News Highlights: Corporate Connections at U.Va.

•	Philip Morris USA Supports Medical Research and Business Leadership with $25 Million Gift to U.Va.

•	The Wallace Foundation Awards $5 Million Grant to University of Virginia to Draw on Faculty Expertise from Graduate Schools of Education and Business
•	College Guide Program Opens Doors to Higher Education – Jack Kent Cook Foundation ($1.1M)
•	U.Va. Receives $4.5 Million MacArthur Foundation Grant for Study on Mental Health Outpatient Treatment
•	Coulter Foundation Selects Biomedical Engineering Department for Innovative Partnership ($2.9M)
•	School of Nursing Wins $1.132M Helene Fuld Health Trust Grant
•	Dominion to Support Expansion of Historic Building and Environmental Initiatives at U.Va. ($520K)
•	$2.5 Million Gift from Anheuser-Busch Companies to Establish National Social Norms Institute
•	U.Va. Cancer Center Receives $5 Million Gift
•	U.Va. Selected for HP Technology for Teaching Grant
•	U.Va. Receives $4.5 Million MacArthur Foundation Grant for Study on Mental Health Outpatient Treatment
•	$5 Million Grant Will Go to Construction of New Nursing Building

•	Ivy Foundation Gives $45 Million to Medicine at U.Va.
•	U.Va. Health System Receives $2 Million Pfizer Foundation Gift for Infectious Disease Research and Training
•	Pfizer Inc. Donates $2M to Fund New Program in Center for Global Health
•	Darden-Curry Partnership Receives Grant from Philip Morris USA

•	UVa Receives $623,000 from Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to Train Graduates to Become College Guides in Communities Throughout Commonwealth
•	Microsoft Gives $3 Million to Darden/Curry Program
•	$3 Million Microsoft Investment Offers On-going Support and National Model
•	Medical School Gets $12.5 Million for High-Tech Education Building
•	Claude Moore Foundation Gives U.Va. School of Medicine $12.5 Million for Education Building
•	HP Is Newest Partner to Join the University of Virginia in Unique Educational Collaboration to Improve Student Learning
•	U.Va. Graduate Receives Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship ($50K/year)
•	Major Grant ($140K) From Henry Luce Foundation Supports Online Project Examining Gender Roles in China

•	$200,000 Grant from the McGregor Fund to Support Library Renovations
•	Curry School of Education Receives $5 Million Grant to Improve School Readiness
•	Dynamic Strategies Asia, LC Gift to Enhance Study of Japanese Politics and Government
•	Getty Grant to Help University of Virginia Develop Historical Preservation Plan
•	$200,000 Grant from McGregor Fund to Restore Alderman Library's Historic McGregor Room
•	$950,000 Grant from Lumina Foundation to Center for the Study of Higher Education at U.Va.
•	$1.5 Million U.Va.-IBM Initiative Powers up Biomedical Research
•	Mellon Grant ($265K) Helps Library's Preservation Plan

•	Carnegie Corporation Supports Teacher Education Collaborative Initiative between College and Curry School ($5 Million)

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•	Charles P. Blankenship Jr. named GE's new Vice President and General manager of Commercial Engines at GE Aviation (8/11/08)
•	Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey Announces Brian A. Benczkowski to serve as Chief of Staff for the Department of Justice 8/6/08)
•	IronPlanet Appoints Michael O'Donnell as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (8/5/08)
•	Ulmer & Berne LLP Attorney Gregory J. Phillips Appointed to the Board of Directors of Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio 8/1/08)
•	Anita Borg Institute Names William Wulf Chair of the Board of Trustees (7/29/08)
•	Intellectual Property Litigator Shawn McDonald Joins Sheppard Mullin Del Mar Heights (7/29/08)
•	Penton Media Names Jim L'Heureux as Senior Vice President, eMedia (7/22/08)
•	Lynn Buhl to Serve as EPA Regional Administrator for the Great Lakes Region (7/21/08)
•	Watson Wyatt Worldwide Names Roger Millay Chief Financial Officer (7/21/08)
•	Bernie Mikell joins Piper Jaffray as a senior vice president in the Sacramento, CA office (7/21/08)
•	MITX Announces New Board Directors-David Clark (7/16/08)
•	Morgan Joseph Expands Its Miami Investment Banking Office with Addition of Senior Bankers, Ron Zimmerer and Michael Holland (7/15/08)
•	Palladon announces new additions to Board of Directors-John Cutler (7/10/08)
•	Wellman Joins Diversified Search Ray & Berndtson as Managing Director, Private Equity/Venture Capital Practice (7/7/08)
•	Teresa Bryce to Lead Radian Mortgage Insurance Business (7/7/08)
•	Public Service Enterprise Group Names Stephen C. Byrd President of PSEG Energy Holdings (7/2/08)
•	RailAmerica and Florida East Coast Railway Announce Charles Patterson Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer (7/2/08)
•	Ted Mathas Becomes Chief Executive Officer of New York Life (6/30/08)
•	Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital Names Constantine Mavroudis New Chair of Congenital & Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery (6/26/08)
•	The U.S. Senate approved Utah native Matthew Petersen's nomination to the Federal Election Commission (6/26/08)
•	Sidley Austin LLP Elevates Robert Keeling to Partnership in Washington, D.C. (6/24/08)
•	Sidley Austin LLP Elevates Elizabeth Schubert to Partnership in Chicago (6/24/08)
•	EnerSys Elects Robert Magnus to Board of Directors (6/19/08)
•	KBR Names Kevin DeNicola New Chief Financial Officer (6/18/08)
•	Boenning & Scattergood Delivers on Plan to Grow Private Client Group Through Addition of Thom R. Brown and Cummins Catherwood, Jr. (6/17/08)
•	Diffusion Pharmaceuticals Announces Addition of Mark T. Giles to its Board of Directors (6/10/08)
•	Ade Lawal Joins Aspyra as Vice President of Strategy and Business Development (6/10/08)
•	Thomas Widener Joins Deutsche Bank's Natural Resources Group (6/10/08)
•	DigitalFX International, Inc. hires Abraham Sofer as General Counsel (6/5/08)
•	National Safety Council Names Janet P. Froetscher President and CEO (6/5/08)
•	Attorney General Mukasey Appoints Linda S. Wendtland to the Board of Immigration Appeals (5/30/08)
•	Dr. Sondra F. Stallard Named President of Strayer University (5/29/08)

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