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Jay Bourgeois Professor at the Darden School of Business It Takes a Whole Lot to Sing a Perfect Chorus Times of India / February 1 http://tinyurl.com/3b662c Robert Bruner Dean of the Darden School of Business Interview with Darden Dean Robert Bruner China.com / February 6 http://tinyurl.com/2k8z4k Robert Bruner Dean of the Darden School of Business It Takes a Whole Lot to Sing a Perfect Chorus Times of India / February 1 http://tinyurl.com/3b662c John T. Casteen III President of the University Honoring Hovey Dabney WVIR NBC-29 / February 12 http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=6076103 ...

Sunday was National Girls and Women in Sports Day. A special celebration took place on the court during halftime of the UVA women's basketball game. The university honored twenty-one women who have participated in varsity athletics for the university. The women, including ten sets of siblings, represent ten of the varsity sports offered as part of the cavalier athletics program.

Rounds three and four are shaping up to be tough ones for this year's applicants to some top-ranked B-school programs...Virginia's Darden School also saw an unexpectedly high yield last year. Assistant Director of Admissions Wendy Huber says that this year, admissions is aiming for a class size more on par with previous years-310 to 315-compared with last year's larger-than-average class of about 332 students.

If you happen to be one of those parents who is chomping at the bit to get your child running in races, don't despair. There's an upcoming program that may be perfect for your child - and you. Kids ages 4 to 12 years old are invited to attend a free Kids' Running Clinic from 8:45 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the University of Virginia track across from University Hall.

The former commander of U.S. and Coalition forces during 'Operation Enduring Freedom' spoke to a packed room at University of Virginia's Miller Center. Retired Army Lieutenant General David Barno talked about his experiences of leading more than 20,000 troops in Afghanistan.

The University of Virginia Art Museum presents the special exhibition "Fernand Leger: Contrasts of Forms," curated by Matthew Affron, director of special curatorial projects and associate professor in the McIntire Department of Art, on view through March 18. Featuring 11 works on paper and two paintings, the exhibition gathers examples from a remarkable sequence of images made by Leger between 1912 and 1914. Two great stories of modernist art are recognized in this exhibition, the rise of cubism and the beginning of abstract art. And yet, said Affron, these works remain a puzzle.

Surgeons at the University of Virginia Medical Center have successfully completed a cutting-edge transplant procedure on a 15-year-old West Virginia girl, curing her of a pancreatic disease.

Those who knew him best say it was his genuine willingness to help coupled with his business savvy ways that made Hovey Dabney the respected leader he was. Friends, relatives, and coworkers flooded UVa chapel on Monday to pay final respects to community leader Hovey Dabney. Dabney, a former UVa rector and Charlottesville pillar, died Friday at the age of eighty three. Today he was remembered for his unending contributions.

Philip Morris USA Gives $25 M Gift to University Educator Calls for Transformation in Schools and Society Virginia Film Society Focuses on 'Artists on Film' Memorial Service Set for Former Rector Dabney

Philip Morris donates $25M to U.Va. Board of Visitors announces new student representative Honor reapportionment plan sent to ballot

Harvard's New Leader Rejects Labels, Saying She'll Be a President, Not a 'Woman President' The Chronicle of Higher Education / February 12 In her first public address as Harvard University's new president, Drew Gilpin Faust said she intends to break down barriers between disciplines and schools while pressing for more collaboration at the university, setting an example she hopes will ripple throughout higher education. http://tinyurl.com/3dl32u What Harvard's Choice Means Inside Higher Ed / February 12 The night before Drew Gilpin Faust was formally named president of Harvard University, wom...

R.H.W. Dillard Earned his doctorate at the University of Virginia Professor Wins Award with UVa Connection Daily Progress / February 11 http://tinyurl.com/2qpyb7 Tom O'Donnell Earned a doctorate in environmental sciences County man joins energy council Pottsville (Penn.) Republican & Evening Herald / February 11 http://tinyurl.com/2jwdpd Ellen Qualls University of Virginia graduate Ellen Qualls, Former Governor's Press Secretary, to Advise Pelosi WJZ-TV CBS 13 Baltimore (Md.) / February 9 http://tinyurl.com/2v4q45

Jenna Centini Fourth-year in the School of Nursing Make-A-Wish Benefit WCAV CBS-19 / February 10 http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/5741451.html Candice Maccutcheon Undergraduate in the School of Nursing Make-A-Wish Benefit WCAV CBS-19 / February 10 http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/5741451.html Madeleine Rowan Fourth-year foreign affairs major Party Animal: Calling His Bluff: A Poker Party's Uneasy Undercurrents Washington Post / February 11 http://tinyurl.com/37lf2o Gayathri Segar A first-year student Global Program has Pros, Cons / Intense Research...

Randy Arno Consultant from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service Board Warned About "Micro-management" Stuart (Va.) Enterprise / February 9 http://www.theenterprise.net/story3.html George Bloom Professor of biology Alzheimer's Breakthrough WVIR NBC-29 / February 10 http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=6069039 Julian Bond Professor of history Obama's path typical of new generation of black political leaders Associated Press / February 10 http://tinyurl.com/2qa7cf David W. Breneman Dean of the Curry School of Education Troubles Grow for a University Built on Profits The New Yor...

A University of Virginia psychiatrist says that many women have mediocre sex lives because more of them are becoming achievers and overachievers. Anita H. Clayton, an expert on women's sexuality and mental health, has noticed that the pressure to juggle work and family has caused sexual relations to become less of a priority.

"Images of Women in African Traditional Arts" Exhibit is on view in the entrance gallery of the University of Virginia Art Museum. "Images of Women in African Traditional Arts," curated by religious studies professor Ben Ray, will be on display through April. Drawn from the museum's collection of African art, the exhibition, consisting of about 25 objects focusing on the role of women in various African societies, will be the cornerstone of Ray's course on African art.

Over the years the University of Virginia Art Museum has become a significant repository of South Asian paintings. "Intensity of Observation and Infinite Significance: Indian Painting at the University of Virginia Art Museum," which runs through March 10, presents highlights from the collection and private loans, featuring about 30 significant works of Indian painting from the 15th to the 19th centuries, chosen for their quality and range, historical importance and thematic interest.

The Jefferson Scholars Foundation serves public education in Virginia by attracting to the University of Virginia individuals of extraordinary intellectual range and depth who possess the highest qualities of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship.

Philip Morris USA, the nation's No. 1 cigarette maker, has donated $25 million to the University of Virginia for research on addiction and youth smoking. The donation represents the largest corporate gift in UVa's $3 billion fundraising campaign, launched in September. Approximately $20 million of the funding will go to the School of Medicine to support projects that seek to develop a better understanding of the causes of addiction.

If some children seem like they were born to be bad, new research suggests it may be true..."Marital conflict doesn't appear, in this study, to cause stable patterns of conduct disorder," explained lead study author K. Paige Harden of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.