HEADLINE NEWS ARCHIVES

Monday, April 24, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

WAGE DEBATE 'REVOLUTIONARY' / CASTEEN GIVES ANNUAL ADDRESS
By Liesel Nowak of The Daily Progress / April 22
The president of the University of Virginia on Friday acknowledged that students fighting for better pay for university workers have a valid case for change, calling the debate "revolutionary" in its shifting of the poverty burden from government to the private sector.

U.VA. PRESIDENT: STATE RESPONSIBLE FOR WAGES
By Calvin R. Trice of the Times-Dispatch / April 22

WAGE STRATEGY PAID OFF ELSEWHERE
By Melanie Mayhew of The Daily Progress / April 23

PLANKING AND POLITICS
By Bob Gibson of The Charlottesville Daily Progress / April 23

PUBLIC COLLEGES TO SEE YOU THROUGH
The New York Times / Special Education Life section / April 23
Figures released last month by the Education Department paint a grim picture: 27 percent of freshmen entering public college in 1998 graduated from it in four years, 53 percent in six years. Private colleges did better, at 50 and 64 percent....they are an important indicator of how well a college accomplishes its mission. [University of Virginia was a the top of the list of public colleges with 83 percent graduating in 4 years and 92 percent in 6 years.]
(Click "Data: Public Colleges to See You Through" for complete table)

U.VA. INCREASES UNDERGRADUATE COSTS
By the Richmond Times-Dispatch / April 23
In-state University of Virginia students will pay an additional $665 a year in undergraduate tuition and fees this fall, the school's board of visitors decided yesterday. Out-of-state students will pay an additional $1,845. Undergraduate Virginians will pay $7,845 in tuition and fees for 2006-2007, an increase of 9.3 percent over the current year. Non-Virginians will pay 7.7 percent more, or $25,945 in tuition and fees.

YOUNG VOICES PROTEST PREJUDICE WITH A DAY OF SILENCE
By The Arizona Daily Star / April 21
Ten years ago, a group of students at the University of Virginia exercised their freedom of speech and created the first Day of Silence with more than 150 students participating...By 2004, almost half a million students from K-12 schools, colleges and universities began organizing events and advocating gay rights and the Day of Silence. This made the Day of Silence the most wide-scale single-day gay rights movement in American history.

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN THE NEWS

TEAM GRANTED RESEARCH FUNDS
By the Daily Progress staff reports / April 22
Two teams of researchers at he University of Virginia have each received $100,000 grants to further their work in treating prostate cancer. The funding is part of the 2005 Competitive Award from the California-based Prostate Cancer Foundation.
(Not available online.)

VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES IN THE NEWS

UVA GETS VFH GRANT AWARD
From Charlottesville Daily Progress staff reports  / April 23
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities awarded 25 grants totaling $123,650 to assist Virginia organizations in their efforts to research and interpret Virginia's history, to explore issues of importance to Virginians and to showcase Virginia's folklife and cultural heritage. … Locally, University of Virginia SAVANA Consortium earned $3,000 to support a cultural survey of African musicians living in Northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley.

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

JAMES P. BENNETT JR.
Bennett, a researcher who has been working to develop a drug to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), was cited today in a Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star article headlined:
MEMORIAL SERVICE TO BE A CELEBRATION
By Laura L. Hutchison of the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star

DAVID BRENEMAN
Breneman, an economist, higher education funding expert and dean of the Curry School of Education, was cited in an Associated Press article headlined:
INCREASES AFTER TUITION DEREGULATION MIRROR THOSE SEEN NATIONWIDE
By Liz Austin of The Associated Press / April 23

E.D. HIRSCH JR.
Hirsch, author of "Cultural Literacy" and a professor emeritus, was cited  in a Garden Isle/KauaiWorld.com article headlined:
AUTO DEALERS LAUD EDUCATION BILL
By Cynthia Matsuoka for The Garden Island

CHARLES MENEFEE III
Menefee, director of undergraduate studies at the School of Architecture and three-time national AIA honor award winner, was cited in a Knoxville (TN) News-Sentinel article headlined:
LOCAL ARCHITECTS HONORED WITH DESIGN AWARDS
By News-Sentinel Staff reports / April 23

JONATHAN MORENO
Moreno, a bioethicist who served as co-chair of the panel that wrote the National Academy report, was cited in a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article headlined:
LAX OVERSIGHT BY PITT ENABLED SCHATTEN FIASco
By Jennifer Bails and Luis Fabregas of the Tribune-Review / April 23,

KAREN MULDER
Mulder, an art historian, was cited in a PR Web press release headlined:
FIRST TIME IN NORTH AMERICA: INTERNATIONAL C.S. LEWIS SUMMER INSTITUTE
By PRWeb / April 23

PAUL NEEBE
Neebe, a trumpeter who currently teaches at the Department of Music, was cited in a Burlington (N.C.) Times-News article headlined:
ELON ORCHESTRA, SINGERS STEP INTO THE WORLD OF OPERA
By Tom Dillon of the Times-News / April 23

