Games, Demonstrations Mark U.Va. Earth Day Observance
How many discarded items in an average U.Va. dumpster could have been recycled? How much energy is saved by recycling a bale of aluminum? Find out tomorrow as the University of Virginia observes Earth Day with lots of games, events and displays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. between Garrett and Minor halls.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4903
Engineering Researcher Awarded Truman Fellowship
Patrick Hopkins, who is performing postdoctoral research in U.Va.'s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has accepted the ...
... Over the years The Garden Club of Virginia has employed noted names in landscape architecture to direct its restorations... including Arthur Shurcliff, Alden Hopkins and Donald Parker. Hopkins directed the first phase of the club's most ambitious project, the Jefferson Pavilion gardens at the University of Virginia, completed in 1952. Parker completed the second phase in 1965. These 10 gardens, each one different, and enclosed by their famous serpentine walls, have been enjoyed by more people than any other of the club's restorations, including thousands of university students.
... A Cavalier Daily editorial last year argued University President John T. Casteen, III, was right not to sign the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, because it held the University to a standard set by an outside source. For the same reasons, the University should not commit itself unconditionally to pursuing LEED certification on new buildings. Rather, it should resolve itself to pursue sustainability regardless of any outside standards.
... Mac McDonald may best be known as the voice of the Cavilers, but he's also become a voice for hundreds of kids battling illness. Monday, a golf tournament in McDonald's name will help to raise money for the UVA Children's Hospital and all the work they do.
...Now, the yardwork void left by [Marine Bradley] Arms' death has been filled by University of Virginia students enrolled in the Air Force reserve officer training corps. On Sunday, nine UVa students spent the afternoon at Bradley's house in the Carrsbrook neighborhood and completed numerous yardwork projects. ...The spring clean up at Bradley's house has become a tradition among UVa's Air Force cadets over the past three years.
Mike Douvas has been involved in cancer research for five years. For the past two-and-a-half years, he's been hard at work at UVa, looking at ways to attack the various forms of leukemia. ... On Sunday the university's Student Athlete Mentors (SAMs) put on their annual community-based fundraiser. The event, which each year designates a different beneficiary, this year is going to fund Douvas' research.
...[News of a new financial-aid program for families that made less than 150 percent of the poverty level, just announced by the University of North Carolina in October 2003] touched a nerve with [U.Va. President John T.] Casteen. ...Before the meeting had ended, Mr. Casteen announced to the room that he wanted the financial-aid staff to come up with a response. He wanted it quickly, he said, and he wanted something bigger than what North Carolina was doing. Four months later, at the board [of visitor's] next meeting, it approved a plan that was similar but somewhat more generous than North Ca...
Douglas P. Wagner, 62, a professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Virginia's Department of Public Health Sciences, died after a heart attack March 23 in Antwerp, Belgium, while visiting his daughter. Dr. Wagner previously worked at George Washington University, where he helped develop a medical scoring system called Acute Physiology, Age, Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE), for critically ill patients. The system, which began as a database of 500 patients, is now used worldwide as the international standard for evaluating and predicting prognoses for people treated in i...
Mark Reynolds
Former U.Va. baseball player, now hitting some of the longest home runs in Major League Baseball
A Virginia leader of multi-ethnic and religious dialogue was one of five people to make a presentation to Pope Benedict XVI at an interfaith meeting Thursday night - the pope's final event in the nation's capital. Saman Hussain, a 22-year-old Muslim woman who lives in Fairfax County, gave the pope an ornate copy of the Quran, the holy book of Islam. ... She said she was glad to see the pope turn the world's attention to religious diversity during his historic visit to Washington. "I hope we see more of this here and in the rest of the world," Hussain said. "In our increasingly interdependent w...
James Coan
Psychology professor
Hold her hand, help her de-stress
MSN India / Indo-Asian News Service / Apr. 18
http://lifestyle.in.msn.com/relationships/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1348734
Tashi Rabgey
Director of the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Initiative
Panelists stress trust, sincerity
Duke Chronicle (NC) / Apr. 17
http://tinyurl.com/64q7wl
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Political Junkie: Regrets? I've Had a Few
NPR's Political Junkie / Apr. 16
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Clout: Barack still plays hard to ...
U.Va. to Participate in Historic Garden Week in Virginia
U.Va. will participate in the 75th Historic Garden Week in Virginia April 22. Events include a lecture by Will Rieley, U.Va. School of Architecture alumnus and former faculty member, and a student-designed exhibit on the architectural history of the U.Va. gardens. As always, the University's pavilion gardens and selected homes will be open to the public for the event.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4923
Alumni, Students and Community Come Together for Good Causes
Charlottesville volunteers will work alongside U.Va....
... experts involved in two recent studies say the benefits of such ["aging services"] technology far outweigh the costs and, in some cases, are much less expensive than skilled nursing homes and the like. And while awareness of these technologies is low, it is growing, albeit slowly. ... Products mentioned in the study include the University of Virginia's floor-vibrations-based fall detector (marc.med.virginia.edu/projects_gaitmonitoring.html), ...
Art is being used to raise cancer awareness in Charlottesville this month. "Body Image, Body Essence," an exhibit by John Magnan, is dedicated to the memory of his wife, and all the women and families who have been touched by ovarian cancer. The public is invited to see the exhibit at Sage Moon Gallery. The exhibit is hosted by the University of Virginia Cancer Center.
For years, John D'earth has searched for the right way to unite his approach to jazz with his poet brother's way with words. Tonight, audience members settling into their seats in Cabell Hall Auditorium can expect to hear poetry and music find common ground - and uncommon emotional appeal - when the University of Virginia Jazz Ensemble presents "Speaking in Tongues."
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is going back to school -- sort of. Virginia's top elected official is heading to Charlottesville on Monday to address Larry Sabato's "Introduction to American Politics" class at the University of Virginia. The guest lecture will take place at 3 p.m. in Wilson Hall Auditorium.
Memorial services at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia captured the brave, poignant paradox of the anniversary of the Tech shootings: The tragedy was so profound, no one could ever get over it. But everyone must somehow move beyond it. ...Many expressed it eloquently at this week's memorials. ...UVa fourth-year student Liz Costello told the group in Charlottesville, "If you need support, look around. We're here for you." ... Themes of ongoing loss and community support and human hope revealed the complex emotions that remain strong a year after the shootings. The strong sense of sol...
Richard Steiner
The physicist heading the U.S. effort to define the kilogram anew by standardizing the kilogram relative to a constant in quantum mechanics known as Planck's constant
A cosmetic procedure to help fill wrinkles and plump up lips will soon be studied to help soldiers badly scarred in battle. A University of Virginia doctor is part of a new Armed Forces institute studying regenerative medicine. Research suggests that fat injections actually improve all tissue around the injection site. "So our thought is to take this common, safe, and existing procedure and to inject the fat under the skin grafts to see if it might change the scarring process," said Dr. Adam Katz, who works at the University of Virginia and is part of the new institute. If the procedure works...
Two American scientists, [U.Va.'s] James Galloway and Harold Mooney, have won this year's Tyler Prize for environmental achievement. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan spoke with the winners about their work, and about the state of the earth's fragile ecosystems.