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More
than 300 children, parents and early childhood
educators from the Charlottesville community
are expected to attend “Jumpstart
for a Day,” a community involvement
event and learning fair led by U.Va. student
organizations as well as community organizations,
tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in U.Va.’s
Amphitheater. In Charlottesville, 46 U.Va.
students serve as Jumpstart Corps members,
spending 10 to 15 hours a week with low-income
3- to 5-year-old children in four local
preschool programs. Students help the children
develop early language, literacy and social
skills, with the goal of preparing preschoolers
to take advantage of their educations,
beginning with the first day of kindergarten. Full
story.
U.Va.
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Peter
Zumthor (left), an internationally
acclaimed architect known for an extreme
attention to craft and detail, became
the 41st recipient of the annual Thomas
Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture,
and Ronald
M. Dworkin (right), the
Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law
at the New York University School of
Law and also professor of jurisprudence
at Oxford University, was awarded the
2006 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal
in Law
during the University of Virginia’s
Founder’s Day celebration on
April 12. Dworkin gave a public lecture
that afternoon at the U.Va. School
of Law’s Caplin Pavilion. Zumthor
will give a public lecture about his
work, which includes many examples
of thoughtfully crafted public architecture,
today at 1 p.m. in Old Cabell Hall
Auditorium.
U.Va.
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