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Monday, May 15, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

U.VA., NEIGHBORS WORK TOGETHER ON LAWN
By Melanie Mayhew of The Daily Progress / May 14
Their ears will hear the cacophonous rumble of bulldozers and metronome-like pounding of jackhammers. Sunlight will filter dust hovering above a football field-sized construction site, and workers in hardhats and fluorescent vests will direct traffic away from the brick, wood and cement entropy. They'll be near the epicenter of a massive project, but despite the expected clutter and noise, they're pleased with the University of Virginia's plans for buffering what officials have coined the most ambitious construction undertaking on UVa main grounds in a century.

ORRICK FUNDS JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP AT THE HAGUE
By Lindsay Fortado of The National Law Journal / May 12
In a rare move, a private law firm announced last week that it is funding a judicial clerkship through a law school to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe will provide up to $40,000 for living expenses to a University of Virginia School of Law graduate.

TULANE GRADUATE OVERCOMES THE ODDS / MOST OF THE SCHOOL'S SENIORS RETURNED TO GRADUATE
By ABC News / May 13
[Tulane senior] Natalie Cox watched the horror unfold on TV. Getting back to Tulane was not an option, so she called up the University of Virginia. "They admitted me over the phone in about 90 seconds, and I moved up there and moved in with my best friend from high school and started going to school again," she said.

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN THE NEWS

MANY MOVING TO CITIES, UVA PROFESSORS FIND
By Melanie Mayhew of The Daily Progress / May 13
Singles, young professionals, empty nesters and baby boomers are moving to cities, a pair of University of Virginia planning professors has concluded. Professors William H. Lucy and David L. Phillips found that since the 1990s, per capita income and median owner-occupied housing values have increased in 22 cities in large metropolitan areas compared with their suburbs. The professors' findings contradict recent stories in national publications claiming that Americans are fleeing big cities. These stories used fluctuations in population as indicators of the popularity of cities. Lucy and Phillips argue that income is a more telling indicator.

VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW IN THE NEWS

THE BRAINIAC BAZAAR
By The New York Post
[...] The glossies gave way to gray matter at this year's Ellies - the mag world's equivalent of the Oscars - as the likes of the tiny Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Yorker and Esquire snagged awards. Yes, Santa Claus, there is a Virginia. The one-time best-kept mag secret, the Virginia Quarterly Review - with a four-person staff and a circ of only 7,000 - won Ellies for general excellence and fiction. The quality of the current 320-page review of essays, fiction, poetry and investigative journalism is pretty tough to find these days.

VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES IN THE NEWS

HU PUBLISHES BOOK ON VA.'S BLACK HISTORY
The (Hampton Roads) Daily Press / May 13
Hampton University and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities have co-published a book about the history of African-Americans in Virginia. The book, "Don't Grieve After Me: The Black Experience in Virginia, 1619-2005," includes narratives by professors from HU, Old Dominion University, Princeton University and the director of archives at Norfolk State University.

FACULTY ARTICLES AND OP-EDS

ROSA BROOKS
Brooks, associate professor of law, wrote a commentary for the Los Angeles Times headlined:
BEHIND THE 'MOMMY WARS'
By Rosa Brooks for the Los Angeles Times / May 14

ARTHUR GARSON JR.
Garson,  vice president and dean of the School of Medicine, wrote a commentary for the Houston Chronicle headlined:
TIME TO ACT / END HEALTH INSURANCE CRISIS NOW / A STATE-BY-STATE SOLUTION IS NEEDED
By Arthur Garson Jr. for the Houston Chronicle / May 13

LARRY J. SABATO
Sabato, politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, wrote a commentary for the San Diego Union-Tribune headlined:
THE 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION' IS BIPARTISAN
By Larry J. Sabato for the Union-Tribune / May 14

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

CRAIG BARTON and SCOT A. FRENCH
Barton, who teaches at the School of Architecture, and French, who teaches African-American and African studies and is interim director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute, were cited today in a (Charlottesville) Daily Progress article headlined:
REDISCOVERING ROSENWALD / COUNTY SEEKS TO PRESERVE BLACK SCHOOLS
By Jessica Kitchin of the Daily Progress

ROBERT BRUNER
Bruner, dean of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, was featured in a U.S. News & World Report article headlined:
ON THE RECORD: ROBERT BRUNER
By Justin Ewers of U.S. News & World Report

ROBERT FATTON JR.
Fatton, the Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Politics and a Haiti expert, was quoted today in a Palm Beach Post article headlined:
LOCAL HAITIANS ASSEMBLE FOR INAUGURATION
By Tania Valdemoro of the Palm Beach Post

GEORGE GARRETT
Garrett, professor and past director of the Creative Writing Program, had his collection of stories reviewed in a Los Angeles Times book review headlined:
THE SATURDAY READ / 'EMPTY BED BLUES: STORIES'
By Michael Harris for The Los Angeles Times / May 13

DR. RICHARD GUERRANT
Guerrant, director of the Center for Global Health, was quoted today in a Baltimore Sun article headlined:
JHU TO TAKE ON GLOBAL HEALTH / CENTER WILL INTEGRATE EFFORTS TO FIGHT WORLDWIDE DISEASE
By David Kohn of the Baltimore Sun

PAUL LOMBARDO
Lombardo, director of a program in law and medicine at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, was quoted in a Raleigh News & Observer article headlined:
HISTORIC BLACK HOSPITAL TIED TO STERILIZATION PROGRAM
By Janell Ross of the News & Observer / May 14

JONATHAN MORENO
Moreno, the director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the Health System, was quoted in a New York Daily News article headlined:
BIRTHRIGHT, OR WRONG?  / NEW YORK'S 'OLDEST MOM' WEIGHS IN ON THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING HAVING A BABY LATER IN LIFE
By Jennifer Freidlin of the New York Daily News / May 14

