... For the past decade, a small group of rare book experts has sought to re-create Jefferson's library, scouring antiquarian book collections on two continents to acquire thousands of volumes. The entire collection of more than 6,000 volumes -- some originals and some replacements -- will go on display tomorrow at the Library of Congress, looking much as it would have 200 years ago.
...[U.Va. Student Stephanie] Paredes later learned that about 50 more students and teachers at the school also contracted the mumps after she had. But she did not contract and spread the disease due to her failure to receive proper immunizations. Indeed, like many of the other students on her campus who contracted the disease, she received the two-dose measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine when she was a child. ... new research suggests that the mumps outbreak that began early in 2006 - the largest outbreak of mumps in the United States in two decades - was probably due more to vaccine fail...
Traditions rooted in the Constitution must trump "judicially created abstractions" when the two collide in legal cases, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Thursday. Scalia, an outspoken advocate of interpreting the Constitution based on its original meaning and intent, discussed the issue mostly in the context of religious freedom in a speech at the University of Virginia Law School, where he taught from 1967 to 1971. ... Scalia was on campus to receive the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law, the highest external honor awarded by the university.
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Tina Fey
Drama graduate
Ready to Rock
Toronto Star / Apr. 10
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Television/article/413113
Gus Gerard
Former NBA player who now works to support drug addiction recovery
Ex-athlete returns to U.Va., years after battling drugs, alcohol there
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) / Roanoke Times / Apr. 10
http://tinyurl.com/6p8ycc
David Johnson
Graduate with a bachelor's degree in architecture and a graduate degree in landscape architecture, now a professional golf course designer
Golf designer has come full swing
Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg) / Apr. 9
http://www.vag...
Virginia Bethune
A musician-in-residence at the Medical Center
Harpists Gather For Fundraising Concert
Harrisonburg Daily News Record / Apr. 10
http://www.dnronline.com/artsandentertainment_details.php?AID=16124&sub=Escape
Richard Bonnie
Director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
Editorial: Must-have help / The state can more easily order care, but what about follow-up?
Newport News Daily Press / Apr. 10
http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-ed_commitment_edit_0410apr10,0,562499.story
Dr. Russ Federman
Director of Counseling and Psychological Services
Easing the Burd...
By Randy Pausch, a former professor of computer science
... I didn't want the lecture to focus on my cancer. Cancer didn't make me unique. My uniqueness, I realised, came in the dreams - from incredibly meaningful to decidedly quirky - that defined my 46 years of life. I had managed to fulfil almost all of them because of things I was taught by extraordinary people along the way. ... I believe brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. They are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
By Ran Henry, a creative writing teacher in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies and author of 'Keeping Score,' a book in progress about football legend Steve Spurrier.
She was a woman most everyone wanted something from, time, money or proximity, and on the last Thursday of her life she had meatloaf for lunch at Bob Evans.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia to Speak at U.Va. Today
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will lecture on "The Wall of Separation" at the University of Virginia Law School today at 4 p.m. in Caplin Auditorium. Scalia is visiting the University to accept the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, conferred during U.Va.'s Founder's Day celebrations, held around Jefferson's April 13 birthday.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4794
$1M Grant to Enhance Teaching of American History
A group of U.Va. educators have been working with a consortium of school divisions in...
Long thought to be a topic of enquiry within the humanities, the nature of human morality is increasingly being scrutinised by the natural sciences. ...Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, economists, primatologists and anthropologists, all borrowing liberally from each others' insights, are putting together a novel picture of morality-a trend that University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt has described as the 'new synthesis in moral psychology.' The picture emerging shows the moral sense to be the product of biologically evolved and culturally sensitive brain systems that to...
UVa faculty, staff and students will be among the volunteers honored at a People and Congregations Engaged in Ministry reception at the John Paul Jones Arena, to be held Friday, April 11 from 6 to 8 p.m. PACEM, an interfaith collaboration of congregations in Charlottesville that hosts a rotating homeless shelter during the cold-weather months, will celebrate the contributions of its volunteers. ...Charles Marsh, professor in the University of Virginia's Department of Religious Studies and director of the Project on Lived Theology, will present the keynote address, focusing on building a better...
...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.
Culpeper Regional Hospital will soon have the resources to expand, offer additional services and purchase state-of-the-art equipment, thanks to a new partnership with the University of Virginia Medical Center. The Charlottesville-based hospital announced plans Wednesday to invest a 49 percent 'ownership interest' in CRH over the next three to five years, pending a joint agreement effective January 2009...
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James Loeffler
Assistant professor of history and pianist whose specialty is music from the St. Petersburg school
Exploring a World Of 'Jewish Music'
Washington Post / Apr. 9
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040802916.html
Robert O'Neil
Professor of law emeritus and director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression
FEMA Among 'Winners' of Muzzle Awards
Associated Press / Apr. 8
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5grqOyL8WvRzc7vLv6d3GDQwwpdywD8VTNQO04
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Free speech center makes annual "muzzle" awards
Reuters / Apr. 8
http://www...
U.Va. Students Create Feature-Length Romantic Comedy
Fourth-year U.Va. religious studies major Kevin G. Bender didn't plan on pursuing a career in film; it was just his hobby. That has changed. Tonight at 8 p.m. in Newcomb Hall Theater, Bender and a group of U.Va. students will premiere "The Receipt," a feature-length romantic comedy they worked on during this academic year.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4792
Class Explores the Life and Works of Thomas Jefferson
"Age of Jefferson," a course taught by Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History Peter Onuf, ...
The University of Virginia athletics program leads UVa's fund-raising campaign - but does not dominate. If this were a sports contest, we might say that athletics holds a comfortable lead. ...In fact, two other programs are pacing the leader.