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.
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.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4773
Community Relations Office Revamps Web Site
To support its mission of linking the University and the community, the Community Relations Office has r...