Instead of spring break, UR provided students with two wellness days, on Feb. 9 and April 7, as well as a light workload week from March 1 to March 5.
Hayley Simms, a sophomore, mentioned the convenience of the GrubHub ordering system for on-campus restaurants as a factor in her spending.
Spider Solar is a 20-megawatt solar energy facility that contains 47,000 panels and produces 41,000 megawatt-hours of solar energy annually.
President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill designates $40 billion to universities across the United States.
Along with the A-10 Conference, CAA Football announced over the summer that fall 2020 competitions would be postponed.
"We as community members are all part of changing the culture that allows for violence to happen," Tingle said.
New American History seeks to “uncover the untold stories and missing pieces of what we know or thought we already knew about the American past,” according to the NAH website.
Ways to Memorialize explores memorialization efforts among colleges and universities in Virginia with historical connections to slavery.
“Not only that, I also want our campus as a community to grapple with racism and segregation...," Crutcher said.
“I didn’t have a fever; I didn’t really have a headache; I didn’t really have a stomach ache,” she said. “It was just a general achy feeling.”
Communicable and infectious diseases that people transmit from one person to another tend to carry stigma, especially when they are newer and scarier.
The trio felt these resources were not sufficiently being provided by UR in comparison to support for leadership studies and business majors, Weinberg said.
Miquell Shaw, a member of the Africana Studies Student Committee, recalled a one-on-one conversation he had with Crutcher in summer 2020 at Crutcher’s on-campus home.
Friends told sophomore Penny Hu they had been referred to as a “Chinese virus” on campus around last March, she said.
UR is partnering with UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute to administer a campus climate survey of all faculty, staff and students.
The percentage of Black undergraduate students at the UR has declined in the past decade, from a 9.5% peak in 2011-12 to 6% in fall 2020.
Curry has gotten to know Caton well since his first year. He even has her phone number and texts her occasionally to check in and catch up with her, Caton said.
The cafe’s focal point is its commitment to using ingredients that are free of dyes and pesticides, said Lena Vergnes, marketing manager at Organic Krush.
Ways to Memorialize explores memorialization efforts among colleges and universities in Virginia with historical connections to slavery.
Students can do this through Jepson student organizations such as the Jepson Student Government Association, Jepson Corps and Science Leadership Scholars.
