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Byline: Elizabeth Robinson The University Democrats hosted a debate between House of Delegates Democratic candidates Sally Hudson and Kathy Galvin in Nau Hall Monday evening. The primary election for the [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Robinson In the proposed budget for fiscal year 2020, the Charlottesville City Council has proposed a one percent increase in both lodging and meals taxes and an additional [...]

Byline: Elizabeth RobinsonBrian Pinkston, project services associate director for planning at facilities management for the University, announced his campaign for Charlottesville City Council Feb. 6 with the slogan -- 'A [...]

Byline: Elizabeth RobinsonAt the City Council meeting Monday night, members of the Council unanimously moved to rename Preston Avenue after Asalie Minor Preston -- an African-American woman who taught in [...]

Byline: Elizabeth RobinsonIn honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day last week, the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy hosted a 'Batten Hour' talk Monday afternoon on racial [...]

Byline: Elizabeth RobinsonThe prosecution rested their case against James Alex Fields Jr. after submitting several pieces of evidence, including text and phone conversations between Fields and his mother, two images [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Robinson For incoming freshmen, UT's Freshman Research Initiative gives them the chance to spend time in a real research lab, opt out of required introductory lab courses and [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Robinson UT's College of Natural Sciences tailors many of its classes to suit the needs of both CNS majors and nonscience students who are required to take introductory [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Robinson University of Texas neuroscientists have discovered how the baby whale, a species of fish, uses electrical impulses to navigate murky waters. Their paper, published in the journal [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Robinson Researchers from 13 universities across Canada and the U.S. have gathered at UT's J.J. Pickle Research Campus this summer to conduct the U.S.' largest indoor air quality [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Robinson Physicists studying the particles that make up all matter, from atoms to protons to quarks, have long theorized the Higgs field is responsible for giving the universe's [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Robinson A team of UT scientists recently perfected their method of using E. coli to produce more stable versions of therapeutic proteins by making the bacteria healthier. The [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Robinson BEN OLSEN | Scroll Illustration April 22, the Senate passed an anti-human-trafficking bill that had been held in committee for six weeks. The bill largely was considered [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Robinson In honor of the start of spring, I planted a window garden; and for the past week, I've waited for the first hints of something to start [...]

Ponies Equine costs add up, says Elizabeth Robinson It used to be said that a good polo pony could turn on a sixpence. These days, that is more likely to [...]

Business challenges Richard Miller has given his company a new focus and boosted turnover, writes Elizabeth Robinson By his own admission, Richard Miller knows nothing about the arcane skills of [...]

costing the dream Some nifty steps to diversify out of teaching classes has allowed Thames Valley Tango to tap into a renewed dance craze, writes Elizabeth Robinson Charles Long's career [...]

I take a no-nonsense approach to skincare. Once, when a lady of a certain age was enthusing about her very expensive cream, and whispered to me conspiratorially, 'it really works', [...]

For longer than I can remember, it has seemed like the most natural thing in the world to me to throw my leg over a saddle, gather up the reins [...]

I never have seen the sense in the expression ''You can't have your cake and eat it.'' If there is a slice of cake on my plate, then it is [...]

Vienna is not a city known for its restraint. True, the Viennese themselves may appear the very picture of conservatism in their sober loden greens, but they inhabit a city [...]

Many women might think it desirable to have a shotgun between them and a man - as long as the barrel was pointing at him - but there are likely [...]

Pleasures Pursued Puritan Pleasure -Material Gains I have long assumed that decorative embroidery went the way of my late grandmother's antimacassars - wrapped up in tissue at the bottom of [...]

I pride myself on being able to put together a dinner party at the drop of a toque. Usually a few glugs of alcohol in the food, and considerably more [...]

It's common knowledge that moving house is as high in the stress stakes as divorce or bereavement. No wonder really, since it's an activity that can very often result in [...]

Some daytrippers to the New Forest, were they to get covered in mud and showered upon, might be rather unhappy and complain that it ruined their day. I would say [...]

I used to think that only footballers and skiers ruptured their cruciate ligaments. Until Jess, my English pointer bitch, went lame, and the vet said that it's a common problem [...]

