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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

TODAY AT U.VA.

U.VA. CELEBRATES PEACE CORPS 45TH ANNIVERSARY
Anthony Essaye, who served in the Peace Corps General Counsel's office from 1963 to 1967, under Sargent Shriver, the first director of the agency, will be the featured speaker during tomorrow's Miller Center of Public Affairs Forum titled "Celebrating 45 Years of the Peace Corps." The event will kick off the University of Virginia's daylong celebration March 15 intended to recognize the Peace Corps and its returned volunteers and to honor U.Va. for its rank as a top producer of Peace Corps volunteers. For the fifth consecutive year, U.Va. has ranked No. 1 among comparably sized universities in sending its graduates into Peace Corps service to work in countries throughout the world. More than 400 U.Va. graduates have served in the Peace Corps since 2000, and more than 800 throughout its history.

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

U.VA. KEEPS THE CITY WORKING / CHARLOTTESVILLE IS STATE'S FASTEST-GROWING JOB MARKET
BY Meg McEvoy of C-Ville Weekly
Charlottesville's job market grew by 3.7 percent last year , edging out Northern Virginia as the state's fastest-growing area, according to stats from the Virginia Employment Commission
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U.VA. GAMBLES, AND WINS, ON HEDGE FUNDS / THAT'S MILLIONS WITH A 'B'
By Bill Chapman of C-Ville Weekly
U.Va. officials checked their year-end bank statement recently and found that 2005 was a very good year: With just under $2.89 billion in the school's "endowment" accounts, U.Va. was about $376 million richer than the year before. That's a sweet 14.8 percent return on U.Va.'s investments last year.
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STUDENTS IN THE NEWS

CHRIS WHITE
White, a physics teacher at Seneca, S.C. High School who is working on a master's degree in physics teaching at U.Va., was featured March 14 in an Anderson, S.C., Independent-Mail article headlined:
S.C. ACADEMY'S TEACHER OF THE YEAR CHOSEN LOCALLY
By David Williams of the Anderson Independent-Mail/ March 14

ADAM MALCOLM
Malcolm, a mechanical engineering graduate student who designed a new style life jacket, was cited in a Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch article headlined:
SOME QUICK KUDOS
By Lee Graves of the Times-Dispatch

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

J.C.A. STAGG
Stagg, professor of history and editor-in-chief of The Papers of James Madison at U.Va., is expected to be nominated by President George Bush to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation for the remainder of a six-year term expiring Nov. 17, 2011, according to a press release distributed on Monday by the White House.
PERSONNEL ANNOUNCEMENT
By Sean C. White, Office of the Press Secretary / March 13
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W. BRADFORD WILCOX and STEVEN NOCK
Wilcox and Nock, sociology professors, were quoted March 14 in a LiveScience article headlined:
HOW TO MAKE YOUR WIFE HAPPY
By Sara Goudarzi of LiveScience / March 14

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

DR. GEORGE A. BELLER
Beller, Ruth C. Heede Professor in Cardiology at the Health System, was featured March 14 in a Business Wire press release headlined:
BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF VASOMEDICAL'S EECP THERAPY REINFORCED DURING THE 55TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC SESSION OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
By Business Wire / March 14

DEBBIE GREENSTREET
Greenstreet, who received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at U.Va. and oversees worldwide Voice-over Packet strategic marketing for Texas Instrument's DSP Systems (DSPS) organization, authored a commentary in a Converge Network Digest article headlined:
PIQUA CAPTURES PACKET INTELLIGENCE AT THE TRAFFIC SOURCE
By Debbie Greenstreet, Director Service Provider Strategy, DSP Systems

EDWARD HAYES
Hayes, a New York defense attorney who received his undergraduate degree at U.Va. was featured March 14 in an Associated Press article headlined:
BOOKS -- 'SIN IS MY BUSINESS.'
By SAM DOLNICK of the Associated Press / March 14

STEVEN RHODES
Rhodes, professor of politics, has his book "Taking Sex Differences Seriously" featured today in a C-Ville Weekly article headlined:
MOMMIES' LITTLE HELPER / WITH A BOOK ARGUING WOMEN ARE HAPPIER AT HOME, PROFESSOR STEVEN RHOADS SAYS HE'S THE REAL FEMINIST AT U.VA.
By John Borgmeyer of C-Ville Weekly

