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Students who enroll in engineering programs at Central Virginia Community College soon will be able to earn a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia without leaving Lynchburg, college officials announced Monday... The program, which begins in the fall, will allow students to earn an engineering associate's degree at CVCC and then qualify for third-year entry into UVa's School of Engineering and Applied Science. Those courses, though, can still be taken at CVCC, allowing students to earn a UVa bachelor's degree while still in Lynchburg.

[...] Of the 65 colleges and universities with teams in the men's tournament, 41 had graduated more than half of the basketball players who entered their institutions from 1996 through 1999, using the NCAA-derived Graduation Success Rate.

Goal No. 1: Good Science. Goal No. 1: Diversity New York Times / March 13 Michael F. Summers of the University of Maryland is focused on two goals: trying to cure AIDS and trying to promote diversity in scientific fields. http://tinyurl.com/2tfvlm Encouraging Faculty Retirements Inside Higher Ed / March 13 Colleges are increasingly offering tenured faculty members financial incentives to retire and creating programs in which professors can gradually shift from full-time to part-time to retirement, according to a [new] report... http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/13/retirement Anthropol...

Officials discuss plans for potential student center Jaberwoke dress code stirs debate Law school names new Law & Business director Commerce School earns second place in BusinessWeek ranking http://www.cavalierdaily.com/

Climate Change in Bering Sea Could Adversely Affect Humans and Walruses Alike U.Va. Addiction Research Featured in HBO Addiction Film Engineering School Partnership Will Allow Students to Complete Four-Year Engineering Program in Lynchburg http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/index.php

Dr. Delos M. "Toby" Cosgrove A graduate of the School of Medicine President and CEO of Cleveland Clinic to be Honored at 'The Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. National Physician of the Year Awards' in New York City on March 13 PRNewswire / March 12 http://tinyurl.com/ywo3cg Jane Dorrier Graduate who now works for Global Travel Agency The Road to Ohio WCAV CBS-19 / March 12 http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/6453317.html Andres Gluski Who earned a master's degree and doctorate in economics (1989) AES Executive Notes Firm's 'Global Reach' The Washington Times / March 12 http://...

Michael Bowen College student The Road to Ohio WCAV CBS-19 / March 12 http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/6453317.html Ben Fey A third-year student No Break for Spring: Hundreds of Students Trade Books for Hammers Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger / March 13 http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070313/FEAT05/703130348 Scott Mitchell A third-year architecture student No Break for Spring: Hundreds of Students Trade Books for Hammers Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger / March 13 http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070313/FEAT05/703130348 Logan R...

Dr. Anita Clayton Professor of psychiatry and author of new book, "Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy," Marshall: Satisfaction Not Guaranteed Boulder (CO) Daily Camera / March 12 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2007/mar/12/satisfaction-not-guaranteed/ Corbin Hunt Associate athletics director for ticket sales and operation NCAA Tournament Tickets Hard to Come By WVIR NBC-29 / March 12 http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?s=6215326 Judith Shatin The William R. Kenan Professor of Music Pro Musica Offers Somber Tribute to Struggle Albany (NY) Times Union / March 13 http://t...

The outbreak of mumps at the University of Virginia can be traced to a strain of the virus that came into the United States from Japan in June 2006, health officials suspect. Lilian Peake, health director for the Thomas Jefferson Health District, said DNA analysis completed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a similarity to the "G1" mumps strain from Japan.

If you're looking for a ticket to see the Wahoos play in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, you might be out of luck. Tickets went on sale online at 9:00 Sunday night. But most were only available to donors of the Virginia Athletics Foundation. Out of 550 tickets about 30 tickets will go to students who are chosen through a lottery system.

When Robert Stilling, a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Virginia, began a research project last summer on poet Robert Frost, he expected, perhaps, to squeeze out a term paper or two from his research-not to be tossed under a media spotlight brighter than most scholars see in a lifetime.

