College gives degree-seekers the opportunity to enhance their skills and knowledge while participating in a variety of activities off campus. For example, four nursing students from the University of Virginia recently took their skills off campus to the Bahamas, The Freeport News reports. These individuals spent two weeks at Camp Curly Tail giving dental hygiene and nutrition advice to young locals.
Jeff Kreisler
Law School graduate and satirist
Hoboken Resident Tells You How To Get Rich Cheating
Hoboken (N.J.) Patch / Aug. 1
Cleo Powell
Earned undergraduate and law degrees at U.Va.; was just elevated to the state Supreme Court
McClanahan, Powell elected to Virginia Supreme Court
Washington Post / July 29
Becky Sauerbrunn
Former Cavalier soccer star and member of the U.S. national women's soccer team, who played a key role in the team's drive to the World Cup final
Quite a summer
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Aug. 2
Elizabeth Israel
Incoming graduate architecture student
Elizabeth Israel announced as ADAM Architecture Travel Scholarship 2011 winner
World Architecture News / Aug. 2
Ahmed al-Rahim
Religious studies professor
Commentary: Can Islam Be Reformed?
The Patriot Post / Aug. 2
Gerald Fogarty
Religious studies professor
The organization that sends out patients’ bills on behalf of doctors at the University of Virginia Medical Center changed its name to the UVa Physicians Group on Monday.
Shimeca Wilson founded Your Baby My Baby last year, an organization dedicated to counseling families who have suffered the loss of a child. In addition to providing headstones, Your Baby My Baby offers grief counseling and care packages for mothers in need. Recently, Wilson's organization began partnering with the University of Virginia Medical Center, in hopes of helping other mothers whose babies are born early.
Regardless of their degree track, most MBA programs strive to give students the real-world experience they will need to launch their own ventures. At the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, for example, students can spend the summer creating their own companies with support from the school's incubator program.
It's no secret that the housing market is a mess but as students prepare to return to the University of Virginia this month, apartment complexes say things are looking up. Albemarle County apartment complex managers are optimistic despite our economy, and they say this year is better than many.
A University of Virginia study provides evidence that the Latino Community Credit Union is doing what it set out to do. The study, "Perdido En La Traducción: The Opportunity in Financial Services for Latinos," set out to investigate opportunities for banks that work with growing, underserved populations. Researchers found that robberies in Durham fell by about 14 percent between 1999, before the credit union opened, and 2002, two years after it launched.
A $97 million infusion of state revenue helped keep tuition and fee increases at public colleges and universities to an average of 7.9 percent for Virginia residents for the next academic year, down from last year's increase of 10.6 percent. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia reported Monday that while the additional general fund support mitigated the increase, the state's appropriation to higher education is lower now than it was in fiscal 2006.
Dr. David K. Wiecking
Law School graduate and former chief medical examiner for Virginia who led the state's first successful DNA-based prosecution in 1987
Dr. David K. Wiecking, former Virginia chief medical examiner, dies
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 30
Mike Ballard
Former Cavalier baseball pitcher, called to the big leagues Sunday to pitch for the Baltimore Orioles
A couple of words about Mike Ballard and Pedro Viola
MASNSports.com / July 31, 2011
Stephen A. McCullough
U.Va. graduate named to Virginia Court of Appeals
Judges elected to state Supreme, Appeals courts
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star / July 30
Dr. Jim Phillips
Emergency physician, Army reservist and ultra-marathoner
Doctor, teacher, soldier, 100-mile runner: A disciplined approach
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger / July 29
Marc Verica
Former Cavalier quarterback
Redskins add UV...
Bill Bennett
Art professor
Byron's Telescope (audio)
WVTF-FM-89.3 / Aug. 1
Julian Bond
History professor
Activist, Politician Julian Bond Looks Back at Civil Rights Past
Blackvoicenews.com / Aug. 1
Richard Bonnie
Professor of law and medicine
Medicate To Stand Trial
KABC-AM-790 (Los Angeles) / July 28
Darryl Brown
Law professor
Va. Beach jail death shines light on contempt cases
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot / July 30
Susan Chaplinsky
Darden professor
Pipeline dreams? / Many Virginia companies prefer growing through buyouts rather than IPOs
Virginia Business / July 31, 2011
Alon Confino
Histo...
"Pocket Eye Exam," a smartphone app developed by University of Virginia physicians and biomedical engineering students, was designed to help health care providers diagnose vision problems.
The number of divorces has been in decline since it peaked in 1980, and that is particularly true of highly educated couples, only 11 percent of whom divorce during their first 10 years of marriage, according to a study by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. That compares to 37 percent of the rest of the population.
The Observer's Very Short List blog points out a great find: over 28 hours of tape from William Faulkner’s time as the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia during 1957 and 1958 are now available online. You can hear him read from his novels and stories, as well as answer questions from students, faculty, and the public. All in all, three dozen of Faulkner's appearances at UVA were recorded onto reel-to-reel tape. UVA English professor Stephen Railton has done an extraordinary job in making the audio available.
Within days of the E. coli outbreak in Germany that officially ended last week, scientists at the University of Maryland Institute for Genome Sciences began cracking the genomic code of the bacteria responsible for infecting thousands and killing dozens. … The collaboration included scientists from Pacific Biosciences of California Inc., Denmark's Statens Serum Institute, Harvard and the University of Virginia.
The 46th annual Jefferson Swim League championships are being held at the UVA Aquatics and Fitness Center this weekend. The two-day event has been held at the AFC since the facility opened in 1996, and JSL vice president Debbie McPhillips says having the meet at the UVA pool is extra-special for the swimmers.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics is taking a look at the role of women in politics. The center held a day-long conference in Richmond Friday, talking about ways women have and should contribute to the political process.