Reports show that over seven million children have a parent behind bars, on probation or parole. Since arriving at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, Hana [Alomar] has graduated from the Moms Incarcerated parenting class and now is a proud member of M.I.L.K.: Mothers Inside Loving Kids....The program also enjoys help from the University of Virginia graduate school of Clinical Psychology.
Medical researchers at the University of Virginia believe they have identified an enormously promising way to stop kids from taking up smoking. Virginia officials say their effort, which builds on a method they've patented for delivering highly targeted forms of health information to people based on their backgrounds and preferences, has the potential to help protect huge numbers of young people from the enormous health risks that tobacco poses. So when a company was willing to pony up $20 million to finance the research, they seized the opportunity.
[...] But in a rare performance on Saturday, the half-hour-long work will be performed by the all-men's Virginia Glee Club and all-women's Chatham College Choir -- whose members have been rehearsing the parts separately. … The Virginia Glee Club, once funded by the University of Virginia, became an independent nonprofit in the 1980s. The group operates its own endowment with the help of an alumni association but still rehearses at the university and 95 percent of its members are UVA students.
Governor Tim Kaine will give the keynote address at this weekend's Conference on Public Service and the Law. It will be held Friday and Saturday at the UVA Law School. The event brings together students, citizens and attorneys from across the nation for a discussion of legal topics. Governor Kaine is scheduled to deliver his address Saturday at 11 a.m. in Caplin Auditorium.
One of Saturn's many moons spews frozen water into its neighbors' paths, blanketing and brightening their lunar surfaces with icy glitter, a new study suggests...The deposit just may contain something more interesting than water ice, said University of Virginia astronomer Anne Verbiscer, who led the study published in Friday's Science.
A bill that would give the University of Virginia new authority to invest student housing reserve funds and other non-general-fund money in the stock market and other investment vehicles like hedge funds and leveraged buyouts has received its first vote in the state Senate. A Senate subcommittee voted Tuesday evening to approve the measure and send it to the full committee, which could take up the matter today. The House of Delegates has already approved the bill.
Sherases Advise Couples on Living Happily Ever After
Students Meet with Governor, Legislators During U.Va. Day
Web Communications Seeking Input on New Home Page
U.Va. Public Service Law Conference Begins Friday
Honor hosts forum on single sanctionMiller Center gains new professorship
StudCo sends ammendments to spring ballot
Committee alters bill on transportation
Diversity Officers' New Group
Inside Higher Ed / February 14
In conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Council on Education, the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education held its first meeting this week. The organization will sponsor programs to help chief diversity officers and others who work in diversity offices. While duties and authority are not identical, more colleges are creating these positions and offices. At the meeting this week, William B. Harvey was elected president of the group. Harvey is vice president and chief officer for diversity and equ...
James T. Bailey
Received his bachelor's and master's from the University of Virginia
Cadwalader Adds Intellectual Property Attorney / James T. Bailey Joins New York Office as Special Counsel
Business Wire / February 13
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070213/20070213006074.html?
Tiki Barber
Graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce ('97)
NFL Star Tiki Barber Joins NBC / Sought After Football Great Named Correspondent for TODAY, Studio Analyst on 'Football Night in America'
Today Show on NBC / February 13
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17131524/
Larry H. Ellis
Graduate of the College ('64) with a deg...
Maurice Apprey
Interim dean of UVa's Office of African-American Affairs
Minority Professors Rare; UVa struggling to recruit
Daily Progress / February 14
http://tinyurl.com/2bfzpy
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business and author of the book "Deals From Hell"
Alcoa Deal Not Certain
TheStreet.com / February 13
http://www.thestreet.com/pf/markets/metals/10338722.html
James A. Coan
Neuroscientist and lead author of a study on hand holding
Study Links Stress Relief, Marriage
Washington Post / February 14
http://tinyurl.com/36b3zv
Cheryl Burgan Evans
Director of graduate student div...
[...] Last week the University of Virginia received a major gift, as Philip Morris said it was giving the school $25 million to be used principally for research into (1) prevention of youth smoking and (2) curing the problems associated with smoking generally. Philip Morris knows that the golden age of the cigarette is past and that the company's future lies with the development of new products and strategies.
Visit 50 classrooms at the University of Virginia, and you'll likely never see a tenured black professor. Make it a hundred, and you might get lucky. As of last semester, there were 1,136 tenured professors at UVa. Of that number, only 34 were African-American - barely 3 percent. It's even more lonely for those teaching outside of UVa's College of Arts & Sciences, where about half of all black professors teach.
"It's an honor to come here," said Jim Cramer, host of the popular CNBC finance show "Mad Money," (www.madmoney.com) on his visit to the Darden School of Business (www.darden.edu) last week as the first stop on his second annual Back to School Tour. The financier- turned-TV-personality arrived in town on Tuesday, February 6, and spent the afternoon speaking to Professor James Rubin's Corporate Communications class.
One of only four surviving copies of the Magna Carta - a 1215 English legal document considered to be one of the most important milestones in the history of democracy - will go on view at the Contemporary Art Center March 30 as part of the city's Jamestown 2007 celebration. … The other documents in the exhibit will come from the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library of Virginia and the University of Virginia. Together, the quintet will be interpreted in the exhibit as "Magna Carta & Four Foundations of Freedom."
[...] Another study at the University of Virginia, reported in the Psychological Science journal, found that happily married women experience almost immediate stress relief simply by taking their spouse's hand in theirs.
U.Va. Establishes Schlesinger Professorship
Mary Frances Berry to Speak At U.Va. on Thursday
Workshops Teach Strategies for Balancing Work and Life
Duke Program Seeks to Expand Service Work
New York Times / February 13
Duke University announced yesterday that it would create a program backed by $30 million, half from a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to help students work on projects like teaching at a school in Durham, N.C., or building one in Kenya. To ensure that even students who rely on financial aid to attend Duke can participate, the university, which is in Durham, will waive the requirement that they earn a certain amount in the summer to contribute to their cost of attendance.
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Ian Stevenson, who spent nearly half a century traveling the world to meticulously investigate hundreds of cases of small children who appeared to recall previous lives, died of pneumonia Feb. 8 at the Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge retirement community in Charlottesville, Va. He was 88.
Tiki Barber
Graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce
Barber To Join 'Today' Show
The New York Sun / February 13
http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=48523
Tyler Drumheller
Graduate of the College
Drumheller Discusses 'On the Brink'
The Quad (Penn.) / February 12
http://tinyurl.com/2e3vh5
Rebecca Weeks
Graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce
Rebecca Weeks / Director of Business Development, Real Girls Media
iMedia Connection / February 13
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