Any secrets about slavery in Allentown and Upper Freehold [New Jersey] are not safe with resident Sue Kozel. … According to information Kozel compiled with help from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, New Jersey had a total population of 184,139 in 1790. Of that population, 11,423 individuals were registered slaves.
The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business has adopted Ektron CMS400.NET for Web content management. The school, founded in 1954, wanted to revamp its site to provide updated content to a variety of viewers, including prospective students, current students, alumni, faculty, and staff. But it also wanted to create a system that would allow non-technically literate staff to update content.
The Virginia Piedmont Regional Science Fair will happen tomorrow at UVA. This event will bring together high school students from across the state to display their experiments, compete for prizes, and make connections with professionals in the science world. Spokesman Gary Henry says the experiments are a far cry from the typical baking soda volcanoes. This event will take place at the UVA Department of Chemistry, and will be open to the public from 2 to 4 p.m.
David Summers, an expert on Michelangelo and the Italian Renaissance, will give a lecture on "The Loftiest Possible Interpretation of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling" at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Virginia's Campbell Hall, Room 160. A reception will follow in Fayerweather Hall. Summers is the William R. Kenan Jr. professor of the history of art at UVa.
The UVA Health System will hold free kidney screenings Thursday. You can find out if you're at risk of developing kidney disease, which affects an estimated 20 million Americans. People with diabetes, high blood pressure or a family history of kidney disease are urged to get tested. The screening consists of a blood pressure check, urinalysis and blood glucose testing. The testing will be conducted from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Carver Recreation Center on 4th St. NW, across from Staples.
Just three years ago the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, the first of its kind, filed its inaugural petition with the Supreme Court. ...And last week, it seemed that clinics were everywhere on the Court's docket: On Feb. 26, the Court granted review in Watson v. United States, a criminal case involving the definition of firearm use. The brief came through the University of Virginia's brand-new Supreme Court clinic and was signed by Mark Stancil of Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner, who teaches clinic students along with UVa professors.
Film Society Explores Work of Art Star Matthew Barney: http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=1588
Law Students Bring Human Rights Research to India: http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2007_spr/hrsp_india.htm
U.Va. Gives Green Light to 'Signals for Health' Program: http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=1621
Trustees Should Encourage Integrity and Fiscal Responsibility in Sports Programs, Panelists Say
Chronicle of Higher Education / March 7
Four experts on intercollegiate athletics told trustees and others attending the annual meeting of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, which concluded here on Tuesday, how boards could encourage sports programs to be better integrated into their institutions' overall academic mission, as well as how to prevent "rogue trustees" from meddling unhelpfully in athletics issues.
http://tinyurl.com/ytlbo2
Closing the 'Degree Gap'
Inside Higher Ed / March 7
Report sees U.S. falling 15.6 million college educated people behind foreign competitors by 2025 - and sets goals for improvement.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/07/degree
Graduate School Enrollment Patterns
Inside Higher Ed / March 7
About 40 percent of college graduates in 1992-93 had enrolled in a graduate program within a decade later, and 4 percent had pursued a doctoral degree, according to a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/07/qt
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Va. College Compromises on Chapel Cross
Associated Press / March 7, 2007
[...] An ad hoc committee at the College of William and Mary...unanimously recommended that the cross be prominently displayed in the chapel in a glass case, accompanied by a plaque explaining the school's Anglican roots. The cross also will remain available for use on the altar during religious services…The practice is similar to that of other universities with historic chapels, including the University of Virginia, officials said.
http://tinyurl.com/3xo8xl
VCU Expects More Students, Independence / Growing Unive...
Stephen Barney
Graduate of the University of Virginia ('64)
Weymouth Literary Event Set
Southern Pines (NC) Pilot / March 6
http://www.thepilot.com/stories/20070306/scene/arts/20070306Literary.html
Katie Couric
Graduate of the College ('79)
CBS Anchor Couric Not Worried by Poor Ratings
Reuters / March 7
http://tinyurl.com/2ku58n
James S. Gilmore III
Former Virginia governor who graduated from the College ('71) and the School of Law ('77)
Gilmore Makes His Case
The American Spectator / March 7
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11112
Rosemary Haggett
Received a doctorate in phy...
J.R. Reynolds
Fourth-year guard who ranks sixth in the ACC in scoring and was named to the second team All-ACC with the most votes of any of the five players
Cavaliers Co-ACC Champions
WVIR NBC-29 / March 5
http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=6181212
Sean Singletary
Third-year guard named a first team, All-ACC selection, for the second consecutive year
Cavaliers Co-ACC Champions
WVIR NBC-29 / March 5
http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=6181212
Reginald Butler
Associate Professor of history
Vinegar Hill Resurrected Online
C-Ville Weekly / March 6
http://tinyurl.com/2goqvl
Scot French
Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History
Vinegar Hill Resurrected Online
C-Ville Weekly / March 6
http://tinyurl.com/2goqvl
Dave Leitao
Head coach of men's basketball
Leitao ACC Coach of the Year
virginiasports.com / March 6
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/sports/headlines/6348127.html
Chien Li
Assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology
Insulin: in Need of Some Restraint?
Newswise / March 6
http://www.newswise.com/article...
Before it was demolished in the late 1960s, Vinegar Hill was black Charlottesville's cultural and commercial hub from Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era...UVA professors Scot French and Reginald Butler have spent three years sorting and digitally archiving the documentation concerning Vinegar Hill, where now stands the Omni Hotel, the Federal Courthouse and the Staples shopping center.
Researchers from the University of Virginia have recommended that Suffolk school officials make more than two dozen changes to several gifted programs. A months-long, $8,696 study done at the request of school administrators showed concerns in several areas. Those include the limited number of gifted options, a lack of challenging material, and the reliability of the tests used to identify talented students.
Virginia men's head basketball coach Dave Leitao is the 2007 Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year. He is the first Virginia men's head basketball coach to receive the award since Terry Holland in 1982 and only the third UVa coach to receive the honor. Holland also received the award in 1981 and Bill Gibson was honored in 1972.
[...] Casteen was alluding to committees that he established to acknowledge the "first builders" of UVA. Comprising reps from the Office of the Architect, the Board of Visitors (BOV), the President's Office and the student body, the first committee drafted wording for a memorial slate near the Rotunda. It will read: "In honor of the several hundred men and women, both free and enslaved, whose labor between 1817 and 1826 helped to realize Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia." The slate should be installed this spring.
Putting Enemies on the Couch / Vamik Volkan's unofficial diplomacy
Greener Grounds: New Report Confirms University of Virginia's Commitment to Sustainability
Centenary of Literary Great W.H. Auden Celebrated
Martha Carter
A graduate of Southeast Community College who transferred to University of Virginia's College at Wise to complete requirements for a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology
PublishAmerica Presents "God's Your Refuge" by Martha Carter
Kingsport (TN) Times-News / March 5
http://www.timesnews.net/community_article.php?id=1308
Andres Gluski
Who holds a masters and PhD in economics from U.Va.
AES Corp. Elects Andres Gluski EVP, COO - Update
RTTNews / March 5
http://new.quote.com/news/story.action?id=RTT703051128001696
Thomas Jones
Former running back for U.Va. who played for the C...
Katy Judge
A third-year student, a member of Zeta Tau Alpha and the chair of the Run for Life race
Race Benefits Breast Cancer Funds
Charlottesville Daily Progress / March 6
http://tinyurl.com/2le5bj