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Monday, May 22, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

FINAL EXERCISES IN THE NEWS
KAINE CONGRATULATES UVA'S CLASS OF 2006
    By Rob Seal of The Daily Progress
For a brief moment Sunday afternoon, Virginia's governor was booed unmercifully by thousands of people. It turns out Timothy M. Kaine is a Virginia Tech fan.  University of Virginia Rector Thomas F. Farrell II outed Kaine's football allegiance Sunday while introducing him at UVa's graduation ceremony. Afterward, the first-term Democrat delivered his second commencement address in 10 days, speaking to 6,037 soon-to-be graduates assembled on the Lawn.
    GRADS URGED TO HELP THE WORLD / KAINE URGES U.VA. STUDENTS TO BE BOLD, TAKE RISKS IN THEIR LIVES
By Carlos Santos of the Richmond Times-Dispatch
    COMMENCEMENTS / BUSHES BANTER FOR GWU GRADS / EX-PRESIDENT, WIFE TRADEPOLITICS FOR HUMOR IN DAY OF CEREMONIES
By David Nakamura of the Washington Post

WOLFE TELLS STUDENTS: THIS CENTURY IS YOURS
    By Jessica Kitchin of The Daily Progress / May 21
In a speech that reflected the meandering and jocular nature he is known for, famed author and journalist Tom Wolfe told the pending University of Virginia graduates sitting on the Lawn before him Saturday that they were born at the right time. "It's a perfect day for me to tell you about the amazing opportunities you have because you're graduating in the year 2006," he said. "If you have ambition, if you have imagination, if you're willing to take a risk, then this century is for you."

YOUNG GRADS EYE TOMORROW
    By Melanie Mayhew of The Daily Progress / May 21
They're just teenagers, but instead of beginning their college searches, they're finishing their degrees at the University of Virginia, one earning a bachelor's and the other a master's. Some call them prodigies, some call them geniuses, but both think they're mostly normal teenagers who happen to have extraordinary gifts that led them, as 14- and 10-year-olds, to enroll in college. Sarah Nie, 18, and Gregory Smith, 16, will graduate today from UVa. Nie will graduate with a bachelor's in biology and Smith with a master's in mathematics.

UVA GRAD EYES WORLD
    By Melanie Mayhew of The Daily Progress / May 20
She's a self-described "huge dork" with a passion for Turkish immigrants living in the Netherlands. After she graduates from the University of Virginia on Sunday, she'll spend the summer learning Turkish and the next two years living and learning in Holland, thanks to the Fulbright Scholar Program. Johanna Peet is smart, motivated and by several accounts, remarkably ambitious for a 21-year-old.

FOURTH-YEARS PRESENT STUDENT GIFT
    By Daily Progress staff reports / May 21
With a record number of donors--59 percent of the graduating class--the University of Virginia's Class of 2006 presented the institution with a gift of $220,044 to be shared among 170 programs specified by the donors.
(Not available online.)

UVA TOASTS A TOP CLASS
    By The Daily Progress / May 21
The University of Virginia celebrates another year of academic achievement today as thousands of students and their proud families create a pageant of gratitude and flowing robes from the Rotunda to Old Cabell Hall.
(Not available online.)

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

WITH $4 BILLION, COLUMBIA RAISES FUND-DRIVE ANTE
    By Jonathan D. Glater of the New York Times / May 21
The University of Virginia will announce a $3 billion fund-raising drive in the fall. New York University is in the middle of a $2.5 billion campaign. And officials at Columbia University say they are moving ahead with plans for the largest university campaign so far, a push to raise $4 billion over seven years. These efforts are a sign of the fierce competition among major universities as they look to improve their rankings and images, attract students and grab star faculty members.

EXPANDING ON JEFFERSON
    By Adam Goodheart for the New York Times / May 21
[...] For an architect, designing any new building at the University of Virginia is like stepping onstage at the Metropolitan Opera moments after Pavarotti has brought the house down with a heart-stopping aria. A certain degree of performance anxiety is liable to set in. The university's original grounds — a real Virginian never, ever, says "campus" — which Jefferson designed, are an icon of American architecture. Together with Monticello, they form one of a handful of places in this country that the United Nations has recognized as World Heritage sites — on par with the Grand Canyon and the Statue of Liberty.

PROJECT FEEDS SECULAR CULTURE INTO UNIVERSITIES' JEWISH STUDIES
    By Larry Luxner for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency / May 21
Michael Silver, a Reform Jew from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Brandon Greenfield, a Baltimore yeshiva student, might never have met if not for Eugene Rothman's modern Jewish civilization course at the University of Miami....Officials at the University of Virginia, which joined the project in 2005, say their institution has already seen benefits in and out of the classroom. "The Posen courses and guest lectures have more than enriched our curriculum at UVa. They have expanded the awareness of our community of learners to include cultural Judaism as a vibrant and diverse heritage, a body of knowledge that is a vital pillar of Jewish Studies," said Vanessa Ochs, the University of Virginia's Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies.

