... The University of Virginia's peer educators known as the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team, or ADAPT, will have a program Wednesday night for UVA students to discuss safety issues related to Foxfield. That event will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the UVA Chemistry Auditorium.
... VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia, is now providing access to PBS resources for all of its 70 public and private members in higher education. The organization, a consortium of college and university libraries, has licensed 500 hours of PBS programming, in video form, for streaming over the Internet. ... the University of Virginia, which does have a fair amount of computer power, [hosts] the videos on its servers and stream[s] them out to only the VIVA members.
A diverse group of University of Virginia students spent Earth Day showcasing efforts to have grocery stores and restaurants make use of local livestock and vegetables. UVA 4th-year student Nick Feucht examined what happens at Wild Oats Farm in the Scottsville area.
...Thanks to a new agreement ... all community college students in Virginia will now automatically get accepted into UVA's School of Engineering, as long they maintain a high GPA and take core math and science classes. ... The community colleges aren't the only ones who benefit from the agreement. "A lot of them bring different experiences with them than our typical students have here," said UVA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences' Paxton Marshall. "...we find that the additional maturity and experience makes them very good students."
One of the biggest Earth Day activities was on Grounds at the University of Virginia. Student conservationists were busy Tuesday encouraging classmates to think twice before they pitch their garbage.
All eyes will be on Charlottesville this weekend when it comes to ACC Lacrosse, as the conference men's and women's championships come to the University of Virginia. Action begins Thursday and runs through Sunday.
Kevin Bender, Jason Kobielus, Matthew Marcus and Kyle Ringgenberg
Director, two actors, and original score composer for student feature film, "The Receipt"
The $8,900 Receipt / UVA's most expensive romantic comedy
C-Ville Weekly / Apr. 22
http://c-ville.com/index.php?cat=1990507071411724&ShowArticle_ID=11432004082783245
Chris Long
U.Va. defensive end, among the contenders to be selected with the first overall pick in this weekend's NFL draft
He's long on talent, and pedigree
Boston Globe / Apr. 22
http://www.boston.com/sports/articles/2008/04/22/hes_long_on_talent_and_pedigree/
Rev. Gerald Fogarty
A professor of history and religious studies
U.S. trip softens pope's image, raises expectations
Reuters / Apr. 21
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSB5221220080421
Gary W. Gallagher
Professor of history and author of "Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War"
Book Review: The causes of the Civil War get the Hollywood treatment
Boston Globe / Apr. 22
http://tinyurl.com/3fhs6r
Dr. Thomas J. Gampper
Vice chair of plastic surgery
Australian State Bans Cosmetic Surgery for Teens / Some Surgeons Support Ide...
By Gerald P. Fogarty, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in the history of American and modern European Catholicism and the history of theology
The media have rightly focused on the pastoral priority Benedict XVI has given to the sex abuse scandal. ... But the pope also addressed two other issues that have historical significance--his praise for the American separation of Church and State and his support for the United Nations, especially on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.
U.Va. Engineer Greg Gerling: Working with Feeling
U.Va. engineering professor Greg Gerling has helped design medical simulators to help clinicians learn to distinguish between different diagnostic combinations. Now, he's taking his research one step further. He's working to develop a computational model of touch sensation that may one day enable amputees to move a prosthetic device just as they move their own hand: by thinking about it.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4954
Cabell Hall's Skinner Organ Celebrates 100 Years
At the turn of the 20th century, pipe organs were m...
...University of Virginia students have been working to figure out where our area's food system stands. Tuesday, they're revealing their results and want to hear from you. The students have been studying Charlottesville's "glocal" food system. That's a combination of global and local. Their goal was to assess different situations and find out how we can work to create a better balance between the two areas depending on what people need.
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine took a piece of chalk and drew three interlocking circles on the blackboard at the front of the American Politics 101 class taught by University of Virginia professor Larry J. Sabato. Finding common ground is possible with any political issue, whether it is transportation, mental health reform or the expansion of pre-kindergarten education, Kaine told the UVa students.
KPMG LLP announced that a team of four students from the University of Virginia has won KPMG's national audit case competition for the second year in a row. For its win, the accounting department of the University of Virginia received $25,000 and each student team member $3,000.
Beginning in January 2009, Culpeper Regional Hospital will enter a partnership with the University of Virginia Medical Center... We think the partnership will have a positive impact on our community hospital. ... At the end of the day, the deal between CRH and U.Va. will be worthwhile if it leads to better patient care -and, given U.Va.'s excellent reputation and wealth of resources, we don't see how area residents would not benefit from it.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Virginia finished second at the ACC Women's Golf Championship by one shot to top-ranked Duke on Sunday at the LPGA International's Legends Course. The Cavaliers led the first two rounds of the 54-hole event before the Blue Devils managed to pull out their 13th straight ACC title on the event's final hole.
Nobody on the Virginia men's tennis team is going to be satisfied with anything less than an NCAA championship this season. But that by no means diminished the excitement of Sunday afternoon's events in Altamonte, Fla. Virginia defeated Miami 4-0 to win its second straight ACC championship, its fourth in the last five years.
Tina Fey
Drama graduate
Tiny Fey's revolution / Ex-'SNL' star now one of comedy's leading ladies
Chicago Sun-Times / Apr. 20
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/pearlman/902931,SHO-Sunday-fey20.article
David Weeks
Walker County, Texas, district attorney who works a few blocks from the state's death chamber, considered the "death penalty capital"
Walker County DA at ease with role in state 'death machine'
Dallas Morning News / Apr. 20
http://tinyurl.com/5u37h2
...Last semester, [Anne Bedarf, a UVA grad student in the Department of Urban & Environmental Planning] completed preliminary work on Morven as a class project, entitled "Morven Farms as a Sustainability-Focused Productive Landscape: Bringing UVA Together." Stripped down, her project proposed that some of the core property be used to grow local produce that could in turn feed UVA students.
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
SEC's role reconsidered after bailout
New Jersey Star-Ledger / Apr. 19
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2008/04/secs_role_reconsidered_after_b.html
and
B-school grads' first job: Find one
Washington Business Journal / Apr. 18
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/04/21/focus1.html
Daniel L. Duke
A professor at the Curry School of Education and author of "The Little School System That Could: Transforming a City School District"
'The Little School System That Could' / How a Superintendent Led the Transformation of the...