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Stephanie
Gross
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Stellar event
Judges
at the first Graduate Research Exhibition, held April 10 and
11, listen to a presentation by astronomy student Michael
Siegel. The judges for the physical sciences area were (back
to front, counterclockwise) Josh Kempner, one of the graduate
students who helped organize the symposium, Milton Brown,
from chemistry, Grant Goodell, from environmental sciences,
and Robert Jones, from physics. The group awarded Siegel second
prize. See the Graduate Student
Research section.
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U.Va. teaching awards
given to and for inspiring minds
By
Robert Brickhouse
Seven
U.Va. professors and five graduate teaching assistants, admired
for their extraordinary dedication and ability to inspire, will
receive the 2000 University-wide awards honoring outstanding teaching.
This
year's recipients, selected by a committee from many nominations
backed by vivid testimonials from students and colleagues, were
honored April 12 in the Rotunda at the ninth annual "In Celebration
of Teaching" banquet, hosted by President John T. Casteen III
and Vice President and Provost Peter W. Low.
As
always, the choices were both difficult and inspiring for selection
committee members, said Vice Provost Barbara Nolan, who coordinated
the awards process. "The winners the committee chose reflect
in many different, individual ways the dedication and skill of our
faculty as whole. Although we can honor only a handful of teachers
each year, these awards also always celebrate the countless daily
teaching achievements of all our professors and graduate instructors."
Full story.
Electronic
archive projects receive $1 million from NEH
From
staff reports
Six
U.Va. projects, most having to do with digital preservation of historic
archives, received just over $1 million in funding from the National
Endowment for the Humanities spring round of grants, the NEH announced
this month.
The
University's total of $1.01 million was second only to $1.3 million
awarded to Columbia University. In all, the NEH doled out $30.5
million to 295 applicants in the second of its three funding rounds
for the 2000 fiscal year.
The
spring grants included $18.8 million in preservation and access
grants. All five of U.Va.'s major awards came in that area. Full
story.
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