Wednesday, June 28, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

RON SUSKIND TACKLES CHENEY / U.VA. ALUM'S LATEST BOOK EXPLORES THE 'ONE PERCENT DOCTRINE'
By C-Ville Weekly Writers / June 27
On Friday, June 23, UVA grad Ron Suskind addressed a packed house at the Miller Center, as part of its Forum series. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist discussed his latest book, The One Percent Doctrine, which tackles the core of the United States' playbook on terror following the September 11 terrorist attacks.

TRIP DAVIS, TRX PRESIDENT & CEO, HONORED BY THE DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS / ONE OF TEN ALUMNI NAMED TO THE THIRD ANNUAL DARDEN ALUMNI SHOWCASE
By PRNewswire-FirstCall / June 27
TRX, Inc., a leading, independent provider of transaction processing and data integration solutions to the global travel industry, today announced the inclusion of Trip Davis, TRX President & CEO, in the third annual Alumni Showcase at The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

RESTRUCTURING ARRIVES JULY 1
By John Borgmeyer of C-Ville Weekly /June 27
On July 1, UVA's much-ballyhooed "restructuring" will finally come to pass. The change, codified in the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act, is just as complicated as its name suggests. Basically, the new law gives UVA more freedom from State oversight in exchange for fewer State dollars. Restructuring gives UVA more flexibility when it comes to raising money and building new facilities. But what does it mean for UVA's thousands of employees?

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN THE NEWS

CANCER REWIND? / REVERSING CELL DIVISION COULD HAVE IMPLICATIONS FOR CANCER
By Eva Gladek and Joyce Gramza for Discover / June 27  
Two cells are "pinching off" into separate cells, also known as cleavage. In medical research, a tiny step backward could be a huge step forward. As unbelievable as it may sound, the process that grows a single cell into a person - and runs rampant in cancer - turns out to be reversible. … As his team and their collaborators at the University of Virginia Medical School wrote in the journal "Nature," they added an experimental cancer drug called flavopiridol to cells that were frozen in the middle of cell division. Adding the drug to the cells tricked them into splitting in spite of the fact that they hadn't yet divided their DNA and weren't ready to. When the two new cells were almost completely split, they removed the drug.

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

ROBERT BRUNER
Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business, was cited in a TheStreet.com article headlined:
NEW MEGA-MERGER A THREE BAGGER
By Lauren Rae Silva of TheStreet.com June 27

BLIZZARD OF DEALS HERALDS NEW ERA OF MEGAMERGERS
By Dennis Berman of The Wall Street Journal / June 27
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KEN EADS   
Eads, professor at the Darden School of Business, was quoted in an article in TheStreet.com headlined:
TIME TO TAKE YOUR GOLD PROFITS OFF THE TABLE
By Simon Constable of TheStreet.com / June 26

PAUL FREEDMAN
Freedman, professor of politics, was cited in a Sioux Falls (SD) Argus Leader article headlined:
S.D. ABORTION BAN TO BE AMONG 'MOST CLOSELY WATCHED OF ALL NATIONAL BALLOT MEASURES'
By Terry Woster of the Argus Leader / June 27

LARRY J. SABATO
Sabato, a politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, was quoited in an Associated press article headlined:
WEBB CALLS ALLEN A COWARD AMID FLAG-BURNING DEBATE
By Bob Lewis of The Associated Press
    
OFF THE BEATEN PATH, BUSH TAKES A DETOUR TO GRACELAND
By Sara Bonisteel of Fox News / June 27

BRAD WILCOX
Wilcox, assistant professor of sociology, was quoted in a Third Age article headlined:
MORE COUPLES LIVE TOGETHER BEFORE GETTING MARRIED
By the Messenger-Inquirer / June 27

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

TRIP DAVIS
Davis, who graduating from Darden, was featured in a PRNewswire press release headlined:
TRIP DAVIS, TRX PRESIDENT & CEO, HONORED BY THE DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS / ONE OF TEN ALUMNI NAMED TO THE THIRD ANNUAL DARDEN ALUMNI SHOWCASE
By PRNewswire-FirstCall / June 27

HAROLD E. DUNBAR
Dunbar, who graduated from the School of Law, was featured in a PRNewswire press release headlined:
PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY GENERAL CORBETT NAMES HAROLD E. DUNBAR AS HEAD OF CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT SECTION
By PR Newswire / June 27

DAN LEARY
Leary, who holds a BS in systems engineering from U.Va., was featured in a Business Wire press release headlined:
CONSENTRY NETWORKS STRENGTHENS MANAGEMENT TEAM WITH NEW VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING; FORMER JUNIPER EXECUTIVE DAN LEARY TO LEAD PRODUCT MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING
By Business Wire / June 27

TOM SHADYAC
Shadyac, who graduated from U.Va., was cited in a Charlottesville Daily Progress article headlined:
'EVAN' CAST, CREW DONATE TRAIL TREES
By Jessica Kitchin of The Daily Progress

ROHIT SHARMA
Sharma, who graduating from Darden in 2004, was cited in a PRNewswire press release headlined:
TRIP DAVIS, TRX PRESIDENT & CEO, HONORED BY THE DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS / ONE OF TEN ALUMNI NAMED TO THE THIRD ANNUAL DARDEN ALUMNI SHOWCASE
By PRNewswire-FirstCall / June 27

U.VA. TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

$5 MILLION GRANT BOOSTS DARDEN-CURRY PROGRAM FOR EDUCATION LEADERS AT
STATE AND DISTRICT LEVELS

OBESE GIRLS IN EARLY PUBERTY AT RISK FOR HIGH ANDROGEN LEVELS, U.VA.
STUDY FINDS

JOE CAMPBELL: MAKING PROGRESS AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT

This week's featured publication is ARTS & SCIENCES MAGAZINE.

UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS IN THE NEWS

CHARACTER KEY TO CAVS' CLASS
By Doug Doughty of the Roanoke Times / June 25
Dave Leitao has been involved in the recruiting business long enough to know that players like Jerome Meyinsse do not routinely materialize in the spring of their senior years.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- VIRGINIA

COLLEGES MUST TURN OVER STUDENTS' PERSONAL INFO / NEW LAW DODGES FEDERAL PRIVACY REGS
By Meg McEvoy of C-Ville Weekly
Soon, all colleges and universities in Virginia will be required to submit the names and Social Security numbers of admitted students to State police. Police want the data so they can cross-check for sexual offenders who might be enrolling in schools. The law assumes students are guilty until proven innocent, and it shimmies past federal legislation known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act by requiring that universities give police information before students are enrolled.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

PROSE AND POLITICS
By Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed / June 28
As college officials, higher ed policy wonks and other interested observers digested a draft report released late Monday by the federal higher education commission, some of them focused on ideas that should have been included but weren't. Others analyzed the report's political prospects. But again and again, virtually all of them returned to the paper's "tone" - which partisans of higher education found distasteful (or worse) but others suggested was purposely designed to create a sense of public urgency about the problems facing academe and the country.

STUDENTS RUSH TO REFINANCE AS DEADLINE APPROACHES / BUT AID OFFICIALS COMPLAIN ABOUT MISLEADING OFFERS SENT BY LENDERS
By Kelly Field of The Chronicle of Higher Education / June 28
With the cost of consolidating student loans set to spike on July 1, college students and recent graduates are rushing to refinance their debt, and consolidation companies are scrambling for their business. In recent weeks, lenders have bombarded borrowers with letters and e-mail messages exhorting them to lock in current interest rates before they rise by nearly two percentage points, to 7.14 percent. At least one lender is sending students checks worth hundreds of dollars that they can cash when they make their first payment on a consolidation loan.

COLLEGES FACE MORE LAWSUITS ABROAD AND COSTLIER SETTLEMENTS OVER ALL, SPEAKERS SAY / June 28
By Goldie Blumenstyk of The Chronicle of Higher Education
The globalization of higher education has brought about an unwelcome side effect: a growth in overseas litigation. As more and more colleges establish beachheads overseas, with their own facilities and employees, they also are increasingly finding themselves vulnerable to lawsuits on foreign soil, said a speaker here on Monday at the annual meeting of the National Association of College and University Attorneys.

EXPANSION OF REASONS FOR WHISTLE-BLOWER LAWSUITS SHOULD WORRY COLLEGES, LAWYERS' GROUP IS TOLD
By Jeffrey Selingo of The Chronicle of Higher Education / June 28
With the federal courts now expanding the definition of the False Claims Act to include activities such as student-aid and accreditation fraud, officials at colleges of all sizes need to be worried about whistle-blower lawsuits these days, two experts on the federal law warned a group of college lawyers on Tuesday.

FLAT FUNDS FOR ARTS AND HUMANITIES
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed / June 28
Funds for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts would remain at their 2006 levels under a 2007 spending bill approved Tuesday by a Senate panel. The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Interior and Related Agencies passed legislation that would provide $141 million for the humanities agency and $124 million for the arts endowment, the same amount the agencies are receiving this year. The agencies would receive similar treatment in a parallel bill approved last month by the House Appropriations Committee.

FALSE RANK
By Rob Capriccioso of Inside Higher Ed / June 28
One of the multitude of grievances regarding the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of institutions of higher education is that there are ways to cheat - something that no individual student would be able to do when applying to, say, law school, without facing some mighty consequences.

WITH GOOD REASON/NPR

Jamestown and the African Experience (June 24-30)
Tonight at 7:30 p.m.; WVTF-Roanoke (88.5 FM)

When Jamestown was settled, Africa was neither an Eden-like paradise, nor a
realm of savagery. Africans were highly sophisticated, with a huge range of
diversity in their cultures and societies. History professor Joseph Miller
(UVA) is joined by professors Jennifer Morgan (NYU/Rutgers) and Stephanie
Smallwood (UC-San Diego) to explore the transatlantic slave trade, the
trauma of being torn away from one's homeland and brought to Jamestown, and
the surprising demographics of the enslaved population, many of whom were
women and children.

This is the third of five WGR programs--produced with special support from
the Rosenstiel Foundation--devoted to "New Perspectives on Jamestown " and
leading up to 2007 and the 400th anniversary of the founding of the
settlement.

"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 <http://www.withgoodreasonradio.org><http://www.withgoodreasonradio.org>

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