Wednesday, July 12, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

U.VA. HOSPITAL EARNS RANKINGS
By Daily Progress staff reports / July 12
The University of Virginia Health System has five specialties listed in the 17th annual survey of best Hospitals in U.S. News & World Report.
(Not available online.)

NEW VACCINE FOR CANCER-CAUSING VIRUS WINS UNANIMOUS BACKING FROM COLLEGE OFFICIALS
By Elizabeth F. Farrell of The Chronicle of Higher Education / July 12
College health officials gave unanimous support on Tuesday to a proposal to recommend that young women receive a new vaccine that greatly reduces a woman's chance of getting cervical cancer. ... Dr. [James C.] Turner said he expected that his group's support would motivate colleges to provide the vaccine to as many students as possible.  ... Sexually active women and men in their late teens and early 20s are at the greatest risk of contracting the virus. According to Dr. Turner, who is also executive director of the Department of Student Health at the University of Virginia, every year about 250 to 350 women seek treatment for the virus at Virginia's health center.

FEDS PROPOSE RESTRICTIONS TO UPWARD BOUND / CRITICS WORRY CHANGES WILL UNDERMINE PROGRAM'S EFFECTIVENESS
By Will Goldsmith of C-Ville Weekly / July 11
Changes are in the pipeline for Upward Bound, a federal high school program administered locally by UVA that is designed to increase college attendance rates for those most at risk: low-income students and those whose parents didn't attend college. Local programs stand to lose autonomy in how they recruit high school students to receive Upward Bound benefits, which range from tutoring to college visits, based on a U.S. Department of Education proposal issued July 3.

U.VA. MARCHING BAND BEGINS SUMMER TRAINING / NEW BAND PULLS TALENT FROM PVCC, DONS SPIFFY UNIFORMS
By Meg McEvoy of C-Ville Weekly / July 11
It's totally tempting to pull out every American Pie reference (flute jokes anyone?) for a story about the Cavalier Marching Band. Really, how hard is it to make fun of a group that wears weird hats, roll-steps in formation and rocks out to the grooves of John Philip Sousa? But, band Director Bill Pease won us over. "These are the best students I've ever worked with," he says.

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN THE NEWS

NEWS IN BRIEF: WHY YOU NEED A HUG
By Buffalo News staff and wire reports / July 12
The reassuring hand you reach for in times of trouble has more power than you know: It calms areas of the brain that register alarm, according to a new study from the University of Virginia and the University of Wisconsin.

HEALTH BEAT: DIAGNOSTIC TESTING / HELIUM HELPS DETECT DAMAGE SMOKING HAS ON THE LUNGS
By Terri Yablonsky Stat for the Chicago Tribune / July 11
A helium-based imaging technique may help doctors detect smoking-related lung damage in healthy smokers sooner and more accurately than existing imaging methods, according to a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. … The researchers conducted another study with the University of Virginia and University of Nottingham in England that looked at age-dependent changes in non-smokers.

FACULTY ARTICLES AND OP-EDS

KIM GUENTHER
Guenther, director of the Health System Web Center and webmaster for the UVA Health System, wrote an article for Information Today, headlined:
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AS "SILVER BULLETS"
By Kim Guenther for Information Today / July 11

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

A.E. DICK HOWARD
Howard, a professor of law and the executive director of Virginia's 1969 Commission on Constitutional Revision, was cited in a Roanoke Times commentary headlined:
THE FAITHFUL GET A SECOND AMENDMENT
By Christian Trejbal of the Roanoke Times / July 12

DICK LAURANCE
Laurance, the project director for construction since 1992, was interviewed for an article in C-Ville Weekly headlined:
DICK LAURANCE TAKES FINAL BOW / RETIRING PROJECT DIRECTOR'S SWAN SONG WAS THE MASSIVE JOHN PAUL JONES AREANA
By Dan Catalano of C-Ville Weekly / July 11

