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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

'SPECTACULAR' DARDEN WINS LAURELS
By Ursula Milton of the Financial Times
This year the Darden school at the University of Virginia was ranked the number one in open programmes. It performed well across the board and scored particularly highly in assessment of its teaching – with top three rankings for “course design”, “faculty” and “teaching materials”. The comment of one Darden participant captures the sentiment expressed by most: “Darden was superior. From the faculty and course content, to the guest lecturers, my experience at Darden was spectacular.” According to another: “No comments except that my company should have sent me there 20 years ago”.

FACULTY ARTICLES AND OP-EDS

ROBERT F. TURNER
Turner, co-founder and associate director of the Center for National Security Law, wrote a commentary for the Washington Times headlined:
LEGAL EAGLE EYE ON WIRETAP FLAP
By Robert F. Turner for the Washington Times / May 14

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

JOHN NORTON MOORE
Moore, law professor and director of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the School of Law, was quoted in a Concord Monitor article headlined:
UNH SCIENTIST A RESEARCH LEADER /  HE MAPS THE UNSEEN
By Chelsea Conaboy of the Concord Monitor / May 15

DAVID NEWKIRK
Newkirk, CEO of Darden's Executive Education Program, was quoted in an article in the Financial Times headlined:
RESEARCH IS BACK ON THE MENU
By Della Bradshaw of the Financial Times / May 15

GREGORY ORR
Orr, professor of English and creative writing at U.Va. and a former
student of Stanley Kunitz, was quoted in an article about the late U.S. poet
laureate in today's Washington Post headlined:
APPRECIATION / STANLEY KUNITZ, A SURROGATE FATHER OF POETS
By Bob Thompson of The Washington Post

ROBERT PIANTA
Pianta, professor of education, was quoted in an article on the
application of the federal No Child Left Behind law to a Fairfax County
school in today's Washington Post headlined:
FAIRFAX SCHOOLS / OFFICIALS SEEK FLEXIBILITY ON 'NO CHILD' LAW
By Maria Glod of The Washington Post

LARRY J. SABATO
Sabato, politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, was quoted in a Scripps Howard News Service article headlined:
GOP IN CONGRESS MUST PRODUCE TO AVOID DEFEAT
By Marc Sandalow of the Scripps Howard News Service / May 14

IRAQ WAR A KEY ISSUE FOR BYRD / SENATOR STICKS WITH STANCE IN RACE AGAINST JOHN RAESE
By The Associated Press / May 15

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

GEORGE ALLEN
Allen, U.S. senator, R-Va., who earned a bachelor's degree with distinction in history and a J.D. from U.Va.'s School of Law, was featured in an article in Sunday's Washington Post headlined:
CAMPAIGN COMPLICATES ALLEN'S AMBITIONS
By Ron Fournier of The Associated Press / May 14

QUOTES BY AND ABOUT SEN. ALLEN, R-VA.
By The Associated Press / May 14

THOMAS M. DAVIS III
Davis, U.S. Representative from Virginia (R-Va.,11th District) and an alumnus of the U.Va. School of Law (J.D., 1975), was mentioned in a news item in Sunday's Washington Post headlined:
THOMAS M. DAVIS III / May 14

JAMES EYLER
Eyler, who obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from U.Va., was featured today in a Macon (Ga.) Telegraph article headlined:
NEW CEO NAMED TO COLISEUM PSYCHIATRIC CENTER
By Linda S. Morris of the Macon Telegraph

DOUGLAS F. GANSLER
Gansler, who received a degree from the school of Law, was featured today in a Baltimore Sun article headlined:
GANSLER SEEKS TO SUCCEED CURRAN / MONTGOMERY COUNTY PROSECUTOR GETS IN RACE
By David Nitkin of the Baltimore Sun

KENT SULLIVAN
Sullivan, who received a bachelor's degree in economics and in 1982 earned his law degree from the School of Law, was featured May 14 in an Associated Press article headlined:
JUDGE IN HOUSTON TO BECOME ASSISTANT TEXAS AG
By The Associated Press / May 14

UVA TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

VIRGINIA COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES COLLABORATE TO PLUG K-12 SCHOOLS INTO SUPER-FAST NETWORKS

ANNE REYNOLDS HOLT IS 'EVERYWOMAN' OF OPERA

BILL MOORE FOLLOWS HIS DESIRE TO BE A DOCTOR

ALLISON GILLEN'S CREATIVE LAWN TOURS ENGAGE YOUTH

HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE NEWS

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
The U.Va. School of Medicine is one of several top medical schools conducting research with a new "tunable, monochromatic X-ray filter" that enhances the capabilities of an X-ray while reducing the amount of radiation to which an X-ray patient is exposed. U.Va.'s participation was mentioned in
an article about MXF Technologies Inc., a start-up company making these filters based in College Park, Md., headlined:
START-UP
By Andrea Caumont of The Washington Post / May 15

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

PIRACY AND COPYRIGHT: AN ETHICS LESSON / A U. OF RICHMOND LAW PROFESSOR IS HELPING COLLEGES SPREAD COPYRIGHT KNOWLEDGE
By Brock Read of The Chronicle of Higher Education
Just moments after introducing himself to a lecture hall dotted with students at the University of Virginia, James Gibson [an assistant professor of law at the University of Richmond, who is conducting a multicity Copyright Roadshow, a tour of college campuses where he is holding court on the legality and ethics of peer-to-peer networking] is already showing off the pedagogical tricks one would expect of a law professor, playing devil's advocate, pressing students to rebut his arguments. When one student argues that music and movie piracy are "just a market correction for what amounts to a cartel," the professor challenges him to consider the implications of that stance.

WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?
By David Epstein of Inside Higher Ed
In case anybody needs a little extra motivation for developing hydrogen as an alternative fuel, Congress is moving to put some of its chips on the table in the form of a $10 million reward for breakthrough technology.

MANDATORY RETIREMENT AS WOMEN'S ISSUE
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed
Mandatory retirement was once the norm in higher education - and most of the academics who had emeritus status forced on them were male. Today, mandatory retirement is far from the norm and is illegal for faculty and many other positions. But a significant number of colleges, using loopholes in federal age-discrimination law that apply to executives and top decision-making officials, still have mandatory retirement for presidents and other top administrators.

FACULTY HIRING PREFERENCES AND THE LAW
By Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, for The Chronicle of Higher Education
Since the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings on affirmative action in 2003, colleges have begun to reconsider how they give preference to students according to race, ethnicity, and sex - not only in admissions, but in financial aid, internships, and various other programs. They need to do the same thing now for employment preferences.

COLLEGE ATHLETICS IN THE NEWS

WITHOUT A TITLE GAME, REVENUES FLAT FOR ACC
By Rob Daniels (Landmark News Service) for the Roanoke Times / May 15
At least this time, flat-lining was OK. Tax returns from 2004-05, the ACC's one awkward year with two new members but no championship football game, revealed little change in revenue distribution to the nine holdover schools from the previous year.

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