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Tuesday,
Feb, 7, 2006
William
Walker, U.Va. associate professor
of biomedical engineering, displayed
the work of his Medical Ultrasound
Technology Group for officials.
UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA researchers and administrators
met with more than a dozen officials
from the Virginia Economic Development
Partnership, a department of the commonwealth’s
Secretary of Commerce, on Jan. 27 to
discuss local initiatives and research
with the potential for attracting high-tech
industry to the Charlottesville-Albemarle
area. A large part of the visit, hosted
by the Office of the Vice President for
Research and Graduate Studies, included
tours of several major U.Va. research
laboratories in the Medical Center and
School of Engineering and Applied Science,
as well as the Institute for Advanced
Technology in the Humanities. Full
story.
Inside
UVA/Photo: Jack Looney
The
University of Virginia’s School of
Architecture has climbed five places to
No. 3 among all graduate programs in the
country in the seventh annual America’s
Best Architecture Schools conducted by
the Design Futures Council, a global network
of design professionals. The survey ranked
U.Va.’s graduate program behind only
Harvard and the University of Cincinnati.
The same survey put U.Va. at No. 5 among
Best Graduate Landscape Architecture Schools
for 2005-2006. Full
story.
Inside
UVA
During
his annual Black History Month address,
U.Va.’s dean of the Office of African-American
Affairs M. Rick Turner (left) stridently
criticized what he saw as U.Va.’s
failings in some aspects of diversity — a
lack of black faculty and administrators
and low black
student
enrollment — but he also described
an unprecedented “serious, sustained
attempt” to address the issues of
diversity and equity that has made great
gains in the past year.
Full
story.