WILLIAM LUCY & DAVID PHILLIPS
Lucy, the Lawrence Lewis Jr Professor of Planning, and Phillips, an associate professor of architecture, were cited in a Minneapolis Star Tribune commentary headlined:
I'M NO 'EXPERT,' BUT EXPERIENCE TELLS ME LIFE IS GOOD IN A CUL-DE-SAC / FOR ALL YOU FOLKS OUT THERE WHO THINK THE CUL-DE-SAC LIFE IS BEST, THE EXPERTS SAY THINK AGAIN. BUT WHO'S RIGHT?
By Sam Barnes of the Star Tribune / July 11

DR. ROY C. OGLE
Ogle, a professor of neurosurgery and director of the Center for Human Stem Cell Translational Research at the UVa Medical School, was cited in a Lynchburg News & Advance editorial headlined:
CORD BLOOD INITIATIVE BANKS ON THE FUTURE
By the Lynchburg News & Advance / July 11

LARRY J. SABATO
Sabato, a politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, was quoted in a Voice of America article headlined:
EXPERTS: IRAQ LIKELY TO BECOME MAJOR US ELECTION ISSUE
By Jim Malone of the Voice of America / July 11

JAMES C. TURNER
Turner, director of student health and head of the Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases of the American College Health Association, is quoted in a Chronicle of Higher Education article headlined:
NEW VACCINE FOR CANCER-CAUSING VIRUS WINS UNANIMOUS BACKING FROM COLLEGE OFFICIALS
By Elizabeth F. Farrell of The Chronicle of Higher Education / July 12

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

REID EIKNER
Eikner, who holds a civil engineering degree and a Master of Business Administration from U.Va. and currently serves as an adjunct visiting professor teaching a product-development course in the engineering school, was featured in a Hilton Head (SC) Island Packet article headlined:
EIKNER SEEKS DISTRICT 3 BOARD SEAT
By Island Packet staff reports / July 11

GEORGE DAVID
David, a graduate of the Darden School of Business, was profiled in an article in the Financial Times headlined:
A CALL FOR SUBSTANCE OVER APPEARANCE
By Alison Maitland of the Financial Times / July 10
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STEPHEN M. NICKELSBURG
Nickelsburg, a graduate of the School of Law, was featured in a PRNewswire press release headlined:
SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP ELEVATES 9 TO PARTNERSHIP IN WASHINGTON D.C., 37 THROUGHOUT FIRM
By PR Newswire / July 11

JAMES S. O'DONNELL
O'Donnell, a U.Va. graduate with a B.S. in commerce and accounting, was featured in a Business Wire press release headlined:
O'DONNELL JOINS WILSON/BENNETT CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AS SVP AND SENIOR PORTFOLIO MANAGER
By Business Wire / July 11

EDWIN DAVID ROBERTSON
Robertson, a graduate of the College (1968) and law school (1971) was featured in an article in New York County Lawyer headlined:
DAVE ROBERTSON BECOMES 54TH PRESIDENT
By the New York County Lawyers Association / June 2006

ALUMNI OBITUARIES IN THE NEWS

DAVID MAGOON
Magoon, a 2003 U.Va. graduate in his third year at Harvard Medical School, died in a fall from a fire escape in Boston on Friday, July 7. An article about Magoon appeared in the Akron Beacon Journal headlined:
FALL, DEATH TRAGIC END TO 'BEST DAY'
By Jim Carney of the Akron Beacon Journal / July 8

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NEWS FROM U.VA.'S COLLEGE AT WISE

500+ STATE EMPLOYEES MEET NEW BOSS
By Hugh Lessig of the (Hampton Roads) Daily Press
The top executive of Northrop Grumman Corp. met more than 500 of his newest friends Tuesday, and if they manage to hit it off, Virginia's information superhighway should have far fewer bumps. ...The company's investment in Southwest Virginia -- which includes support of technology education at the University of Virginia at Wise -- is a particularly good sign, said Kevin Hall, a spokesman for Gov. Timothy M. Kaine.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

ROBOPROF
By David Epstein of Inside Higher Ed / July 12
Robots will soon seek to go where humans have often failed: into the realm of attracting and retaining more computer science students.  Microsoft is announcing today that it will give $1 million to a team of researchers from Bryn Mawr College and the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop "personal robots" for use in introductory computer science classes as part of the creation of the Institute for Personal Robots in Education at the two colleges.

