He graduated from the University of Virginia, where he received undergraduate [1933] and law degrees [1936], according to the firm. He was a Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif and a member of the university’s Raven Society, the firm said. Seward was a distant relative of William H. Seward, President Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state, according to the firm.
Todd Sherer [Ph.D. in neuroscience, 1999] wants to put the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF)--the world’s largest private funder of Parkinson’s Disease research--out of business. That may sound strange, especially considering that if Sherer achieves that goal as CEO of the Foundation, he’ll be out of a job. But it will also mean they’ve found a cure for Parkinson’s, a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder that affects one million people in the United States, and more than 5 million worldwide.
A founding partner of one Richmond’s biggest law firms is trading in his downtown office tower for a laboratory. Dennis Ryan [Law '82], co-founder of LeClairRyan, is leaving the firm that bears his name in April for Health Diagnostic Laboratory.
Called Christ Church of Vienna, the blossoming church held its first service in November, in the Louise Archer Elementary School cafeteria. It is run by a Board of Directors, the "church council." As Pastor of the church, [Johnny] Kurcina [College '97] heads its future, guided by the deliberations of the church council. Kurcina would like to see more Anglican churches "planted" in the area.
[Peter Farrell, College '06] is a Republican who represents the 56th House District, which includes Louisa County and parts of Goochland, Henrico and Spotsylvania counties.
Marc P. Berger [Law '99], a veteran federal prosecutor, on Wednesday was named to be the new chief of the securities fraud unit for the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan. … As chief of the securities fraud unit, Mr. Berger will supervise a team that has brought a series of high profile insider trading prosecutions against hedge fund traders and other corporate insiders.
City of Falls Church Mayor Nader Baroukh has announced his intention to seek re-election to the City Council. Baroukh was elected to the Council in 2008 and became Mayor in 2010. He is a senior attorney with management responsibilities at the Department of Homeland Security, where he handles immigration and national security issues. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law [class of 1999] and holds a bachelors degree from Chapman University in Orange, California.
By Val Ackerman, College '81, four-year starter on U.Va. basketball team, founding president of the WNBA, 2012 Valediction speaker
With the 40th anniversary of Title IX looming, this an ideal time to take stock of just how sports fit into the overall educational experience of young women and to assess whether the intercollegiate programs that have evolved over the past four decades are doing the best possible job of preparing female student-athletes for the demands of life they will encounter after their playing days are over.
Dr. Edward Bertram
Professor of neurology
Gene therapy in epilepsy could stop seizures
ZME Science / Feb. 15
Dr. David Kaufman
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Bundles battling infections in hospitals
Infectious Diseases in Children / Feb. 15
Kyle Kondik
Communications director of the Center for Politics
Obama seeks to energize young voters in Virginia
Washington Examiner / Feb. 15
Larry Sabato
Commonwealth Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
Obama's popularity could take a hit if gas prices continue to spike
Fox News / Feb. 15
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Michigan a Must-Win for Mitt?
Wa...
“Presidential Politics Then and Now” outlines the birth of modern politics in the tumultuous 1800 election between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. Peter S. Onuf, the University of Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History and a historian of the National Public Radio’s “The BackStory: with the American History Guys,” and Frank Cogliano, professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, are the featured speakers of this two-part event.
Nox's George Bailey's Irish Crème, known as George, was the winner of the Best of Breed award for the Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs. While George is an avid competitor, he also serves as the official mascot of the University of Virginia's women's rugby team. His co-owner, Nancy Kechner [Curry '83 and '05 and ITS research computing consultant] is the coach of the rugby team.
[Spokeswoman Carol] Wood said the university has already taken a proactive approach to increasing wages for the university’s lowest-earning employees. “The university has made a strong commitment to increasing the pay of our lowest paid employees,” she wrote in an email to The Daily Progress. “Since 2006, the university has increased the wages of our entry level employees by 65 percent.”
Board of Visitors voted to remove all restrictions that prevented women from earning undergraduate degrees from Mr. Jefferson's university.
A University of Virginia architecture professor who specializes in modular housing briefed the James River Green Building Council Tuesday on his work to bring down the cost of constructing energy efficient homes. “The people who are at the lower end of the income level are the ones who need the most help in reducing their energy inefficiency, and yet they are also the ones who can least afford the services,” said John Quale, director of the ecoMOD research project.
The number of needlestick/sharps-related skin puncture wounds suffered by health care workers in the United States has fallen since a federal safety law took effect in 2001, researchers report…
The researchers, led by Elayne Phillips of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, wrote in a letter to the editor published in the Feb. 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
An oral history project that tells the legal story around the civil rights struggle is now available online. The University of Virginia Library says it is streaming The William Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project on its website.
The latest annual college fundraising figures out Wednesday show donations to colleges and universities rose 8.2 percent in fiscal 2011, crossing back over the $30 billion mark for just the second time ever, and improving many schools' financial footing after several lean years due to the economic downturn.
Capt. Paul Auchincloss
School of Nursing alumnus and physician assistant in the Army
(Untitled profile)
Defense Video and Imagery Distribution System / Feb, 14
Michael Coleman
Captain in U.Va. Police
Love Tragedy Spurs Legislative Changes
WVIR-NBC-29 (Charlottesville) / Feb. 14
Maurice Cox
Architecture School professor
Kimball Art Center thinks BIG / Bjarke Ingels Group chosen for maintaining community values
Park Record (Park City, Utah) / Feb. 14
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BIG and Architectural Nexus design the winning proposal for the renovation and expansion of the Kimball Art Center
World Architecture News / Feb. 14
Frederick Hayden
Medical School professor
WHO meeting to focus on details of bird flu studies
Canadian Press / Feb. 15
Tim Ogilvie and Jeanne Liedtka
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Cites a University of Virginia study that found that every dollar invested in reducing runoff from agricultural lands will generate $1.56 in economic activity in the Commonwealth.