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ROME -- Imagine strolling through the Forum like Emperor Constantine, or climbing the marble steps of the Senate amid the splendor that was ancient Rome, the "caput mundi," the capital of the world. Such flights of fancy have long been the dream of many a scholar, tourist and ordinary modern Roman. A new $2 million, 3-D computer project by a team of international experts may make the dream a reality -- a virtual reality. Designers of Rome Reborn claim it is the largest and most complete digital simulation of a historic city ever created. Ten years in the making, the project was launched at the...

...Money raised by Saturday's [Pink Ribbon Polo Cup] fundraiser will be divided and given to the two local hospitals with breast care units. ...Speasmaker is a cancer survivor and co-director of Patients and Friends, a local group of cancer survivors associated with the UVa Health System who want to help in the fight by funding research for a cure. ...Often, federal money and big investors won't fund a new idea until it's well tested, but with the help of Patients and Friends and local investors, new treatments can get underway in our backyard.

Hundreds of women participating in a four-mile run for breast cancer met for their first training run Saturday morning. ...One director says that it's a fun way to raise money for a serious cause. ... "This money will go to support programs at UVa for the breast center."

Without the involvement of the community group Friends of McGuffey Park, the park's renovations never would have gotten off the ground. ...The design center hosted a "City Play" day during which the community, from toddlers to adults, could provide input to landscape architecture students from the University of Virginia. After looking at the community's ideas, the students drew up several plans for McGuffey Park's new look. Aspects of the plans were then combined into the final design by the Friends Advisory Board and a Charlottesville landscaping company, Siteworks.

A new heart procedure at UVa has truly changed one Culpeper woman's life. ...Bowles, 85, had a leaky heart valve. She was often out of breath and weak. The problem can be fixed with open-heart surgery, but her doctor told her about a new procedure being done at UVa as part of a study called the Everest 2 Trial. A catheter goes into a vein in the leg and up to the heart, where doctors can find the leaking valve. A clip repairs the problem. The doctor who performed Bowles' surgery explained that the procedure is far less invasive.

Fathers in urban America who attend church marry at a higher rate, form stronger relationships with the mothers of their children and foster stronger bonds with their children than those who aren't in the pews on Sunday, according to a study conducted by a University of Virginia sociology professor. 'We know that religion domesticates men - that is, makes them more attentive to the needs of their families,' said Brad Wilcox, who led the study. ...In short, the survey suggests, the church is particularly important in America's cities as a centering moral compass, and fathers especially benefit ...

Report Details Deals in Student Loan Industry New York Times / June 15 Gifts and payoffs to universities and their officials by student lenders were far more pervasive than had been disclosed and in some cases were demanded by university officials themselves in exchange for promoting lenders to students, according to a Senate report on the student loan industry issued yesterday. The report, released by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the Education Committee, drew new colleges into the loan scandal. It also revealed an array of aggressive marketing practice...

Melanie Adams Who received a bachelor's degree Ex-board Member Joins City Schools Panel St. Louis Post-Dispatch / June 15 http://tinyurl.com/2qzyx3 Dr. Thomas G. Franck Who received his medical degree Health Director No Longer 'Acting' Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star / June 15 http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/062007/06152007/289761 Tom Shadyac 1981 graduate with a government major and director of 'Evan Almighty' 'Evan Almighty' Makes Its Paramount Premiere Charlottesville Daily Progress / June 15 http://tinyurl.com/35j46d Tom Shadyac 1981 graduate with a government major and ...

Daniel Duke Professor of education Before the fall / How CHS' Freshman Academy works to keep kids from dropping out C-ville Weekly / June 12 http://tinyurl.com/3xa8dg Dion Lewis Assistant dean and director of the Luther P. Jackson Black Cultural Center of the Office of African-American Affairs Before the fall / How CHS' Freshman Academy works to keep kids from dropping out C-ville Weekly / June 12 http://tinyurl.com/3xa8dg Craig Littlepage Athletics director Rich Murray is honored WINA 1070 AM / June 15 http://www.wina.com/page.php?category_id=355 David Martin A law professor and genera...

Churchgoing Urban Men Tend to be Better Fathers and Spouses Engineering Forum to Take Place June 18-20 Philosopher and Former U.Va. Professor Dies http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/

U.Va. recently received the ACC's sportsmanship award for men's lacrosse. This marks the fourth year in a row that Starsia's program has been so honored.

...Miami Heat coach Pat Riley will be dropping by Charlottesville on Saturday as the keynote speaker at Virginia coach Dave Leito's elite camp, that hosts more than 100 high school prospects that the Cavaliers have some interest in or the prospects may have interest in UVa. ... Leitao's program will also be hosting the NBA Top 100 camp this weekend and several of the top prospects in the country will be in town. This is also the weekend that one of Leitao's own players, Sean Singletary, will decide whether to remain in the NBA Draft or return to UVa for his senior year.

The Virginia Sports Information Directors Association has named its Excellence in Sports Journalism scholarship for longtime University of Virginia employee Rich Murray. Murray is UVA's Associate Director of Athletics for Public Affairs and has been in Charlottesville since the early 1980's.

The Fry's Spring Beach Club will be hosting what's being called Charlottesville's first-ever open-source Geek Gathering this upcoming weekend. The so-called Bleeding Edge Web Technology Unconference, or Be-Camp, will begin at 5 this afternoon. This two-day event will host computer geeks from as far away as Boston and Silicon Valley. Participants will decide discussion topics. Organizer Steve Stedman says geeks and tech-curious people can't afford to miss this event.

...If you want to see one of the gutsiest athletic performances ever by a UVa athlete, tune in to the Tennis Channel on Wednesday, June 20, at 8 p.m. to catch a replay of Somdev Devvarman's national singles championship over Georgia's John Isner. If that doesn't impress you, nothing will.

Piedmont Virginia Community College will present the seventh annual Juneteenth celebration today and Saturday. The observance of the end of slavery, which dates to 1865, will begin at 6 this evening with a lakeside Tribute to the Ancestors program. ...The event is co-sponsored by the city of Charlottesville, the University of Virginia's Office of African-American Affairs and the Links Inc. and is supported by a variety of local churches, community organizations, artists and volunteers.

The Charlottesville Albemarle Childhood Obesity Task Force and the UVa's Children's Fitness Clinic are creating a family fitness camp. ...The goal of the weekend is to build knowledge about physical fitness, how to increase activity in children, nutrition knowledge, and improving your overall health and weight. ...If your family takes part, organizers will follow up with you for at least the next year. This camp is being offered at a discount price of $25 per person. It will be September 21 through September 24 at Camp Holiday Trails in Charlottesville.

Schwartz to serve as inaugural BOV Faculty Representative U.Va. Alerts Current, Former Faculty of Security Breach U.Va. to Host Bleeding Edge Web Technology 'Unconference' http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/

Report to President Bush on Virginia Tech Tragedy Faults Federal Privacy Laws Chronicle of Higher Education / June 14 Educators, mental-health officials, and law-enforcement officers often do not share information about troubled students because they are confused by what they can disclose under complex and overlapping privacy laws, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and two other top Bush administration officials said in a report released Wednesday on the Virginia Tech shootings. http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=bzHqFf89GcbvgKkTffjbzyhDh3cbv3xv Alumni Donations Aren't Just Altru...