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The
Lawn, designed by Thomas Jefferson and maintained
by Facilities Management, was named one of the top
10 lawns in America by Briggs & Stratton, a manufacturer
of engines for outdoor power equipment. A panel of turf
management professionals, horticulturists, landscape designers
and garden experts nominated noteworthy lawns, which were
evaluated for their "overall appearance, lawn and garden
maintenance and care philosophy, use of green space to enhance
or complement the look, visual appeal, and significance
of the site." The company's press release called U.Va.'s
Lawn "one of the most important green spaces in the
country. ... The Lawn still looks and functions much as
it did in Jefferson's era -- as a vital community organized
around learning." The other selections: The Alamo in
San Antonio, Tex.; Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, N.Y.;
George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y.; Georgia International
Plaza in Atlanta; Golden Gate Park in San Francisco; Grand
Hotel on Mackinac Island, Mich.; Lewis & Clark Interpretive
Center in Great Falls, Mont.; Magnolia Plantation and Its
Gardens, Charleston, S.C.; and the U.S. Naval Academy in
Annapolis, Md.
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- Associate
philosophy professor Mitchell S. Green has been awarded
the American Council of Learned Societies' Frederick Burkhardt
Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars. The award
is given annually to nine U.S. or Canadian scholars engaged
in long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities
or social sciences, and carries a $65,000 stipend, funded in
part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Green will be in residence
at the National Humanities Center during the 2001-02 academic
year while he completes the manuscript for his book, Expressive
Meaning: Self-Expression and Self-Constitution in Language and
the Arts.
- Dr.
George Beller, chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
for the U.Va. Health System, recently took office as president
of the American College of Cardiology. Beller, considered a
leader in the field of nuclear cardiology, will serve a one-year
term as president.
- The
Information Technology and Communications team of Chip German,
Terry Lockard, Sandy German and Janet Sakell won
first place for the online publication "virginia.eduČ from
the First Society in Computing's Special Interest Group on University
and College Computing Services. virginia.edu was picked best
in the Mixed Media category, where judging focused on how multi-media
publications make best use of printed and Web tools to provide
integrated information.
- Electrical
engineering chair James Aylor recently received a Third
Millennium Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, in recognition for outstanding contributions in his
field.
- Andrew
C. Hillier of the chemical engineering department has been
named one of 26 Office of Naval Research Young Investigators,
selected from 178 applicants nationwide. A letter from Rear
Admiral Paul G. Gaffney II, the chief of naval research, said
"We believe that Young Investigators, including Dr. Hillier,
are the best and brightest young academic researchers this country
has to offer."
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