Bond-Rating Agency Credits Virginia Tech's Response to Shooting Spree by Affirming High Rating
Chronicle of Higher Education / July 30
Moody's Investors Service affirmed the high bond rating of Virginia Tech last week, in part because of how well the university has managed the aftermath of the mass shooting on its campus nearly four months ago.
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Redistricting is one of the spoils of politics. But whether it should remain so divided a panel of veteran politicians and operatives assembled for a daylong conference on Virginia politics. ... The University of Virginia Center for Politics' 10th annual conference of the Virginia Political History Project was held at the Jefferson Hotel. More than 300 people attended.
Lainey Ashker
A graduate of the University of Virginia
She Has Horse Sense / First Impression of Patch Proving to be Right on; Pair Now Aiming for Olympics
Richmond Times-Dispatch / July 27
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Dengting Boyanton
Founder of the Chinese Corner and who recently earned her doctorate in educational psychology from UVa
Interest in Chinese Taking Off at UVa
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 30
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Paige Felini
Who entered flight school after attending U.Va. on a ROTC scholarship
The Flying Felinis Will Be at Dayton Air Show
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Kathryn Nute
A student taking the Summer Language Institute's Chinese program
Interest in Chinese Taking Off at UVa
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 30
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Stephen Surbey
A rising second-year from Fairfax enrolled in the Summer Language Institute's Chinese program
Interest in Chinese Taking Off at UVa
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 30
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Jeff Walls
A rising third-year mechanical engineering student enrolled in the Summer Language Institute's Chinese program
Interest in Chinese Taking Off at UVa
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 30...
University of Virginia President John Casteen is among those mourning retired Professor John Graham, who died earlier this month at age 80. Graham came to the Grounds in the fall of 1958, and retired as an Associate Professor in UVA's old Rhetoric and Communications Studies Department in the spring of 1993. ...There will be a memorial service for Graham at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, August 29th, at the University Chapel.
John Graham
A longtime professor, former assistant dean of the College and best-selling children's book author
UVa Professor, Author Dies
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 29
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John Graham
A longtime professor, former assistant dean of the College and best-selling children's book author
John Graham, author, teacher, dies / For 35 years, he taught literature to U.Va. students
Richmond Times-Dispatch / July 29
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John Graham
A longtime professor, former assistant dean of the College an...
Paul A. Cantor
The Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English who writes on popular culture
TV Molds Boomers
MSNBC / The Chattanooga (TN) Times Free Press / July 28
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Susan Carkeek
Chief human resource officer
UVa Jobs Available Online
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 28
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Shu-chen Chen
An instructor for the Summer Language Institute's Chinese program
Interest in Chinese Taking Off at UVa
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 30
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Lucinda Childs-White
Director of recruitment and staffing
UVa Jobs A...
... Couples think about the other obsessively -- on a roller coaster of euphoria when together, longing when apart. "It's temporary insanity," says Helen Fisher, an evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University. Now, from her studies of the brains of lovers in the throes of the initial tumble, Fisher has developed a controversial theory. She and her collaborator, psychiatrist J. Anderson Thomson of the University of Virginia, believe that Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and other antidepressants alter brain chemistry so as to blunt the intense cutting edge of new love.
John Norton Moore
Director of U.Va.'s Center for Oceans Law & Policy, and former U.S. ambassador for the Law of the Sea Convention under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and a Reagan appointee to the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere.
Opportunity On the Oceans : America Wins With the Law of the Sea Treaty
Washington Post / July 30
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Apprentice Program Continues to Cultivate Skilled Workers
Radio Program Wins National Award
Cutting-Edge Eye Exams Could Prevent Blindness
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Mike Spar is a research associate at the Demographics and Workforce Section of The Weldon Cooper Center for Pubic Service at the University of Virginia. Their research has revealed that this year there will be around 81,300 high school graduates in the state of Virginia, a state record. Further, the number of high school graduates is expected to increase until 2009 as the baby boom "echo" passes through the high school system. Listen in to learn how the booming number of high school graduates will affect community colleges in Virginia.
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... Lehigh researchers say the $15,000 project, which was paid for through Pennsylvania Commonwealth Libraries Library and Technology Act grant, hearkens back to a national award-winning project dubbed ''The Valley of the Shadows.'' That groundbreaking work at the University of Virginia compared communities on the opposite sides of the Mason-Dixon Line using documents from the 1860s. The digital project gave people around the world not only access to historic material, but by employing GIS technology, the ability to analyze and question the theories about what communities were like during the...
...JABA Health Services was created in 1997 in partnership with the University of Virginia School of Nursing and Health Sciences Center to serve three rural areas. The program has since expanded, now including Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa and Nelson.
RICHMOND - Ten years later, Virginia's car tax can still stir the emotions. To some, it is the tax they love to hate. To others, it is the centerpiece of a financial gimmick that drove state finances into a ditch and led to a party upheaval. Both sides were on display Friday at "A Decade of Political Change," a daylong gabfest presented by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics that brought together the state's top leaders and analysts.
...Virginia is currently experiencing an increase in the number of traffic fatalities, according to statistics released by the Virginia Transportation Research Council at the University of Virginia.
At its recent hearing at the University of Virginia, the eight-member panel investigating the April 16 massacre at Virginia Tech skeptically probed the mental health care system on college campuses. "Lots of issues that have been raised need attention, but none more discernable than our mental health system," said Col. Gerald Massengill, former superintendent of Virginia State Police and the panel's chairman. ... Russ Federman, director of UVa's counseling and psychological services, fears that the Tech investigation may prompt new policies that unintentionally work against effective mental he...
MUNCIE (Ind.) -- Using business principles to change the way schools operate is Muncie Community Schools' latest endeavor to improve student education as required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Administrators from Anthony Administration Building, school board members and community representatives are in the second year of a two-year executive leadership program at the University of Virginia. The group recently returned from a summer workshop. The program is sponsored by Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and the Curry School of Education. Only two other urban Indiana s...
About 40 area middle schoolers are playing with LEGOs as part of a camp to get them ready for college. UVa's Sytems Robotics Camp aims to get kids interested in science. For a week kids team up with UVa engineering students to build robots that solve real life problems, like getting from point A to point B, or sweeping the sea floor for a ship wreck. Some kids say the camp definitely piqued their interest.
Poking around the grounds at the University of Virginia can result in the unearthing of some truly oddball history. Take the 15th-century church spire from Oxford, England, used as an ornament in the gardens behind Pavilion VI. ...It turns out that the pale yellow, carved church spire was given to the university by Merton College in Oxford. The spire used to stand on top of a buttress of Merton's chapel, which was erected in 1415. It was given to U.Va. in 1927. ... But why would anyone decide to ship this weird, three-ton gift all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to U.Va.?