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Friday, June 9, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

U.VA. INVITES PUBLIC TO BUILDING FORUM
By Daily Progress staff reports / June 8
University of Virginia officials will old a community forum Tuesday to discuss the university's many construction projects. On tap will be discussion of the John Paul Jones Arena and South Lawn projects, among others. The UVa community briefing event is titled "Building the University of Tomorrow." ...The forum begins at 7 p.m. in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom. The public is welcome and free parking will be available in the Emmet Street garage.
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SYMPHONY IS PASSING BATON TO TAMARKIN
By Daily Progress staff reports / June 8
A conductor with international experience has been selected as the new music director and conductor of the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra. Kate Tamarkin, who will succeed Carl Roskott, was selected from among 100 applicants from three continents. She will join the UVa faculty this fall and will lead the orchestra in its upcoming concert season, which begins with opening performances on Oct 7 and 8 in Old Cabell Hall.
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COLLEGE PAPERS CHALLENGE BAN ON BOOZE ADS
By Larry O'Dell of the Associated Press
Student newspapers at two Virginia universities filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging state regulations that prohibit them from running ads for alcoholic beverages. Virginia Tech's Collegiate Times and The Cavalier Daily at the University of Virginia claim the ban is unconstitutional.

STUDENTS IN THE NEWS

JUSTIN LASKIN AND KATHLEEN MARK
Laskin and Mark, graduate students in the School of Architecture, received a merit award in an international design competition to design housing for hurricane-ravaged New Orleans held by McGraw-Hill Construction's Architectural Record in partnership with Tulane University's School of Architecture. They were mentioned in a Daily Progress article headlined:
MERIT AWARDS
By Daily Progress staff reports / June 8
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FACULTY ARTICLES AND OP-EDS

DR. RICHARD GUERRANT
Guerrant, founder and director of U.Va.'s Center for Global Health, wrote an editorial in response to a new study on the treatment of cholera in adults for the New England Journal of Medicine headlined:
CHOLERA: STILL TEACHING HARD LESSONS
By Richard Guerrant, M.D. For the New England Journal of Medicine / June 8

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

DR. JAMES BENNETT
Bennett, professor of neurology, was featured in an article in The Hook headlined:
PHARM-ED OUT: 'GEHRIG' TREATMENT GAINS SUPPORT
By Courteney Stuart of The Hook / June 8

DR. RICHARD GUERRANT
Guerrant, founder and director of U.Va.'s Center for Global Health, was quoted in a report on Voice of America headlined:
CHOLERA DRUG TESTED SUCCESSFULLY, BUT PANDEMIC ADVANCES
By David McAlary of Voice of America News / June 7

A.E. DICK HOWARD
Howard, law professor who helped draft the Virginia constitution, was quoted in an article in The Washington Post headlined:
MCDONNELL WARNS OF 'CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS'
By Michael D. Shear and Rosalind S. Helderman of The Washington Post

MEGAN MARLATT
Marlatt, professor of art and a painter, was among 38 recipients of 2006 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship awards. She is one of 14 professional artists winning $8,000 each. She was mentioned in a Thursday Daily Progress brief headlined:
PROFESSIONAL, STUDENT ARTISTS RECEIVE GRANTS
By Daily Progress staff reports / June 8
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AREA WOMEN PAINTING AWARD FINALISTS
By Daily Progress staff reports / June 8
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LARRY SABATO
Sabato, politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, was quoted in an article in the (Fredericksburg) Free Lance-Star headlined:
WEBB FLIER ON MILLER ADDS FIRE TO CAMPAIGN
By Edie Gross of The Free Lance-Star / June 8

KAINE DELAYS EXECUTION OF INMATE FOR 6 MONTHS
By Candace Rondeaux and Michael D. Shear of The Washington Post

DAVID WALDNER
Waldner, a U.Va. professor of politics and a Middle East expert, is quoted today in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article headlined:
SOME VIRGINIANS FEAR REPRISALS
By Meredith Bonny, Frank Green and Peter Bacque of the Richmond Times-Dispatch

