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... On Tuesday, December 4, the UVA Klezmer Ensemble will join up with renowned klezmer fiddler Alicia Svigals for an evening of traditional and original tunes. (Includes audio clip.)

For the first time, researchers have identified structural damage to the lungs caused by secondhand cigarette smoke. The results of the study, conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, were presented Monday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago. "It's long been hypothesized that prolonged exposure to secondhand smoke may cause physical damage to the lungs, but previous methods of analyzing lung changes were not sensitive enough to detect it," said Chengbo Wang, magnetic resonance physicist ...

The University of Virginia Health System has debuted a new type of imaging system with the capabilities of a CT scan and fluoroscopy during the first procedure of its kind in the United States. Doctors used the Artis zeego, a system developed by electronics company Siemens AG, to guide a liver shunt into a patient. The interventional imaging system allows doctors to both see moving body structures as normally seen through fluoroscopy and view 3-D images of the structures using CT scanning technology.

Kim Boyle School of Law graduate, a partner at Phelps Dunbar in New Orleans, and the first African-American woman named president-elect of the Louisiana State Bar Association Boyle first black woman to lead LSBA New Orleans CityBusiness / Nov. 26 http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=24922 Leland Melvin A master's of science graduate who's on track to blast off into space on Dec. 6 aboard NASA's shuttle Atlantis Checking Up on a Local Astronaut and Humanitarians Lynchburg News and Advance / Nov. 23 http://tinyurl.com/27a2c4 Kevin Nowack Engineering graduate and 2005 U.S. ...

Bob Batz and Shawn Elizabeth Means Graduate students in urban and environmental planning UVa students celebrate with foods from region Charlottesville Daily Progress / Nov. 22 http://tinyurl.com/yohp8q Chris Long Fourth-year defensive end, and a finalist for the Lombardi Award and the Nagurski Trophy, expected to be one of the first five players selected in the N.F.L. draft Chris Long Depends on Hard Work More Than Famous Name New York Times / Nov. 24 http://tinyurl.com/2o7h2h and Father's footsteps / Long had pedigree, but it was up to him to make most of it Richmond Times-Dispatch / Nov. 2...

Farrell Offers Advice for Navigating Medical Web Sites U.Va. nursing professor Sarah Farrell believes that the health care information on the Web has improved dramatically, largely because of improvements in government sites. Farrell offers Internet users a series of tips for effective health care browsing. Health System Team Gives Away 21 Million ... Calories U.Va. Cancer Center's has just passed a landmark. They have given away 21 million calories in the form of free nutritional supplements to cancer patients since 2004.

Angela Davis Associate dean of students Catholic University: Vandalism Prompts Cut in Visiting Hours Washington Post / Nov. 23 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR2007112201311.html Mark Edmundson A professor of English and author of 'The Death of Sigmund Freud' Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department New York Times / Nov. 25 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/weekinreview/25cohen.html?ref=education Sanford H. Feldman Director of the Center for Comparative Medicine Tadpole Slayer: Mystery Epidemic Imperils Frogs Science News /...

By Christopher Nichols [a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture] ...It is time to chart a middle path – avoid the extremes of heartless realism and brainless idealism – and blend cautious isolationism with active internationalism. So how would this new isolationism look? Its core aim would be to avoid military conflicts. Isolationist principles would discourage an interventionist or preemptive foreign policy, but would not preclude self-defense. It would promote diplomatic strategies, rather than military approaches. History has shown that interventions o...

A fast-moving "rogue" on the outskirts of the Andromeda galactic system may provide new insight into the nature of so-called dwarf galaxies and their potential role in galaxy formation. The newly discovered dwarf, dubbed Andromeda XIV, may also indicate that the large spiral galaxy Andromeda-known to researchers as M31-is far more massive than had been thought. ...Andromeda XIV appears to be moving too fast to be locked in orbit around M31, said team leader Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. ...Perhaps more likely, Andromeda XIV may simply be a new arrival just e...

In years past, University of Virginia football players whose families lived a reasonable drive from the school often went home to eat Thanksgiving dinner. The Cavaliers will break with tradition today. They're all staying in town for a team dinner this afternoon at John Paul Jones Arena.

As Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia prepare for what may be their most important football matchup ever, there is an unmistakable change in tenor to the fierce historic rivalry among fans. Seven months after the massacre at Tech that claimed 32 lives plus the killer's, and the outpouring of support that came from other schools, including U-Va., boosters on both sides say the petty stereotypes that once divided them have largely been set aside.

Virginia Tech got an outpouring of love and support from every campus in the country after the shootings April 16, none more than from the University of Virginia. Virginia students... affinities and connections explain not only the rivalry but why UVA emerged as Tech's greatest supporter in its moment of greatest grief. "Our families overlap," Virginia President John T. Casteen III writes in an e-mail. "The differences are small stuff. Bonds of mutual purposes, overlapping populations and mutual respect for the work that people do in both places are the more important bonds."

In solidarity born of adversity and fueled by rivalry, the Virginia Tech and University of Virginia marching bands will join tonight in a show of pride and camaraderie. The bands are holding the first-ever joint Commonwealth Concert at John Paul Jones Arena to warm up fans for Saturday's annual football game. The concert is a show of skill and pride with roots in last spring's tragic shooting rampage at Virginia Tech that ended with 32 slain students and the shooter dead by suicide. One of the victims, Ryan Clark, played baritone in the Virginia Tech band. 'We're getting together right after a...

As part of a Thanksgiving experiment, 100 University of Virginia students and professors gobbled down a potluck feast of turkey from a farm in Staunton, applesauce made from handpicked Carter Mountain apples, mashed potatoes made with Staunton-grown Yukon Gold potatoes, raspberry ice cream with Charlottesville-grown fruit, and a casserole filled with Central Virginia potatoes and cheeses. ...The UVa students and faculty members took part in a 'glocal' Thanksgiving, in which participants sought to cook with only local ingredients and food from elsewhere that was obtained through ethical means, ...

By Betsy Graves, University of Virginia, class of 2011 ...On that first trip [to U.Va.], I fell in love with the city of Charlottesville and the opportunities that the college had to offer. I returned twice more before I actually enrolled, and saw a different aspect each and every time that I visited the campus. To be honest, I never actually considered going to school at UVa until I received my acceptance letter. Then, the more I thought about it, I realized that it was the option I had been trying to find all along - it had a little piece of everything that I wanted in a school.

Paige Harden A Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology

Dr. Robert Blizzard and Dr. Alan Rogol Professor emeritus of pediatrics, and professor of pediatrics Anti-Aging And HGH WCAV CBS-19 / Nov. 20 http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/news/headlines/11658031.html John T. Casteen III, Barry Johnson, and Carl Zeithaml University president, senior associate dean in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and dean of the McIntire School of Commerce UVa joins colleges in partnership with Rolls-Royce / Plan brings plant to Prince George, many benefits to university Charlottesville Daily Progress / Nov. 21 http://tinyurl.com/287668 Robert F. Br...