A University of Virginia student is taking center stage for her work on a short documentary film. The film "Sahar Before the Sun" recently won a Peabody Award from the University of Georgia. The Peabody is one of journalism's most prestigious honors. The documentary chronicles the life of refugee Sahar, who is now a third-year student at UVA and a producer of the film. The film shows her journey from war-torn Afghanistan to Charlottesville.
...Jefferson Trust Executive Director Michael Clark says the grants are given to provide a margin of excellence at UVA. Five grants totaling $325,000 will be given out.
...The University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, also has a section for kids. It has a mix of history, games and answers to some of the most-asked questions. http://www.virginia.edu/uvakids/
Gabrielle Fronce ... works in a field called contracting, which covers the procurement, negotiation, analysis, management of and termination of contracts. "I considered going to law school for my field," says Fronce, who is 15 months into a Procurement & Contracts Management certificate program at the University of Virginia School of Continuing & Professional Studies in Falls Church (www.scps.virginia.edu). "This is a great compromise. It's not just law. It's dealing with people, putting contracts together and understanding all the verbiage."
Former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner said Wednesday that he is a long way from making a decision about his political future but is gearing up for a "potentially unprecedented" effort this fall to elect more Democrats to the General Assembly. After speaking to several hundred students at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, Warner (D) told reporters it is essential for voters to send more Democrats to the Capitol in support of Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's agenda.
Coaches They Go Round and Round
Inside Higher Ed / April 11
...what about the short-timer coach for whom promises of 'being part of the university family' or 'making this my career destination' turn out to be nothing but a farce? In these cases, which seem to be growing, it's often the athletes who are burned.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/11/coaches
Columbia to Receive $400 Million for Student Aid
New York Times / April 11
Columbia University will announce a gift of $400 million today, one of the largest ever to an American university, from John Werner Kluge, 92, a billionaire who has long been one of the university's strongest supporters. … In recent years Mr. Kluge sold his 78,000-acre Scottish estate and a London townhouse and a home in Munich, and donated his Virginia farm with 35 outbuildings and thousands of acres to the University of Virginia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/nyregion/11columbia.html
Iowa State U. Will Re...
'The Power of Privilege'
Inside Higher Ed / April 11
In "The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's Elite Colleges," Joseph A. Soares, an associate professor of sociology at Wake Forest University, writes that much of what is seen as opening up American higher education was actually the result of looking for new ways (albeit with mixed success) to keep the elite elite (and WASPy). Using material from college and other archives, Soares argues that the meritocratic impulse was much weaker than is commonly believed. And he argues that a better understanding of what did and did not change in the 1...
Carol Butler
Who earned a master's degree in teaching
Waynesboro Announces New Principal, Coach
The Staunton (VA) News Leader / April 11
http://tinyurl.com/36bxq6
Dr. Jeff Leighton
Who studied chemistry, natural product isolation, pharmacology and medicine
Maine Natural Health Company Introduces Science-Based Nutraceuticals
PRNewswire / April 10
http://tinyurl.com/2l42e9
Steve Owen
Who holds a master's in urban planning
City Manager Loves Rock 'n' roll
The Staunton (VA) News Leader / April 11
http://tinyurl.com/32tkbj
Wendy Palmer
Who majored in history and played basketball
Disrespect Do...
Sahar Adish
College third-year pre-med major
UVA Student's Film Wins Peabody Award
C-Ville Weekly / April 9
http://tinyurl.com/ywxwro
Mary Slosson
College student and director of Building Tomorrow's U.Va. chapter
To Uganda, without moving an inch / Building Tomorrow hosts a "stationary" event
C-Ville Weekly / April 9
http://tinyurl.com/232qzy
Dr. Nuzhet Atuk
Emeritus professor of internal medicine
Other News We Heard Last Week / Sunday, April 8 / Hatfields, McCoys, explained
C-Ville Weekly / April 9
http://tinyurl.com/26zudf
Kim Forde-Mazrui
A law professor
UPDATE: Bill Would End Taxation Of Domestic-partner Health Benefits
Dow Jones / April 10
http://tinyurl.com/22j2de
Dirk Katstra
Executive director of the U.Va. Athletics Foundation
Death Can't Cool Fans' Fervor / Legacy Gifts Enable College Boosters to Have an Impact from the Hereafter
Richmond Times-Dispatch / April 11
http://tinyurl.com/2gcaxc
Dr. Chris Kramer
Professor o...
Advanced, Gifted Students Need More Balance in Life
ACC Undergraduate Research Conference Begins Friday
New Jefferson Trust Grants Provide Margin of Excellence
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/
The legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud, which dates back to the Civil War, may be explained through genetics, according to the Associated Press. Dr. Nuzhet Atuk at the University of Virginia and geneticists at the University of Pennsylvania studied the McCoy family for over 30 years. The condition is characterized by irregularities of the adrenal gland, which floods adrenaline into the bloodstream, causing tumors and aggressive behavior.
...Building Tomorrow, a national nonprofit organization supporting education efforts in sub-Saharan Africa, sponsored an event called Bike to Uganda last week at UVA. Participants signed up for 30-minute slots on 10 stationary bikes set up around campus and obtained sponsorship in hopes of going the distance-7,300 miles, to be exact, the approximate distance from UVA to Kampala, Uganda-and raising the remainder of the $32,000 needed to build a school in the outskirts of Kampala.
The Cavalier men's lacrosse team (10-1) began this season in the shadow of last year's 17-0 record and NCAA championship. Head Coach Dom Starsia talks about this season's early loss to Drexel, facing Duke, and why rising star Ben Rubeor is no poor man's Matt Poskay...
...'Many UVA students go on to Wall Street, law school…[but] I'm finding a lot of people for whom this meeting ground between art and business is a very attractive field,' [U.Va. lecturer] Sampson said after the event, which drew a mixed crowd of roughly 60 students and community members. And so arts administration at UVA rolls on with a few lessons imparted...
A new flu vaccine battles the bug with bugs and appears to be just as effective as conventional shots in protecting people from the disease, according to new research published Wednesday. Scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center and other institutions tested the vaccine, grown in insect cells rather than the chicken eggs now used to produce the standard flu shot, in 460 people. ... The study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, also involved researchers from Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the University of Virginia.
A report conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia for the Lumina Foundation for Education in Indianapolis takes a look at today's workforce and the role of higher education to meet the education needs of adult learners. The study shows that nationally about 54 million working adults lack a college degree, with nearly 34 million having no college experience at all.
The Jefferson Trust, administered by the University of Virginia Alumni Association, will announce five grants Friday totaling $325,000. Friday is Founder's Day, Thomas Jefferson's birthday.
For a broadcast journalist, winning a Peabody Award is a crowning achievement. But for UVA junior Sahar Adish, it was just another day in the college grind. ...The University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism typically gives out the annual news media awards to heavyweights like '60 Minutes' and PBS. But this year the school gave one of its 35 awards to Adish and fellow teen filmmakers... The theme of the project was fear and security, and Light House's film focused on the life of Adish herself, an Afghani refugee whose family was forced to flee the Taliban-controlled country in the late...