About an hour into a 90-minute rain delay Thursday, international students in Richmond for a baseball experience heard a strange fact. As a heavy shower fell on the tarp stretched over The Diamond's infield, they learned that if it rains, the field is covered before the first pitch. If it doesn't rain, the field is watered before the first pitch. It was a night full of information that seemed quite odd to the dozen or so students involved in Universitas 21, an annual summer meeting of students from all over the globe. This year, they're at the University of Virginia. Universitas 21 is designed...
When Katie Hickson received an e-mail from the University of Virginia on June 29 informing her about its new campus-wide emergency alert text messaging system, she signed up immediately. ...As part of its efforts to keep its students, faculty and staff informed in times of imminent danger, UVa has launched a service that instantly delivers emergency text messages to cell phones.
As recent college graduates pack away their tassels and launch their careers, a small but growing number are opting to work in some of the nation's most challenging classrooms as members of Teach For America. ...It actively recruits at 11 colleges and universities across Virginia. Since 2000, 137 University of Virginia graduates and 339 former students from those 11 schools have taught for the Peace Corps-like program that prepares its members with five weeks of training in the summer.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Four historically black North Carolina colleges and universities will partner with four majority white counterparts in Virginia to double the average number of minorities completing degrees in science, technology, engineering and math. ...The University of Virginia in Charlottesville will lead the program, supported by a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation as it tries to pull more American students into "STEM" fields.
New Standard for Getting In
Inside Higher Ed / July 6
GRE may soon be accompanied by standardized way for graduate schools to consider applicants' non-cognitive abilities.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/06/ppi
Portrait of the College CFO
Inside Higher Ed / July 6
The easy stereotype of the chief financial officer is of a numbers-obsessed person interested only in the bottom line – the chief bean counter, as it were. But a new survey of college chief financial and administrative officers suggests that the stereotype, like many such images, doesn't hold true, a finding that ha...
Temple Fennell
Member of the Virginia Film Festival's advisory board and executive producer of new ATO Pictures and Fox Searchlight film, "Joshua," premiering tonight at Newcomb Hall for free
Congratulations: It's a premiere
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 6
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Robert Jackson
Who graduated from the University of Virginia in 1970 with a bachelor of arts in foreign affairs
Navy Veteran to Help Local Veterans
GateHouse News Service / July 5
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Jonathan Haidt
An associate professor in the Department of Psychology
Marxism and the New Synthesis in Moral Psychology
Political Affairs Magazine/ Marxist Thought Online / July 5
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Jared Harris
An assistant professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business
Report Finds Executive Stock Options Tied to Higher Fraud
Newswise / Reliable Plant / July- August 2007
http://www.reliableplant.com/article.asp?articleid=7245
Richard Lindgren
A research professor at the institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics
Big Bite Is Reborn
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Samardo Samuels was used to merely playing games at basketball camps. The high school senior was not accustomed to what occurred at a recent camp at the University of Virginia, where Samuels spent the morning listening to a sports psychologist and the afternoon performing rebounding drills with an agility coach that left large beads of sweat on his forehead. ...The unique experiences at last month's NBA Players Association Top 100 Camp provided attendees with a preview of what they will encounter at the revamped shoe company-sponsored events over the next five days.
Technology is making it easier for baby boomers to monitor their elderly parents. … Perhaps of greatest interest to tech buffs is what a number of companies are doing to bring various monitoring pieces together. Home Guardian, a start-up that came out of a University of Virginia project, for example, is working on a detector that uses floor sensors, rather than a device strapped to the body, to detect when someone falls.
No one likes a cheater, even a single-celled one. New research from Rice University shows how cooperative single-celled amoebae rely on family ties to keep cheaters from undermining the health of their colonies. The research appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in May. … Gilbert collected 144 D. discoideum fruiting bodies -- some of which were the first ever reported in the wild -- from 2003 to 2005 at the University of Virginia's Mountain Lake Biological Station in the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia.
Your metabolism may be regulated in part by a time-keeping gene. Scientists from the University of Virginia looked at Nocturnin, which is a gene regulated by the "body clock" in your tissues and organs.
… One of the most prominent efforts to produce online editions of major writers - along with many other documentary projects - is sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, founded at the University of Virginia in 1992…
Colleges Join Forces on a Web Presence to Let Prospective Students Research and Compare
New York Times / July 4
Want to know how many of the students admitted to Amherst last year decided to enroll? Curious about what proportion of students at Ohio State graduated within four years? Looking for the real average cost of a year at Dartmouth, when financial aid is taken into account? The answers can usually be found in a variety of places, from college guides to university Web sites to the annual college rankings by U.S. News and World Report. ...Associations representing private colleges and un...
Karen Ryan Named U.Va.'s Interim Dean for Arts and Sciences
U.Va.'s Elzinga Leads Winning Economic Argument
Math Academy Prepares Middle-Schoolers for College
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/
Gail Everett
Who received a PhD in education
Simpsonville Church Home to Tutoring Program Branch
Greenville (SC) News / July 4
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Brian Mannelly
Who earned a master's degree in planning
People in Business
The Tacoma (WA) News Tribune / July 4
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/102582.htmlth, 2007 01:00 AM
Charles B. Reeves, Jr.
A law school graduate
Charlie Reeves: Author, Knight, Hospital Funder
Baltimore (MD) Messenger / July 3
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Locke Hughes
A student who plans to major in English and psychology and is a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority
Local student spends summer in D.C.
Jacksonville (FL) Daily Record / July 4
http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=47911
Tyler S. Spencer
A rising fourth-year student and winner of two Harrison research awards and a Udall Scholarship
Lee Grad Fights to Earn 2nd Chance / Former Tennis Star Turns to Crew After Injury
The Staunton News Leader / July 5
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Malcolm Bell III
A professor of art history who directs excavations at Morgantina, Sicily
In a Tug of War, Ancient Statue Is Symbol of Patrimony
New York Times / July 4
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Peter Brunjes
Associate dean for the sciences
UVa Names Interim Dean
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 4
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Kenneth Elzinga
Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics
UVA's Elzinga helped Court in retail case
The Hook / July 5
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Arthur Garson Jr.
Executive vice president and provost
UVa Names Interim Dean
Charlottesville Daily Progress / July 4
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The Universitas 21 Student Summer Conference 2007 is under way this week weeks at the University of Virginia. Mark White is an Associate Professor of Commerce at U.Va, and Lavinia Johnson is the U-21 coordinator for U.Va. They join Coy Barefoot on WINA's Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about the event, which has attracted students from all over the world.
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...Sampson was in town last week as a coach and a parent at the NBA Players' Association's annual Top 100 Camp for the country's best high school basketball players. His son, Ralph III, stands at 6'-10" and is entering his senior year at Northview High School outside Atlanta.
University of Virginia engineering professor Mool C. Gupta and his team have used carbon nanotubes to unite the virtues of plastics and metals in a new ultra-lightweight, conductive material that may revolutionize electromagnetic shielding and more. The team's innovation will be honored with a Nano50 award from Nanotech Briefs magazine, which "recognizes the top 50 technologies, products and innovators that have significantly impacted nanotechnology."