Tuesday, June 13, 2006

TODAY AT U.VA.

COMMUMNITY BRIEFING TONIGHT AT 7 P.M.
University of Virginia officials will hold a community briefing tonight at 7 p.m. in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom. Titled  “Building the University of Tomorrow,” the briefing will feature presentations by Richard A. Kovatch, associate vice president for business operations, and David J. Neuman, architect for the University. Topics include events at the John Paul Jones Arena and plans for handling traffic and parking, along with an overview of construction projects occurring or planned around U.Va., including the South Lawn and the arts precinct parking garage.

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

HEAT INDEX PROJECT GOES ONLINE
By (Charlottesville) Daily Progress staff reports
The Heatline program sponsored by the university of Virginia Health System has been awarded as an innovative prevention project. The program provides a current heat index for the Charlottesville area, along with recommendations for how best to avoid heat-related illnesses.
(Not available online.)

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

ANN LANE
Lane, a former director of U.Va.'s women and gender studies program, was quoted today in a Time magazine article headlined:
WHAT WOULD ANN COULTER DO? / ON CAMPUS, A NEW CONSERVATIVE WOMEN'S ANTI-FEMINIST GROUP IS RISING, AND BOTH THEIR LIBERAL COUNTERPARTS AND CONSERVATIVE MENTORS ARE TAKING NOTICE
By Tracy Samantha Schmidt of Time

TIMOTHY NAFTALI
Naftali, associate professor of history and director of the Presidential Recordings Program at U.Va.'s Miller Center of Public Affairs, was quoted in an article in The Daily Telegraph (UK) headlined:
CIA IGNORED TIP TO ARREST EICHMANN TO PRESERVE COLD WAR STABILITY
By Francis Harris of The Daily Telegraph / June 8

LARRY J. SABATO
Sabato, politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, was quoted in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article headlined:
BUSH CALLS SUMMIT ON IRAQ'S FUTURE / ALSO, LAWMAKERS PREPARE FOR DEBATE ON U.S. MISSION AND WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS
By Wire Service Reports for the Richmond Times-Dispatch

DR. MARK STOLER
Stoler, professor of pathology and gynecology and associate director of surgical pathology and cytopathology at the Health System, was quoted in a US Newswire press release headlined:
PATHOLOGISTS' WORK ON NEW CERVICAL CANCER VACCINE SHOWS DIFFERENT SIDE OF PROFESSION
By Dan Kotheimer of the American Society for Clinical Pathology / June 12

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

KARIN AGNESS
Agness, a recent U.Va. graduate, was quoted today in a Time magazine article headlined:
WHAT WOULD ANN COULTER DO? / ON CAMPUS, A NEW CONSERVATIVE WOMEN'S ANTI-FEMINIST GROUP IS RISING, AND BOTH THEIR LIBERAL COUNTERPARTS AND CONSERVATIVE MENTORS ARE TAKING NOTICE
By Tracy Samantha Schmidt of Time

YASUSHI AKASHI
Akashi, who entered the U.N. headquarters in 1957 while attending graduate school at U.Va., was interviewed in a Korea Herald article headlined:
KOREA, JAPAN MUST COOPERATE ON NORTH'S NUCLEAR ISSUE
By Lee Joo-hee of The Korea Herald / June 10

BRYAN GREEN
Green, who studied architecture at U.Va. in the early 1990s, was quoted today in a Richmond Times Dispatch article headlined:
HISTORICAL ARCHITECT SEES FUTURE IN THE PAST / J. MURRAY HOWARD CONVERGES HISTORICISM WITH MODERNISM
By Carol Hazard of the Richmond Times-Dispatch

DR. REED THORKILDSEN
Thorkildsen, who received a Ph.D. in Physics from U.Va., has been appointed as vice president of technology and research and development for InfoSpace, a leading provider of mobile content, applications and infrastructure. The announcement is an a news release headlined:
INFOSPACE NAMES DR. REED THORKILDSEN AS VP OF TECHNOLOGY AND R&D
By Business Wire staff reports / June 8
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ALUMNI OBITUARIES IN THE NEWS

WILLIAM G. HUPFELDT
Hupfeldt, past president of the Maryland Chapter of the U.Va. Alumni Association and the last member of his family to head the Esskay meatpacking business, died June 2. His obituary, in the Baltimore Sun, is headlined:
WILLIAM G. HUPFELDT, 80, LAST FAMILY ESSKAY PRESIDENT
By Jacques Kelly of The Baltimore Sun / June 8

U.VA. TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

U.VA. DOCTORS STEP BACK IN TIME, USE OLD TECHNOLOGY TO DEVELOP NEW
TEST TO DIAGNOSE LEG ARTERY DISEASE

U.VA. AND COMMUNITY TO EXPLORE NEXT STEPS TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM

THE CERENKOV BLUE: WHEN THE UNIVERSITY WENT NUCLEAR

This week's featured publication is COMMERCE U.VA.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- VIRGINIA

TENURE AND BIRTH AT VIRGINIA TECH
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed
Virginia Tech has become the latest university to announce automatic one-year extensions of the tenure clock for junior faculty members who become parents through either birth or adoption.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

LOOPHOLE COULD INCREASE SOME STUDENTS' ELIGIBILITY FOR FINANCIAL AID
By Karin Fischer of The Chronicle of Higher Education
Under a little-noticed loophole in a new federal law, money set aside in college-savings plans will not be counted in determining a dependent student's eligibility for need-based financial aid if the account is in the student's name, according to guidance released last week by the U.S. Department of Education.

DUE PROCESS AND THE NCAA
By Doug Lederman  of Inside Higher Ed
A finding of wrongdoing by the National Collegiate Athletic Association can cost a coach his job, an athlete her eligibility, or a university a shot at postseason competition and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Given those high stakes, it is hardly surprising that the association's procedures for investigating and punishing recruiting and other misdeeds is a litigation magnet, drawing multiple lawsuits over the years accusing the association's investigators of unfairness or worse.

EXTERNAL REPORT CALLS FOR CHANGES IN NCAA INFRACTIONS PROCESS
By Sara Lipka of The Chronicle of Higher Education

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