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Digest
U.Va. News Daily
Kennedy, Rehnquist offer peek at Supreme Court
Proximity to Washington has its benefits. Earlier this month,
U.Va. Law School’s Caplin Auditorium hosted appearances by
U.S. Supreme Court justices on back-to-back days. Justice Anthony
Kennedy, who received the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law, chided
Congress for playing politics with federal bench nominations.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist delivered the Henry J. Abraham
Distinguished Lecture, warning against justices taking on official
duties outside the court. (Top News Daily, April 17)
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Photo
by Peggy Harrison
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| Dean
of Admission Jack Blackburn (right) greets prospective students
and family members during Days on the Lawn, a program that
gives seniors accepted to U.Va. their first taste of college
life. |
U.Va.
offers admission to 5,661 applicants
College-bound high school seniors formerly engaged in a springtime
mailbox-watching ritual, awaiting the fat or thin envelopes that
announced the results of their applications. These days, the ritual
has changed: More and more are logging on to Web sites to learn
their fate. At U.Va., where decisions were mailed — and posted
online — March 28, the number of electronic applications
more than doubled this year. (Top News Daily, April 10)
Laptops
stolen
U.Va.’s community of trust took a hit recently when 14 laptops
were reported stolen from Alderman Library. The laptops were available
for loan to students doing research in the library. Their disappearance
comes at a particularly bad time, as students are scrambling to
complete end-of-semester projects. (Top News Daily, April 18-20)
Sky
survey: Wealth of images and data
Space may be limitless, but astronomy professor Michael Skrutskie
and his colleagues have defined a good portion of our celestial
neighborhood. They announced recently that the most thorough,
high-resolution survey of the entire sky is now available online.
Much of the work of the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey was done at
Skrutskie’s previous post, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
(Top News Daily, April 8)
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The
Crab Nebula, above, is “one of the most spectacular and
intensively studied stars in the sky,” according to the
online sky survey at: www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/
gallery. This image is one of an atlas of about 5 million
pictures from the online survey. |
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