THE SENATE'S SCIENCE BILL
By David Epstein of Inside Higher Ed / July 12
The Senate Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee approved its spending bill for the 2007 fiscal year on Tuesday, which more money for basic science research as requested in President Bush's American Competitiveness Initiative. The subcommittee endorsed an 8 percent increase over the 2006 fiscal year for the National Science Foundation's budget, which would bring the agency's total to $6 billion. The House of Representatives passed its version of the bill, which also increases research funds for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, last month. The entire Senate Appropriations Committee will discuss the bill later this week.
    
SENATE PANEL APPROVES GENEROUS BUDGET RISE FOR NSF, AND NASA MIGHT SEE AN EXTRA $1-BILLION
By Sam Kean of The Chronicle of Higher Education / July 12

RETHINK HIGHER EDUCATION FOR A CHANGING WORLD, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TELLS CONFERENCE-GOERS
By Jeffrey Selingo of The Chronicle of Higher Education / July 12
Colleges need to refocus their missions in order to help American students compete in a global economy, Thomas L. Friedman, the best-selling author and New York Times columnist, told a standing-room-only crowd of university officials at the "Campus of the Future" meeting here this week....Speaking without notes, he told the joint meeting of three higher-education associations that China and India will challenge the role of the United States as a superpower in the 21st century, and that the United States will "not win by default."

GENDER GAP GROWS
By Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed / July 12
The proportion of college students who are men continues to shrink - but that does not mean male students are being shut out of higher education, the American Council of Education says in a new report. The study, "Gender Equity in Higher Education: 2006," updates a 2000 report by the council that some critics thought minimized the significance of higher education's gender gap, finds that the proportion of all undergraduates who are male had shrunk to 42 percent in 2003-4, down from 44 percent in 1999-2000.

A MORE NUANCED LOOK AT MEN, WOMEN AND COLLEGE
By Tamar Lewin of The New York Times / July 12
When the American Council on Education found three years ago that high-income white men, like black, Hispanic and low-income white men, were lagging behind their female peers in college, it added fuel to an intense policy debate over the depth and causes of the gender gap on campus. Now the council, an association of colleges, universities and education-related groups, is out with a new study. In this one, it re-examined data it reported in previous years, separating out statistics on traditional college students (24 and under) and older ones, to present a more nuanced picture.

WHAT GIRLS OUGHT TO LEARN FROM BOYS IN 'CRISIS'
By Judith Warner for the New York Times / July 12
More on the "boy crisis": A new report that came out yesterday from the American Council on Education has confirmed that there is a gender gap on American college campuses. It gapes the widest between African-American men and women. It is increasing, disturbingly, among low- income whites and Hispanics. It phases out as you go up the income ladder, then disappears entirely as you enter the upper middle class. (According to the report's author, Jacqueline E. King, 52 percent of college students from the top income quartile - families earning $97,500 or more - are male.)

WITH GOOD REASON / NPR

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE CSS SHENANDOAH (July 8 -14)
Tonight at 7:30 p.m.; WVTF-Roanoke (88.5 FM)
The CSS Shenandoah was the only ship in the Confederate navy to
circumnavigate the globe.  History scholar Alan Harris (ODU) notes the
Shenandoah was also the last raider to learn about the end of the Civil War
and thus continued to sink ships all over the world for two-and-a-half
months after Appomattox.  Also: Religious Studies professor Kip Redick (CNU)
leads students on a walking journey along the Appalachian Trail each summer
and believes the experience leaves them with a deeper understanding of
themselves and the world around them.

"With Good Reason," produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,
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