Lawrence Halprin, 93, a legendary American landscape architect who designed Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall, died Sunday ... Of all his successes, Halprin called the FDR Memorial “the apotheosis of all that I have done.”... Among his awards were the ... University of Virginia's Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture ...
Hampton Roads public colleges and universities have created more than 22,200 jobs and contributed $450 million in annual tax revenue to the state, according to a study released Thursday by the Virginia Business Higher Education Council. ... The study, by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, showed that schools could be doing more with better support from the General Assembly and businesses. ...
Racial barriers in education continue to exist more than 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down separate-but-equal schools for blacks and whites and more than 30 years after forced desegregation, according to panelists at a University of Virginia symposium. ...
... Will big profits and bonuses at Wall Street firms really bring greater prosperity and opportunity for all? ... [NYU's Thomas] Philippon and the University of Virginia's Ariell Reshef have found that, starting in the mid-1980s, financial-sector paychecks began to outstrip those for jobs in other sectors demanding similar skills and education levels. Since the late 1990s, Philippon and Reshef estimate, 30% to 50% of financial-sector pay has amounted to what economists call rents — windfalls that serve no economic purpose. ...
He attended the University of Virginia, earning a bachelor's degree in 1975. Mr. Woodland then moved to Atlanta and worked for the U.S. Department of Labor. In 1981, he entered the University of Georgia’s law school and graduated in 1984. At the time of his death, Mr. Woodland was an attorney at Storrs & Woodland. ...
... A native of Corbin, Ky., Dr. Llewellyn earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Alabama and a medical degree at the University of Virginia. He was a flight surgeon in the Air Force. ...
Greg Curl
U.Va. alumnus
Know Your BofA CEO Candidate: Greg Curl
Wall Street Journal / Oct. 29
Steven Nichols
U.Va. alumnus
Nichols teaches life lessons at Mary Baldwin
Staunton News Leader / Oct. 29
Kenneth Plum
U.Va. alumnus
Commitment to Education Continues: Plum Center for Lifelong Learning dedicated in honor of Del. Kenneth Plum (D-36).
Springfield Connection (Va.) / Oct. 28
Dr. Park Dietz
Forensic psychiatrist and former U.Va. law professor
Sniper's ex-wife says his real aim was to kill her
Richmond Times Dispatch / Oct. 29
Ernie Ern
Professor emeritus
Charlottesville-Right Now: Ernie Ern
Charlottesville Podcasting Network / Oct. 28
Robert Fatton
Politics professor and Haiti expert
Haiti: Prime minister likely on way out
MiamiHerald.com / Oct. 29
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Obama: Twelve months on, the star falls back to earth
Independent (UK) /Oct. 29
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A 'landslide' in the making?
The Virginian-Pilot / Oct. 28
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Today we have first-year Virginia coach Tony Bennett. He talks about his reluctance to become a coach, his ability to shoot better than some of his players and the talent level of the team he inherited. ...
The Papers of George Washington, a University of Virginia project, will be publishing the first president's finances. ... "Washington not was not just an Army general and not just a president, but he was a farmer on a vast scale ..." said Theodore Crackel, editor-in-chief of the Papers of George Washington. ...
... The University of Virginia recently also reported a 16-month-old infant weighing 7.8 kg, who underwent a similar procedure for ASD. ...
... University of Virginia's MFA program ranks third in [Poets & Writers magazine] list of the top 50 programs in the U.S. for 2010. ...
Hundreds of people brought their fight against cancer to downtown Charlottesville Wednesday night as they participated in the sixth annual Light the Night, raising money and awareness to help fight leukemia, lymphoma and other blood diseases. ... The money raised at tonight's walk will go towards cancer care and research, much of which will take place at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
The last reported sighting of Morgan D. Harrington was on a bridge over railroad tracks near the John Paul Jones Arena. Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student, has been missing since Oct. 17, when she disappeared after leaving a Metallica concert at the University of Virginia’s arena. ... Virginia State Police released a new timeline yesterday to draw more tips from the public. ...
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Morgan Harrington – New Photos, Timeline May Help Find Missing Virginia Tech Student
CBS News / Oct. 29
Farzaneh Milani
Professor of Persian literature and women's studies and director of Studies in Women and Gender
The Wall Street Journal reports that Iranian poet Simin Behbahani will succeed John Ashbery as mtvU's second poet laureate. Beginning Monday, mtvU will broadcast 19 short films featuring Behbahani's poems, translated by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, and produced by Sophia Cranshaw.
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Meet MTV Networks’ Poet Laureate. She’s Not What You’d Expect
Wall Street Journal Speakeasy blog / Oct. 29
Dr. James C. Turner
President of the American College Health Assoc. and executive director of student health at U.Va.
"Among over 3 million students, we have observed nearly 56,000 cases" over nine weeks of the academic year. ... "But there have been only 98 hospitalizations and no deaths, indicating this disease remains relatively mild.... This recent return of flu helps reaffirm the importance of vaccination once it becomes available."
... After serving in the Peace Corps and attending the University of Virginia School of Architecture and Harvard School of Design, Barnett eventually started his own architectural firm, Barnett Co., in the Roanoke Valley, where he had grown up. ...
West Virginia’s 10 free health clinics ... are handling a growing number of patients even as donations to keep the free clinics up and running continue to dwindle. ... The increased patient load is being blamed on a poor economy, the growing number of unemployed and a lack of basic health insurance coverage ... Mercer Health Right is now seeing between 500 to 600 people a month. Some serious cases are referred ... Virginia patients ... to the University of Virginia ...
O. Whitfield Broome Jr.
Frank S Kaulback, Jr. Professor Of Commerce
Educator Super CPAs winners
Virginia Business / Oct. 28
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Obama set to lose first election test in Virginia's governor race
Times Online (UK) / Oct. 28
and
Democrats brace for end of Virginia winning streak
Tehran Times / Oct. 28
and
Obama's Coattails in Question in Virginia Race for Governor
FOXNews / Oct. 27
The eighth annual Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative Festival will pay tribute to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy on the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. ... More than 100 musicians, scholars, and organ builders from around the world will attend the festival’s conference sessions, which feature presentations ... by the country’s leading Mendelssohn scholars, including ... William A. Little, Professor Emeritus of German and Music at the University of Virginia.