A Fund-Raising Bonanza: 4 Universities Get Gifts of at Least $100-Million
Chronicle of Higher Education / June 15
...The University of Chicago has received an anonymous $100-million donation from an alumnus. The university said the money would be used for scholarships, jump-starting a $400-million campaign for student aid. The institution is following other leading public and private colleges, such as Princeton University and the University of Virginia, in replacing loans with grants for lower-income students.
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Inside Higher Ed / June 12
Panel reviewing Virginia Tech massacre struggles with laws that could hamper coordinated interventions with mentally ill students.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/12/vt
Flashing an iPhone, Technology Columnist Tells College Presidents That the Personal Computer Has Peaked
Chronicle of Higher Education / June 12
The usefulness of the personal computer has peaked, kitchen appliances will one day be online, and large technology departments are slowing down the progress of mankind. So said Walter S. Mossberg, personal-technology columnist...
Robert C. Atkinson
Who has a B.A. from U.Va.
Arbinet Concludes Review Of Strategic Alternatives and Announces $15 Million Stock Repurchase Plan
PRNewswire-FirstCall / June 11
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070611/nym078.html?
Devon Hahn
2002 graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering
Civil Engineer Turns Eyes to Frederick's Traffic Woes
The Frederick (MD) News-Post / June 12
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=61238
Hyuk Byun
Who earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering
American Systems Taps Hyuk Byun to Lead Custom ...
Scott Robertson
Fourth-year bioengineering major
Biomedical Engineering / Virginia Schools Trying to Keep Pace with Growing Demand in Specialty
Virginia Business / June 2007
http://www.gatewayva.com/biz/virginiabusiness/magazine/yr2007/jun07/engineer1.shtml
Dean Abernathy
Associate director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)
Newsweek (online) / MSNBC / June 11
Rome Reborn / A real-time 3-D computer reconstruction allows visitors to navigate the ancient city as if it were 320 A.D. again
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19169594/site/newsweek/
John T. Casteen III
President of the University of Virginia
Arizona Universities on Board with Global Warming Effort
Associated Press / June 12
http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=6644264
Bernard Frischer
Professor of art history and classics and director of the Institute for A...
International Team Digitally Rebuilds Ancient Rome
$2.1 Billion Budget Includes Student System Replacement
U.Va. Alerts Current, Former Faculty of Security Breach
John O. Wynne Elected Vice Rector of U.Va. Board of Visitors
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/
...Engineering schools in Virginia are doing their best to stay on top of this demand curve. ...The University of Virginia, which has had a graduate bioengineering program in place since 1967, began an undergraduate program in 2003. ...Biomedical engineering's emphasis on finding solutions to medical problems makes the field especially appealing to women, a historically underrepresented group in the engineering disciplines. [U.Va.'s Thomas] Skalak notes that women make up 50 percent of U.Va.'s undergraduate program
...Some colleges, a step ahead of the new legislation, have already embarked on their own efforts to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds avoid taking on debt. Beginning next fall, the University of Pennsylvania plans to replace loans with grants for students from high-need families earning less than $60,000. Other elite public and private institutions, such as the University of Virginia and Princeton University, already have similar programs in place.
Six thousand households across Southwest Virginia will soon receive an important survey aimed at improving the health of the region's residents. Arriving in mailboxes this week, the survey is being conducted by the Southwest Virginia Graduate Medical Education Consortium, located at The University of Virginia's College at Wise. The survey includes the entire GMEC service area of Bland, Buchanan, Carroll, Dickenson, Grayson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, Wise and Wythe counties and the cities of Bristol, Norton and Galax.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Wikipedia may be good for information on pop culture, but a project in the works hopes to replace it as the online go-to source on Virginia. Four employees of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities are working to produce Encyclopedia Virginia, which they hope to debut sometime in 2008 with 500 to 600 articles of 500 to 3,000 words each.
In a move some see as an important step toward addressing the area's affordable housing crunch, the University of Virginia has committed to join a task force that will study the issue. The effort may include leaders from the city of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the university. Meetings haven't yet been scheduled.
Traveling the world used to be lonely, soul-searching business for college students and recent grads. Not so anymore, thanks to cell phones, satellite, GPS and the Internet. Nowhere is that more apparent than at Semester at Sea, a "floating campus" that's been showing undergraduates the world for the last 45 years via cruise ship. In recent years, the ship and study-abroad program from the University of Virginia have been modernized to fit the demands of a typical digital campus, even though it's usually miles from shore.
The relative roles of government and free enterprise and the impact of the University of Virginia are two of the key issues to emerge from "The Housing Crunch," a Daily Progress series on the area's lack of affordable housing (June 10-11). Most local experts (and non-experts, for that matter) agree that each of these three players - government, developers and UVa - has a major role. There is less concurrence over which has the greater role and the greater responsibility to act - or how it should act.
Ancient Rome was reborn-as a virtual city-today, when a team of American and Italian academics unveiled Rome Reborn, a real-time 3-D computer reconstruction that allows visitors to navigate the ancient city as if it were 320 A.D. again. Thanks to the complex software run on PCs, modern visitors can fly over the ancient city, pan down into the Colosseum, cruise the Roman Forum and stroll into the Senate building. The aim is to provide a new tool for scholars of the ancient city to imagine how the buildings may have looked in greater detail than two-dimensional models afford.