In College Station, Texas, the University of Virginia men's tennis team beat ACC rival Florida State 4-2 yesterday to advance to the NCAA quarterfinals for the fifth consecutive year. Top-seeded U.Va. (32-0) will meet No. 8 seed Southern Carolina (22-5) tomorrow at 2 p.m. USC beat Pac-10 foe Stanford 4-2 yesterday.
Ann Pinner
Nursing graduate who now teaches nursing at Paul D. Camp Community College
Teaching the new crop of nurses
Suffolk News-Herald (VA) / May 13
http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/news/2009/may/13/teaching-new-crop-nurses/
Dr. Jennifer Shu
Bachelor's degree graduate, now a pediatrician, author and editor-in-chief of Baby & Child Health
Top Moms’ Tips for Healthier Kids
Nebraska TV / May 13
http://www.nebraska.tv/Global/story.asp?S=10355862
Richard J. Bonnie
Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law
Killer released after 3-year stint in mental hospital
Media General News Service / May 14
http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/killer_released_after_3-year_stint_in_mental_hospital/15965/
Anne Coughlin
law school professor
Father's suit over fatal crash dismissed
Roanoke Times / May 14
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/204677
Robert Emery
Director for the Center for Children Families and Law
Kids born to unwed moms hit record high
ABC News / May 13
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/health&id=68...
Generally speaking, those patterns make sense, said Mike Spar, a demographic researcher with the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, based at the University of Virginia. ... The Cooper Center does its own annual estimates based on several local indicators. ... Overall, the Cooper Center's estimates show a similar period of growth for Roanoke, but a slightly greater overall decrease since the 2000 census.
Pre-schoolers pick up language faster in the presence of classmates with better linguistic skills. ... Researchers from University of Virginia and Ohio State University, looked at more than 1,800 pre-schoolers in over 450 nursery classrooms in 11 US states. ... "Classmates are an important resource for all children, especially for children who begin preschool with higher language skills," suggests Andrew J. Mashburn, senior research scientist at the University of Virginia and study co-author.
Starting Monday, drivers will likely experience delays on West Main Street near the intersection of Jefferson Park Avenue because of a project to relocate utilities underground.
For the first time, Charlottesville and a coalition of groups are remodeling a city house to demonstrate their commitment to energy efficiency. ... Joining the city in the project are the University of Virginia, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Dominion Virginia Power, Environment Virginia and the Virginia Energy Project.
... [Sen. Edward] Kennedy's memoir, "True Compass," is scheduled to come out this fall. In addition to the book, Kennedy has been completing the final phase of an oral history project for the University of Virginia.
In this weeks UVa Today segment Jim Fitzgerald stopped by to talk about the Sofa Shuffle. The Sofa Shuffle encourages departing UVa students to donate their unwanted furniture and household items in support of Charlottesville-area nonprofit organizations and residents.
A University of Florida architecture professor and practicing architect will be the next dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. Kim Tanzer, who will begin July 1, will succeed Karen Van Lengen, who has led UVa’s architecture school for the past decade.
Students at the Darden School will soon be part of a unique program looking at how Amazon’s Kindle DX can be used in the classroom.
U.Va. employee Jim Cecil is graduating after six years of evening classes in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program.
An estimated 30,000 to 35,000 people are expected to converge at the University of Virginia this weekend to witness the awarding of some 6,400 degrees to students graduating at UVa’s 180th Final Exercises ceremony. More than 200 workers are preparing the university by installing a dozen stages, 18 tents, two JumboTrons and roughly a quarter-mile of electrical wires.
Dr. Steven DeKosky
Dean of the School of Medicine and former director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
New Tool Estimates Risk of Alzheimer's in Older Patients
MedPage Today / May 13
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Geriatrics/AlzheimersDisease/14200
and
Diagnosing Alzheimer's: Questions & Answers: Any At-Home Tests for Alzheimer's?
ABC News / May 4
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/AlzheimersQuestions/
Cordel Faulk
Communications director for the Center for Politics
Layoffs Hit Deeds Campaign
WCAV CBS-19 / May 13
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/44922492.html
Larry Sabat...
Three nurses from the University of Virginia Health System are giving Nursing Excellence Awards as hospitals across the country celebrate Hospital Week. At Tuesday's ceremony, Lori Nouwairi in the pediatric ICU took home the Excellence in Clinical Practice Award. Lauri Brock, also in the Intensive Care Unit, took home the Preceptor of the Year Award, and Marilu Dixon got the Nurse of Distinction award.
The next director of the Virginia Film Festival has spent the past decade putting the Sarasota Film Festival on the map. Jody Kielbasa will bring his background in running film festivals and his experience as a film producer to Charlottesville later this month to start working on this year’s event. The 22nd annual Virginia Film Festival, which has “Funny Business” as its theme, will take place Nov. 5 to 8 at the University of Virginia and a variety of other local venues.
... According to an oft-cited 1996 University of Virginia study led by psychologist Bella DePaulo, lying is part of the human condition. Over the course of one week, DePaulo and her colleagues asked 147 participants, aged 18 to 71, to record in a diary all of their social interactions and all of the lies they told during them. On average, each person lied just over 10 times, and only seven participants claimed to have been completely honest. ...
Law professor Robert Turner and history professor Philip Zelikow testified yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Bush-era CIA interrogation techniques