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Friday, May 26, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

ERIC CLAPTON TO PLAY ARENA ON OCT. 12
    From (Charlottesville) Daily Progress staff reports / May 25
Larry Wilson, general manager of the University's John Paul Jones Arena, today announced that guitar legend, Eric Clapton, will be performing at the Arena on October 12th with tickets going on sale August 26th. Following a 14 country sold-out European tour with a seven-night run at London's Royal Albert Hall and a historic show in Moscow's Red Square, Clapton will travel to the U.S. for the first leg of an American tour.

UVA STUDENTS LIVING OFF GROUNDS DONATE TO SALVATION ARMY
    By Crystal Cameron of  WVIR-TV NBC-29 / May 25
The Salvation Army and the UVA Community Relations Office are giving students living off grounds an opportunity to recycle household items and help out families in need at the same time. The Salvation Army truck made three stops at apartment complexes in the area to collect items such as couches, beds, desks and any household items that college grads did not want to take with them.

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN THE NEWS

PREFERENCE, NOT SCORES, SHOW TEENS' CAREER PATH
    By Bloomberg News Service
Teenage career preferences are a more reliable indicator than mathematical aptitude for predicting which students become scientists, suggesting a flaw in federal education strategies, a University of Virginia study found. The federally funded survey of 3,359 students who were in the eighth grade in 1988 found those who expressed interest in science yet made only average math scores had a 34 percent chance of graduating college with a science or engineering degree. Among those with above-average math scores and no preference for science, only 19 percent of the college graduates earned such degrees, according to the study led by Robert Tai, an assistant professor of science education at the University of Virginia.

MONEY'S WORTH / RUST BELT HOMES
    By Sheree R. Curry of the Wall Street Journal / May 25
Population is down in Cleveland, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh, but the per-capita income of their residents is up compared with the suburbs, says a recent University of Virginia study. Here are three homes in the Rust Belt.

DRUG KICKS COCAINE ADDICTION
    By R. Barron of Red Herring / May 24
A drug used to curb a cancer patient’s nausea brought on by radiation and chemotherapy treatments could also reduce cocaine addiction, said researchers from the University of Virginia Health System.

FACULTY ARTICLES AND OP-EDS

ARTHUR GARSON JR.
    Garson, vice president and dean at the School of Medicine, authored a commentary published in the  Roanoke Times under the headline:
HELP STATES COVER THE UNINSURED
By Arthur Garson Jr. for the Roanoke Times

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

RAJESH K. AGGARWAL
    Aggarwal, finance professor at the McIntire School of Commerce, was quoted in a Boston Globe article headlined:
KILTS A SAVIOR TO SOME BUT NOT TO ALL: TO SUPPORTERS, HE'S A FIRM-SAVING KNIGHT; TO DETRACTORS, HE'S A SLASH-AND-SELL CEO
By Andrew Caffrey of the Boston Globe / May 15

DAVID BRENEMAN
    Breneman, dean of the Curry School of Education, was quoted in an article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette headlined:
UNIVERSITIES FIND PASSING THE HAT MORE VITAL THAN EVER

ROBERT BRUNER
    Bruner, dean of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, was quoted today in a (Portland) Oregonian commentary headlined:
THE ENRON VERDICTS
By David Sarasohn of The Oregonian

DR. ANITA CLAYTON
    Clayton, lead study author and medical director of the Center for Psychiatric Clinical Research, was quoted May 23 in a Boehringer Ingelheim press release headlined:
POOLED DATA SUGGESTS DULOXETINE REDUCES SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION BETTER THAN SOME COMMONLY USED ANTIDEPRESSANTS
By Boehringer Ingelheim / May 23

WILLIAM LUCY
    Lucy, professor of urban and environmental planning, had research he and associate professor David Phillips conducted featured in a Wall Street Journal article headlined:
MONEY'S WORTH / RUST BELT HOMES
By Sheree R. Curry of the Wall Street Journal / May 25

BRIAN MCKNIGHT
    McKnight, a teaching fellow of history at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, was featured May 25 in a Bristol Herald Courier article headlined:
BOOK EXPLORES 'CONTESTED BORDERLAND'
By Joe Tennis for the Bristol Herald Courier / May 25

LARRY J. SABATO
    Sabato, politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, was quoted today in a Baltimore Sun article headlined:
O'MALLEY LOOKS TO LOS ANGELES AS SOURCE OF CAMPAIGN CASH
By John Fritze of the Baltimore Sun

ROBERT TAI
    Tai, an assistant professor of science education at the Curry School of Education, was quoted today in a Bloomberg News Service article headlined:
PREFERENCE, NOT SCORES, SHOW TEENS' CAREER PATH
By Bloomberg News Service
    U.S. LEADERSHIP IN SCIENCE MAY DEPEND ON EIGHTH GRADERS
By Sara Goudarzi of LiveScience / May 25

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

MICHAEL GOODMAN
    Goodman, who received his bachelor's in environmental science, was featured in a NASA press release headlined:
ARLINGTON, VA. NATIVE HELPS NASA TRACK, STUDY HURRICANES
By Steve Roy of the Marshall Space Flight Center / May 25

KEVIN M. TWOMEY
    Twomey, who earned a bachelor's degree from U.Va., was featured May 25 in  a PRNewswire press release headlined:
NOVELIS APPOINTS NEW INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR TO BOARD
By PRNewswire / May 25

RALPH C. WILSON
    Wilson, a U.Va. alumnus and owner/president of the NFL's Buffalo Bills who recently endowed the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Jefferson Scholarship, was cited in a press release from the Buffalo Bills headlined:
SAMANTHA BERGER AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP TO VIRGINIA
By Chris Jenkins / May 24

UVA TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS / http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA STUDY SHOWS THE FUTURE OF U.S. SCIENCE DEPENDS ON EARLY ENCOURAGEMENT OF STUDENTS

DAMAGE FROM OXYGEN MAY BE ONE CAUSE OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ARCHITECTS HELP BUILD COMMUNITIES IN VIRGINIA AND BEYOND

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- VIRGINIA

SOME ALLOWED TO SIT OUT THE SAT
    By Maria Glod and Jay Matthews / May 25
Officials at George Mason University in Fairfax announced yesterday that the school will allow some high-achieving students to apply for admission without submitting SAT scores, joining a growing list of colleges that are moving away from requiring applicants to take the standardized test.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT SAYS DUAL-ENROLLMENT STUDENTS QUALIFY FOR GRANT PROGRAM AFTER ALL
    By Elyse Ashburn of The Chronicle of Higher Education
The U.S. Department of Education has clarified the eligibility criteria for a new federal grant program in order to open the doors to students who take college courses while still in high school.

MOMENTUM FOR GOING SAT-OPTIONAL
    By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed
More liberal arts colleges do away with test requirements; institutions that did so last year see big gains in numbers and diversity.

THE HOT CHOICE, POST-COLLEGE
By Elia Powers of Inside Higher Ed
Teach For America sees record number of applicants, and is becoming more competitive than many top law schools.

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