The University of Virginia dedicated a small park on its South Lawn on Friday to remember a once-thriving neighborhood of free black people.

Joanne Boyle couldn't say "no" to a second opportunity to return to her Atlantic Coast Conference roots. Boyle, the women's basketball coach at the University of California for the past six seasons, has been hired to replace Hall of Fame coach Debbie Ryan at the helm of the University of Virginia women's program.

Teresa A. Sullivan will be inaugurated as University of Virginia president this week. The Daily Progress sat down with her for a Q&A.

John Stephens 1998 alumnus, M.F.A. in fiction writing Stephens' path to novelist was somewhat circuitous. As a graduate student in creative writing at the University of Virginia, he aspired to write fiction, but says humbly, "I wasn’t good enough at the time." Watching "ER" on TV one night, he had what he calls "a revelation. It suddenly occurred to me that someone writes this show." Stephens wrote for TV shows, and he also read Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass," which he says "really turned me on to kids' literature."

Lee Ann Whitesell Curry School of Education doctoral student Lee Ann Whitesell is in her fifth year as a math teacher at the Governor’s School. Whitesell has also served as head of guidance at Stuarts Draft and Riverheads high schools, as a math teacher at Stuarts Draft and has worked in the adult education program. She is working on a doctorate from the University of Virginia in curriculum, instruction and special education with a concentration in gifted education. Whitesell’s appointment takes effect July 1.

“Day of Silence” was started in 1996 at the University of Virginia. In 2001, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network became the official sponsor of the event.

On Thursday, University of Virginia students raised awareness about violence against women. The annual Take Back the Night event aims to end the silence around sexual assault.

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C. difficile causes thousands of infections in hospital patients ... The grant will help fund Sequella's collaboration with microbiologists at the University of Virginia to identify highly active chemical analogs to develop an antibiotic treatment.

The institute will also become the repository for the oral history project that Kennedy spent years working on with the University of Virginia.

When it comes to schools with the highest Annualized ROIs [return on investment] for the "list price," selective in-state public schools come out on top. The five schools with the highest 30-Year Annualized ROI (approximately 13 percent or more) are Georgia Tech, University of Virginia, Colorado School of Mines, Virginia Tech and UC-Berkeley.

Patients suffering from a severe heart condition may soon have a new option for treatment besides open heart surgery. Clinical trials for the new procedure are underway at the University of Virginia Medical Center. ... Both open heart surgery and this new less invasive procedure treat a heart condition called aortic stenosis. Doctors at UVA and about 20 other hospitals nationwide conducted a trial of 358 inoperable patients.

The University of Virginia is planning to dedicate a small park on its South Lawn to remember a once-thriving neighborhood of free black people. The event Friday will honor Catherine Foster, a free black woman who purchased the property in 1833. The community that grew around it became known as Canada, and is thought to hold the graves of Foster, her descendants and others. U.Va. officials say a number of Foster descendants are expected to attend the celebration.

Officials at the University of Virginia say the state is giving the school $64.5 million to renovate a classroom building built after World War II. President Teresa Sullivan said Wednesday that the money for the major renovation of New Cabell Hall had previously been approved but not funded.

Van Beek contributed to the building of U.Va.’s Klockner Stadium. Among his community activities, Harry served as the Chairman of the Board of the University of Virginia Health Services Foundation, as a board member of Poplar Forest, and as a Founding member of the Board of the University of Virginia Children's Medical Center.

Peter Rodriguez Associate dean for international affairs at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business

The University of Virginia’s new 21-month global program enters its first class of some 40 students this August. ... this year through May of 2011,students will undergo six separate two-week-long international residencies at the home campus in Charlottesville, Va., and Washington, D.C., but also in Brazil, India, Europe, and China. Fully a third of the course work will be delivered via the Internet, in live weekly classes, virtual learning teams, and integrated work projects. Some 15 faculty members at Darden will be involved in delivering the program.

If you were a major business school dean and had the chance to pull out a blank piece of paper to design the ideal global MBA program, what would it look like? For Peter Rodriguez, an economics professor and an associate dean at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, this was no theoretical exercise. Four years ago, he was asked by Dean Robert Bruner to do just that—sketch out the best possible design for a new global MBA program for executives. ... Now, years after studying the market, the result of that worry and work will debut this August. Darden’s Global...

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