[...] While there is some scientific disagreement as to how an individual's particular set of prejudices is developed, all seem to agree that, once implanted in our subconscious, prejudices can never be removed. If, as I did, you find that hypothesis difficult to accept, I suggest that you take what is called an "Implicit Association Test." There are a number of these developed as part of a joint research project at The University of Virginia, Harvard and The University of Washington. ...They will accurately identify your unconscious prejudices.

Konover Construction Corporation...and JSA Architects of Silver Spring, MD were recently awarded a $14.35 million design/build contract for the University of Virginia's new 54,000-sq.-ft. residence hall. Construction of the five-story project known as "Observatory Hill Residence Hall" is scheduled to begin this Wednesday, March 14, with a completion date set for June 2008. This residence hall will provide the university with 192 new student beds and an additional 9 beds for resident assistants and staff.

Semester at Sea Voyage Sets Sail in June BOV Creates New Professorships Safety Alert: Robbery Attempt in U.Va. Parking Lot Reported http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/

Would U.S. News Make Up Fake Data? Inside Higher Ed / March 12 Sunday, the president of Sarah Lawrence College publicly charged that [U.S. News] is preparing to publish made up, false data about her institution. Meanwhile, Inside Higher Ed has learned that 10 other liberal arts college presidents are preparing a letter to be sent to hundreds of college presidents proposing a new set of policies that might challenge the role of the rankings. http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/12/usnews Faculty Salaries Up 3.8% Inside Higher Ed / March 12 This academic year is featuring better raises for m...

George Allen Former Virginia governor who appointed a committee to begin planning the Jamestown 2007 celebration Big Names, Big Bucks For Jamestown's Big 400 Washington Post / March 12 http://tinyurl.com/34zerm Ann Clark Who earned a master's degree in special education in 1982 Decentralization Shuffle / CMS Reorganizes Central Office, Names Associate Superintendent Charlotte (NC) Weekly / March 10 http://tinyurl.com/2djbxb Thomas M. Davis III A law school graduate T. Davis Eyes Vote for D.C. / Va. Lawmaker Seeks to Give District Delegate a Vote in the House Richmond Times Dispatch / March ...

Mallory Birckhead A second-year student Young Women Compete in Pageants / Miss Roanoke Valley Scholarship Festival Winners Will Advance to the State Pageants Roanoke (VA) Times / March 09 http://www.roanoke.com/neighbors/community/wb/107827 Kate Gilchrist A third-year political philosophy, policy and law major UMRC Renovates Choppee Home Georgetown (SC) Times / March 9 http://tinyurl.com/yrmlf2 Hideki Inoue First-year graduate student in the Darden School Painful Lesson in Economics Chronicle of Higher Education / March 16 http://tinyurl.com/293gm4 Lucy Partain A first-year student Partai...

Patrick Michaels Research professor of environmental sciences and senior fellow at the Cato Institute

Joseph Allen Professor of psychology Little Princesses / With an Eye to the Future, the Miss Roanoke Valley Organization Introduces an Event for Girls aged 5-12 Roanoke (VA) Times / March 09 http://www.roanoke.com/extra/wb/107859 Ralph O. Allen Director of environmental health and safety Accidents Rise on Campuses as Inspections Decline Chronicle of Higher Education / March 12 http://tinyurl.com/create.php Phil Arras An assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy Distant Planets Spark Interest Cornell Daily Sun / March 9 http://www.cornellsun.com/comment/reply/22015 Edward L. ...

All that Hideki Inoue had to do was pick the correct one of two identical briefcases, and the first-year graduate student at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business would win a semester's worth of tuition, $17,500. The Deal or No Deal-like contest was created by two business-administration professors, Phillip E. Pfeifer and Samuel E. Bodily. "It's an opportunity for the students to learn about risk in a situation that's real and that has significant money involved," as opposed to hypothetical class situations, says Mr. Bodily.