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John Fizer 2005 graduate with bachelor's degree in Foreign Affairs Fizer Eager to Ace a Career in Pro Golf Trentonian (NJ) / June 19 http://tinyurl.com/26rx43 Peter S. Holmes Who received his law degree in 1984 Who's on the Board that Wrote Scathing Report Seattle (WA) Times / June 20 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003754937_opapeople20m.html John Johnston Who combined his construction work with night accounting studies at U.Va. Buildings His Legacy The (Waynesboro, VA) News Virginian / June 20 http://tinyurl.com/2486ou Bobby Kennedy Jr. Who received his law degree Encore...

Matt Dreher School of Architecture student Students take on 29N / Interchanges designed to get foot traffic across highway C-Ville Weekly / June 19 http://tinyurl.com/3xmx6b

Dr. Chris Ghaemmaghami Director of the Chest Pain Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine FirstHealth EMS Director Named to National Board Southern Pines (NC) Pilot / June 19 http://www.thepilot.com/stories/20070620/news/local/20070620EMS.html Todd Goodale Associate athletic director for marketing and video services Games an easy sell with Singletary Richmond Times-Dispatch / June 20 http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/search.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-06-20-0078.html Dave Leitao Men's basketball head coach Ratcliffe: 'Selfish' not in Leitao's vocabulary Charlottesville Daily Progress ...

U.Va. To Hold Community Briefing Tomorrow U.Va. Research Fellow and Peacekeeping Expert Dies Irreverent Microsoft Guru Trains Hundreds on New Vista OS http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/ University Expands Access to Recreational Sports Facilities http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=2258

ROME - The fortunes of family life and religion may well be linked, say experts in recent studies. W. Bradford Wilcox, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, is the author of a research brief published in May by the Institute for American Values' Center for Marriage and Families.

...[Todd] Goodale is U.Va.'s associate athletic director for marketing and video services, and his responsibilities include attracting fans to 15,219-seat John Paul Jones Arena for basketball games. Having Singletary back for his senior season will make Goodale's job immeasurably easier. ...Last season was the Cavaliers' first in the JPJ, and it could not have gone much better for Leitao's team. At home, Virginia went 8-0 in ACC play and 16-1 overall, drawing an average of 13,521 fans per game.

There's something Wahoo Nation needs to know about its head basketball coach. Dave Leitao is totally unselfish, even if it means that helping others is going to hurt him to a degree in the end.

The words coming out of Sean Singletary's mouth were all positive as he discussed his decision to return to Virginia. The All-ACC guard said he was excited to be back. He said he has total confidence in his teammates. He said he was looking forward to building on last season's NCAA Tournament success.

...A part of the University's South Lawn Project that would close 438' of Valley Road to build an elaborately landscaped cul-de-sac ran into unexpected trouble at the June 12 meeting of the city Planning Commission. The Commission approved the closure, but included a condition that emergency-response-time measures be clarified.

A pedestrian crossing Route 29N may seem like a fish out of water, but 10 UVA students have cooked up some intersection designs to make the trek more palatable. 'Crossing eight lanes of traffic is daunting to say the least,' says Matt Dreher, one of the student designers. The students were part of a School of Architecture seminar taught by Professor William Sherman at the behest of the North Charlottesville Business Council (NCBC). They targeted three intersections between Route 250 and Rio Road, some of which don't currently have traffic lights.

A local research company has received a $14 million investment to further study asthma and type two diabetes. The company started by UVa faculty so far has studied a drug that could help patients who suffer from either problem. ...The studies will most likely take place in hospitals around the country and possibly around the world.

WINCHESTER - Some area school systems had record-size graduating classes this year, and more are expected in the years ahead. The University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center reported that 81,320 students graduated this spring across the state - 4.7 percent more than last year.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - Claudia Washington stopped drinking the day her son went to college. She had used alcohol to cope with her "miserable life" since she was 14. ...Her second-oldest child, Tamonte, was determined to make a better life for himself. He studied hard and worked through high school, giving his mother half his salary to help pay bills. When Tamonte went to the University of Virginia in 2002, Washington realized the cycle could be broken. "It just felt like, out of this whole miserable life, something good happened," she said. "If it was possible for him to go to U.Va., anything w...

Karenne Wood wants school children to realize that Virginia's Indians are not people of the past. This week at the University of Virginia, Virginia Indians are teaching educators how to unravel that stereotype and others in a seminar called "Beyond Jamestown."

DANVILLE - The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research will offer a two-course sequence in the fall and spring to prepare students for an engineering education. … This course is offered in preparation for a new academic outreach initiative of the University of Virginia Engineering School called PRODUCED (Providing Undergraduate Connections to Engineering Education in Virginia).

Some Lenders Are Setting Rates College by College New York Times / June 19 Andrew M. Cuomo, attorney general of New York, said yesterday in a letter to Congress that his investigation of the student loan business had found 'a significant number of lenders' that determine eligibility for private loans and set interest rates based in large part on the colleges the students attend rather than the borrowers' credit-worthiness. 'Just as lenders in the mortgage industry once made judgments about credit lending in entire neighborhoods as a whole,' Mr. Cuomo wrote, referring to a practice known as re...

Linda Lunsford A master's degree graduate Little Rest for the Principal The (Staunton, VA) News Leader / June 19 http://tinyurl.com/2rxhm6 Hallie McFadden Who received a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs Attorneys McFadden and Stuart Join Forces The Chattanoogan.com (TN) / June 18 http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_108987.asp Tom Shadyac A government major who graduated in 1981 'Evan' Premiere Puts Homelessness Project in Spotlight Charlottesville Daily Progress / June 15 http://tinyurl.com/2cszrj

Dr. Jeffrey Barth John Edward Fowler Professor of neurocognitive studies and director of the Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Institute Concussion Summit Is Today / NFL Will Try to Find Common Ground with Critics at Chicago Symposium Baltimore Sun / June 19 http://tinyurl.com/ypj9pr David Breneman Dean of the Curry School of Education Career Colleges Get Praise and a Nudge to Focus on Skills for a New Economy Chronicle of Higher Education / June 15 http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/06/2007061504n.htm Bernard Frischer Professor of art history and classics and director of the Institute for A...