[Charlotte "Charlie"] Finnigan… is the leading scorer in the British University Lacrosse League, and has four goals and one assist thus far in the 2009 FIL World Cup with limited minutes. (She's one of the youngest players on the English roster.) After seeing her on Team England's February and October tours in the U.S., [Cavaliers women's lacrosse coach Julie] Myers was convinced Finnigan could compete in the ACC.
UVA won 64.8 % of its athletic contests in the academic year that just ended. Old Dominion University was this year's runner-up.
Nathan Tan and Brett Nicol
Two former UVA students are taking what they learned in business school and cashing in. The company is called "Forgetful Gentleman" and its product helps men remember special events and send handwritten notes.
Clarksdale attorney and businessman Bill Luckett said he plans to raise education levels and improve education opportunities if he emerges as the Democratic nominee following the primary gubernatorial elections in May of 2011.
Jesica Turner and Brian Marroquin
College Leaders Program at the Sorensen Institute
WINA's "Charlottesville – Right Now!" / June 24
http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2009/06/24/charlottesville-right-now-jescia-turner-and-brian-marroquin/
… [T]he fearless band of young, determined interns continue their trek through Greene, tracking what issues are on the minds of registered voters here. The team members assigned to Greene are as follows: Matthew King, a UVA student; Niti Patel, a UVA student; Caty Kirk Robins, who attends school in Albany, NY; Jona Noelle Baily, a recent UVA graduate; Andrew Pericak, who lives in Charlottesville and is attending the University of Richmond in the fall; Patrick Costello, a UVA graduate; and Kristin Smith, a College of William & Mary graduate. … It is part of a statewide canvassing ...
A.E. Dick Howard
A professor of law and public affairs
Sanford's Secret Trip Unwise, But Constitutional
npr.org / June 25
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105870672
Ken Hughes
Presidential recordings researcher at the Miller Center
New batch of Nixon tapes released
Los Angeles Times / June 24
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-nixon-tapes24-2009jun24,0,817553.story
New Nixon tapes released on Tuesday
Politico / June 23
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24100.html
Ruhi Ramazani
Edward R. Stettinius Professor Emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs
Local...
Using new videoconferencing technology, a team of psychologists and computer scientists - led by Steven Boker, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia - were able to switch the apparent gender of study participants during conversation and found that head motion was more important than gender in determining how people coordinate with each other while engaging in conversation.
The company is the brainchild of University of Virginia neurosurgeons who envisioned using remote magnetic fields to navigate an implant in the brain.
Finalists hail from 15 different schools in six countries. They include two entries from Stanford University and one each from Rice University, the University of Michigan, UC San Diego, Cornell University, University of Southern California, Fudan University in China, University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in Russia, LBS College of Engineering in India, University of Chicago's Booth School of Busines, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, University of Maryland, Tel-Aviv University in Israel and UC Irvine.
New high-tech honors for the University of Virginia. A website that ranks web access at universities says UVA is one of the best.
Fourth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles survived a scare from spirited qualifiers Somdev Devvarman and Kevin Anderson in a gruelling four-setter to enter the second round of the Wimbledon men's doubles event in Wimbledon on Wednesday.
Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine, copied portions of his coming book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price,” from Wikipedia without attribution. The passages were discovered by a reviewer for The Virginia Quarterly Review, who was reading an advance galley of the book, which is being published by Hyperion Books early next month.
The University of Virginia Library is offering visitors a high-tech look at the Declaration of Independence.
The Obama administration is moving to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or Fafsa, a notoriously complicated form that asks students seeking financial aid for college as many as 153 questions.
C. Richard A. Gilbert
School of Medicine, 1944
Jamie Jiao, Vienna
Psychology major
Speaking outside the hospital late Monday night, still dressed in clothes streaked with soot from the accident, Jiao, a University of Virginia student, recounted being knocked out by the impact. He woke up to find that his glasses and shoes had been knocked off. His lower back ached. He was no longer in his seat, and he felt a hard, semi-smooth surface under him. At first, Jiao said, he thought that the train had flipped and that he was on the ceiling. Washington Post
James Burroughs
An associate professor of commerce
Recession generation? Young adults brace for simpler lifestyle
USA Today / June 24
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-06-23-millennial-recession_N.htm
Farzeneh Milani
A professor of Asian and Middle Eastern languages
'Courageous' women front Iran's resistance
Toronto Star / June 24
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/655618
Ken Hughes
Presidential recordings researcher at the Miller Center
Nixon was ready to 'cut off head' of S.Vietnam leader
Agence France-Presse / June 23
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gZDTWEe...