On high-school campuses throughout the state, keeping your mouth shut is causing an uproar. Gay students and their supporters observing a "Day of Silence" today to draw attention to anti-gay bullying have drawn the outspoken ire of Christian conservatives who are advising parents to keep their children home. ...The Day of Silence was started in 1996 by students at the University of Virginia. Students at an estimated 6000 middle and high schools nationwide are expected to participate this year.
A man who received a heart transplant 16 years ago at the UVA Medical Center was honored Thursday. Hospital officials held a surprise party for William Bailey, who spends a lot of time mentoring and supporting others waiting for transplanted organs.
...Foxfield's director of marketing, Anne Susen ... gave a Foxfield 101 lesson to a few hundred UVa students in a university lecture hall Wednesday evening. ... Lydia Cuffman, a UVa student involved with the anti-alcohol abuse club ADAPT, encouraged her classmates to bring along plenty of water, alternate drinking between booze and water, and to remember the signs of alcohol poisoning by the acronym PUBS, which stands for pulse, unresponsiveness, breathing and skin. ...
... On Thursday afternoon, UVa President John T. Casteen III announced that the university has hired a new dean to lead the College [and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences] - Meredith Jung-En Woo, a nationally recognized expert on political economy and East Asian politics.
...Generally, colleges welcome updates on grades and achievements... Jordan Vincent, whose heart is set on University of Virginia, has written a new essay on an unusual accomplishment: as a parliamentarian for the Texas Junior Classical League, a statewide group to promote study of Latin and Greek, Vincent worked with the IRS to revise the organization's bylaws so it could regain tax-exempt status. ...
...On Wednesday afternoon, just hours before Springsteen's concert with the E Street Band at John Paul Jones Arena, his role in American liberal politics will be in the spotlight in the Harrison Auditorium of the University of Virginia's Special Collections Library. 'The Fall and Rise of American Liberalism: Media, Race, Religion and Bruce Springsteen'' starts noon Wednesday and features UVa media studies professor Bruce A. Williams among its panelists.
...Most of the 59 new Hubble images are part of a large investigation of infrared galaxies called the GOALS project (Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey). This survey combines observations from Hubble, the Nasa Spitzer Space Observatory, the Nasa Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Nasa Galaxy Explorer. The Hubble observations are led by Professor Aaron Evans from the University of Virginia and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in America.
Robert Emery
Professor of psychology and director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law
Study: Divorce may not cause kids' bad behavior
USA Today / Apr. 24
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-04-24-divorce-kids-behavior_N.htm
Elizabeth Gorman
Assistant professor of sociology
Working women work harder than men?
Times of India / Asian News International (ANI) / Apr. 23
http://tinyurl.com/68jefz
Mani Mahadevan
A pathologist and one of the nation's leading researchers of myotonic muscular dystrophy
Pump It Up To Host MMD Fundraiser
Harrisonburg Daily News Record / Apr. 24
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U.Va. Pays Tribute to Outstanding Teachers
The University of Virginia honored more than two dozen of its top teachers -- faculty, graduate students and residents -- from all across Grounds on Wednesday night at the Universitywide Teaching Awards Banquet, held in the Rotunda Dome Room. Winners were hailed for their innovation, communication skills and most of all, their concern for students.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4985
Hot-Button Topics Spice Up 'Academical Dinner'
About 40 U.Va. students joined 10 professors at roundtables in the Garden Room of the West Range for...
Shakespeare once said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ...What's different now, though, is that their smell doesn't travel as far as it used to. ...
The General Assembly has approved a nearly $1.5 billion bond package that will pay for long-planned projects at UVA and other public colleges. ... UVA will get money for the renovation of New Cabell Hall, and an additional structure at the University's Engineering school.
Tina Fey
Star of new odd couple comedy flick, "Baby Mama"
Zenia Helbig
A 31-year-old doctoral student with a concentration in Islamic studies and proficiency in both Farsi and Arabic, and former member of the U.S. Army's controversial Human Terrain System
A Gun in One Hand, A Pen in the Other / The Army is spending millions to hire 'experts' to analyze Iraqi society. If only they could find some.
Newsweek / Apr. 21
http://www.newsweek.com/id/131752
Karsten Nohl
A graduate student in computer engineering focusing on encryption
Modern 'primitive' could ease the pain of encrypting massive amounts of data
The Register (UK) / Apr. 23
http://www.theregist...
Rich Collins
Professor of urban and environmental planning
More groups want officials to reconsider reservoir dredging
Charlottesville Daily Progress / Apr. 23
http://tinyurl.com/6cocvr
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Activists urge elected leaders to revisit long-range H20 recommendations
WINA 1070 AM / Apr. 23
http://www.wina.com/page.php?category_id=355
Jose Fuentes
Professor of environmental sciences
Is air pollution killing the bees?
Chicago Tribune / Apr. 22
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/features_julieshealthclub/2008/04/is-air-pollutio.html
John Jeffries
Law School Dean
Tax Report: Congress Hammers O...
... Bob Hicok of Virginia Tech and Charles Wright of the University of Virginia will share the $10,000 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Library of Congress announced. Hicok was chosen for his 2007 book "This Clumsy Living" and Wright for lifetime achievement. The prize - donated by the family of Bobbitt, a sister of President Lyndon B. Johnson - is awarded every two years.
By E.D. Hirsch Jr., a university professor emeritus of education and humanities, and founding chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation
... The elementary grades are much more important than is apparently credited by philanthropies like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has recently been giving many millions to high school reform-with negligible results per dollar.
On-Grounds Jobs Offer Real-World Experience
Many students work on University Grounds during their time at U.Va. Combining flexible hours with valuable work experience, campus jobs -- like driving a University Transit Service bus -- can fit easily into students' schedules and supplement their academic coursework with real-world skills, not to mention provide a great networking opportunity.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4979
U.Va. to Host International Symposium this Week
Students, scholars, World Bank personnel and high-level administrators from Peru will come together d...