The line of students stretched down the hallway of the Abbott Center Auditorium at the University of Virginia. It extended through a doorway and nearly reached a flight of stairs hundreds of feet away. The 500-plus college kids, mostly business students, were dressed in orange and blue. They carried signs like "I uE06B JC." As in I uE06B Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC's popular television show "Mad Money," which was taped in Charlottesville this month. The show makes learning about the stock market amusing.
While many of their peers will be indulging in the time-honored collegiate rite of Spring Break, 12 UVa students will travel to Cameroon to build a vocational training school during their vacation. This school will give local youths a chance to learn skills and break the cycle of poverty. Watch the interview with UVa Fourth Years, Amelia McKeithen and Dan Anderson, to learn more about their trip and how you can help.
The University of Virginia chapel has a removable cross on its altar. Virginia Tech's chapel has only sculptures of God interacting with man. Virginia Military Institute's chapel and the chapel at the University of Virginia's College at Wise are devoid of religious symbols. A look at chapels at Virginia's public colleges, prompted by the recent controversy at the College of William and Mary over the placement of a chapel cross, shows that religious worship on campus is handled in diverse ways that have changed over the years.
Kudos! Hornberger one of the five top scientists in state
State of the University: Casteen outlines global focus, announces 'Commission on the Future of the University' at annual address
Diverse Voices: Davis directs on stage and in the classroom
Tutu Aboard: Spring Semester at Sea is under way
Born in Romania in 1916, Hedda Sterne had an impressive career beginning in the late 1930s, when she exhibited with the Surrealists in Paris. She attained national prominence in the 1940s and 1950s, exhibiting with the Abstract Expressionists, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. Sterne was, in fact, the only woman photographed with a group of the Abstract Expressionists, who were given the title 'the Irascibles' in Time magazine. On exhibition until 11 March, 2007.
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Patients say that it is empathy, and not just medical skills, that they value most in choosing their primary care physician. With that it mind, Alan Dow and Aaron Anderson (Virginia Commonwealth University) are part of a pilot study that helps young doctors hone their bedside manners. Theater professors are teaching medical residents how to develop their empathy, active-listening and whole-body communication.
Also: With the growing number of elderly who are homebound due to illness, house calls may be making a comeback. Peter Boling (Virginia ...
U.Va.'s Joey Katona Raising Money for a Good Cause
Gov. Napolitano to Speak at U.Va. Law School Graduation
Engineering School's McIntosh Earns Prestigious NSF Grant
Gov. Kaine addresses Law students
College presidents pledge to limit CO2
Colleges see more private funding
Honor endorses plan to add College reps. to Committee
Huge IPEDS Lives
Inside Higher Ed / February 19
Education Department pursues plan to collect substantially more information from colleges for accountability purposes.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/19/ipeds
Scattered Thoughts on Student Aid
Inside Higher Ed / February 19
The value and usefulness of Congressional hearings are often inversely proportional to the breadth of their scope; the narrower and more focused they are, the more likely that they shed some light. So it did not bode well for Friday's hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that it m...
Gene C. Crume Jr
Holds a doctorate from the Curry School of Education
The Indiana State University Foundation has named Gene C. Crume, Jr. as President. Crume Is Currently the Executive Vice President of Midland Lutheran College
Inside Indiana Business / February 16
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William Darwin Prillaman
U.Va. graduate
Artist's Work Displayed
Rappahannock (VA) Record / February 16
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Lt. Gen. R. Steven Whitcomb
U.Va. graduate who began his Army career with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg
Senior Military Offic...
Joe Gieck
Professor emeritus of sports medicine
Philanthropy Multiplies Community Benefits
Daily Progress / February 18
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Farzaneh Milani
Professor of Persian literature and women studies
Iran an Enigma to Americans
Daily Progress / February 18
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Ian Stevenson, an academic psychiatrist who 45 years ago abandoned Freud as too unscientific and turned to the paranormal as a tool with which to plumb the human psyche, died on Feb. 8 in Charlottesville, Va. He was 88 and had lived in Charlottesville for many years...Until his retirement in 2002, Dr. Stevenson was the head of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia; he had founded the division in 1967.
Dr. Ken Brayman
Director of UVa's Center for Cellular Transplantation and Therapeutics
'A New Age of Medicine' / University Researchers Developing Promising Procedures
Daily Progress / February 18
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David Breneman
Dean of the Curry School of Education and co-author of "Earnings from Learning: The Rise of For-Profit Universities"
Learning / Low-quality Online U.
Charleston (WV) Gazette /February 18
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Philander D. Chase
The senior editor of the Papers of George Washington project, which has been collecting docume...
Governor Kaine and his wife Anne Holton used their years of experience as public service lawyers to shed some light on what UVa law students have to look forward to after graduation. Kaine is Governor of Virginia, former Lieutenant Governor, former Richmond City Mayor and City Councilor, a practicing lawyer for 17 years and a Harvard law grad. It's safe to say, he has enough experience to give advice on past and present issues in the legal field.
Changes to the medications given to recuperating organ recipients have helped the lung transplant program at the University of Virginia Health System achieve the best one-year patient survival rate in the nation. Announced by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, the one-year survival rate at UVa was 98.08% compared to 87.6% nationwide. UVa's results involved 52 first-time lung transplant recipients and were achieved between January 1, 2003 and June 30, 2005.
For all their lack of orthodoxy, Montessori schools are achieving success, according to a study published in the September edition of the journal Science. Researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found Montessori kindergarten students outperformed those in a control group in reading, math and social skills.
Dr. Neal F. Kassell believes he has found a silver bullet to kill the black beast. For more than four decades, Kassell, a neurosurgeon at the University of Virginia Medical Center, has hunted for a cure for the "bete noir" of aneurysm surgeons - the deadly cerebral vasospasm. Now it appears that a drug called Clazosentan is the elusive silver bullet that Kassell has sought for his entire professional life.
NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, Fundamental Aeronautics Program, Washington, has announced the following aeronautics research awards to Virginia institutions:
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.:
* Proposal Title: Test Media Effects on Dual-Mode Scram Jet (DMSJ) Mode- Transition, Approximate Amount: $225,000
* Proposal Title: Multiscale Computational Model for Multifunctional Nanocomposite Ablator Materials Approximate Amount: $208,000
* Proposal Title: Combustion Efficiency Measurement for Ground Test and Basic Hypersonic Research Approximate Amount: $199,000
* Propo...
We were just outside of Greencroft when the heated seats began to take effect. … Mind you, I'm driving the S-80 out of pure kindness. I'm kicking off the dealership's weeklong festival of giving known as Drive For Life. It's an annual gig the Volvo folks throw down to benefit the University of Virginia Children's Hospital's Jennifer Fund.
Reflecting on his own life and that of his wife, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine told a small group of University of Virginia law students Saturday that a career in public service is the most fulfilling and honorable life a lawyer can lead. "I know that politicians … have a short shelf life and my political career will come to an end and people will look at me and say, 'Didn't you used to do the weather or something?'" said Kaine, drawing laughs from the audience.