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN THE NEWS

CONTRACTS AWARDED
    By Judith Mbuya of the Washington Post
The University of Virginia at Charlottesville won a $2.1 million contract from the Air Force for research and development.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS IN THE NEWS

THE QUEST FOR CROSSOVER BOOKS
    By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed
For many scholars - especially in the humanities and social sciences - their secret or not-so-secret is to be the next "crossover" author: the Ph.D. whose book becomes a best seller, and not just in campus bookstores. The next Freakonomics, perhaps. University presses are equally anxious to publish such books, which end up paying the bills so that presses can publish the many books that don't sell much at all. ...Next year will mark the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement and the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS is releasing this fall Jamestown: The Buried Truth, in which William M. Kelso, the head archaeologist of the Jamestown Rediscovery Project, argues for a rethinking of our understanding of those early settlers.

STUDENTS IN THE NEWS

SARAH NIE
    Nie, who earned her bachelor's yesterday at the age of 18, was profiled in an article in The Daily Progress headlined:
YOUNG GRADS EYE TOMORROW
By Melanie Mayhew of The Daily Progress / May 21

JOHANNA PEET
    Peet, who graduated yesterday and received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Turkey and Holland, was profiled in an article in The Daily Progress headlined:
UVA GRAD EYES WORLD
By Melanie Mayhew of The Daily Progress / May 20

KRISTEN RUSH
    Rush, who graduated yesterday and will spend two years in China with the Peace Corps, was quoted in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article headlined:
GRADS URGED TO HELP THE WORLD / KAINE URGES U.VA. STUDENTS TO BE BOLD, TAKE RISKS IN THEIR LIVES
By Carlos Santos of the Richmond Times-Dispatch

GREGORY SMITH
    Smith, who earned his master's in math yesterday at the age of 16, was profiled in an article in The Daily Progress headlined:
YOUNG GRADS EYE TOMORROW
By Melanie Mayhew of The Daily Progress / May 21

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

EDWARD L. AYERS
    Ayers, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, was cited Sunday in a New York Times magazine article headlined:
EXPANDING ON JEFFERSON
    By Adam Goodheart for the New York Times / Sunday Magazine

MALCOLM BELL
    Bell, professor of art history, was quoted Sunday in a New York Times magazine article headlined:
EXPANDING ON JEFFERSON
    By Adam Goodheart for the New York Times / Sunday Magazine

DANIEL BLUESTONE
    Bluestone, associate professor of architectural history,was quoted Sunday in a New York Times magazine article headlined:
EXPANDING ON JEFFERSON
    By Adam Goodheart for the New York Times / Sunday Magazine

JOHN T. CASTEEN III
    Casteen, president of the University, was quoted Sunday in a New York Times magazine article headlined:
EXPANDING ON JEFFERSON
    By Adam Goodheart for the New York Times / Sunday Magazine

W.G. CLARK
    Clark, professor of architecture, was quoted Sunday in a New York Times magazine article headlined:
EXPANDING ON JEFFERSON
    By Adam Goodheart for the New York Times / Sunday Magazine

DEWEY CORNELL
    Cornell, professor at the Curry School of Education and a psychologist, was quoted today in a Baltimore Sun article headlined:
MALVO TO FACE FORMER MENTOR / LEGAL EXPERTS EXPECT HIM TO MAKE CRITICAL LINKS FOR SNIPER JURY
By Andrea F. Siegel of the Baltimore Sun

DANA M. ELZEY
    Elzey, associate professor in the engineering school, was featured in a Daily Progress article headlined:
SCHOLARS FIND NEW SKILLS WITH OLD JEEPS
By David A. Maurer of The Daily Progress / May 21

EDWARD R. FORD
    Ford, professor of architecture, was quoted Sunday in a New York Times magazine article headlined:
EXPANDING ON JEFFERSON
    By Adam Goodheart for the New York Times / Sunday Magazine

GEORGE T. GILLIES
    Gillies, a research professor in mechanical and biomedical engineering, was featured today in the Richmond Times-Dispatch article headlined:
HONORS
By Richmond Times-Dispatch staff reports

A.E. DICK HOWARD
    Howard, a law professor who helped draft Virginia's modern
constitution, was quoted in an article in Sunday's Washington Post
headlined:
LEGISLATIVE SPECIAL SESSION / PERKS OF THE TRADE EXTENDED AT TAXPAYERS' EXPENSE
By Rosalind S. Helderman of the Washington Post / Sunday

WILLIAM LUCY
    Lucy, professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning and co-author of the book, "Tomorrow's Cities, Tomorrow's Suburbs," was cited in a Minneapolis Southwest Journal article headlined:
ALL CRIME IS LOCAL, PART 3
By Luther Krueger for the Southwest Journal / May 19

TIMOTHY NAFTALI
    Naftali, a scholar at the Miller Center for Public Affairs and author of a history of American counterterrorism for the 9/11 Commission, was quoted today in a New Yorker article headlined:
PRIVATE JIHAD / HOW RITA KATZ GOT INTO THE SPYING BUSINESS.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells for The New Yorker

