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Students seek BOV position U.Va. receives high marks from junior faculty Va. population growth continues at slower rate

Use of iPods, Mac OS and Laptops on the Rise, Survey Shows Applications Sought for Faculty and Staff Undergrad Scholarship Robert L. Pressey to Deliver Lecture at U.Va. Next Week

Praise for Athletes' Travel Safety Inside Higher Ed / January 26 The National Transportation Safety Board has praised colleges and athletic associations for improving travel procedures for teams in the wake of a crash that killed some members and coaches of the Oklahoma State University basketball team in 2001. Specifically, the board - in a statement released this week - praised the recommendations that have been distributed by the American Council on Education, the National Collegiate Athletic Association and United Educators, which, among other things, called for the use of commercial plan...

Colleges Regroup After Voters Ban Race Preferences The New York Times / January 26 With Michigan's new ban on affirmative action going into effect, and similar ballot initiatives looming in other states, many public universities are scrambling to find race-blind ways to attract more blacks and Hispanics. ...Others are using many different approaches, like working with mostly minority high schools, using minority students as recruiters, and offering summer prep programs for promising students from struggling high schools. Ohio State University, for example, has started a magnet high school wit...

Tiki Barber Graduate of the McIntire School of Comerce, former U.Va. football star and currently National Football League All-Pro Walking Away / Tiki Barber leaves football The New Yorker / Jan. 29 (Not available online.) Dr. Delos M. "Toby" Cosgrove A graduate of the School of Medicine Delos M. "Toby" Cosgrove M.D., Renowned Heart Surgeon and Cleveland Clinic CEO Will Address the "Leaders in Healthcare" Conference at Arab Health 2007 in Dubai, UAE PRNewswire / January 25 http://tinyurl.com/3eytfz Chris Eatough Who worked on a master's degree in civil engineering at the University of Virgini...

A.E. Dick Howard A law professor Constitutional Questions Dividing Lawmakers on Road Package Norfolk (VA) Virginian-Pilot / January 26 http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=118230&ran=163724 Michael Klarman The James Monroe distinguished professor of law and professor of history The Supreme Court Rochester (NY) WXXI / January 31 & February 7 http://tinyurl.com/yt4635 Dr. Jonathan D. Moreno A bioethicist at the University of Virginia Recording Industry Gets Tough Black Enterprise Magazine / January 25 http://www.blackenterprise.com/ExclusivesEKOpen.asp?id=517 Lawrence H. Phillips...

Op-ed by Darden Dean Robert Bruner Not available online.

Question for sports writer Adam Kilgore: Better starting backcourt: Va. Tech or U-Va.? WP staff writer Adam Kilgore: This is a tremendous question, one I've asked myself a lot this season. Right now, I'd have to go, just barely, with Singletary and Reynolds over Dowdell and Gordon, but it's awfully close. Dowdell and Gordon are much better defenders. But as far as scoring, there's no one who compares with Virginia's. They're rare in that they take a lot of bad shots, but they make a lot of bad shots. That's the sign of a great player. Look at last night -- they scored 56 points out of 71 for U...

A plant-destroying virus farmers call one of their worst enemies may soon be an ally in the fight against crop pests and mosquitoes, say University of Florida researchers. … A study using the modified virus in tobacco plants was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. An extract from the plants was used to kill mosquito larvae. The study was conducted by a research team that included personnel from UF, the University of Virginia and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

Virginia's population continued to grow in 2006, reaching 7.6 million in July, but it did so at a lower rate than in previous years, according to a recent annual study conducted by the University's Weldon Cooper Center.

The University was ranked one of the best places for junior faculty members to work in a survey released by the Chronicle of Higher Education this week. The University ranked especially high for its collegiality, work and family environment and for the "global satisfaction" of its junior faculty members.

… Molnar is one of an estimated 1,800 Virginians who could benefit next year from a proposed grant program working its way through the General Assembly. Those scholarships, known as Community College Transfer Grants, would allow low- and middle-income students to continue on from a community college to a four-year school but let them keep paying the equivalent of community college tuition. The state would make up the difference in cost. … The largest number of PVCC graduates go to the University of Virginia - about 80 to 100 each year transfer to UVa.

U.Va.'s Williams Making Nanodevices on a Desktop New Exhibits and Gallery Talk Highlights of Art Museum Reception Virginia's Population Continues to Grow, But at a Slower Pace

Panel Named for Accountability System Inside Higher Ed / January 25 Seventy-eight officials of public colleges and universities have been named to help devise a new voluntary system of accountability that is being planned - as a supplement to existing accreditation and other measures - by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/25/qt A glance at the current issue of The Economist: Why universities keep beating the market The Chronicle of Higher Education / Jan...

UVA Professor Michael F. Skrutskie (right) has been awarded the National Academy of Science's Watson Medal for contributions to the field of astronomy. Skrutskie was given the medal for his project that involved infrared surveying of the entire sky to give astronomers the first ever bird's-eye view of the Milky Way galaxy. The medal is awarded every three years and comes with a $50,000 prize.

Some University of Virginia students learned more Wednesday about the less publicized crusades of Martin Luther King, Jr. Claudrina Harold (above) of the UVA History Department has examined the final years of King's life, when he challenged the governments of northern cities and denounced the Vietnam War.

Katie Bullard Earned her master's degree at the University of Virginia Group Warns Charlottesville Against Turning into Aspen Daily Progress / January 24 http://tinyurl.com/274pxa John H. "Jake" Burks Received a master's degree in guidance and doctoral degree in educational leadership and policy studies Burks To Retire This June Lexington (VA) News-Gazette / January 24 http://www.thenews-gazette.com/articles/2007/01/24/news/education/01.txt David Dembo Graduate of the University of Virginia Mills Appointed Treasurer; Dembo to Head Business Development PR Newswire / January 24 http://insuran...

Vincent A. Blasi Professor in the School of Law Who Owns the Unabomber's Writings?/ Does He Have the Copyright on His Manifestos? Slate Magazine / January 24 http://www.slate.com/id/2158220/ Andrea Douglas Curator for the University of Virginia Art Museum Academy of Fine Arts Calls for Entries Lynchburg (VA) News & Advance / January 25 http://tinyurl.com/2qtnbl Claudrena Harold Assistant professor of history Students learn about the 1966-68 period in Dr. King's life WINA 1070 AM / January 25 http://www.wina.com/page.php?category_id=355 Claudrena Harold Assistant professor of history Marti...

The University of Virginia Art Museum will feature four new exhibits at the Final Friday reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday. The event is preceded by a gallery talk at 5 p.m. by Sarah Eckhardt, exhibition curator of "Uninterrupted Flux: Hedda Sterne, A Retrospective," one of the featured exhibits.

Conservationist Robert L. Pressey will give a talk, "Science and Politics in Conservation Planning," at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Virginia's Clark Hall, Room 108. Pressey is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Visiting Professor at UVa's School of Architecture this spring.