EDGAR OLSEN
Olsen, an economics professor and a New Orleans native, was quoted in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article headlined:
WILL COTTAGES SOLVE POST-KATRINA HOUSING DILEMMA? / THEY'RE CHEAP, STRONG, STURDY, EXPANDABLE AND COULD BECOME AN OPTION EVERYWHERE
By Michele Derus of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / May 14
    
DAZED GULF COAST BRACES FOR MORE / RECOVERY IS SLOW; STORM SEASON STARTS JUNE 1
By Alan J. Heavens of the Philadelphia Inquirer / May 14

ROBERT M. O'NEIL
O'Neil, professor of law and leader of the Ford Foundation's "Difficult Dialogues"  program to encourage colleges to find ways to debate touchy issues in civil, open-minded ways, is quoted today in an Inside Higher Ed article headlined:
MIDDLE EAST WARS ON U.S. CAMPUSES
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed

JOHN QUALE AND WILLIAM MORRISH
Quale, assistant professor of architecture, and Morrish, Elwood R Queseda professor of architecture, were cited in an article in The Hook headlined:
GULF COAST REBUILD: FORM SHOULD FOLLOW FUNCTION
By Dave McNair of The Hook

LARRY J. SABATO
Sabato, politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, was quoted in a Knight Ridder News Service article headlined:
CHARGES COULD END KENTUCKY GOVERNOR'S POLITICAL CAREER - OR WORSE
By Sarah Vos of the Knight Ridder Newspapers
   
ARIZONA OPEN SEAT RACE WEIGHED DOWN BY ILLEGAL BORDER ENTRIES
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos of Fox News / May 14
    
CAMPAIGN COMPLICATES ALLEN'S AMBITIONS / TOUGH RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN VIRGINIA COMPLICATES SEN. ALLEN'S PRESIDENTIAL HOPES
By Ron Fournier of the Associated Press / May 14

ROBERT TURNER
Turner, co-founder and associate director of the Center for National Security Law, was quoted in an article in Al-Ahram (Egypt) headlined:
MOUSSAOUI ESCAPES DEATH
By Tamam Ahmed Jama of Al-Ahram / May 11-17

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

RUSSELL JAMISON
Jamison, who holds a master's degree in engineering from U.Va., was featured in an article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch headlined:
VCU NAMES JAMISON AS ENGINEERING DEAN
By Richmond Times-Dispatch staff reports / May 5

MARK LANEVE
LaNeve, a former U.Va. linebacker, was featured today in a Chicago Tribune article headlined:
MARKETING CZAR: GIVE CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY WANT
By Michael Oneal and Jim Mateja of the Chicago Tribune

SIMONE POLLARD
Pollard, who earned her bachelor's in chemical engineering from U.Va. And is associate director of the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management, was interviewed for a BusinessWeek article headlined:
ARIZONA'S HOT HYBRID PROGRAMS
By Janie Ho of BusinessWeek / May 9

THOMAS C. SCHIEVELBEIN
Schievelbein, who received his master's in nuclear engineering from U.Va., was the subject of a press release on Business Wire headlined:
MARK L. FEIDLER AND THOMAS C. SCHIEVELBEIN ELECTED TO NEW YORK LIFE'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS
By Business Wire / May 9

DR. WILLIAM TURNER
Turner, who received a degree in anthropology, was featured May 13 in an Eastern Shore News article headlined:
A SHORE ORIGINAL / WHO WE ARE ARTIST, AUTHOR TURNER FOCUSES THIRD BOOK ON WHAT IS LOCAL, PERSONAL
By Bill Sterling of the Eastern Shore News / May 13

U.VA. TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

177TH GRADUATION CEREMONIES THIS WEEKEND; TOM WOLFE, TIM KAINE TO ADDRESS GRADUATES

U.VA. HEALTH SYSTEM RESEARCHERS STUDY THE CAUSE OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS

UNEARTHED CISTERN GIVES CLUES OF EARLY LAWN LIFE

This weeks' featured publication is VIRGINIA.EDU.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- VIRGINIA

ODU TO OFFER DOCTORATE IN CHEMISTRY THIS FALL
By (Hampton Roads) Daily Press staff reports / May 13
Old Dominion University will begin offering a doctorate degree in chemistry starting this fall....ODU becomes the fourth public university in the state to offer the degree. The others are the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Virginia Commonwealth University.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

COLLEGES SAW SURGE OF APPLICATIONS AND RECORD ENROLLMENTS IN 2005, REPORT SAYS
By Eric Hoover of The Chronicle of Higher Education
Applications for college admission surged in 2005 because of a combination of factors, including a "population wave" of high-school graduates, more of whom are applying online and to multiple colleges, according to an annual report released today by the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
    
APPLICATIONS ARE UP
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed

HEFTY PHONE BILL
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed
Colleges could face a collective annual increase in their phone bills of up to $480 million if the Federal Communications Commission moves ahead with planned changes in phone fees. That figure is based on an analysis released Friday by a new coalition opposed to the proposed changes. Many college groups have been concerned about the impact of the proposed changes and pushing for changes in the FCC plans.

A MEETING OF HUMANISTIC MINDS
By Elia Bowers of Inside Higher Ed
[...] there was little in the way of complaining at a convocation Friday sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Association of American Universities, held in Philadelphia. Instead, a collection of university presidents, provosts and professors - joined by representatives from humanities groups - talked big ideas and practical solutions in their state of the humanities addresses. They did so, quite often, with some very revealing humor.
   
SPEAKERS AT CONVOCATION ON HUMANITIES WARN ABOUT PRIVATIZATION OF MATERIALS
By Richard Byrne of Inside Higher Ed

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