LARRY J. SABATO
Sabato, director of the Center for Politics, was quoted April 23 in an Associated Press story headlined:
ELIZABETH DOLE FACING BIG CHALLENGES AS GOP COMMITTEE LEADER
By the Associated Press / April 23

COAL TOWN SEEKS TO POLISH IMAGE AFTER PORK RIND POLITICAL SCANDAL
By Sue Lindsey of The Associated Press / April 22

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

FRANCIS COLLINS
Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health and A 1970 chemistry graduate, was cited in a PR Web press release headlined:
FIRST TIME IN NORTH AMERICA: INTERNATIONAL C.S. LEWIS SUMMER INSTITUTE
By PRWeb / April 23

CLAUDIA EMERSON
Emerson, the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry who graduated from U.Va. with a degree in English, was featured in a (Hampton Roads) Daily Press article headlined:
POETRY PULITZER ADDS TO CHATHAM'S LITERARY LEGEND
By Michael Martz for the Daily Press

SARAH LANDRUM
Landrum, a 1995 graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce, was profiled in an article in Working Mother Magazine headlined:
HOW SHE DOES IT
By Michelle Roberts of Working Mother

MATT LASSITER
Lassiter, a former graduate student at U.Va., was featured today in a Charlotte Observer article headlined:
AUTHOR USES CITY AS INTEGRATION MODEL / HE DISCUSSES IMPACT OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION, RESIDENTIAL SEPARATION
By Dan Huntley of the Charlotte Observer

ROBERT NEUMEISTER JR.
Neumeister, a 1973 graduate of the Darden School of Business, was featured in a press release on Red Orbit headlined:
ROBERT M. NEUMEISTER JR. JOINS COVAD BOARD OF DIRECTORS
By Business Wire / April 21

MARK STONER
Stoner, a government and music major at U.Va., was featured in an Indianapolis (IN) Star article headlined;
JUDGE ALSO ENJOYS SITTING ON PIANO BENCH
By Russ Pulliam for the Indianapolis Star / April 23

CAVALIER DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

CASTEEN SPEAKS ON THE STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY

BOARD OF VISITORS APPROVES TUITION ALIGNED WITH SIX-YEAR PLAN

ENGINEERING DEAN VISITS CHINESE UNIVERSITIES

UVA TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

U.VA. PRESIDENT CASTEEN CITES RECENT PROTESTS, TOUTS PROGRESS IN ANNUAL STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY ADDRESS

HEALTH SYSTEM RESEARCHERS TEST NEW DEVICE FOR FIXING MITRAL VALVE LEAKAGE

FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS 'OFF THE HOOK' AND 'LOUDMOUTH SOUP'

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HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE NEWS

NEW UVA CLINIC HELPS RUNNERS GAIN SPEED
By David A. Maurer of The Charlottesville Daily Progress / April 23
Research has shown that 80 percent of runners will suffer some sort of running-related injury that will require them to curtail their running for at least a month...Fortunately, a new clinic designed to help runners and cyclists avoid injuries and increase their performance has opened in Charlottesville. The University of Virginia’s SPEED and Performance Clinic is one of only two facilities of its kind in the nation.

UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS IN THE NEWS

SNELLING PROVES HE'S NO AVERAGE JOE
By Doug Doughty of the Roanoke Times / April 23
Scratch any fullback deeply enough and it's likely you'll find a converted tailback. It says a lot about Virginia's football team that the Cavaliers' prospective tailback, Jason Snelling, is a converted fullback.

SEVERAL SPOTS STILL OPEN FOR CAVS
By Doug Doughty of the Roanoke Times / April 22
Nobody from Virginia has ever paid much attention to the attendance at the Cavaliers' final spring football scrimmage, least of all the head coaches.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

THE ERODING FACULTY PAYCHECK
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed
Inflation outpaced professorial raises for second year in a row.

INFLATION BEATS FACULTY SALARIES AGAIN
By Scott Smallwood of The Chronicle of Higher Education
Faculty salaries failed to keep pace with inflation for the second year in a row, according to a new report by the American Association of University Professors.

SPICING UP U.S. HISTORY
By Elia Powers of Inside Higher Ed
Professors consider ways to improve the content and teaching of survey courses.

CAMPUS MUMPS OUTBREAK SPREADS
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed
Infections that started at Iowa institutions are now spreading throughout the Midwest and as far as Pennsylvania.

THE REAL SCIENCE ETHICS ISSUES
By David Epstein of Indide Higher Ed
Though outright scientific fraud - like the cloning scandal involving Hwang Woo-suk of Seoul National University - grabs headlines, questionable practices that seem much more benign are pervasive, and may have a more damaging long-term effect on the future of research.

COLLEGES' VICTORY ON TRANSFER-OF-CREDIT POLICY IN HOUSE BILL IS IN DOUBT
By Stephen Burd of The Chronicle of Higher Education
Under pressure from college leaders and lobbyists, the U.S. House of Representatives voted last month to strike a provision from a key bill that would have given the federal government more oversight over colleges' transfer-of-credit policies.

WITH GOOD REASON / NPR

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