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Tina Fey U.Va. grad and soon-to-be- recipient of Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Stars set to honor Tina Fey in Mark Twain Prize ceremony at Kennedy Center Washington Post / Sept. 29

Haley Stephens Nursing student and regular blogger for the Wall Street Journal's "Hire Education" blog A Year of ‘Last Firsts’ Wall Street Journal "Hire Education" blog / Sept. 29 Janelle Summerville Grad student in psychology Amid The Recession, Janelle Summerville Rocks Out Huffington Post / Sept. 29

Joseph and Claudia Worrell Allen Professors of psychology and authors of "Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How Can We Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old" The confidence crisis of the 20-something son/ Why young men are getting lost entering the real world – and what parents can do to help Chicago Tribune / Sept. 28 Bob Gibson Executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership Engaging citizens focus of forum Charlottesville Daily Progress / Sept. 29 Douglas Laycock Law and religious studies professor K-12 Implications Seen in Some Cases Befor...

In the 1930s, government officials moved hundreds of families from their homes to make way for what became Shenandoah National Park. ... More than 70 years later, the episode still offers lessons — so much so, it was a major topic during a three-day workshop for Virginia managers of natural resources. … The program was presented by the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute, which is part of a partnership of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation, the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service, the Virginia Department of Forestry and the Vi...

University of Virginia students and members of the community will race this fall in memory of Yeardley Love. Friends of Love have established a Facebook group called Every Yard for Yeardley. The group has two goals. The first is to run the Richmond Marathon in her memory, and the second is to raise awareness about the One Love Foundation.

Some of the University of Virginia’s brightest thinkers now have a place to congregate that officials say would have made Thomas Jefferson proud. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation, a privately funded group whose mission is to attract and recruit the brightest undergraduate and graduate students to UVa, has moved into its office space on Clarke Court.

Doctoral programs across the nation took a collective pause Tuesday to peruse a long-awaited report that offers the first definitive rankings of the programs in 15 years. It might take a doctorate to fully comprehend the National Research Council rankings. Instead of ranking programs from first to last, the report states each ranking as a statistical range. … "It is an affirmation if you're doing well, and it is reason to question if you're at the bottom," said Arthur Garson, provost of U-Va. "You don't ever want to sit on your laurels with a top program. … The bot...

Monique Merrill U.Va. grad, now adventure racer Crash causes racer to view life differently Denver Post / Sept. 28

Daniel McDowell Doctoral student in international relations Commentary: Basel III Represents Test for U.S., G-20 World Politics Review / Sept. 28

Timothy Beatley Architecture professor Why Are We Still Allowing Coastal Development? AlterNet / Sept. 27 Qian Cai Director of the Demographics and Workforce Group at U.Va.'s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service McDonnell says state's regions must cope with growth Richmond Times-Dispatch / Sept. 28 Kristina Hill Chairs the landscape architecture department Stretching city limits (2) Chinadialogue.net / Sept. 28 Larry J. Sabato Politics professor and director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics Few debates across Va. congressional campaigns Richmond Times-Dispatch / Sept. 28 and Welcome to t...

Daniel Willingham Psychology professor Willingham: 'Superman' is entertainment, nothing more Washington Post "The Answer Sheet" blog / Sept. 27

The University of Virginia is getting $6.4 million from the U.S. Department of Education. Faculty at UVA's Curry School of Education secured grants focusing on kindergarten through 12th grade classes. Some of the federal money will improve urban 3rd-grade through 5th-grade instruction. UVA will assess the availability of child care and instruction nationwide.

A University of Virginia professor says foreclosures are not the cause of having more homes on the market than people willing to buy them. "There's very little market for new houses," urban planning professor William Lucy said. Lucy said changing demographics are at the root of the housing crisis. Instead of new construction, he said, people need to rethink housing needs. "Uncertainty has gotten so great that there are a lot of people who don't know what to do, so they're sitting," Lucy said. Older people want to downsize, but the younger generation doesn't want to settle d...

On average, the University of Virginia Parking Department hands out about 100 tickets each day. While some of them are warnings, a majority of them come with a fine, and some people are letting the fines build up. There are 10 people at the top of UVA's parking scofflaw most wanted list; 10 people that owe more than $17,000 combined. … To crack down on some high-rolling, repeat parking violators, UVA has recently started to boot cars.

A State Senate subcommittee took a field trip Monday, leaving Richmond and coming to Charlottesville as part of a tour to help the group get a handle on health care reform. The University of Virginia played host to the Subcommittee on Health and Human Resources that holds the purse strings for a lot of state money.

Neighbors at the Crescent Halls complex are working directly with graduate students from the University of Virginia to highlight what's working, where they need help, and what could make things better. … Charlottesville Vice Mayor Holly Edwards stated, "Some of the ideas they generated for us - for socializing - were things that we can do, things that will be manageable, things that won't cost a lot." Edwards says the neighbor-to-neighbor push behind the survey is what made it so effective and that it's a model she would like to see used across the city.

Charlottesville-area commuters can now find alternative forms of transportation online, while also earning rewards for local and national merchants such as Shenandoah Joe Coffee, Quiznos and Blue Wheel Bicycles. The University of Virginia has contracted with NuRide, a Connecticut-based Internet company, to provide an online service that offers incentives for not driving to work.

The bloom is off the rose. Virginia’s “restructuring” agreements, which provided select universities greater autonomy over finances in exchange for less state support, have emerged as a model that some public institutions in cash-strapped areas of the country would like to emulate. But to hear it from finance chiefs at Virginia universities now covered by restructuring, the agreements with the state haven’t been fully honored during the budget crunch.

Harry Bruns Earned two degrees from U.Va.; provided Jefferson nickels to entering students Longtime UVA Benefactor Harry Bruns Dies WINA-AM-1070 / Sept. 27

John A. Downey Earned a doctorate in higher ed administration from U.Va Blue Ridge prez inaugurated Waynesboro News-Virginian / Sept. 25 John Preston McConnell U.Va. graduate and founding president of Radford University Remembering Radford / Emory & Henry dean guided Radford University Bristol (Va.) Herald-Courier / Sept. 26 Scott Safon Earned undergrad degrees in history and economics Scot Safon Takes the Helm at HLN Network News on News / Sept. 24 Henry L. Valentine II and Beverly "B.B." Munford III Friends and colleagues mark 60 years at Davenport & Co. U.Va. grads, best frie...