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.
A group of University of Virginia educators have been working with some school divisions in Southwest Virginia to secure funds so that children in that region can learn American history in the most engaging ways possible. Their efforts paid off on April 2, when the U.S. Department of Education announced that this project received nearly $1 million, the largest of the four grants awarded to Virginia.
...Faulknerians gathered at UVa on Friday to remember him and talk about his relevance at an exhibit and symposium that marked the 50th anniversary of Faulkner's residency at the university. ...Considered one of the great writers of all time - particularly when it comes to Southern literature - Faulkner continues to be as relevant as ever, speakers said.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will lecture on "The Wall of Separation" at the University of Virginia Law School on Thursday, April 10th at 4 p.m. in Caplin Auditorium. Scalia is visiting the University of Virginia to accept the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.
The No Child Left Behind Act is underfunded and needs to be reformed, the president of the National Education Association told a class of soon-to-be teachers at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education on Tuesday. Reg Weaver's critique of No Child Left Behind was only part of a lively one-hour speech in which the gregarious 30-year teaching veteran also stressed the importance of engaging students, reaching out to parents and closing the 'achievement gap.'
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A former UVA basketball player says he still fights a daily battle against cocaine addiction even after being clean for 15 years. Gus Gerard brought his message of recovery to an audience at UVA's Newcomb Hall Monday night.
Gerard Alexander
A professor of politics
The genocide loophole / Claims of the 'greater good' too often let mass murderers off the hook.
Los Angeles Times / Apr. 8
http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-goldberg8apr08,1,1668592.column
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
Should Congress help borrowers?
Christian Science Monitor / Apr. 8
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0408/p01s02-usec.html?page=1
Dr. Russ Federman
Director of Counseling and Psychological Services
Stress builds on many college students
News 14 Carolina / Apr. 7
http://news14.com/content/top_stories/5946...
By R.K. Ramazani, professor emeritus of government and foreign affairs
...To help us comprehend Iran's America policy, we need to look beyond the headlines and search for those fundamental cultural and psychological factors that drive Iran's foreign policy in general and its America policy in particular. ... This paradoxical combination of the sense of pride in the Iranian culture and the sentiment of victimization in dealing with foreign powers in general is also replicated in Iran's particular experience with the United States over the past 125 years.
Crossword Master Will Shortz Brings Word Games to U.Va.
Charlottesville's crossword enthusiasts and word-savvy students put down their puzzles long enough Wednesday night to hear a talk at U.Va. by Will Shortz, crossword editor for The New York Times. A member of the U.Va. Law School's class of 1977, Shortz also holds the world's only college degree in "enigmatology," the study of puzzles.
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Community Relations Office Revamps Web Site
To support its mission of linking the University and the community, the Community Relations Office has r...
ABC News will air a one-hour TV special about Professor Randy Pausch this Wednesday, April 9, at 10 p.m. (hosted by Diane Sawyer). Pausch was a professor in U.Va.'s Department of Computer Science from 1988-1997. Last August he was told that his pancreatic cancer had progressed and he has only months left to live. He is 47 years old, married with children ages 2, 4, and 6. He visited U.Va. last November and delivered an inspiring lecture to a standing-room-only audience at Old Cabell Hall. That lecture is available at:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/robins/Randy_Time_Management_UVa_2007.html
On his weekly segment of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz explained that he had just returned from the University of Virginia where he is a law alumnus and chose to make his weekly puzzle two-word phrases that begin with V and A.
... I was encouraged by the recent National Endowment for the Humanities announcement that its 'Digital Humanities Initiative' has now been institutionalized as the NEH Office of Digital Humanities. ...NEH is also considering the feasibility of a University of Virginia-based organization for digital scholarly editing, which is precisely the sort of infrastructural support the field needs.
It looked like a battle was brewing. A group of about 10 students, wearing yarmulkes and Israel's blue and silver, had arrived early to take front row seats in a UVA law school classroom. Their purpose was to show their support for the Middle Eastern country that the speaker, Harvard University research scholar Sara Roy, might attack. ...Without fuss, Roy, invited by the law school's Human Rights Program, took the podium to begin her one-hour lecture. Her speech focused solely on the plight of the Palestinians, but there were no remarks demonizing Israel.
To millions who have watched him on the Internet or on Oprah Winfrey's TV show, Randy Pausch is the 47-year-old professor dying of cancer who inspired them with his "last lecture," about achieving childhood dreams and living with integrity and joy. ...In November, he returned to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he taught before Carnegie Mellon, to give one last lecture on another topic close to his heart: time management.
In the University of Virginia's marathon race to raise $3 billion in private contributions, an indefatigable frontrunner is UVa's athletics department. The Virginia Athletics Foundation, the department's fundraising arm, had collected $234.2 million by the end of February, representing more than 78 percent of its $300 million goal. ... The athletics foundation has received so many contributions from alumni, Cavalier sports fans, former athletes and corporations that it is outpacing the fundraising performance of nearly every academic area of the university...
... On Saturday she will be in Charlottesville to help the University of Virginia break ground for a $74 million Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center, funded by both the state and private donations. "I really want to have a lasting monument to my sister's contribution to the state and her desire to see cancer patients treated in a comprehensive, holistic way," Couric says.