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An article on Sunday about commencement speeches at colleges around the country referred imprecisely to comments by Boyd Tinsley, an electric violinist in the Dave Matthews Band, at his alma mater, the University of Virginia. He spoke the day before graduation at the university's valedictory exercises, not at the commencement. As the roundup of speeches noted, the novelist John Grisham was the commencement speaker.

Tom Albro 1972 graduate of the Law School and one of the five men nominated for a seat on the Richmond-based Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Warner and Webb recommend Tom Albro for a judgeship WINA 1070 AM / June 14 http://www.wina.com/page.php?category_id=355 Rev. Hugh E. Brown III Who received a master's in religious ethics All Saints' Episcopal Church Appoints New Pastor Trenton (NJ) Times / June 14 http://tinyurl.com/38nz3r Dr. Francis Collins Graduate and director of the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute Human Genome Yields Up More Secrets HealthDay News / June 13 http://ww...

Brian Boland Men's tennis coach Men's Tennis: Shabaz signs on with UVa Charlottesville Daily Progress / June 14 http://tinyurl.com/yp8vrm Sara Brown Lecturer in drama whose Scenic Painting class painted an intricate faux brick design around the 'Hoos for Hokies' message on Beta Bridge 'Hoos for Hokies' message erased… by grateful Hokies The Hook / June 14 http://tinyurl.com/2jmkro Dr. Anindya Dutta The Byrd Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Human Genome Yields Up More Secrets HealthDay News / June 13 http://www.news-journal.com/health/content/shared-...

Virginia's run in the NCAA men's tennis championships is already paying dividends for coach Brian Boland's Cavaliers in recruiting. Boland confirmed Wednesday that Virginia has signed one of the world's top junior players in Michael Shabaz of Fairfax. ...Shabaz, who sat out the past tennis season to focus on academics, has played in all the Grand Slam junior events and teamed with Jesse Levin of Boca Raton, Fla., to claim the 2005 Wimbledon boys doubles championship. 'Michael has always been one of the top one or two recruits in the country (along with Atlanta's Donald Young, whom Shabaz has b...

Not only was Rome not built in a day, but a digital model took 10 years to construct. A team of archaeologists, architects and computer specialists from Italy, the United States, Britain and Germany has just unveiled a sprawling 3D digital simulation of the ancient city as it appeared at the height of its development as the capital of the Roman Empire. They are calling it the largest, most comprehensive simulation of a historic city ever created. "Rome Reborn 1.0," based at the University of Virginia, shows almost the entire city within the 13-mile-long Aurelian Walls in 320 A.D., when Rome wa...

...One plan would add a crosswalk at Dominion Drive. Another plan would add crosswalks between Seminole Square and Albemarle Place. Then there's the idea of adding a pedestrian bridge to connect Berkmar Drive to Fashion Square Mall. Another idea involves building canopied bus shelters in the median to create a sense of an urban boulevard.

University of Virginia researchers have "uncovered a major secret" of DNA replication, UVa officials announced Wednesday. Replication depends on the sequence of the building blocks of DNA, but the UVa research team discovered that the density of the chromatin, the material that makes up chromosomes, also plays a key role. Genes that are surrounded by loosely packed chromatin have a better chance of becoming a working gene in the copied DNA, the team found.

At the request of business owners along U.S. 29, a group of University of Virginia students has developed proposals to enhance pedestrian safety along the high-traffic commercial corridor north of Charlottesville. "The entire landscape of 29 has been developed around the car," said William Sherman, a professor in UVa's School of Architecture who oversaw the project. "It's not exactly a pleasant environment for pedestrians."

A University of Virginia research team has high hopes for a new gene therapy delivery system that could help restore hearing for people suffering from a specific mutated gene. Jeffrey Holt, associate professor of neuroscience and otolaryngology, and his research team modified a virus that causes the common cold to serve as a vehicle to insert non-mutated forms of the gene.

In what's being hailed as a milestone in human genetics research, an international consortium of scientists announced Wednesday new data that could revolutionize how scientists study health and disease. An exhaustive look at only 1 percent of the human genome produced two major findings: a vast amount of seemingly useless genes formerly called "junk DNA" may, in fact, be crucial to regulatory processes governing cells; and "epigenetic" factors outside of genes are probably big players behind many diseases. ...For example, a team at the University of Virginia has found that the degree to which ...

An Ambitious Student Aid Bill Inside Higher Ed / June 13 House legislation would benefit students, cost lenders billions, and punish colleges that raise their prices too much. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/13/loans College Leaders Push for Carbon Neutrality New York Times / June 13 The list of universities and colleges putting up green buildings, buying alternative energy and otherwise shelling out money to green their campuses gets longer every day. http://tinyurl.com/337je4 Access for Latinos Inside Higher Ed / June 13 The vast majority of Latino students want to attend -...

Col. William T. Humphrey Who has a bachelor's degree in music history and theory Col. Annicelli Moves on to Walter Reed Sierra Vista (AZ) Herald / June 12 http://www.svherald.com/articles/2007/06/12/news/doc466e41ec92097618054191.txt

Russ Federman Director of Counseling and Psychological Services College Violence: Red Flags Ignored / Rejection, Failure Play Large Part in Slayings, an Analysis Finds USA Today / June 13 http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/nationworld/54452.php Bernard Frischer Professor of art history and classics and director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities 'Virtual' Rome Associated Press / June 11 http://www.startribune.com/722/story/1239184.html Dr. William B. Levy Professor of neurosurgery Cure for post-traumatic stress? / Scientists think solution is a good night's sleep C-V...

Refugee Family's Survival Story Nets Peabody Award U.Va. Astronaut Scheduled to Make Spacewalk Today Biological Timing Research Nets FEST Award http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/

ROME -- Computer experts on Monday unveiled a digital reproduction of ancient Rome as it appeared at the peak of its power in A.D. 320 - what they called the largest and most complete simulation of a historic city ever created. Visitors to virtual Rome will be able to do even more than ancient Romans did: They can crawl through the bowels of the Colosseum, filled with lion cages and primitive elevators, and fly up for a detailed look at bas-reliefs and inscriptions atop triumphal arches. "This is the first step in the creation of a virtual time machine, which our children and grandchildren wil...

Health officials want to know if Southwest Virginians continue to have poor access to health care, as was revealed in a 2001 study. A a follow-up study has been commissioned to gauge access to care, particularly dental and vision services for adults 18-64. The Southwest Virginia Graduate Medical Education Consortium (GMEC) at the University of Virginia's College at Wise will randomly survey 6,000 homes across Southwest Virginia.

NCAA vs. Bloggers Inside Higher Ed / June 12 Reporter ejected from game for crime of online reporting - does First Amendment have a college sports exemption? http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/12/blogger