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... Asian Americans ... will not be commemorating or protesting the [Jamestown anniversary] event because they are unaware that they were the earliest Asians to come to colonial America – brought as indentured workers and as slaves. ...For it is here in Virginia that recent research has identified the earliest Asian immigrants in America – people from the Indian subcontinent who were brought to Jamestown and Williamsburg by the English colonists during the 17th and 18th centuries. It's a legacy that I have uncovered by probing documents available at the Colonial Williamsburg Founda...

...Arenas usually need massive parking lots, but, as an impenetrable surface, asphalt is one of the main enemies of a healthy stream: Any water picks up all the chemicals and dirt and carries them along in a tidal wave of filth. To decrease the parking lot's impact, the architects designed medians down the middle, creating a sluice that carries the water through grass and sections of stone that filter the water before it gets to a drain. ...

Notwithstanding the Virginia Tech massacre and other horrific school shootings, violence at colleges and high schools is declining across the country, a University of Virginia psychologist told lawmakers Tuesday. Dewey Cornell, director of U.Va.'s Virginia Youth Violence Project, said "threat assessment" programs implemented in schools in a dozen states after the 1999 Columbine High School attack in Colorado are helping authorities head off potential violence. The U.Va. project teaches school administrators to develop and use teams in each school to identify students who may be prone to violen...

Colleges' Financial-Aid Allocations May Often Be Inefficient, Study Suggests Chronicle of Higher Education / May 15 Colleges may frequently be "overspending" by offering students larger financial-aid offers than are actually necessary to entice them to enroll, according to a working paper released last week by three economists. http://tinyurl.com/26sgtb Offshore Investments by Colleges Draw Scrutiny / Push by Senate to tax hedge funds could affect large and small endowments Chronicle of Higher Education / May 15 Billions of dollars in untaxed, offshore investments by college endowments cou...

Hostler Appointed Interim Dean of U.Va. Medical School U.Va.'s Casteen to Chair U21 Board of Directors Cornell Testifies on College Campus Safety http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/

Mary Dobmeier 2005 graduate, U.Va. rower and a volunteer assistant crew coach, now coach of the new co-ed Western Albemarle High School rowing club Rowing: Western rowers hit the water / Young club has big goals but still needs some of the essentials Charlottesville Daily Progress / May 15 http://tinyurl.com/338ml3 Brit Hume 1965 graduate and host of Fox News' 'Special Report with Brit Hume' Hume, Lithwick set to join 1st Amendment group Charlottesville Daily Progress / May 15 http://tinyurl.com/28boon

Bob Bradley Former assistant men's soccer coach under Bruce Arena Bradley to be appointed U.S. soccer coach / Chivas USA's former leader will dispose of the interim tag Wednesday and will take over the national team on a permanent basis. Los Angeles Times / May 15 http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-soccer15may15,0,4083853.story?coll=la-home-sports Robert Bruner Dean of the Darden School of Business and author of "Deals from Hell: M&A Lessons That Rise Above the Ashes." Daimler Pays to Have Chrysler Towed Away Washington Post / May 15 http://tinyurl.com/yumavu Robert Bruner Dean of the Da...

The best seats in the house at Scott Stadium and parking around the facility will go to the biggest donors to the University of Virginia's athletic program beginning with the 2008 football season. ...Littlepage and Katstra said that after several years of research and discussion that it was time for UVa to institute a more equitable system. ...UVa researched several other members of the Atlantic Coast Conference and other schools nationally in evaluating how season tickets are allocated and noted that this will be the first time that UVa has fashioned its procedures in such a broad and compreh...

As the edge of a 2.4-acre lake receded, the Boar's Head Inn resort staff knew that something had to be done. ... 'We could have just sort of solidified the edge, but what we wanted to do was create a beautiful landscape at the same time,' said Jorg Lippuner, general manager of the Boar's Head Inn, which is owned by the University of Virginia Foundation. Lippuner also wanted to create a viable habitat for fish, animals and other wildlife.

