Piedmont Virginia Community College will offer full tuition, two year scholarships to valedictorians of public and private high schools in its service area.
The 24th annual Last Lecture Series was hosted by the University’s Housing and Residence Life in the Chemistry Auditorium Wednesday.
Fourth-year College student Ashley Blackwell was recently named the 2015 recipient of the John T. Casteen III Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Leadership Award. This year marked the sixth year of the award with a total of eight recipients.
Batten Hour featured a talk about Safer Grounds Wednesday which focused on allowing students to feel more comfortable around Grounds and barriers faced by female students and faculty due to safety concerns.
The Black Student Alliance and the I.M.P. Society recently partnered to announce a social justice fellowship allowing students and organizations to use a grant to fund projects which will benefit the University’s and Charlottesville community.
UN Women, Women’s Health Virginia @ UVA and Student Global AIDS Campaign jointly hosted a talk on global health and gender-based violence Wednesday. Edward Strickler, program coordinator for the University's Institute of Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy, led students in a small group discussion setting by presenting issues, models and mock scenarios to illustrate pressing matters in the areas of domestic violence.
Last year, Charlottesville had four cases of homicide, resulting in five deaths — the highest number of annual homicides since 2008. City Police Captain Gary Pleasants said the statistic is anomalous and does not indicate any particular trend.
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell was denied his request to remain free while his corruption case is in appeal, according to The Associated Press.
The committee discussed the University's financial aid program, AccessUVa, which cost $48 million in the 2014-15 academic year, an uptick from $45 million last year.
The Albemarle County Fire and Rescue department announced Wednesday they will begin a new initiative known as Project RISK (Residential, Inspections, Smoke Alarms, Knowledge). Through the program, the county hopes to target a single problem — lack of smoke alarms — to bring down residential civilian fire casualties, which includes severe injuries and deaths.
