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
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Democrats brace for end of Virginia winning streak
Tehran Times / Oct. 28
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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.
... The University of Virginia passed the $2 billion mark of the $3 billion fundraising campaign it began in October 2004. U.Va. reported the mark was reached only eight weeks later than originally envisioned, in spite of a depressed economy.
Dr. Bob Powers, Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia, discusses health care reform.
... Among his awards was the 2002 National Medal of the Arts, the University of Virginia's Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, a gold medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects and a Presidential Design Award. ...
... The data are from the Virginia Department of Taxation and the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. ...
Melissa Fielding of the The University of Virginia Police Department has issued a note about Halloween safety ...
... An unconventional man with an unusual streak of humor, he would don the attire of Benjamin Franklin when visiting the University of Virginia, founded by Franklin's cohort, Thomas Jefferson. ...
It's been 10 days since Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington disappeared during a Metallica concert at an arena at the University of Virginia. ...
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State Police To Release Timeline In Disappearance Case
WINA 1070 AM / Oct. 28
State Police have scheduled a news conference this morning to release the timeline of events leading up to the disappearance of Morgan Harrington. ...
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Police Say Online Videos Don't Show Missing VT Student
WHSV / Oct. 27
Historians Ed Ayers and Brian Balogh both say they entered the profession to have a better understanding of how the world we live in came to be. That's the driving force behind their scholarship, and the basis for their radio show. ... Balogh [is] professor in the department of history at the University of Virginia and co-host of the radio show "Backstory: With the American History Guys. ...
... a study released today finds. ... “If the findings are correct—for Chicago, at least—we have to question the value of closing schools and creating the dislocations that would attend those school closings for little or no constructive result,” said Daniel L. Duke, a professor of educational leadership ... Mr. Duke, who runs a [U.Va.] program that prepares leaders to turn around low-performing schools, said placing strong leaders who are supported by teacher-leaders and central-office employees has proved to be an effective strategy ...