I have, on occasion, been asked to 'do' the flowers. Those two little letters seem so innocuous, but in my limited experience of floristry, I don't just 'do' flowers. What [...]

Idon't really see myself as apushy mother, but I must confess that when my three-year-old son was standing at the top of a mountain I gave him a little shove [...]

Diversification rescued Donald Slater's farming business after the salmonella-in-eggs scare of the 1980s. But now, like thousands of other British farmers who have looked for new ways to make their [...]

Businessman Terry Gateley was watching this year's Budget for a hint of a change in the investment climate. He holds non-executive positions across a variety of companies in the Midlands, [...]

The constituency of Edgbaston in Birmingham played a special part in Labour's landslide victory over the Conservatives in 1997. It was the first domino to fall on an election night [...]

To think outside the box, you have to get inside the ball. In this case, the ball is a huge sphere, 5m in diameter, floating on an air cushion inside [...]

Barlo, the Dublin-based plastics and radiator company, hopes to strengthen its presence in Europe with the launch of a radiator that it claims will be the most efficient on the [...]

Galen, the Northern Ireland pharmaceuticals company, is to expand across the Atlantic with the Dollars 296.5m (Pounds 190m) acquisition of Warner Chilcott, a marketer of women's health products in the [...]

NORTHERN IRELAND Strategy for IT jobs launched Information industries could create more than 10,000 new jobs in Northern Ireland over the next five years, Peter Mandelson, chief Northern Ireland minister, [...]

Restaurants Until recently, Northern Ireland's fine farm produce was largely ignored by the local restaurant trade. Then the Rankins, Paul and Jeanne, burst onto the Belfast scene in 1989 with [...]

There were lights, cameras but little action yesterday in Londonderry at the opening of Britain's biggest legal inquiry to investigate the Bloody Sunday killing of 14 civilians in the city [...]

The pioneering Ulster spirit that gave rise to adventurers such as Davy Crockett is being nurtured and harnessed once again to break through the wild frontiers of information technology. Several [...]

Northern Ireland's valleys and glens are acquiring a silicon gleam. The once-rural economy is now fertile ground for inward investment and home-grown ventures in software and telecommunication development. Some Pounds [...]

For the past few years in Northern Ireland, the first sign of summer has been the prevalence of the word Portadown in news reports around the world. The County Armagh [...]

Dennis Desmond admits to feeling concern when he hears the latest pronouncements of doom on Northern Ireland's clothing and textile industry. Late last year, for example, the province's Institute of [...]

Softbank, the Japanese internet company, is to double its investment in Cognotec, the Dublin-based provider of foreign exchange trading technology, by paying a further Dollars 20m (Pounds 12m) to take [...]

Angelo Fusco, a former IRA member, was yesterday granted a judicial review in the Irish Republic of a court order for his extradition to Northern Ireland. Mr Fusco is wanted [...]

Esat Telecom, Ireland's second-largest telecommunications group, yesterday urged shareholders to reject a revised Dollars 1.9bn (Pounds 1.2bn) offer from Telenor on the grounds that the Norwegian group had undervalued the [...]

Telia-Telenor, the state-owned Scandinavian telecommuni-cations operator, yesterday launched a hostile Dollars 1.59bn (Pounds 980m) cash bid for Esat Telecom, Ireland's second biggest telecoms company. The move was immediately rejected by [...]

KPN, the Dutch telecom-munications company, and Telia, the Swedish operator, yesterday said they were selling their joint 35 per cent stake in Eircom, the Irish telecoms group that was privatised [...]

FOOD PRODUCERS & PROCESSORS Greencore looks at pizzas Greencore, the Irish foods group, is seeking to take advantage of low ratings in the food sector to increase its presence in [...]

Land used for storing terrorist weapons will be confiscated under laws introduced after the Omagh bombing but never used, the Republic of Ireland government said yesterday. 'We intend to implement [...]

Galen, the Northern Irish pharmaceuticals company, spent Pounds 35.8m on acquisitions last year, helping lift turnover 37 per cent to Pounds 67m. Geoffrey Elliott, chief financial officer of the company, [...]