Philanthropist Calls on Colleges to Inspire Students to Give and to Support Arts Education
Chronicle of Higher Education / June 11
Colleges must teach their students the virtues of philanthropy if they hope to produce graduates who will give back to the institution and to society at large, the philanthropist and businesswoman Sheila C. Johnson told attendees at The Chronicle's Presidents Forum here on Sunday evening.
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Athletes Behaving Badly, Now Appearing on YouTube
Chronicle of Higher Education / June 11
When it comes to athletes making poor choices off the court, beware the video camera. That was one of the lessons athletics directors learned during their annual convention here this past weekend.
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Study Abroad - Not Just for White Students
Inside Higher Ed / June 11
New efforts aim to diversify the relatively homogeneous group of Americans in programs outside the U.S.
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Private Loans Deepen a Crisis in Student Debt
New York Times / June 10
...The regulations that the federal Education Department proposed this month to crack down on payments by lenders to universities and their officials were designed to end conflicts of interest that could point students to particular lenders. But they do nothing to address a problem that many edu...
Joseph Bonura Jr.
Who graduated from U.Va. with a business degree
Brownfields Get New Life with State Incentives
Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record / June 10
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Dr. Scott Ennis
Who completed a plastic surgery fellowship at U.Va.
10 Couples Make Up This Year's Bowlegs Honor Guard
Northwest Florida Daily News / June 10
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Patrick Forrester
Who earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering and aerospace engineering in 1989
Thumbnail Sketches of Atlantis' Crew
Associated Press / June 8
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Patrick Forrester
Who earned a ...
Somdev Devvarman
Rising senior, 2007 NCAA singles champion in tennis and Men's National Player of the Year
Tennis: Devvarman Named Men's National Player of the Year
WVIR NBC-29 / June 8
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Maurice Apprey
A professor of psychiatric medicine
I had the weirdest dream!
The Staunton (VA) News Leader / June 10
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Edward Ayers
A history professor and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences who in July will become president of the University of Richmond
The Revisionist
The Boston Globe / June 10
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Gerald L. Baliles
A former governor and director of the Miller Center.
UVa's Miller Center Teams Up with MacNeil/Lehrer
Charlottesville Daily Progress / June 9
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Brian Balogh
The Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professor in ...
Small Molecules to the Rescue for U.Va. Biomedical Engineer
U.Va. Alerts Current, Former Faculty of Security Breach
Conference Explores 'New Horizons' of Digital Education
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/index.php
... for Ren Angle, heading down the red carpet to the Ocean's Thirteen movie premiere was a reality. ..."We went to the charity ball for the Oscar ceremony for the Virginia Film Festival and the tickets came up for live auction and we won the tickets there," Angle says. The Virginia Film Festival holds the fundraiser every year the night before the Oscars, auctioning off some pretty amazing prizes. ...The prize also included airfare, hotel stay, car service and tickets to the infamous after-party. ..."Matt Damon was really nice. We talked to him on two occasions,' he said. 'Andy Garcia, same t...
A Virginia Tech flag, a University of Virginia graduate and a relic from the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown are on board the shuttle Atlantis in a mission to the international space station. In the payload of the shuttle, which was launched Friday, was a Tech flag with a ribbon memorializing the 32 students and staff members killed April 16. Retired U.S. Army Col. Patrick Forrester, 50, a U-Va. graduate, was among the seven astronauts. Along for the ride was a nearly 400-year-old lead cargo tag reading "Yames Towne."
...From ancient times to the modern era, [U.Va. sociologist Christopher] Einolf found, states have largely used such torture against people "who are not full members of society." This is true whether you look at those ancient times when torture was considered perfectly moral, or modern times when it is considered repugnant. Torture, Einolf found, has been largely reserved for slaves and foreigners, and religious and ethnic minorities -- in a word, outsiders.
Richard Rorty, 75, an intellectual whose often deeply unconventional approach to mainstream philosophic thought brought him wide public recognition as one of the leading thinkers of his era, died June 8 at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He had pancreatic cancer. During Dr. Rorty's long teaching career -- at Princeton University, the University of Virginia and, most recently, Stanford University -- he championed the application of philosophy beyond academic corridors and hoped to influence public discussions of democracy and liberalism. In 1981, he received one of the first MacArthur Foundation ...
Hackers have been breaking into a University of Virginia database that included Social Security numbers and other personal information about faculty members over the past two years. School officials announced the security breaches yesterday, about a week after they discovered that, on 54 days between April 2005 and April 2007, someone broke into the records for more than 5,700 faculty members. Officials warned professors to carefully watch their financial accounts and have offered a year of free credit monitoring to everyone affected. ...Many schools have had similar problems, and many have ch...
A local Girl Scout troop is hard at work for soldiers who have served overseas. Brownie Troop 145 has teamed up with UVa men's basketball coach Dave Leitao. They are asking members of the community to donate items for wounded soldiers currently housed at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, DC.
UVa Athletic Director Craig Littlepage announced Sunday that the University and Head Baseball Coach Brian O'Connor have agreed to a three-year contract extension. The new contract keeps him in Cavalier orange and blue through the 2012 season. ...Just three days ago, there were rumors out of Gainesville, Florida that O'Connor was a candidate for the Gators head coaching job. ...Through four seasons, O'Connor is 177-66 at Virginia, and is the quickest coach in school history to 100 wins. In 2004, he was named ACC Coach of the Year.