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Karen Booth Adams B.S., psychology, 1990 Serial entrepreneur enjoys investing in others’ ventures Richmond Times Dispatch / Oct. 19 Carla Zeballos U.Va. alumna Eliana Papadakis named 2010 WOMAN ONE Award recipient Cherry Hill Courier Post / Oct. 19

John Griffin Visiting professor Valuation of Guru Holdings: Apple Inc (AAPL) Gurufocus.com / Oct. 19 Bob Gibson Executive director of The Thomas C. Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership The Race for Governor WMRA "Virginia Insight" / Oct. 19 David Newkirk Darden CEO Executive education fights back Forbes / Oct. 15 Jack Oakes Darden director of career services GMAT: The MBA job seeker’s best friend Business Week / Oct. 19 Larry Sabato Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics Deeds fights to hold Obama’s Va. coalition Richmond Times Dispatc...

The University Of Virginia School of Nursing is getting a $1.2-million federal grant. It's a first of its kind for the program. The money will pay for a project that will help improve access to quality health care and to help eliminate health barriers and disparities in rural and underserved parts of the state.

... the grant will pay for two students each summer to spend 10 weeks at the Mountain Lake Biological Station near Blacksburg. The station is run by the University of Virginia. There, the students will research how to conserve bees native to western Virginia so that they can ...

... At UVa all online faculty must be approved by a credential-based program and online and on-campus courses are taught by the same faculty, with some adjunct additions. "We don't want to have volume being the driver," says Billy Cannady, dean of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies. "Our focus is on providing high quality staff, excellent instruction, and creating the UVa. experience." UVa with an enrollment last year of approximately 2,300 online students, is working on expanding its program carefully and creating partnerships with other schools.  ... [...

Melvin Leffler and Jeffrey Legro are organizers of an upcoming conference at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia that will explore how policy-makers reacted after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers: When Walls Came Down: Berlin, 9/11 and U.S. Strategy in Uncertain Times.

The University of Virginia has a clinic for screening adults with flu-like symptoms. It will be from 1-8 p.m. each day this week through Friday at 1222 Jefferson Park Avenue. ...

Police continued to seek help Monday in finding a Virginia Tech student from Roanoke County who went missing during a Metallica concert in Charlottesville on Saturday night. Morgan Dana Harrington, 20, was last seen near John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, according to University of Virginia police. ...

Money Magazine has named Charlottesville one of the top 50 places to start a small business. Additionally, Charlottesville was ranked 19th among small cities in the country. It was the only Virginia locality on the list. Much of the success of small ventures is due, according to Money, to UVA’s Darden School of Business, to which Charles Seilheimer and his business partner Adam Healey say, word up. ...

... Eapen was familiar with groundbreaking work underway at U-Va.'s allergy clinic that had found a link between a reaction to tick bites and the development of a sudden allergy to red meat, as well as pork and lamb, in people who had eaten it all their lives without incident. A team headed by U-Va.'s Thomas Platts-Mills, an internationally prominent allergist, published a study in February detailing the cases of 24 adults who developed a sudden allergy to red meat. ...

The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and the Virginia Community College System also are developing a research and training partnership with Rolls-Royce ...

... to view that the academic requirements that the University of Virginia has would be an asset," Athletic ...

Autumn Joy Adkins U.Va. and Columbia University alumna First female, African-American president at historic Girard College takes helm Philadelphia Business Journal / Oct. 16 Timothy Heaphy U.Va. law alumnus Heaphy Sworn In As US Attorney For Western District Of Virginia Rockbridge Weekly / Oct. 16 James A. 'Spider' Marks M.A. in international affairs "News at the Top" Q&A Washington Post / Oct. 19 Todd McCallister Ph.D. in economics Runner's High Barron's / Oct. 19

... The state's top university engineering programs at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia, along with Old Dominion University and Virginia ...

Josh Bowers Law professor Number of juried trials slumps both in Va., nationwide News Virginian (Waynesboro/Staunton) / Oct. 18 Dr. Don Detmer Professor Emeritus and Professor of Medical Education Members Don E. Detmer, Bernard Guyer, and Joseph P. Newhouse honored for outstanding service to the IOM Institute of Medicine of the National Academies / Oct. 12 George Gilliam Historian at the University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs Opinion: We won't learn much from these elections Statesman Journal / Oct. 19 Thomas L. Hafemeister Law professor Advocates: NYC Astor case a win on ...

... That's according to a new survey released by the University of Virginia. Researchers say residents gave overall quality of life a strong rating- a 7.3 on a ...

... Daniel Bluestone, a professor at the University of Virginia and a member of the Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park, said his proposal for the forest ...

John Sherman, a first-year MBA student at the University of Virginia, says he can read some case studies on the Kindle but still needs to print others. ...