Eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina barreled through Moss Point, Miss., the Gulf Coast city is still reeling from the devastation. … Top Moss Point officials will be participating in a retreat at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, and will then be holding work sessions with Charlottesville staff and taking tours of the city.
Prayers, Annie Tucker believes, always get answered. For Tucker, that's the best explanation for why her Annie Village Road home was chosen by United Methodist Relief Center (UMRC), a Charleston faith-based organization that rehabilitates homes, to be renovated. Student volunteers from the University of Virginia will spend this week repairing the house.
A previously unknown black slave narrative has been acquired by the University of Virginia Library, adding to its hefty collection of autobiographical accounts of slave life. "Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery," first published in Canada in 1860, is a 72-page personal account. It relates the life and times of the Virginia-born slave who bought Henry Goings' identity and escaped to freedom, probably in the early to mid-1840s.
[...]"We don't want to stereotype people," said Leslie J. Blackhall, who studies end-of-life issues at the University of Virginia. "There's a lot of variation within groups. But overall, many, many studies have found that African Americans tend to want more aggressive care at the end of life."… One key study that Blackhall conducted of 800 elderly hospital patients in Los Angeles found that African Americans were twice as likely as whites to say they want to be kept alive in end-of-life situations, such as an irreversible coma.
[...]"Mad Money,"...is a CNBC offering that's popular with 18-to-34-year-olds -- an audience it builds on with its "College Tour," taking the show on the road to campuses such as Georgetown University and the University of Virginia this past year.
The University of Virginia Medical Center teamed up with The National Kidney Foundation Thursday to provide free kidney disease screenings in Charlottesville. It's all part of World Kidney Day, a world wide effort to raise awareness of kidney disease.
A University of Virginia chemistry professor has created a device that he says can very quickly diagnose certain diseases at the earliest stages of onset. University of Virginia's James Landers told Earth & Sky that this device - which resembles a glass microscope slide - uses nanotechnology. It works by analyzing the patient's blood. Tiny, nanoscale pores embedded in the device allow it to examine DNA molecules in the blood for signs of disease.
WAYNESBORO - Conflict might be common when it comes to balancing Mother Nature with the needs of industries and residents, but it doesn't have to be inevitable. That's the lesson taught by an environmental leadership program hosting sessions in Staunton and across the central Valley this week. ...The institute, a partnership program of the University of Virginia Institute for Environmental Negotiation, the Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Department of Forestry, will host six sessions in locations around Virginia through 2008.
Within this roughly 300 page book-bound journal, you'll find some of the best and most ambitious nonfiction around. While the New Yorker has become a great place to get a certain kind of news, all New Yorker stories tend to sound a bit like other New Yorker stories. VQR offers similar satisfactions, often in longer, more in-depth pieces. ...VQR is one of the best small magazines.
...The occasion for the [Colonial Williamsburg] conference - 'The Williamsburg Playhouse of 1760 and the World of 18th-Century Theater' - is the completion of a 10-year excavation of one of the first commercial theaters in America. ...So far the reconstruction of the playhouse has been entirely imaginary. Conference attendees will be able to experience a computer-based "virtual reconstruction" of the theater, completed in association with the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. "We designed everything on computer," Mr. Graham said, "down to the nails."
Virginia makes its return to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship as the No. 4 seed in the South Region. The Cavaliers will face Albany (23-9) in a first-round matchup played in Columbus, Ohio... Virginia is making its first NCAA appearance since 2001. ...The last time UVa was a No. 4 seed was in 1995 when the Cavaliers reached the regional final, falling to Arkansas 68-61 in Kansas City, Mo.
...The University of Virginia, meanwhile, made a repeat appearance at No. 2, underscoring how different programs can excel on their own terms. A tiny two-year program at a public university, with in-state annual tuition of just $7,845, Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce could not be more different from Wharton, an elite four-year private-school program with enrollment and tuition about four times as high. Yet Virginia rates higher on student satisfaction, sends a larger percentage on to top MBA programs, and is roughly on par with Wharton on key measures of academic quality. A dedicated fa...
U.Va. Astronomer Studies the Mystery of Massive Stars
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=1629
Kingdon Named Director of U.Va. Law & Business Program
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=1627
Mini-Education Expo for Employees To Be Held Next Week
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=1626
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Slowdown in enrollment growth leaves public colleges with more state and local money per student, report says
Chronicle of Higher Education / March 8
State and local appropriations to public colleges rose faster than enrollment in the 2005-6 fiscal and academic years, triggering the first real increase in such spending per student in half a decade, according to a report being released today...
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Rebound in Higher Ed Support
Inside Higher Ed / March 8
Measured in constant dollars and per student, state and local support for public higher education has been falling but ...
With last Friday's victory over arch rival Virginia Tech, the UVA men's basketball team not only captured at least a share of the ACC regular season title, but they also upped their overall record to 20-8, the first time they've reached the 20-win mark since the 2000-01 season. ...For Mac McDonald, who's been courtside as radio play-by-play announcer for 16 years, this year's team is special. ...How do this year's Cavaliers match up to those two UVA teams that made it to the Final Four? Not too shabbily.
David Berman
Who graduated from the University of Virginia
Perfect Liberty / To Find Themselves, the Subjects of this Year's Rock Docs Found that They Had to Follow Their Own Sound
Austin (TX) Chronicle / March 9
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A453509
Karey Dubiel Dye
Graduate of the School of Law
Area Residents Join DePelchin Board
Houston (TX) Chronicle / March 7
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/memorial/news/4611276.html
Antonio Ellek
Graduate ('91) in finance and management
Select Group of Foreigners Gets Royal Treatment
McClatchy Newspapers / March 7...
Katy Bagley
First-year in the School of Nursing
Yearbook Gets Top Honors / Nansemond Suffolk Academy's The Scroll is highly ranked for its 2005-2006 edition in several competitions.
Newport News (VA) Daily Press / March 8
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John T. Casteen III
University of Virginia President
JMU Celebrates Madison's Birth
The Staunton (VA) News Leader / March 8
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John D'earth, Jeff Decker, Bob Hallahan, Robert Jospé and Pete Spaar
Faculty members who perform under the name "Free Bridge Quintet"
Quintet to Honor Coltrane / Show Likely to be Geared Toward His More Structured Creations
Richmond Times-Dispatch / March 8
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Rich Hooper
Diagnostic radiology chief technician at the Medical Center
Working Smarter with CR
Health ...
Registration is under way for the University of Virginia Art Museum's next Family Art Jam. The March 17 program gives an opportunity for children and their families to explore flower creation in a make-and-take art program in the museum's new hands-on space.