If you’re like many smug out-of-state undergraduates, you came to UVA proudly boasting your Pennsylvania pedigree, and you spent your first year finding subtle ways to constantly remind everyone that you got into UVA even though you don’t hail from Virginia and can’t dribble a ball or run a 4.6-second 40 to save your life, […]
If you’re like many smug out-of-state undergraduates, you came to UVA proudly boasting your Pennsylvania pedigree, and you spent your first year finding subtle ways to constantly remind everyone that you got into UVA even though you don’t hail from Virginia and can’t dribble a ball or run a 4.6-second 40 to save your life, […]
Rich Bishop Year: Sixth-year Ph.D. student Major: Religious studies Home state: Montana What’s in your backpack? Umbrella, water bottle, old eyeglasses, loose change, pens, Latin dictionary, lunch pal, portable filing cabinet, clipboard, old G3 Apple laptop.
"Didn't we do this street already?" Harold Folley, an apprentice organizer with the Virginia Organizing Project, leans back from the wheel for a second look at the seemingly endless rows of beige houses for a better look.
Smile, you’re on candid camera: The General Assembly has made it easier for localities to put cameras on traffic signals. Prime candidates in the city include the Preston-McIntire intersection. Red-light runners may soon be smiling for "photo red" cameras at problematic intersections in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. As of July 1, localities have the legal […]
The City of Charlottesville will help fund a study to define an optimal population for the Albemarle-Charlottesville community. A request for $11,000 by the Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP) was unanimously approved by City Council at its August 6 meeting. The city’s contribution comes on the heels of a $25,000 appropriation from Albemarle […]
C-VILLE has been following local water levels ever since a drought watch was declared in late July, and the news isn’t getting any better. This week’s figure for local stream levels is 19 percent, down from 23 percent the previous week. (The number reflects how the flow compares to seasonal norms.) Meanwhile, Sugar Hollow Reservoir […]
On Tuesday, August 16, the Charlottesville Police Department confirmed that, using DNA, it has genetically linked Nathan Antonio Washington to the 2002 sexual assault in the Willoughby subdivision.
Best of C-VILLE 2007: The GOOGLE MapYou named ’em … we mapped ’em!
In the ongoing spectacle of obfuscation, idiocy and probable perjury that is the ongoing Alberto Gonzales congressional-testimony trainwreck, it's easy to forget what set off this particular round of Bush-Administration bloodletting in the first place.
On July 24, Dr. Jae Lee, a bioinformatics statistician, and Dr. Dan Theodorescu, an oncologist, announced a breakthrough algorithm (calculation method) that will predict success rates for cancer patients considering treatment options. C-VILLE spoke with Dr. Lee about this research and how it might change cancer therapy. Dr. Jae Lee and a colleague at UVA […]