Transfer students hoping to attend Virginia Tech this spring will need to make other plans for the semester.
Next summer, 15 teachers from across the country will travel to Charlottesville to participate in a seminar on the significance of colonial Jamestown in forming American culture. Sponsored by the University's Center for the Liberal Arts, the program is designed to help teachers develop new ideas for teaching their students about Jamestown, other early settlements on the Chesapeake and history in general.
The hunt for Dean Melvyn Leffler's successor at the helm of the College took a step forward Thursday with University Provost Peter Low's announcement of a 14-member search committee. Gene D.
The University Library's Electronic Text Center has teamed up with Microsoft Reader, a free software reading tool, to provide the University community and Web users around the world free access to literature. The partnership is intended not only to enhance the availability of books, but also to read text on an actual computer screen as opposed to printing out an entire book off the Web. "The whole idea is aimed at trying to get a person to read on the screen for a long period of time like you would an actual book," said David Seaman, director of the E-text Center. The text on Microsoft Reader looks more like an actual book than other e-texts.
More than 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of 5 have died since the imposition of the U.N. sanctions against Iraq, according to priest and retired ethics professor G.
Although Iraq is half a world away from Charlottesville, many University students are as impassioned about the events transpiring in the Middle East as if battles were being waged in their own backyards. University students prove to be divided in their views about U.S.
In a unanimous decision Sunday, the Board of Directors at Susquehanna University elected L. Jay Lemons as the new president of Susquehanna.
When Catalina Ocampo came to the University from Colombia three years ago, she didn't feel compelled to become an active member of the Latino student community. But by her third year, Ocampo had a newfound appreciation of the importance of Latino involvement at the University, where the Latino population has risen from .3 percent in the mid-1990s to 3 percent now.
A 16-year old male was shot in the leg Saturday night outside Kegler's Bowling Alley, located at 2000 Seminole Trail off Route 29, police said. Around 10:50 p.m., Albemarle County Police received a call reporting "disorder in the parking lot" of Kegler's.
With the booming new e-economy, the rules in the business world have changed. Now, it is not just about the quality of a company's goods or services, but rather, it is how fast it reacts to the ever-changing financial playgrounds filled with new-spawned ideas and technologies.
University Judiciary Committee Law School Rep. Brian Stansbury resigned from his position last night in closed session.
You've got the dough and you've got the desire. You want to get into the market. So how do you do it?
Last week, Student Council demonstrated to the Hindu Students Council the eternal wisdom of the cliche, "don't count your chickens before they hatch" when it backtracked at the last minute on a $650 agreement. When the HSC submitted its 2000-2001 allocation requests to Council last semester, it listed one of its expenses as a "Garba Band" that "plays music for dancing" at a traditional Garba Raas stick dance, the first of which was held Saturday.
A fourth-year University student was stabbed in the face with a broken beer bottle outside the Buddhist Biker Bar and Grill early Thursday morning, police said. Six individuals were involved in a fight around 1:55 a.m.
After weeks of working alongside demolition teams and construction crews renovating Peabody Hall, the Office of the Dean of Students has decided to relocate temporarily to trailers on the corner of Alderman and McCormick Roads. The makeshift offices, located directly across from Observatory Hill Dining Hall, were originally put up to serve as a temporary home for offices that would be displaced during a planned O-Hill renovation. But when University officials scrapped the plans to remodel O-Hill because of budget concerns, the future of the trailers was left up in the air. The office will probably wait at least until Fall Break to move, said V.
A record number of University students and graduates have applied for prestigious scholarships this year with help from the new College Fellowship Office. The office, located in the basement of Garrett Hall, aims to assist students who would be strong applicants for awards such as the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships.
Engineering students soon will get the chance to perform advanced research, thanks to a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The NSF announced Wednesday it will fund four new national Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers for a five-year period.
One of Student Council's College seats was empty, after one of its representatives moved to a higher Student Council position last spring.
Maryland's public college and university system has come under fire for the use of race as a factor in its admissions policies. The Center for Equal Opportunity, the same conservative think tank that attacked the University for its admissions practices over the last two years, recently released another study focusing on Maryland, "Racial Preferences in Maryland Higher Education." The Center, which criticizes schools whose policies include what it calls "racial preferences," also has scrutinized the admissions policies of public schools in California and Colorado. The study shows a disparity between the average SAT scores of black and white students admitted to state schools such as the University of Maryland-College Park, St.
The Integrated Systems Project, a five-year overhaul of the University's administrative software, completed its first stage of planning and is heading into its build-and-test phase. The Integrated Systems Project will implement a new computer system to benefit faculty by making day-to-day computer procedures easier.
