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
Accord on Increasing Pell Grants
The New York Times / January 31
The maximum federal grant for middle- and low-income students to attend college would increase for the first time in four years under a catchall spending bill that House and Senate Democrats agreed to on Tuesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/washington/31loans.html?ref=education
A Pleasant Budget Surprise
Inside Higher Ed / January 31
Democratic plan for 2007 would increase maximum Pell Grant by $260 and provide $620 million in new funds for biomedical research.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/31/budget
Accountabi...
Kimberly Dozier
Journalist who received her masters in foreign affairs from U.Va.
Kimberly Dozier Visits CBS News
Associated Press / January 29
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-01-29-dozier_x.htm?POE=click-refer
Jeff Fallis
Received a master of fine arts in creative writing from U.Va.
Expecting Rain / Local Poet Jeff Fallis Talks About Music, Ceremony and Writing in the Real World
Athens (Ga.) Flagpole / January 31
http://flagpole.com/Arts/Features/2007-01-31
Edmund Brodie III
Professor and director of the Mountain Lake Biological Station
Snake "Steals" Toad Toxins for Defense Against Predators
National Geographic News / January 30
http://tinyurl.com/3yvgp4
Dr. Michael Dake
Professor and chairman of the department of radiology at the Health System
First International Trial of Drug-Eluting Peripheral Artery Stent Results Encouraging
Business Wire / January 30
http://tinyurl.com/2wwpc9
Dr. Arthur Garson Jr.
Dean of the School of Medicine and vice president of the University of Virginia
Md. Pushes Expansive Medical Coverage/ Cigarette Tax Hike Amon...
University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III was in Richmond and weighed in on the ongoing transportation debate, saying that he favored the use of borrowing to fund the state's highway projects. "It's considerably more efficient to use debt financing for that kind of thing," Casteen said Tuesday, speaking at a meeting of UVa's Faculty Senate. He said using money from the state's general fund "would be a very peculiar strategy" as it would leave less funding available to schools and other priorities, and could fall prey to inflation.
Legislation to promote "intellectual diversity" in Virginia's four-year public universities was "gently laid on the table," or softly dispatched Tuesday evening in a House of Delegates subcommittee. The higher education subcommittee also killed on an 8-0 vote a bill that would have limited state universities to admitting no more than 25 percent of their students from out of state. That measure, sponsored by Del. Timothy D. Hugo, R-Centreville, had an estimated fiscal impact of $53 million a year in lost out-of-state tuition, including at least $18 million at the University of Virginia, which...
Some of Bill Clinton's friends and family remember the Arkansas native as a charismatic boy destined for greatness, while others recall him as a shy youth who played the clarinet. … The Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia is conducting interviews focusing on Clinton's presidency, which it has done for every outgoing president since Jimmy Carter. That oral history is expected to be released in 2009.
His words have captured millions of readers around the globe. Now, he'll try to grab the attention of this year's graduating class at the University of Virginia. UVA announced Monday that author John Grisham will be the commencement speaker at UVA's final exercises on May 20. He lives in Albemarle County and has published more than a dozen best-selling novels. Most recently, he devoted his time and money to the "Rebuild the Coast Fund" which raised almost $9 million people on the Gulf Coast recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
'Ecomagination Challenge" Finals Include U.Va. Project
Author John Grisham to Speak at U.Va.'s 2007 Graduation
Engineering Professor Selected as Member of NASA Team
University Alerts Students in Wake of Two Sexual Attacks
Grisham to give commencement speech in May
Plan approved to revamp Rotunda
Student Council hosts forum to discuss housing and diversity
It's a cautionary tale that has become a bit of a legend in the world of higher-education fund raising. A vice president for development at a major public research institution reaches out to a big donor, who had been generous in the past, to help close a capital campaign with a gift of $25-million. The donor declines. But not long afterward, the administrator reads that the same person decided to give $50-million to an Ivy League institution. The fund raiser asks the natural question: Why? "You asked me to help end a campaign," the donor says. "They asked me to help cure cancer."
[...] Commissioners organized the meeting to tackle recruiting problems and gender inequities in college sports, but another topic - the high pay of football and men's basketball coaches - came up repeatedly.
Computer Gets It Wrong in Medical Admission Test
The New York Times / January 30
Last weekend was the first time the MCAT was administered only by computer rather than by paper and pencil and students encountered a few problems.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/education/30medical.html
Studies Point to Value of AP
Inside Higher Ed / January 30
Two new studies financed by the College Board and about to be released find that students who complete Advanced Placement courses and take the tests that go with them see significant gains in their college performance.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2...
Scott Dedman
Phi Beta Kappa graduate of U.Va., with a bachelor's in English and psychology
Dedman and MHO work to improve communities
Asheville (NC) Citizen Times / January 30
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770129077
Bob Inglis
Graduate of the School of Law
Inglis to speak at Furman on Roe vs. Wade
The (SC) Tribune-Times / January 29
http://tinyurl.com/2w4c3r
William B. Littreal
Received his master's degree from U.Va.
FNB Corporation Reports Record Earnings for 2006, Appoints Chief Financial Officer, and Declares Dividend
PRNewswire / January 29
http://www.eartht...
Richard J. Bonnie
Professor in the School of Law
Getting the Inside Look at Internal Possession Laws
Equinox (Keene (NH) State College) / January 25
http://tinyurl.com/23etn9
Maurice Cox
Associate professor of architecture
Planners Lay Out Ideas for Detroit
Detroit News / January 30
http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070130/METRO/701300392/1006/METRO01
Robert E. Davis
Associate professor of environmental science and a nor'easter expert
The Weather Page
Baltimore Sun / January 30
http://tinyurl.com/ys9x28
J. Owen Hendley
Professor of pediatrics who studies colds at the School o...
By some measures, UVA is tops. For one, it's the only public school to be in the Top 20 for graduation rates (92 percent and above), and it has the highest African-American graduation rate of any public university, two stats which College of Arts & Sciences Dean Ed Ayers says are UVA's 'proudest.'
Charlottesville High School will host Super Saturday next month. This will be a free opportunity for high school students and their parents to learn more about college financial aid. ...Financial aid administrators from Piedmont Virginia Community College and UVA will be available to answer questions about financial aid and FAFSA. That's the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Super Saturday will happen from February 10th from 11 a.m. to 4p.m. in the Charlottesville High School Media Center.
You may be burning the candle at both ends, but that's not likely the cause of your infection. Researchers at the University of Virginia report that healthy people have no extra protection against colds than those with a weakened immune system...Learn more at http://www.commoncold.org, a Web site run by U-Va. researchers.