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Stepping into the main work room of the Community Bikes Shop for the first time is like discovering a hidden treasure trove.
There is a city where rolling green hills stretch endlessly and small villages are in abundance.
Since I first came to Charlottesville, I have been on a quest to find the best homemade Chinese food in town.
Last summer, fourth-year Engineering students Ana Jemec and Eric Harshfield spent nine weeks in the bushveldt of South Africa.The experience, which Jemec described as ?incredible,? allowed the two to conduct their own undergraduate research and was made possible through a $10,000 grant from the Davis Projects for Peace program, which they applied for in spring 2008.The Davis Projects for Peace program is just one of many grants and fellowships available to students for undergraduate research projects.
Following a joint meeting with the Commission on the Future of the University Monday, Faculty Senate members gathered yesterday to further discuss six newly introduced initiatives and what kind of faculty involvement they will require.Faculty Senate Chair Edmund Kitch started by opening a discussion about Monday?s presentation of the six cross-campus initiatives, which include diversifying the University?s faculty, improving higher education instruction, improving academic departments? access to new technology, incorporating more high-level computing systems into faculty resources, better connecting faculty members from different fields through technology, and building programs to make University students global students.
Several initiatives aimed at distinguishing the University from its peers were presented yesterday afternoon during a joint meeting of the University?s Faculty Senate and the Commission on the Future of the University.
There is a place where the skyline of surrounding snow-capped aquamarine mountains is broken only by church steeples and medieval watchtowers.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr, will be the keynote speaker for the 10th annual Conference on Public Service & the Law, hosted at the Law School from Jan.
The University announced the creation of the John A. Blackburn Endowed Scholarship Saturday in honor of the retiring dean of admissions.
