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Does
concrete float? Roughly 300 civil engineering
students and mentors from 12 schools throughout
Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and
Washington, D.C., will gather at the University
of Virginia for two days of competitions
that begin Friday and include concrete-canoe
racing and steel-bridge building, as well
as a survey contest, problem solving, balsa
wood construction and environmental contests.
Professional civil engineers from industry,
including members of the civil engineering
department’s advisory board, will
be among the judges. The winners will advance
to national competitions in different categories. Full
story.
U.Va.
News Services
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 On
Wednesday, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine
(right) addressed Professor Larry Sabato’s “Intro
to American Politics” class. Kaine
spoke about his transportation plan, which
calls for increasing some taxes to fund
road, rail and transit improvements – a
plan which has support in the Senate but
has drawn fire in the House. During a Q&A
session, the governor fielded questions
from students about the Standards of Learning
requirements, the upcoming referendum on
gay marriage and the loss of jobs in southwest
Virginia. While this was Kaine’s
first visit to the class as governor (Kaine
stopped by last spring while campaigning
for the seat), every Virginia governor
since John Dalton in 1978 has guest-lectured
in Sabato’s class. Former governor
Mark Warner visited each year that he was
in office.
U.Va.
News Services/Photo: Dan Addison
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