Rubin's Music Keeps Alive Centuries-Old Tradition
U.Va.'s Lung Transplant Survival Rate Highest in Nation
Lerdau Named New Director of Blandy Experimental Farm
Congress Proposes Aid Boost For Pell Grants
Darden symposium discusses issue of poverty
SFS looks to improve financial ed.
Springfest to host Ben Folds
House Committee Redefines Grant Bill / Severe Restrictions Added to Proposal
Daily Progress / February 1
The very community college students who in recent weeks have been pushing the General Assembly to create a scholarship program to aid in transferring to a four-year school would not benefit from the program, under a radical overhaul of the proposal adopted by a House committee Wednesday. Potential humanities majors also will be out of luck, and the state's median income will no longer determine eligibility for what would now be a fixed scholarship of $2,000 per year. The Community College ...
Department Gives Rule-Making Panel Proposals for Regulations on Preferred Lenders and Inducements
The Chronicle of Higher Education / February 1
The U.S. Education Department has drafted a package of proposed regulatory changes that, among other things, would bar colleges from recommending fewer than three lenders to students who are seeking federal loans.
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The Immigrant Factor
Inside Higher Ed / February 1
Study documents that disproportionate number of black students at top colleges are new arrivals in the U.S. - and offers only clues about why.
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John Albertine
Received his doctorate from U.Va.
AirTran Holdings, Inc., to Nominate Directors for Midwest Air Group Board
PRNewswire-FirstCall / February 1
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Eric R. Allyn
Received his master's degree from U.Va.
AMH Board has Elections, Welcomes 2
Syracuse (NY) Post-Standard / February 1
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Thomas Jones
Starting tailback for the Chicago Bears, who has a psychology degree from the University of Virginia
Archdeacon: Coal Miner's Son Hits the Mother Lode with Bears
Dayton (Ohio) Daily News / February 1
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Tim Laseter & Rob Cross
Laseter is an assistant professor at the Darden School of Business; Cross is an assistant professor at the McIntire School of Commerce
Ask business executives about operations strategy and they will tend to discuss structural decisions: when to consider outsourcing, where to locate plants, and how to increase standardization through modular design. But if you query the same executives about their most pressing issues, their list will probably center on people: improving recruiting, investing in management development, increasing collaboration within organizations, and o...
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
It Takes a Whole Lot to Sing a Perfect Chorus
The Times of India Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge / January 31
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Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
The Mergers Will Continue
Exame Magazine (Brazil) / January 30
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Manuel T. Lerdau
Director of Blandy Experimental Farm and the State Arboretum of Virginia, and professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences
New Blandy Director
Clarke (Va.) Times-Courier / January 31
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The Darden Business School community gathered Wednesday to discuss poverty not just here at home, but around the world. The idea was to get students thinking about the poverty problem and the issues of wealth and inequality as they advance in their careers. Speakers at Wednesday's symposium say students do not have to go far to raise their social consciousness.
The chairman of the Virginia Republican Party is confident the GOP can win back the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in 2008. Ed Gillespie delivered that message Wednesday as the guest speaker at UVA's Miller Center.
The University of Virginia Health System will observe what's called Wear Red Day. Health System spokeswoman Carol Keese says women are encouraged to wear red this Friday to raise awareness of heart disease. Activities include the Walk for Heart Health and a heart-healthy luncheon at the University and Wahoo West cafeterias.
[The Virginia GEAR-UP program] stands for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs. Buford [Middle School] 7th graders can qualify for $8,000 in college scholarship money if they maintain a 2.5 grade-point average and have good attendance through their high school years. A kickoff event was held Wednesday at UVA's Alumni Hall where the students heard from UVA Vice-President for Diversity and Equity William Harvey and UVA football offensive lineman Davon Robb.
Medieval art expert Lawrence Nees will give the first McIntire Department of Art spring lecture on at 5:30 today in Campbell Hall, Room 160. A reception in the Fayerweather Lounge follows the lecture. For information, call 924-6122.
Students from the University of Virginia School of Architecture will exhibit their research and designs for the Learning Barge, an innovative, floating environmental education field station completely powered by wind and solar power, at the CCDC this month. A free reception will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday and the exhibit will remain on view through Feb. 23. The Charlottesville Community Design Center is at 101 E. Main St. For more information, call 924-1006.
Award-winning architects Scott Marble and Karen Fairbanks of Marble Fairbanks Architects in New York will give the Michael Owen Jones Memorial Lecture at the University of Virginias School of Architecture on Friday. An exhibition of their work will be featured in the School of Architecture's Elmaleh Gallery, beginning with an opening reception at 6:30 tonight.
Study hard, graduate from high school and apply to at least two Virginia colleges. That's what nearly 300 Buford Middle School students pledged to do Wednesday morning. We're talking about a guaranteed $8,000 in scholarship money for each eligible student in the seventh grade class at Buford Middle...The kids got the news Wednesday morning inside Alumni Hall at the University of Virginia, and needless to say, they were very excited.
The University of Virginia has named Dr. Manuel T. Lerdau director of Blandy Experimental Farm and the State Arboretum of Virginia, and professor in the UVa. Department of Environmental Sciences. Lerdau, 43, becomes only the sixth director in Blandy's 80-year history. He brings to this position experience in public outreach that promises to enhance Blandy's image through talks to community groups and other environmental organizations and by bringing more visitors to Blandy.
The University of Virginia will celebrate Black History Month with a full slate of events. Things will kick off with the State of the Office of African-American Affairs address this evening. Later this month, Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, the 1960s radical group formed as an alternative to the nonviolent civil rights movement, will visit campus to discuss the history of the Black Panthers and their legacy.
No wartime president in U.S. history before George W. Bush has lost both the House and Senate in a single midterm election. With the seating of the Democratic-controlled 110th Congress, then, the United States has embarked on an unprecedented political experiment: a wartime return to a government of checks and balances. As a result, the next two years could be a period of profound institutional conflict between Capitol Hill and the White House.
U.Va. Program Teaches Students Financial Literacy
PBS Supreme Court Series to Feature U.Va. Law Professors
U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall to Read at U.Va. on Friday
U.Va. Environmental Science Prof. Named Outstanding Scientist
Student Council passes diversity pledge aimed at first-year students
Engineering prof. selected as finalist in NASA contest