The end of year tradition is a way for students to get rid of furniture, books, clothing , food or anything else they cannot take home. Drop off locations are set up throughout grounds. This year several area charities, including Goodwill and the Habitat Store, will benefit from the donations.
The Virginia Department of Education will award a grant of nearly $275,000 to fund a new partnership between Charlottesville City Schools and the University of Virginia meant to provide better science training for the city’s 120 elementary-school teachers.
Colonial Williamsburg announced Tuesday it will be the premier sponsor for the Virginia Symphony Orchestra's upcoming season. … The opening concert, titled "Jefferson, in his Own Words," is created by University of Virginia professor and composer Judith Shatin.
Andy Thomson at the University of Virginia and Paul Andrews of Virginia Commonwealth, … imagined depression as a way of forcing the mind to focus on its problems. Although rumination feels terrible, it might make it easier for us to pay continuous attention to our dilemmas.
[E]ven surgery to insert a screw in his wrist has not slowed down [Steven] Proscia. The junior is the cleanup hitter for No. 1-ranked Virginia (43-5), leading the team in RBI (48), home runs (five) and stolen bases (11). He is hitting .351 with a .392 on-base percentage. Scouts expect the right-handed hitter to be drafted somewhere between the fourth and eighth rounds in next month’s First-Year Player Draft.
By Michael T. Snyder, McIntire alumnus
There are examples of "Americans gone wild" all over the nation. The things you are about to read about below are not just isolated incidents. … As the economy continues to crumble this trend is going to get even worse.
Features Nicole Farmer Hurd [GSAS '02] and her program, which has the primary goal of raising the rates of college enrollment and completion among low-income, first-generation-college, underrepresented high school students.
As a University of Virginia undergraduate, [Christoph] Herby [College '05] founded a small business, a Charlottesville rickshaw service -- more forward momentum -- but eventually sold the enterprise and moved to Africa to join the Peace Corps in 2008.
After months of sadness and a concerted, sometimes contentious effort to bring sorely needed safety reforms to elite open-water swimming, the friends, family and former teammates of the late Fran Crippen [College '06] gathered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this past weekend to honor him by doing what he lived for -- racing.
Features Pat Bernick, who has a master's in theater and has directed more than 100 theatrical productions in Hampton Roads in the last 40 years.
Daniel Ortiz
Law professor
Obama administration fights to save healthcare law
Reuters / May 10
Brad Wilcox
Associate professor of sociology
Education level inversely related to childbearing
Washington Times / May 9
Architecture professors John Quale and Louis Nelson led a public discussion for the Albemarle Housing Improvement Program (AHIP).
It was once the most popular form of entertainment in America—Virginia included. Now, it’s a painful reminder of a racist history—but a history that some say needs to be recognized and understood. Features English professors Stephen Railton and Eric Lott.
By Edward Hess, professor in the Darden School of Business
In the business world, everyone wants to succeed and make names for both themselves and their companies. While we all want to be good at our jobs, we don’t all know how to manage our lives proactively to make it happen. For small business owners in particular, applying small steps to your everyday life can help good habit formation—habits that will ultimately play a role in your business success. Here are six basic management tools to help you prioritize, focus, act, make decisions, and learn daily.
Following the recommendations of Governor Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the Virginia Board of Social Services recently voted against nondiscrimination regulations that would have allowed gay and lesbian couples to adopt children. The vote is particularly significant for Charlottesville and Albemarle County, where adoption numbers have risen during the past three years and UVA researchers have published groundbreaking studies about the effects of sexual orientation on adoptive children.
Anyone in the university community can bring honor charges against a UVa student, but an exact and concrete definition of the university community as it applies to the honor system does not exist, said Honor Committee Chairwoman Ann Marie McKenzie.
A new repair station has been installed outside of Clark Hall, complete with air pump, allen wrench and other tools needed for basic bike repairs.
Features Darden School of Business in the annual survey of 65 open-enrollment and custom professional development programs. In this year's open-enrollment survey, Darden faculty took the No. 1 position for the seventh year in a row. The paper ranks Darden's executive education programs No. 5 globally.
The University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce (McIntire Undergraduate Business Profile) scores the best across each of the specialties, with an average rank of just over 12.
President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will celebrate American poetry and prose with a gathering of poets, musicians and artists at the White House Wednesday night. Professionals Elizabeth Alexander, Billy Collins, Common, [U.Va. English professor] Rita Dove, Kenneth Goldsmith, Alison Knowles, Aimee Mann and Jill Scott will read, sing and highlight poetry's influence on American culture.