HEADLINE NEWS ARCHIVES

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY ADDRESS
President John Casteen III will deliver the annual State of the University Address on Friday, April 21 at noon in Old Cabell Hall.

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

STUDENTS COMPLY WITH UVA'S PROTEST ORDER
By Melanie Mayhew of The Daily Progress
Students fighting for a "living wage" of $10.72 for direct and contract workers at the University of Virginia on Tuesday complied with a UVa order to remove their tents, sleeping bags and other items from the Madison Hall yard.

'LIVING WAGE' CAMPAIGN / DESPITE ARRESTS, U-VA. STUDENTS DEVOTED TO BETTERING WORKERS
By Carol Morello and Susan Kinzie of the Washington Post

EDITORIAL: COERCION AT UVA
By the Richmond Times-Dispatch

INSIDE THE BELTWAY: COUGH IT UP
By John McCaslin of The Washington Times  / April 18

EMBRACING PAST, FUTURE
By The Charlottesville Daily Progress
The University of Virginia has presented a breathtaking vision for the 21st century. The university has released plans, years in the making, for expansion along the axis of the original Academical Village. The project not only provides new state-of-the-art instructional space, it actually enhances the original Jeffersonian design.

CAREER COMES FIRST IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
By Janie Ho of Business Week Online / April 18
The University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business (No. 12 in BusinessWeek's top-30 U.S. rankings) has been integrating career services into its standard curriculum for the past three years. In fact, Darden faculty spends the first week of classes helping students understand the results of their self-assessment tests and write detailed career plans.

MELODIES TO SOOTHE THE BODY
By Bryan McKenzie of The Daily Progress
The soothing strains of Celtic harp weave through the Digestive Health Center waiting room to pacify and appease the worried and anxious who ponder and mull diagnoses and prognoses.  Eve Watters...has been playing for patients for at least 10 years at the UVa hospital. She's a volunteer trained in music therapy.

AUTHORS DISCUSS WOMEN IN POLITICS
By Charlottesville Daily Progress staff reports
Authors Celinda Lake and Kellyanne Conway will appear at the University of Virginia Bookstore tonight to argue that a united power base among women is changing the nation much more that the politics of left and right.
(Not available online.)

VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW IN THE NEWS

PASSAGES FROM THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW
By Diego Vasquez of Media Life / April 18
Every year the National Magazine Award nominations feature many of the usual suspects, like the Atlantic Monthly and the New Yorker. But some years a magazine surprises everyone with a slew of nominations, and that title this year is the tiny Virginia Quarterly Review...Today, as part of an ongoing series on this year's Ellie nominees, Media Life excerpts passages from VQR pieces that earned nominations.

FACULTY OP-EDS

ROSA BROOKS
Brooks, associate professor of law, wrote a commentary for the Los Angeles Times headlined:
U.S. IMMIGRANT PROTEST MARCHES ARE TERRIBLY UNFASHIONABLE
By Rosa Brooks for the Los Angeles Times / April 18

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

JULIAN BOND
Bond, NAACP Chairman and history professor, was quoted today in a (Charlottesville) Daily Progress article headlined:
ROCK HOUSE REBORN / JIM CROW-ERA HOME FETED
By Liesel Nowak of The Daily Progress

FRANKLIN DUKES
Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, was cited in an Environmental News Network article headlined:
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY HOSTS SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION WORKSHOPS
By the Center for Biological Diversity / April 18

EVERETTE FORTNER
Fortner, director of Darden's Career Development Center, was interviewed for a Business Week article headlined:
CAREER COMES FIRST IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
By Janie Ho of Business Week Online / April 18

ALEXANDER HORNIMAN
Horniman, professor at the Darden School of Business, was quoted in a Chief Learning Officer article headlined:
CLOs: PILLARS OF CONTINUOUS LEARNING
By Kellye Whitney of Chief Learning Officer / April 12

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATOR OBITUARIES IN THE NEWS

FREDERICK CRAIG MORTIMER
Mortimer, who had been a geography professor at U.Va. for 24 years, died April 15 at St. Andrews Hospital in Boothbay Harbor, Maine at the age of 83. His obituary appeared in The Lincoln County News:

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

BRIT HUME
Hume, a 1965 graduate of the College, was featured today in a Washington Post article headlined:
MOVING TO THE RIGHT / BRIT HUME'S PATH TOOK HIM FROM LIBERAL OUTSIDER TO THE LOW-KEY VOICE OF CONSERVATISM ON FOX NEWS
By Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post

TERRICA REDFIELD
Redfield, a 2002 graduate of the School of Law, was featured in a McComb (MS) Enterprise-Journal article headlined:
REDFIELD: BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF ONE / BRYANT RECEIVES AARON HENRY AWARD
By Karen Freeman of the Enterprise-Journal / April 17

JOHN W. SNOW
Snow, Secretary of the Treasury who earned a Ph.D. in economics from the U.V.a where he studied under two Nobel Prize winners, was featured in a National Review article headlined:
IN DEFENSE OF SNOW / WHAT MORE COULD WE ASK FOR IN A TREASURY SECRETARY?
By Donald Luskin of the National Review / April 18

CAVALIER DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

COMMISSION TO REVIEW GILDAY APPEAL

STUDENT COUNCIL TRANSITIONS OFFICERS

POLICE SPEAK ABOUT SECURITY AT FOXFIELDS

UVA TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM RESEARCHERS DISCOVER TREATMENT THAT REVERSES TYPE 1 DIABETES

TICKETS GO ON SALE SATURDAY FOR DAVE MATTHEWS BAND PERFORMANCES AT JPJ ARENA
UNIVERSITY'S MOCK TRIAL TEAM WINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

This weeks' featured publication is INSIDE UVA.

NEWS FROM U.VA.'S COLLEGE AT WISE

GEORGE MICHAEL
Michael, an assistant professor of political science and administration of justice at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, whose book "The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right" will be published next week by the University Press of Kansas, authored a piece published this week in the Chronicle of Higher Education headlined:
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
By George Michael of The University of Virginia's College at Wise

TRENDS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

BE POLITE, E-POLITE
By David Epstein of Inside Higher Ed
Some professors respond to publicity about students' online demands by setting out some rules.

INTERACTIVE RESOURCES

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