... Last week [Nelson Lopez] got a letter from U-Va. telling him he will be considered a Virginia resident for his application. ... When Lopez saw the letter at home in Alexandria, he was scared to open it. "I just knew it was a big deal," he said. But when he read it, he was speechless for a moment. "I was so excited. This changes everything!"
University Architect David Neuman has outlined several objectives for the roofing project in the Central Grounds area. Neuman says workers are installing stainless steel shingles that mimic Jefferson's original design but consist of modern materials to prevent leaks.
A local pro bono project is representing two veterans in their disability claims and giving University of Virginia School of Law students experience in the process.
...The UVA Alumni Association says anywhere between seven and 10 percent of every graduating class sticks around.
Hundreds of people laced up their running shoes in the "Run for Life" Saturday morning at the University of Virginia. It's the 14th year that the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority has hosted the event. The 5K raises money for breast cancer research, with all proceeds going to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Five years ago, University of Virginia scientists Deborah Lannigan and Jeffrey Smith extracted a compound from a rare South American plant that turned out to be a promising new treatment for breast cancer. ... Lannigan's arduous five-year effort to obtain federal funding underscores an emerging problem facing medical scientists across the country. Funding for NIH has remained stagnant over the past five years. As a result, researchers are finding it increasingly tough to win grants for cutting-edge research and many ongoing projects are being reduced in scope.
...Friday, Major General "Spider" Marks spoke to guests at the Miller Center in Charlottesville. His speech, called "Sprinting to a Marathon" was about the U.S. led invasion of Iraq.
... The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, for example, started a two-day reentry program in 2005 after a survey of alumnae revealed that as many as 35 percent of female graduates were not working full time, said Connie English, Darden's associate director for alumni career services.
Dan Bonner
Former U.Va. basketball player, now a CBS announcer for the NCAA tournament
Qian Cai
Director of the Weldon Cooper Center's demographics and work force section
Growth spurt for New Kent
Richmond Times Dispatch / Mar. 21
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-03-21-0145.html
Charles Marsh
Religious studies professor
Leading "Christians" Have Crucified Jesus / The Real Jesus Should Be Resurrected This Easter
Huffington Post / Mar. 20
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-s-mcelvaine/leading-christians-have_b_92661.html
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Obama's Support Slipping Among White Voters
FOX Ne...
U.Va. Professor Studies the Migration of Foreign Teachers
Foreign-trained teachers come to the United States for better opportunities. Instead, these highly-qualified teachers are put in the worst schools, not getting paid what is commensurate with their experience and they don't have a lot of say over where they teach or a lot of preparation, according to Carol Anne Spreen, an assistant professor in U.Va.'s Curry School of Education.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4574
U.Va. School of Medicine Celebrates Match Day 2008
The 127 members of U.Va.'s School of Medicine Class...
... Whether [Obama] likes it or not, and whether Americans generally like it or not, race is a big part of this election, and it has been at least since the election result in New Hampshire. From Obama's perspective, it's much better to have this discussion now. In fact, the debate about race was inevitable at some point. I would argue that race isn't just another issue; it is THE issue of American history. He actually needs to have the racial debate continue until it exhausts the media and the electorate as a whole.
...[Bill] Shobe and [Terry] Rephann's talk on 'Growth, Change and Community: Economic Development in Central Virginia' was presented at the Albemarle County Office Building and was sponsored by UVa's Engaging the Mind lecture series.
...Always anonymous, always juicy, it's the self described title of juicycampus.com. Allowing anyone to post a comment about a student or an organization at any school without revealing their identity. ...students are taking action as well, figuring the best way to get rid of the site is to stop using it. "Because I think it's the responsibility of the student organizations to lead the charge against, I know I've seen Pepperdine University, have already begun this boycott and I'm hopeful that UVa will do the same," said [third-year Jonathan] Williams. The Zeta Psi fraternity at UVa says they p...
...In short, both Democratic candidates are using dubious electoral arguments to promote their candidacies. Their primary showings do not predict the fall election. Of course, neither do today's public opinion polls forecast the fall results. ...Where does this leave the Democrats? They can't use either the primary returns or the polling numbers to tell them definitively which is the better candidate to defeat John McCain. Instead, they will have to rely on old-fashioned political judgment and hardheaded evaluations of the strengths and weaknesses of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to make th...
...Interestingly, the motto for The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business in Charlottesville, Virginia, is "The best faculty in the world don't like hearing themselves speak," says Robert Carraway, associate dean for MBA Education. The Princeton Review ranked Darden No. 1 for Best Professors; the school's MBA students thrive in a collaborative environment where classroom discussion is a key element of their business education. "It is a highly interactive learning environment. It is not faculty standing in front of students and lecturing," says Carraway. "It is students and faculty...
There are few times in any of our lives when our future can be held inside an envelope. But across the country Thursday, and at the University of Virginia, those envelopes held the hopes and dreams of graduating medical students. On Match Day, University of Virginia medical students get an envelope with their name on it. Inside of that enveloped is the answer to where they will be a resident.