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Gomez Works To Answer the Question of Identity Menaker Awarded Farrell Prize in Sleep Medicine The Growing Buzz about Jessie Randall (Col '98) http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/

LEBANON, VA. - The Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority ...[is] rolling out a campaign to market the area as ... Virginia's e-Region: Virginia's Emerging Location for Energy, Electronic Information Technology, and Education. David Prior, Chancellor of the University of Virginia's College at Wise, presented information on ... the school's new software engineering bachelor's degree program, the only one in the state, and told the group of 'rigorous articulation' programs and collaboration with regional community colleges. 'At UVA-Wise we are definitely a player in developing a re...

In partnership with Camp Holiday Trails and Kohl's department stores, UVA is lending its expertise to an extended weekend camp for families with an obese child. According to a UVA release, the whole family is invited to learn healthy eating and exercise habits for nearly four days in September. Cost: $25. Value: priceless. Well, actually UVA says it's $500 worth of food, lodging, and instruction subsidized by the actual operator of the program, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Childhood Obesity Task Force.

...'We want to build enrollments and majors in math and science in the college,' says Ryan. ... By filling the interim position with Ryan, the University gets its first female dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. 'I think it's been a really remarkable change' in the number and level of positions for women at UVA, says Ryan, who's been at the University since 1989. While the numbers of female full professors are growing more slowly, women have dramatically increased amongst the junior faculty, she says.

About 15,000 students attend the University of Texas at Dallas. Last year, 2,003 of them were foreign students who had come to Dallas for educational opportunity. Meanwhile, of UTD's American students, just 128 had spent any time studying abroad. ...The cost of studying abroad is a formidable barrier to many students and their families. A popular cruise opportunity known as a semester-at-sea, with academic curricula administered by the University of Virginia, costs about $20,000 for a round-the-world, 100-day learning experience.

... He is one of three CPS principals recruited last summer to take over needy schools. To help lure them, the Chicago Public Schools for the first time is offering each of them performance bonuses of up to $72,000 over four years. They're also being trained through a University of Virginia program for principals trying to turn around troubled schools.

...Academics at UVA are even working on our local 'food shed,' encouraging us to figure out how to get more local food into our kitchens, and even into the diets of public school kids. ...Two professors in the department of urban and environmental planning have twice taught a course in 'community food systems.' 'Food system planning has become a very new, cutting edge part of the planning field,' says Tanya Denckla Cobb, a professor with UVA's Institute for Environmental Negotiation who teaches the course with sustainable communities professor Tim Beatley. A few graduate students have even enr...

Like everyone else, William A. Wulf [U.Va. professor of computer science] understands the importance of innovation in the American economy, and how innovation depends on an educated workforce and abundant spending on research. ...For 11 years, Dr. Wulf, a researcher and entrepreneur of computer science, was president of the National Academy of Engineering, the engineering arm of the National Academy of Sciences and the nation's pre-eminent organization of innovators. ...As he left office last month, Dr. Wulf began a project he said he hoped others would join him in - repairing the nonfunctioni...

Looming Shortages of Doctors and Nurses Are Intertwined, Report Says Chronicle of Higher Education / July 9 The United States could face a shortage of 24,000 doctors and nearly one million nurses by 2020 -- a double whammy "that may be more than the industry can bear," according to a report scheduled for release today by a health-research group. ...[which] notes that baby boomers make up a big chunk of today's physician and nursing work force, and that retirements are expected to thin the ranks significantly beginning in the next three to five years. Medical and nursing schools aren't turning...

William Bennett Graduate with a bachelor's degree in engineering and a master's in voice, now performing in the Ash Lawn Opera Festival at Culpeper County Library An aria at the library Culpeper (VA) Star Exponent / July 9 http://tinyurl.com/yww2sr Geoffrey P. Fiutak A graduate Company news Syracuse (NY) Post-Standard / July 6 http://tinyurl.com/yoyy5q Donald W. Fulton, Jr. A graduate Fulton Nominated for 2007 Virginia CFO of the Year PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ July 6 http://www.investors.com/breakingnews.asp?journalid=56340394 Sandra Mackey Who holds a masters of art in internationa...

Thushara Gunda Rising second-year who performed a classical Indian dance at the D.C. Convention Center Telugu's Cultural Celebration, D.C. Style Washington Post / July 9 http://tinyurl.com/2xe4br Katie Hickson A third-year studying psychology and elementary education UVa Launches text alert service Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 7 http://tinyurl.com/2h37aj Brenna Lynch Rising third-year majoring in history and studies in women and gender who has interned twice at Teach For America's summer training and may apply when she graduates, wants to make working with children a career, yet h...

Randal E. Arno Director of the Danville office of U.Va.'s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service Universal broadband Richmond Times-Dispatch / July 9 http://tinyurl.com/yubqk2 Julian Bond A professor of history Bond: NAACP Is Still Needed / Leader Says Group is Active and Strong Despite Setbacks Baltimore Sun / July 9 ttp://tinyurl.com/2qq3wy Jay Bourgeois A professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business China finance: Give them credit CFO Magazine / July 2007 http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/07/08/2767733.htm Ken Elzinga An economics professor UVa Professor Completes Supreme Court...

Charles Marsh Professor of religion and director of the Project on Lived Theology God and country / What it means to be a Christian after George W. Bush Boston Globe / July 8, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/yowqcr

Incoming Students Welcome Visual Aids for Dorm Decoration Where's Your Computer's HotSpot? African-American Art Exhibit Opens Wednesday http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/

...Indeed, just as the candidates in the 2008 presidential elections have all established online presences as a way to communicate and network with supporters, so the terrorist organizations increasingly do too, according to a Spring 2007 report from George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute and the University of Virginia's Critical Incident Analysis Group.

The most populous county in Virginia is launching a more aggressive recycling program. As of Tuesday, all Fairfax County businessess will be required to recycle their mixed paper and cardboard. ...The Commonwealth's flagship university has also adopted a more aggressive set of earth-friendly practices. The University of Virginia showcased its latest procedures on June 20th.

The Vice-Chairwoman of the County School Board likes the way graduation happened last month for Albemarle High School, and she is interested in seeing Monticello and Western Albemarle High Schools consider doing the same thing. AHS became the first county high school to hold graduation in the new John Paul Jones Arena at the University of Virginia.

...The two-story house, which serves as the mosque and study center for the Islamic Society of Central Virginia, is brimming with people on a sweltering Friday afternoon. ...And this is a lightly attended prayer service, as few University of Virginia students are in town for the summer. ... The first Muslim congregation in Charlottesville was formed in 1971 by a handful of UVa graduate students and doctors, said Sajjad Yusuf, an original member of the organization. During the '70s the group met in university rooms and often held services in the school's Chapel.

RICHMOND -- In Suffolk, a state-run cemetery for Virginia veterans is growing in popularity - but only slowly. And the state wants to do something about it. ... Meanwhile, a third veterans cemetery is in early development in Southwest Virginia, and the University of Virginia has been commissioned to conduct a study on future cemetery needs for veterans. Its report is due in the fall.