
Nine months ago, College Dean Melvyn P. Leffler announced he would resign in August. Nine months later, his replacement still is unknown. But according to Gene Block, chairman of the search committee charged with finding Leffler's replacement, there are several "exceptional" applicants from which the new dean will be chosen. "We have interviewed a number of external as well as internal candidates," Block said.
Have you "ever been convicted of possessing or selling illegal drugs?" Starting with the 2001-2002 school year, the U.S.
As third-year Engineering student Brian Edmonds thought about what life would be like next year living at 15 West Lawn he quietly commented, "There's no way I won't be taking my rocking chair." Almost 35 years ago, Lawn room 15 was endowed in memory of Gus Blagden.
Well, it's over. Tax season officially ended yesterday, as thousands of Americans dropped their 1040s in the mailbox and kissed significant portions of their income goodbye.
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You've just gotten used to the disembodied and robotic voice that has replaced telephone operators.
At the April Board of Visitors meeting this weekend, members discussed a number of issues including proposed capital outlay projects, tuition and rate increases, and the University's 2020 commission reports. The Board of Visitors is composed of 16 members appointed by the governor, and a non-voting student member.
With dot-com bubbles bursting and the NASDAQ nosediving, you might think that nobody's going to start a new company anytime soon.
In a report presented Friday to the Board of Visitors, the Virginia 2020 Strategic Planning Task Force for the Department of Athletics recommended restructuring the University's 24 varsity sports into four tiers to combat an athletics program deficit that is projected to reach $47.4 million by 2010. The task force also recommended the elimination of men's indoor track and field and the addition of women's golf in order to address the budget deficit and Title IX concerns regarding equality between men's and women's athletics. If the changes are approved, women will make up 51 percent of the University's athletes, up from 47 percent.