ALUMNI OBITUARIES IN THE NEWS

MARY STACY DODGE JACKSON BOYLE
Boyle, a long-time supporter of the arts who received her master's in education from the Curry School of Education and whose late husband, E. Roger Boyle, Jr., was a professor emeritus at the U.Va. School of Drama, died on Wednesday, June 8.
MARY BOYLE DIES, FINE-ARTS ENTHUSIAST IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
By Osita Iroegbu of the Richmond Times-Dispatch

U.VA. TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

BANKOLE JOHNSON, PROFESSOR AND CHAIRMAN OF U.VA.'S PSYCHIATRY
DEPARTMENT, AWARDED HIGHEST APA HONOR

UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES THE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD WINNERS FOR 2006

NEW POST-BACCALAUREATE PRE-MED PROGRAM AT U.VA. EASES THE PATH FOR
'CAREER CHANGERS'

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HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

COLLEGE 'AFFORDABILITY GAP' HITS LOWER-INCOME STUDENTS HARDEST, REPORT SAYS
By Ben Leubsdorf of The Chronicle of Higher Education
Many students at four-year public colleges and universities face a gap between their ability to pay for college and the cost of attending, even with money from financial aid, and the gap is largest for students from lower-income families, according to a new report from the Southern Regional Education Board. Sixty-three percent of students do not have enough money -- from their family's expected contribution plus financial aid -- to cover tuition and other expenses of attending college, according to the report...

SOFT SUPPORT FOR TENURE
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed
Americans back the concept of tenure - but they don't necessarily know what it entails. Americans think highly of professors - except that a substantial minority of Americans doesn't. Americans don't rate political bias in the classroom as the top problem in academe today - but many think it's a serious one. Those are among the findings of a national survey of public opinion being released today by the American Association of University Professors. The results are a classic case of "is the glass half empty or half full," with plenty of evidence to show that academe is held in high regard, and plenty of evidence of vulnerabilities in public perceptions.

PEOPLE OPPOSE GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN ACADEME, POLL FINDS, BUT SOME ARE WARY OF RADICAL PROFESSORS
By Scott Smallwood of The Chronicle of Higher Education

AN ACADEMIC BLOG FOR STUDENTS
By Elia Powers of Inside Higher Ed
Every student will soon be a blogger at the University of Pennsylvania's College of Arts and Sciences - and the authors won't just be filling their pages with party anecdotes. As part of summer registration, members of the class of 2010 are receiving from the college personalized "academic blog" pages, where they are asked to fill out what amounts to an online questionnaire. The students' first online journal entries will focus on their intellectual interests, academic concerns and educational experiences. Many bloggers will outline their strengths and weaknesses, and create a personal mission statement.

SOUTHERN ACCOUNTABILITY
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed
Southern states have adopted a series of policies to hold colleges accountable for meeting various goals, and many states are seeing demonstrable progress on meeting those goals, according to a new report by the Southern Regional Education Board.

CORPORATE FOUNDATIONS INCREASE GIVING
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed
Grants from corporate foundations increased 5.8 percent in 2005, to $3.6 billion, following a 1 percent drop the previous year, according to a new report from the Foundation Center. Just over a quarter of the grants go to education.

CHANGES PROPOSED FOR FEDERAL STUDENT-AID FORM COULD MAKE IT LESS USEFUL TO SOME COLLEGES
By Jeffrey Selingo of The Chronicle of Higher Education
The U.S. Education Department is proposing several changes in the federal student-aid application for 2007-8, largely as a result of provisions in a budget-cutting bill signed in February by President Bush. The changes are largely technical, but some of them might make the form less useful to some colleges. The first draft showing the revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or Fafsa, was published on Tuesday in the Federal Register. The Fafsa is the standard application form that the federal government, state governments, and most colleges use to determine a student's eligibility for financial aid.

FOUNDATIONS SAW DROP IN ANNUAL RETURNS ON THEIR INVESTMENTS IN 2005
By Erin Strout of The Chronicle of Higher Education
The country's foundations had an average annual return of 8.1 percent in the 2005 fiscal year, a sharp drop from the 11.4 percent they earned in the previous year, according to a report released on Thursday by the Commonfund Institute. The fiscal health of foundations is important to higher education, which received more than 27 percent of its private donations from foundations in the 2005 fiscal year, according to the Council for Aid to Education's Voluntary Support of Education survey (The Chronicle, February 17).

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