... A comedy short by University of Virginia second-year Sam Taggart and the student improv group Amuse-Bouche has reached one of the final rounds of the RooftopComedy.com National College Funny Film competition.
Shannon Blevins
Director of economic development at U.Va.-Wise, given a Distinguished Citizenship Award by the Russell County Chamber of Commerce
Russell Chamber of Commerce honors UVa-Wise official
Kingsport Times News (TN) / May 1
http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9013572
Bob Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
Local Dealer Reacts to Chrysler Bankruptcy
WCAV CBS-19 / Apr. 30
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/44088507.html
Rita Dove and Kevin McFadden
Professor of English and new member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and associate program director f...
By Harold A. Gould, a visiting scholar in South Asian Studies
The latest news from the Hindu Kush makes one thing painfully apparent: The Taliban/Al Qaeda jihadistani quasi state, “Jihadistan Emirate”, has achieved critical mass. It has now metastasized into a killer disease that threatens the survival of Pakistan’s fragile democracy.
...They have held three conferences [on medicinal cannabis research]. The last, in 2004, was held in Charlottesville and co-sponsored by the Virginia Nurses Association, the Pain Management Center and UVa’s medical, law and nursing schools.
Washington -- State laws in place to protect patients' confidentiality may be causing some hospitals to be more skittish about adopting electronic medical records systems, a factor that could impede the push for the industry to go paperless, a study says. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Virginia recently concluded that state privacy regulations reduce aggregate EMR adoption by between 20% and 30%. ...
... Delta Upsilon and Beta Theta Pi fraternities announced a deal that will result in the first new fraternity house being built at UVA in more than 50 years.
... For instance, in a 2008 survey of incoming students at the University of Virginia, with 95 percent of students surveyed, a single person in the 3,071 asked did not own a computer. That number was as high as 26 percent (634 of 2,437) in 1997, but has dropped to a negligible amount since 2003 (30, 10, 18, 4, and 4 in successive years had no computer).
... These new [Build America Bonds] attract investors who don't need a tax break — pension funds, foreigners — but want the safety of taxpayer-backed debt. California and the University of Virginia are among the first to use them.
The host of MSNBC’s Hardball and NBC’s The Chris Matthews Show, Chris Matthews ... spoke at a Miller Center Forum on April 27, 2009.
In the Darden headlines this week: “A Record-Breaking Reunion,” “Three New Trustees,” “Outstanding Participation,” and “A Visit from a Former Head of State.” In the interview segment, Ken is joined by this year’s Abbott Award winner, Wally Stettinius, from the Class of 1959. The award is Darden’s highest honor.
... University of Virginia officials have said they are using their pandemic flu plans to respond to developments in the swine flu outbreak. ...
...A regional mobile health wagon that serves patients in the Virginia coalfields has received a federal grant of nearly $150,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ... The Health Wagon will coordinate a quarterly endocrinology clinic with specialists from the University of Virginia. ... We strongly support the health wagon and its work in the region.
Researchers have found that giving an infant a pacifier does not interfere with breastfeeding success. The team led by Dr. Fern Hauck, researcher and associate professor of family medicine and public health sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has found no adverse relationship between the two.
Math instructor Mike Hill and two research partners have solved a 45-year-old math problem
A student-run group at the University of Virginia School of Law is helping more law students spend their summer working with government agencies, legal-aid services and public-interest organizations. The Public Interest Law Association is giving 84 grants worth $378,000 this year to first-year and second-year law students who want to spend their summer working for public-service agencies.
Advice from Dr. James C. Turner, director of student health and president-elect of the American College Health Association
A University of Virginia hiring policy that gives preference to internal job candidates is saving the university money and preventing layoffs, UVa officials said.
Kaye G. Hearn
1998 graduate with a master's of law degree, now chief judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals, who will soon be a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court
Hearn is going (back) to Supreme Court / Second woman will become justice
The State (SC) / May 1
http://www.thestate.com/local/story/770335.html
Leah Ward Sears
1995 graduate with a master's of law degree, now chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, being discussed as a possible candidate to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter
A look at potential Obama nominees to high court
Associated Press / May ...
Time magazine has released its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, and the University of Virginia can claim two spots on the list. Both Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA, UVA Law ‘59) and comedian Tina Fey (undergrad class of ‘92) received the nod.
University of Virginia football standout and recent NFL draft pick Cedric Peerman encouraged Cornerstone Christian Academy students last Monday to stand apart from others.