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Leanna Blevins Graduate of U.Va. and associate director of the New College Institute NCI's 'Knowledge Managers' Stress Importance of College Martinsville (Va.) Bulletin / January 15 http://www.martinsvillebulletin.com/article.cfm?ID=7727 Stephen C. Byrd Holds a joint doctor of law and MBA from the University of Virginia Stephen Byrd Named Senior Vice President at Public Service Enterprise Group PR Newswire / January 15 http://tinyurl.com/tr64z Tonya F. Dickerson Received a bachelor's degree in 1991 from the University of Virginia Military Delmarva (MD) Now - The Daily Times / January ...

As Democrats change the drapes on Capitol Hill and relegate Republicans to minority status, both parties would do well to look to the ancient East for advice on how opposites should - and should not - work together.

John Atkins Surgical technician at the University of Virginia Town Raises Money for Boy Staunton News Leader / January 14 http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070114/NEWS01/701140351/1002 Timothy Beatley Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities University of New Orleans New Orleans Times-Picayune / January 14 http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-11/116876207470470.xml&coll=1 Donald Brown Chairman of the Department of Systems and Information Technology U.Va. Project Helps Police Spot Trends, Stop Crime Richmond Times-Dispatch / January 14 http://www.t...

[...] According to a study from the University of Virginia, 20 percent of post-divorce children (compared to 10 percent of children in first-marriage families) suffered from depression, conduct disorders, lower academic performance and delinquency. However, that leaves 80 percent who thrive in such a life. Being part of a stepfamily is a challenge, but the rewards of meeting those challenges make it all worthwhile.

The members of the Dave Matthews Band have approved $132,000 in gifts to area organizations. The money is courtesy of the Bama Works Fund, the charitable arm of the band. The Bama grants are announced twice each year, according to John R. Redick, president of the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation. … University of Virginia School of Nursing: Parish Nursing Service to Disadvantaged Youth, $6,000.

[...] Now, however, that UVa has embarked on its most ambitious fundraising campaign to date - $3 billion - such cooperation is vital to meeting a goal administrators say could create the first 'privately financed public university.' ...Consequently, UVa has taken steps to coordinate the massive effort on a level never before seen. Sweeney said that while the goodwill of fundraising employees in different departments still plays an important role, UVa has built 'ever-more sophisticated systems to track assignments of prospects.'

In 2004, when this book was in gestation, a globalisation index showed Ireland, for the third year in a row, as the most globalised nation in the world. It was against this background that a group of Irish and American intellectuals gathered at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, for a conference organised by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, to reflect on the journey that Ireland had travelled in the modern world.

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, in its annual report on black graduation rates, noted gains nationwide but said a troubling gap persists, reducing the chances that young black adults will have incomes on a par with white peers. … Elsewhere, the rate was 91 percent at Washington University in St. Louis, 90 percent at Stanford University, 87 percent at the University of Virginia and 82 percent at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[...] The Aviation Safety Program also awarded Approximately $143,000 to the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., for work described in their proposal entitled "First-Principles Calculations of the Structure and Energetics of Al/Water Interfaces of Relevance to Corrosion and Fatigue."

Even engineers can be crime fighters. A team of University of Virginia researchers and students has created a specialized Web-based tool that allows police to easily analyze crimes in their jurisdiction or in other cooperating localities. The technology, about four years in the making, is being used by 11 mostly rural sheriff's offices and police departments in the state.

Patients who receive a lung transplant at the University of Virginia Medical Center have a better chance of surviving the operation than at any other hospital in the nation, a new ranking suggests. The rankings by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients found that the hospital had the nation's highest survivability rate. The registry tracks organ donation, availability and transplant survivability.

Robert MacWright Executive director of the U.Va. Patent Foundation Supreme Court Ruling in Patent Case Could Be Costly for Universities That License Inventions The Chronicle of Higher Education / Jan. 11 http://tinyurl.com/y7l8no

U.Va. Again the Top Public for Black Graduation Rate Nursing Dean Appointed to State Task Force Heat Plant Renovation Closer to Completion

Of the 119 Division IA colleges in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, 17 have non-white athletic directors, an all-time high, according to a report released Thursday by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, at the University of Central Florida. But while the report noted progress in diversifying sports management positions, it also found that white people have the key positions. Within Division IA, white people make up 94.9 percent of presidents, 85.7 percent of athletic directors, 93.3 percent of faculty representatives, and 100 percent of conference commissioners.

Moratorium on Earmarks in 2007 Puts Pork Lovers in Academe on a Diet The Chronicle of Higher Education / Jan. 12 College officials are bracing for some hard braking on one of their favorite gravy trains. The Democratic majority in Congress plans to increase oversight of earmarks, the noncompetitive grants that members steer to academic institutions, and to decrease sharply their number in the 2007 fiscal year. http://tinyurl.com/vygkg Defeat for For-Profit Model Inside Higher Ed / Jan. 12 The University of Illinois has been pushing for months to create a new campus dramatically different fr...

[...] Kelso documented the entire process, 'writing a little bit every day' and completing a paperback summary of each season. The result is a muchheralded book, "Jamestown The Buried Truth" [published by the University of Virginia Press]. The fast-paced narrative gives readers insight into Jamestown's early characters and events and takes them along as each new discovery unfolds. Ample photos and illustrations reveal the quality and breadth of the finds.

Ned Andrews Graduate of the School of Law ('06) Bee champ has 'Mob' ties Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel / January 12 http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/people/article/0,1406,KNS_313_5273911,00.html Rob Bell Graduate of the College and the School of Law Delegate seeks climate change study / Democrat concerned about global warming impact on area Daily Progress / January 12 http://tinyurl.com/yxyve5 Stanley B. Blaylock Graduate of the College ('85) with a degree in economics and communication studies Walgreen Co. Announces Executive Promotions Business Wire / January 11 http://tinyurl.com/y4lac4 Jo...

Below are transplant centers whose patient survival rates exceeded or fell short of expectations. Not listed are transplant centers that met survival expectations--which factor in the condition of patients and donated organs. [University of Virginia Health Sciences Center...Higher than expected]

Scientists at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and colleagues at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville have succeeded in imaging, in unprecedented detail, the virus that causes influenza.

The number of African Americans getting their cap and gown at the University of Virginia is beating other schools and the national average by a large margin. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education says UVA ranks first among public universities for the graduation rate of African Americans. The black graduation rate at UVA is 87 percent. The school that came in second had a black graduation rate of 72 percent. According to the journal, the national black student graduation rate is 43 percent.