KENNETH L. WAINSTEIN
Wainstein, who earned a bachelor's degree from U.Va., is expected to be nominated by President George Bush to be an assistant attorney general and upon appointment, designated as Assistant Attorney General for National Security, according to a press release distributed on Monday by the White House. Wainstein currently serves as the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and previously served as Chief of Staff at the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
PERSONNEL ANNOUNCEMENT
By Sean C. White, Office of the Press Secretary / March 13
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JESSIE WOOLLEY-WILSON
Woolley-Wilson, who received her bachelor of arts degree in English from the U.Va., was featured March 14 in a PR Newswire press release headlined:
NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION APPOINTS LEAPFROG SCHOOLHOUSE PRESIDENT TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
By PR Newswire / March 14

CAVALIER DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

SAT ERROR SKEWS SCORES/4,000 STUDENTS RECEIVED INCORRECT SCORE RESULTS; NO CHANGES WILL BE MADE TO UNIVERSITY ADMISSION DECISIONS; ERRORS COULD AFFECT ECHOLS, RODMAN SELECTION

SOUTHERN COMFORT?/STUDENTS AND FACULTY DISCUSS WHERE THE UNIVERSITY STANDS IN TERMS OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE; CAN THE UNIVERSITY BE BRANDED A 'SOUTHERN' SCHOOL?

SOLOMON AMENDMENT UPHELD/LAW REQUIRES LAW SCHOOLS TO ALLOW MILITARY RECRUITERS ON CAMPUS TO CONDUCT INTERVIEWS

U.VA. TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

ACCLAIMED AUTHORS TO DISCUSS SUFFERING THIS WEEK AT U.VA.

POET GIOVANNI HEADLINES HUES CONFERENCE AT U.VA.

CONSTRUCTION BEGINS THIS MONTH ON MR-6 BUILDING

U.VA. SELECTS PEOPLESOFT AS ITS NEW STUDENT SYSTEM

This weeks' featured publication is ARTS & SCIENCES MAGAZINE.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

2 NATIONAL AD CAMPAIGNS FOCUS ON HIGHER-EDUCATION'S VALUE AND EXPANDING COLLEGE ACCESS
By Stephen Burd and Jeffrey Selingo of The Chronicle of Higher Education
If higher-education officials have their way, their concerns about the availability of public funds and college access will be as familiar to Americans as Coca-Cola, thanks to two national advertising campaigns set to kick off this year.

CASE INVOLVING ERRORS IN TEACHER TEST IS SETTLED
By Karen W. Arenson of The New York Times
The Educational Testing Service, one of the biggest testing organizations in the United States, has agreed to pay $11.1 million to settle a class-action lawsuit about errors in the scoring of a widely used teacher licensing examination, according to court-approved settlement papers released yesterday.

PEER TO PEER
By David Epstein of Inside Higher Ed
Group discussion, long part of humanities courses, is on the rise in science classrooms - even in large classes.

BIG VOTE ON THE U.S. BUDGET
By Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed
A wild day of Senate voting on the federal budget resolution left advocates for student aid disappointed, but set up another vote on Wednesday that has major implications for financial aid, biomedical research, and vocational

PRIVACY-LAW COMPLIANCE OFFICER ADVISES COLLEGE OFFICIALS ON HANDLING OF STUDENT RECORDS
By Sara Lipka of The Chronicle of Higher Education
Colleges and universities may have more leeway to interpret federal privacy law than their officials know. For example, under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, institutions are permitted but not required to disclose student records to parents, said LeRoy S. Rooker, director of the Family Policy Compliance Office at the U.S. Department of Education.

WITH GOOD REASON / NPR

ISRAEL ON THE APPOMATTOX
Tonight at 7:30 p.m.; WVTF-Ronaoke (88.5 FM)
Starting in the 1790s, about 90 African Americans (free blacks and former slaves) formed the community of Israel Hill in Prince Edward County. Historian Melvin Ely (W&M) says with their white neighbors they did business together, sued each other, worked side by side for equal wages, and even founded a Baptist congregation together.

Also: historian Brian McKnight (UVA-Wise) disputes the popular perception that Virginia coal camps were dreary, dirty, and depressing places. After dozens of interviews with former coal town residents, he sheds new light on the lives they led.
To talk with Melvin Ely and hundreds of authors about their work, come to the Virginia Festival of the Book, March 22-26

"With Good Reason," produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, is broadcast on 10 public radio stations in Virginia and Washington, D.C. For complete listings of shows and times visit the program's website at www.withgoodreasonradio.org

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