[caption id="attachment_31404" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Darden School. Photo by Iram Shaikh."]
The University Judiciary Committee introduced the new First Year Judiciary Committee at its weekly meeting last Sunday.
[caption id="attachment_31357" align="alignleft" width="223" caption="Rep. Tom Perriello, pictured on the campaign trail last year, and delegates David Toscano and Robert Bell were shown scale models of turbines at the University's Rotating Machinery and Controls Laboratory to simulate wind energy options.
In an effort to improve its outreach, Student Council has developed a number of programs to encourage co-sponsorship among student groups and to support the functions of contracted independent organizations. Last Monday, 85 student leaders from various CIOs, seven members of the University administration and staff members from Student Activities and Business Services convened at the CIO Leadership Dinner in the Newcomb Ballroom for a keynote program with resources from dominant organizations on Grounds, including the University Programs Council, the University Judiciary Committee and the Fourth Year Trustees. The dinner was intended to initiate conversations about co-sponsorship among attendees.
University Asst. Medical Prof. Jessica Connelly and researchers at Duke University have discovered a possible link between autism and genes that are turned on and off in DNA. The research, which was co-led by Duke Medical Asst.
Dr. Paul Wichansky, a national public speaker on disabilities awareness, spoke at the University last night, kicking off the University's Disability Awareness Week. Wichansky, who has cerebral palsy, "speaks all about overcoming adversity and about empowering yourself as a disabled person, [as well as] bridging the gap between the disabled and the non- disabled population," third-year Commerce student Jason Shapiro said. Shapiro, whose younger brother has cerebral palsy, approached the University Programs Council about organizing the event, UPC Director of Current Events Stephanie Nguyen said. Shapiro noted that his younger brother was "instrumental" in getting Disabilities Awareness Month passed at the state level, and Shapiro wanted to mold it into a week-long event suitable for the University. "It's just to spread awareness," he said, so "that people who aren't usually around people with disabilities know about it, can deal with it better on a day-to-day basis, if they see people on the street with a disability, that kind of thing." In this vein, Disabilities Awareness Week will feature two speakers and two film screenings.
[caption id="attachment_31318" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The vibrant yellow and red hues are expected to last until the beginning of November.
[caption id="attachment_31271" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Student Health and Intrarvene will host a clinic for students to receive the flu shot and other vaccines today at the Aquatic and Fitness Center.
[caption id="attachment_31269" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Honor Committee discussed two proposed amendments that could allow students found guilty of an honor offense during the Semester at Sea program a second trial in Charlottesville.
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation named Biomedical Engineering Asst. Prof. Kevin Janes a recipient of the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering last Thursday for his outstanding achievement in the field of biomedicine. In his research, Janes said he is trying to understand how the hundreds - and perhaps thousands - of different signaling molecules inside a cell work together as a network to coordinate a cell's decision to proliferate, differentiate or die in response to environmental changes. "I use the engineer's perspective to conclude how cells change according to different environments," Janes said. Janes said he plans to use the grant to support his general research activity by bringing two graduate students and one postdoctoral researcher onto the project.
The University released its listing of courses for the spring semester Friday through the Student Information System - bringing to the fore some community members' continued concerns about the course registration process. The next semester offers students an array of classes from which to choose, with the College currently scheduled to offer 4,124 class sections on Grounds, University Assoc.
Two University creative writing professors received Library of Virginia Literary awards in recognition of their poetry works Saturday.
[caption id="attachment_31236" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The partnership between Rolls-Royce and the University's Engineering School will help support the creation of research, employment and internship opportunities.
The Institute of Medicine recently honored Medical School Prof. Don Detmer with the Walsh McDermott Medal.
Virginia State Police are still hard at work trying to locate missing Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington, who disappeared during the Metallica concert at John Paul Jones Arena last Saturday.
To commemorate the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's 100th anniversary, the Carter G.
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The Nursing School will soon begin a three-year program to educate and prepare local and commuter graduate students to specialize in rural health care, Program Director Dr. Doris Glick said. The school, using a $1.2 million grant awarded in July, plans to use both classroom teaching and distance education online courses open to both full-time and part-time students of the University's Graduate Nursing program, Project Co-Director Pamela Kulbok said.