... The visa crunch has left the growing segment of international students, not to mention the career-services offices at their B-schools, scrambling to find alternatives. At schools such as McCombs, University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, and Cornell University's Johnson School, 30% of the MBA student body is international and affected by the H-1B visa cap.

The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression is welcoming two nationally known journalists to its board of trustees. Brit Hume, host of Fox News' 'Special Report with Brit Hume,' and Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent to the online magazine Slate.com, have been appointed to the board by the Board of Managers of the University of Virginia Alumni Association.

Oak Ridge, Tenn. -- The Virginia women's rowing team won the South/Central Regional championship Sunday at Melton Hill Lake to claim an NCAA berth. UVa became the first team in the regional's history to win every race -- preliminary, semifinal, and final. Virginia won all five grand final races.

On the last leaf of the Summer 2005 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review, a certain Texan in a political cartoon grabs the wheel of a Model T labeled 'Social Security' and yells, 'Hang on by your eyelids, old timers! I'm takin' this jalopy off-roadin'!' It is a holler that could have been shouted from the magazine's editorial offices when Ted Genoways, then a thirty-one-year-old poet, took them over in 2003.

It's a common belief that ulcers and stress go hand and hand, but it turns out stress has nothing to do with it. Ulcers have everything to do with bacteria in your stomach. Take it from the doctor who won the Nobel Prize for discovering this connection. In 1982, Dr. Barry Marshall infected himself with the bacteria by swallowing a vile of it ... Marshall completed many of his clinical trials at the University of Virginia from the mid-1980's to the mid-1990's. He won the Nobel Prize for the discovery in 2005...

Scientists have found that a gene controlled by the mammalian circadian clock also plays a role in weight gain from high-fat diets. A team led by Joseph Besharse of the Medical College of Wisconsin and Carla Green of the University of Virginia report in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA that when the clock gene Nocturnin was disabled in mice, the animals did not plump up when fed fatty fare.

Much More Money for Veterans? Inside Higher Ed / May 14 Congress considers legislation billed as a 'mirror' to post World War II G.I. Bill. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/05/14/veterans Getting Rid of Expertise Inside Higher Ed / May 14 Why is Education Department replacing respected head of international efforts with someone inexperienced in the field? http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/05/14/intl Tough Job, No Easy Cures Inside Higher Ed / May 14 … The average tenure of deans at medical schools in the United States is just four years... That compares to 7.6 years f...

Allison Hurt Proprietor and operator of Flirt, a lingerie store on the Corner The Corner: Retail, student hub gives sense of place Charlottesville Daily Progress / May 13 http://tinyurl.com/23l3t2 Julia Jondahl, Geoff Robinson, Tim Rose and Stuart Madany Graduates planning to open a business, Sublime All-Natural, on the Corner The Corner: Retail, student hub gives sense of place Charlottesville Daily Progress / May 13 http://tinyurl.com/23l3t2

Lauren Tietje, Michael Ordonez, Mimi Krauss and Kara Worrest Fourth-year systems engineering students who did a 100-page study of Charlottesville area mental health resources and intersections with the justice system UVa students' work assesses mental health resources Charlottesville Daily Progress / May 14 http://tinyurl.com/27oshe

Coy Barefoot Director of alumni relations and communications at the Weldon Cooper Center and author of 'The Corner.' The Corner: Retail, student hub gives sense of place Charlottesville Daily Progress / May 13 http://tinyurl.com/23l3t2 Timothy Beatley A professor of urban planning Summit focuses on region food's future Charlottesville Daily Progress / May 12 http://tinyurl.com/288ke8 Malcolm Bell III Professor of art history, archaeologist and head of the excavations at Morgantina, Italy Getty Moves Closer to Returning an Ancient Statue to Italy New York Times, May 12 http://www.nytimes.co...