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.
... Experts on the prediction of violence, threat assessment, school shooters, suicides, mental health, and the legal landscape that serves as the backdrop (if not the foreground) for all this gathered at Columbia University Friday for the packed one-day event. With a focus on those issues and more, what follows are a few of the themes of the day.
Philip Brown
Former U.Va. football player in 2004
Life-changing fight for former Phantom / In his battle against cancer Philip Brown lost football, but he has gained 'strength and faith though God.'
Newport News Daily Press / Apr. 6
http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-spt_philipbrown0406apr06,0,5420106.story
Kieran Donahue
Former U.Va. basketball team manager, now an assistant coach at American University
At the Final Four, Everyone Is for Hire / Coaches Are Networking With an Eye on Moving Up
Washington Post / Apr. 5
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/04/AR2008040...
Richard J. Bonnie
A law professor and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
Predicting and Preventing Campus Violence
Inside Higher Ed / Apr. 7
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/07/violence
James Ceaser
A politics professor
What wins this election: Persona or policy?
Chicago Tribune / Baltimore Sun / Apr. 6
http://tinyurl.com/6kntjv
Everette Fortner
Darden's executive director for corporate relations
Job searchers face a new reality
Business Week / Apr. 3
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/apr2008/bs2008043_261534.htm
Gary W. Gallagher
A history...
...Charles Marsh's Wayward Christian Soldiers may lack the gossipy appeal of Kuo's White House exposé, but it is in every way the better book. A professor of religion at the University of Virginia and a devout evangelical, Marsh believes that the politicization of Christianity in recent years--using the good name and moral commandments of the church to "serve national ambitions, strengthen middle-class values, and justify war"--has been spiritually disastrous for evangelicalism in the United States.
By Christopher McKnight Nichols, a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
The Bush administration, Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve and the financial sector all think the actions they've taken in recent days and weeks will fend off disaster. That's unlikely. Today's crisis calls for a new take on what used to exist: preventative regulation. So how to get there?
By Melvyn P. Leffler, co-chairman of the Governing America in a Global Era program
... One former president, whose name has frequently come up in the presidential campaign as an object of near-veneration, talked to the country's enemies. He was Ronald Reagan, and we can learn much from his approach.
Two Undergrads Receive Goldwater Scholarships
U.Va. biochemistry majors Adam C. Nichols-Nielander and Courtney M. Schroeder are among 321 Goldwater Scholarship recipients selected from a field of 1,035 mathematics, science and engineering students nominated by faculties of colleges and universities nationwide.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4747
James Banks Delivers Annual Ridley Lecture at U.Va.
In an increasingly diverse nation and interconnected world, educators must teach students to be global citizens committed to justice for all people, according to James Banks, a ...
Melanie R. Hill
Fourth-year violin player who was a finalist on the nationally televised program, 'Showtime at the Apollo.' Her performances will air on Saturday, April 19 and 26 and May 24.
..."No one was going after the African-American consumer," [Robert L.] Johnson said, speaking Friday at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. Within 20 years, BET reached 62.4 million households and was bought by Viacom for $3 billion. ... Young minority businesspeople, he said, ought to find an unexplored niche and become known as the "first mover."
Another year of record-breaking competition for slots at elite colleges is over. Now it's time for the colleges to sweat. ...This year, it's a bigger guessing game than ever. The decisions by Harvard, Princeton and the University of Virginia to eliminate early admissions this year forced those schools to tear up decades-old models that allowed them to accurately estimate how many students who were admitted would actually come - decisions that trickle down to other schools. ... Among other colleges releasing numbers this week, Princeton admitted a record-low 9.3 percent of applicants, Columbia ...
David D. Newsom [retired professor of government and foreign affairs], 90, the third-ranking official at the State Department who was a central figure during the Iran hostage crisis of 1980, died March 30 of respiratory failure at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville.
Chuck Carrington
1990 graduate and co-star on the CBS series 'JAG' for seven years
Glass act: Actor returns to Lynchburg high school to talk about acting
Lynchburg News and Advance / Apr. 3
http://tinyurl.com/ysucm2
Omar Chakaki
Aka Offendum, an Arab-American hip-hop musician
No Offence
7DAYS (United Arab Emirates) / Apr. 4
http://www.7days.ae/en/2008/04/04/no-offence.html
Margaret Gibson
Graduate with M.A. in English and author of "The Prodigal Daughter," a memoir about growing up in Richmond
Exploring family for memoir brought ties / Through caregiving and her writing, the distant child w...
Adrienne Felt
Fourth-year majoring in computer science
Miriam "Mimi" Agisim and Miranda Jones
College fourth-year, and third-year
By Karsten Nohl, doctoral candidate in computer engineering
... Near field communication (NFC) in phones automatically exchange data with other phones and objects in their vicinity. These phones are the latest example of a new technology developed with a strong focus on potential applications, but without sufficient thought to security and privacy concerns.
By Karin Agness, first-year law student
...Conservative activists should learn from the liberal activists on campuses by coming up with creative ways to make points and in turn, attract others. 'March Liberal Madness' is a phenomenal example of this because it reminds people of what the left stands for in a humorous way. Here's to hoping my 'March Liberal Madness' bracket does better than my March Madness bracket.
Bo Greenwood, Liz Shaw and Ian Vogt
Former, and current U.Va. swimmers who are headed to the U.S. Olympic Trials on June 29-July 6