Debates over whether same-sex partners of public employees should receive the same benefits given to spouses or dependents are taking place across the country. But while health insurance is the most visible issue, a debate has emerged in Virginia on a less conspicuous benefit: gym memberships. … But Virginia's flagship public university disagrees. UVa does not offer the benefit, and university officials there say they would like to offer it, but believe they are barred from doing so.
No matter what sport you play, chances are that if you tear your ACL, you may be watching that season from the sidelines. Dr. Cato Laurencin, Chairman of the UVa Department of Orthopedic Surgery, is working on a man-made solution. ACL's cannot repair on their own, so Dr. Laurencin's synthetic ACL would be tissue that doctors wouldn't have to harvest from other parts of the body.
Want to cut a rug on your Friday night? How about raising money for families in need while you do it? This 24-hour Dance Marathon is not a competition--it is about raising money for kids and their families at UVA Children's Hospital. Proceeds go to the Du Bose Fund for hospitalized children and their families at UVA Children's Hospital.
One University of Virginia student organization feels like dancing. In fact, they feel like dancing the night away. The student group is holding its 10th Annual Dance Marathon inside Memorial Gymnasium. UVA's Dance Marathon Organization ... is hoping to raise $100,000 dollars this year.
Sunday was the inaugural Oscar party which will be the Virginia Film Festivals annual fundraiser. The festival is celebrating its 20th year anniversary in 2007 and they hope to make this years festival even bigger and better than before. "Our twist was we wanted Charlottesville to vote for their own Oscars, so we had ballots published in the hook, and Charlottesville actually got to choose the Oscar winners that we'll be announcing tonight," said Janet Matthews, with the Virginia Film Festival.
A man who's spent more than a decade working for local non-profit groups is the new director of the University of Virginia's Madison House. Kelly Eplee (above) will manage the Rugby Road facility where more than 3300 UVA students receive volunteer assignments every year. Eplee is a past Executive Director of the AIDS/HIV Services Group. From 1999 until last year, he was an official at the local Habitat for Humanity. Eplee is taking over from Elizabeth Bass, who has been the Interim Director of Madison House since last summer.
… The same year, the Darden business school and the Curry school of education at the University of Virginia had reached a similar conclusion. They, too, decided to work together to try to find a way of improving standards in public sector schools in the US. Both initiatives were funded by alumni: in Harvard's case the MBA class of 1963; in the University of Virginia's case by Mark Templeton, a Darden graduate and chief executive of Citrix, a Florida-based specialist in remote working technologies.
Biodiesel in buses. Grass on roofs. Organic food in cafeterias. Renewable electricity in the wall sockets. America's colleges are turning greener faster than a chemically fertilized lawn in spring. And it's not just schools with a granola-crunching, tree-hugging image that are wrapping themselves in a flag of fair-trade, organically grown, naturally dyed cotton. James Madison University has a biodiesel program that has been praised in a presidential speech. The University of Virginia is about to launch a $105 million certifiably environmentally friendly building project.
Chasing your wife and child with an axe, is, well, not the best show of fatherhood. Jack Nicholson's character in the movie classic "The Shining" is a wonderful example of how to send a family to Dr. Phil sessions for the rest of their lives. The role is also one of film's most horrific fathers. Organizers of the 20th annual Virginia Film Festival, sponsored by the University of Virginia, announced Saturday that they hope to showcase the best, worst and most interesting of family in a theme they call "Kin Flicks." Scheduled for Nov. 1 to Nov. 4, the four-day event will feature hundreds of disc...
A University of Virginia study suggests that older adults are not only more inclined than younger adults to make errors in recollecting details that have been suggested to them, but are also more likely than younger people to have a very high level of confidence in their recollections, even when wrong. The finding has implications regarding the reliability of older persons' eyewitness testimonies in courtrooms.
Mega-Gifts Flow as Stanford, Columbia Press $4-Billion Drives
Bloomberg / February 23
U.S. universities led by Stanford, Columbia and Cornell are increasingly pushing their fund-raising targets past the $1 billion mark -- sometimes way past. Fifteen years after Stanford became the first university to exceed $1 billion in a single campaign, 27 U.S. schools have initiated drives to bring in at least that much. The goals are climbing as pressure mounts to offer programs and facilities that attract top professors and enhance reputations.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aZplkO...
Accreditors and Education Dept. Differ Over Student-Achievement Proposal in Talks About Rules
Chronicle of Higher Education / February 23
Accreditors and the Education Department will complete a three-day round of talks today on the government's efforts to use accrediting groups to carry out some of the recommendations of last fall's report of the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education. That report called for greater accountability and more information about colleges, to facilitate easier comparisons of institutions.
http://tinyurl.com/2ogjml
When Is Student Learning 'Good Eno...
Transfer Incentives
Chronicle of Higher Education / February 23
Virginia lawmakers have overwhelmingly endorsed the idea of giving students financial incentives to receive part of their baccalaureate education at community colleges.
http://tinyurl.com/3a2b59
Va. Bill Would Protect Suicidal Students
Inside Higher Ed / February 23
Both houses of the Virginia General Assembly have passed legislation to require public colleges and universities to have policies to identify and provide necessary help to students who may be suicidal.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/23/qt
'Workskills' Program Targets Front-line Employees
Kelly Eplee Named Director of Madison House
Writer's Eye Award Ceremony to Be Held on Sunday
Black Panther co-founder Seale speaks to University students
Darden elections see high number of candidates
Alliance encourages diversity in health field
Attempted ID theft schemes target students
Researchers conduct adult memory confidence study
Thomas J. Baltimore, Jr.
Who earned a B.S. degree from the McIntire School of Commerce in 1985 and an M.B.A. from the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration in 1991
Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation Appoints Thomas J. Baltimore, Jr. to Its Board of Directors
PrimeNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ February 22
http://www.stockhouse.com/news/news.asp?tick=IART&newsid=4956313
William Carmichael
Who earned a law degree from the Law School in 1968
IU Kelley Alumni to be Honored
Inside INdiana Business / February 22
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=219...
Laura George
Who is currently attending U.Va.
Scout News
Roanoke (VA) Times / February 23,
http://www.roanoke.com/neighbors/community/wb/105754
Lacy Krueger
A University of Virginia graduate student
Can the reliability of a witness be determined by the person's age?
KXAS-TV NBC 5 Dallas - Fort Worth (TX) / February 22
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/11086395/detail.html
Chad Dodson
Assistant professor in the Department of Psychology
Can the reliability of a witness be determined by the person's age?
KXAS-TV NBC 5 Dallas - Fort Worth (TX) / February 22
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/11086395/detail.html
Lisa Friedersdorf
Senior scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Scientists Want Nanotechnology to go Commercial in the Region
The Virginian-Pilot / February 23
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=119982&ran=129934
Dr. Arthur Garson
Dean of the School of Medicine
Analysis: Insured fret about health costs
United Press Internati...
The Black Panthers fought for fairness during the Civil Rights era, but the method behind their message was not always popular. Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, talked to students Thursday night at the University of Virginia. It was created in 1966 and dubbed the "self-defense party" to serve as an alternative to the non-violent Civil Rights Movement. Seale says he is trying to get the leaders of tomorrow to make a connection between the positive steps he made back then, and where society is headed now.
Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale spoke Thursday night on the UVA Grounds as one of the University's events celebrating Black History Month. Seale and Huey Newton formed the Black Panther Party in 1966 as an alternative to the non-violent civil rights movement. Seale says he became inspired to take action the first time he attended a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King. Seale says the fact that there are so many more African-Americans in elected office is a sign of progress.