DAVID J. NEUMAN
    Neuman, architect for the University, was quoted Sunday in a New York Times magazine article headlined:
EXPANDING ON JEFFERSON
    By Adam Goodheart for the New York Times / Sunday Magazine

BRIAN NOSEK
    Nosek, assistant professor in the department of psychology, was cited today in a Scientific American article headlined:
THE IMPLICIT PREJUDICE / MAHZARIN BANAJI CAN SHOW HOW WE CONNECT "GOOD" AND "BAD" WITH BIASED ATTITUDES WE HOLD, EVEN IF WE SAY WE DON'T. ESPECIALLY WHEN WE SAY WE DON'T
By Sally Lehrman for the Scientific American

VANESSA OCHS
    Ochs, the Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies, was quoted in a Jewish Telegraphic Agency article headlined:
PROJECT FEEDS SECULAR CULTURE INTO UNIVERSITIES' JEWISH STUDIES
By Larry Luxner for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency / May 21

DR. TIMOTHY PRUETT
    Pruett, director of transplant surgery, was quoted today in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article headlined:
REPORT SUGGESTS TRANSPLANTS COULD SPREAD BIRD FLU
By A.J. Hostetler of the Times-Dispatch

LARRY J. SABATO
    Sabato, politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, was quoted May 21 in an Associated Press article headlined:
FLETCHER NOT ALONE AMONG GOVERNORS FACING INVESTIGATION
By the Associated Press / May 21
    CLINTON LOSING HOLLYWOOD TO GORE FOR 2008, ANALYSTS SAY
By Randy Hall of the Cybercast News Service

ROBERT TURNER
    Turner, associate director of the Center for National Security Law, was quoted Today in a National Law Journal article headlined:
THE FIGHT OVER PHONE RECORDS
Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal

KAREN VAN LENGEN
    Van Lengen, dean of the School of Architecture, was quoted Sunday in a New York Times magazine article headlined:
EXPANDING ON JEFFERSON
    By Adam Goodheart for the New York Times / Sunday Magazine

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

BUD BAKER
    Baker, who received his MBA from U.Va. in the late 1960s, was featured May 15 in a Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area article headlined:
BAKER LOOKS BACK ON CAREER AT WACHOVIA
By Justin Catanoso of The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area / May 12

DANIEL P. JORDAN
   Jordan, president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation who received his Ph.D. in American history from U. Va., was featured in a Warren Sentinel article headlined:
OUTSTANDING VIRGINIAN: 'HISTORY IS A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY'
By Joe Farruggia for the Warren Sentinel/ May 21

UVA TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS / http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/

SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS: 'THE ANGELS AMONG US'

UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS DAVIS MCCOMBS WINS $10,000 POETRY PRIZE

U.VA. LAW STUDENTS HELP WRONGFULLY CONVICTED DEATH ROW INMATE EARLWASHINGTON WIN CIVIL SUIT

This week's featured publication is E-NEWS ONLINE.

UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS IN THE NEWSVIRGINIA REACHES LACROSSE FINAL FOUR
    By Whitelaw Reid for the Media General News Service
Just when you think that the University of Virginia men's lacrosse team can't dominate its opponents much more than it has already this season, just when you think that the squad is finally going to come back to earth a little -finally get tested, maybe even be involved in a close game - it raises its play to an even higher level. It's been happening all season, and it happened again Sunday afternoon in the quarterfinals of the men's NCAA Tournament at Towson University's Johnny Unitas Stadium.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S. THE HURDLES AHEAD
    By Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed
The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education wrapped up its fifth meeting Friday - the one at which it hoped to start coalescing around a set of themes to focus on, if not specific recommendations to propose.

HIGHER-EDUCATION COMMISSION PONDERS TURNING 218 IDEAS INTO 6 RECOMMENDATIONS
    By Kelly Field of The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Commission on the Future of Higher Education continued what its chairman has called the "sticky, tricky" process of sorting through potential recommendations here Friday, delving into the topics of work-force development, student retention, and innovation in teaching methods and technologies.

WITH GOOD REASON / NPR
The Crooked Road (May 20-26)
Tonight at 7:00 p.m.; WMRA-Harrisonburg (103.5 FM)

“The Crooked Road” is Virginia’s Musical Heritage Trail. It runs from the Eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the coalfields of deep Southwest Virginia and seeks to honor and celebrate the old-time bluegrass and mountain gospel music. Jon Lohman (Virginia Folklife Program) http://www.virginiafolklife.org/ will play CD recordings and offer commentary about some of the Commonwealth’s newest and most talented tradition bearers.
Also: Cooking, quilting, and church-going are just some of the everyday activities that women in Appalachia use to teach literacy to their children Amy Clark (UVa-Wise) http://www.uvawise.edu/faculty/clarkA.html says just because this education doesn’t take place in the classroom, doesn’t mean it has less value.

"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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