Dr. Charles G. Durbin Jr.
Medical director of respiratory care at the Health System and president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine
In Critical Demand
ADVANCE for Managers of Respiratory Care Online / April 1
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S. Brandon Early
A research technician in the Department of Medicine, Allergy and Immunology
Investigators at University of Virginia, Center for Immunology Publish New Data on Sinusitis
NewsRX / April 5
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Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton
An obstetrician and gynecologist at the University of Virginia
Study: Wyeth Hormones Cu...
The First Tee is about this more than it is about developing the next Tiger Woods, organizers such as MacDonald say. He points out a doubling of kids making the honor roll since the program began here. A University of Virginia study cited the program for its success in character development, and MacDonald boasts, "Ninety-six percent of our kids see improvement in some or all of those core values.
A university begins making an investment in its students even before they enroll as freshmen. … At the University of Oregon, the state's flagship institution of higher learning, 63 percent of students receive a degree within six years of entering as freshmen. All eight of the universities the OUS regards as the UO's peers have higher six-year graduation rates. The University of Virginia has the highest rate, 92.6 percent. The University of Iowa, at 66.1 percent, is closest to the UO.
Fresh data on sinusitis are presented in the report "Hypoxia stimulates inflammatory and fibrotic responses from nasal-polyp derived fibroblasts." According to a study from the United States, "HYPOTHESIS: Chronic sinusitis is primarily an inflammatory disorder characterized by hyperplasia of immune cells and sinus tissue. Nasal mucosal swelling or polyps can occlude the sinus ostia, decreasing the level of oxygen available to the sinus tissue."
[...] In a mock letter to a newspaper editor, Mark Twain defended Walt Whitman against charges of obscenity. The unfinished piece is being published for the first time in the spring issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review, to be out soon.
New StudCo President Takes Office
Students Approve ASC Amendment
New Grad School Rankings Site Debuts
Experts Gather to Discuss Current Threats of Terrorism
U.Va.'s Turner Discusses Planning for a Pandemic
Future of the University Heads Faculty Senate DiscussionU.Va. Staff and Students Can Now Ride Free on City Buses
Recruiters must also fend off schools in the Sunbelt and other high-growth areas that perennially raid local talent. At a University of Virginia job fair in February in Charlottesville, 200 recruiters from as far away as Los Angeles and suburbs of Denver and Atlanta vied for the attention of 330 candidates poised to graduate from a prestigious education school -- fully credentialed and highly qualified.
Senator Wants Reviews of Tax Breaks for College-Issued Bonds and Sports
Chronicle of Higher Education / April 4
An influential Republican senator has asked the Congressional Budget Office to investigate how tax-exempt bonds are used by universities and to review the tax-exempt status of college sports. The studies were requested by Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, in two letters sent on Tuesday.
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A Great Year for Ivy League Schools, but Not So Good for Applicants to Them
New York Times / April 4
Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam. Yale rejected several applicants with perfect 2400 scores on the three-part SAT, and Princeton turned away thousands of high school applicants with 4.0 grade point averages. Needless to say, high school valedictorians were a dime a dozen. It was the most selective spring in modern memory at America's elite schools, according to college admissions officers.
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Making Grad School 'F...
Stephen C. Farrell
Holds an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business
PolyMedica Announces Senior Management Promotions
Business Wire / April 3
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Chris Lalik
Holds an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business
Chris Lalik Joins Meade Instruments
Business Wire / April 3
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George E. Little
Who holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Virginia
New Face in CIA Press Office
United Press International / April 3
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James A. Simms
Who graduated from the University of Vir...
Tiffany Meertins
A graduate student at the Curry School of Education
Va. Graduates Guide Students to College
Education Week / April 3
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/04/04/31colleg.h26.html?print=1
Isabelle Lesley Stanton
A graduate student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science
Google Announces 2007 Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Winners
Excite News / April 3
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Wei Le
A graduate student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science
Google Announces 2007 Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Winners
Excite News / April 3
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Gary W. Gallagher
Professor of Civil War history and author of more than a dozen books about the era
Swept Away By History / Virginia's Museum of the Confederacy Is Struggling Not to Become a Relic of the Past
Washington Post / April 4
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Fern Hauck
Associate professor at the School of Medicine
Infant Mortality: Smarter Baby Bonding
Jacksonville (FL) Times-Union / April 3
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/040307/opi_8893381.shtml
Robert C. Pianta
Professor at the Curry School of Education
Study Casts Doubt on Value of 'Highly Qualified' Status
Education We...
In 2001, Cellular Materials International (CMI) was formed to commercialize technology invented at UVA by Haydn Wadley, a materials science and engineering professor. A year later, CMI received the first of many Department of Defense contracts for a type of cellular technology that held promise as a low-weight, high-strength protective paneling, making it ideal for deflecting jet blasts on aircraft carriers, or protecting armored vehicles from explosions.
Last month, UVA launched a new home-page, its first website redesign since 2004. The site includes one feature uncommon to university websites: an "Especially For Kids" page aimed at the more diminutive Cavalier.
If you ride Charlottesville buses this spring, expect to run into a lot more University students, faculty and staff. They're all getting free rides on city and county bus lines beginning Monday, April 2.
One such initiative in Virginia just went national. The College Advising Corps, developed by the University of Virginia with lead funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, places recent college graduates in local high schools to provide guidance to high-performing, lower-income high school students. The Cooke Foundation recently announced $10 million in grants to 10 leading colleges and state flagship universities, … to expand the program and establish a national college advising corps.
Tiffany Meertins thought she would go to law school after college. But when she took a year off after graduating from the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, she found herself at a high school in southern Virginia helping students navigate the SAT-registration process and holding workshops for parents on how to fill out financial-aid forms.
U.Va. Extends admission to Class of 2011
Grad programs rank nationally
Senator Warner discusses issues of national security
Honor codifies confidentiality of counsel
More Students Choose Alternative Spring Break
Chemical Engineer Wins Esteemed CAREER Award
Police Manuals Put Blame on Victim, Coughlin Finds
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