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StudCo hopes online forum positively impacts outreach

By Jane Ma | September 30, 2009

Student Council formally unveiled Speak Up UVA - an online forum for students to publicly voice their opinions - as part of its outreach initiatives for the year at last night's meeting. Council hopes the Web site, which was created by Chief Technology Officer William Reynolds during his Council campaign this spring, will give rise to more substantial communication between Council and University students than there has been in the past. "It's an outlet for student expression," Director of University Relations Jennifer Bristol said.

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Partnership offers more research opportunities

By Cameron Feller and Katherine Raichlen | September 30, 2009

The University continues to move forward with changes made to its Patent Foundation, UVAPF, in hopes of increasing revenue and conversion of patents to licensing deals. "The big change is that the University will, in fact, be supporting the annual operating costs of the UVAPF," Vice President of Research Tom Skalak said at a Board of Visitors meeting earlier this month.

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VIRGO system sees improvements

By Kevin Mead | September 30, 2009

[caption id="attachment_30664" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Some students expressed frustration with the library's current search system, VIRGO.

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Roads close, bus routes change for U2 festivities

September 30, 2009

An estimated 55,000 people will attend the U2 concert Thursday night at Scott Stadium. In anticipation of increased traffic, many of the University Transit System bus routes will run on altered service hours. The Central Grounds Shuttle and the Colonnade Shuttle will stop running at 5:30 p.m.. The Northline, Stadium/Hospital Shuttle, and the Inner and Outer U-Loops will end service at 4:30 p.m.

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Project seeks input on revision of Washington

By Tope Farotimi | September 30, 2009

The Civility Project, a collaborative effort between The Papers of George Washington and the Civility Project Committee, is moving forward in its effort to revise George Washington's "Copy of Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation" for use in the 21st century. Washington's document consists of 110 rules of conduct that the first president copied down when he was only 16 years old and by which he lived thereafter.

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University debuts iTunes U channel for community use

By Rodger Nayak | September 29, 2009

The University officially launched its own iTunes U channel last Tuesday, allowing professors, schools and departments to post their own content directly to Apple's web-based media application. Professors can provide content exclusively to students in a particular class by linking the course's Collab site to iTunes or can choose to make content available to the general public by adding their courses to the University's public site, said Jonelle Kinback, assistant director of web communications in the Office of Public Affairs. Mike McPherson, associate vice president and deputy chief information officer, said the site connects course material with students' lives in a way that few other media sources can. "With the predominance of iPods and iPhones and iPod Touches as music and video players, making course materials available in a format that is very easily downloaded to the player that most people have is a win," he said. A trial version of the channel launched last March, Kinback said, to allow departments and schools to get a feel for how to post content and what content was best suited for the site.

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Gov. Kaine awards $80,000 grant to Cooper Center to help with census

By Sebastien Theroux | September 29, 2009

Gov. Tim Kaine recently awarded an $80,000 grant to the University's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service in preparation for the upcoming 2010 national census. The grant will aid demographers' statistical research to update address lists and population estimates for Virginia, the seventh fastest growing state in the United States, said Qian Cai, director of Demographics and Workforce Research at the Weldon Cooper Center. The United States Census Bureau relies on both local and state government outfits and private organizations like the Cooper Center to maintain accurate population information.

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Unity Project members discuss semester plans

By Matthew Denton-Edmundson | September 28, 2009

Student leaders from various contracted independent organizations across Grounds met to discuss sustainability and its relation to their organizations at the first full meeting of the University Unity Project yesterday. Andrew Greene, sustainability planner for the University Architect's Office, opened the meeting of the Unity Project - the theme for which this year is environmental awareness - by speaking about how the University interacts, both positively and negatively, with the environment. "A good way to create sustainability," he said to a room full of student group representatives, "is to work for a generation that's able to meet its own needs." Later, Unity Project Co-chair Garrett Trent said Green's talk highlighted an important part of what the Unity Project hopes to accomplish. "We hope to be more than just another committee," he said.

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Pierson voices honor concerns

By Cameron Feller | September 28, 2009

[caption id="attachment_30585" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Barbara Pierson, whose daughter was expelled in October 2008, expressed her thoughts about the honor process last night.

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StudCo University Unity Project elects Hale, Trent as new leaders

By Matthew Denton-Edmundson | September 25, 2009

Student Council representatives last Sunday elected second-year College student Sheffield Hale and fourth-year College student Garrett Trent to lead this year's University Unity Project, which will focus on environmental sustainability. "We hope to give student groups that are concerned about environmental issues a little extra backing," said Nikhil Panda, Council vice president of administration.

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State promotes alternative transit options

September 25, 2009

[caption id="attachment_30565" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The University Transit Service is participating in this week's "Try Transit Week," hosted by the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation.

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