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      1999 PRESS RELEASES
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      ALL 1999 HEALTH SYSTEM PRESS RELEASES
     
Dec. 1999
12/30/99     Y2K Readiness At The University Of Virginia
12/29/99     University of Virginia Announces New E-Commerce Certificate To Be Offered in Northern VA
12/22/99     Joint Catholic-Jewish Commission Will Examine Documents Relating To Church’s Role In World War II: Why Didn’t Pope Pius XII Speak Out?
12/22/99     Virginians’ Incomes May Be Rising, But Dramatic Gaps Between Richer And Poorer Continue To Widen
12/21/99     Problems In Education System Go Back To Efforts To Assimilate Native Americans, According To New Book
12/20/99     Lawyering For The Railroad: New Study Shows Key Role Of Rail Lawyers In Creating New South After The Civil War
12/20/99     U.Va. President John Casteen Receives Regional Leadership Award
12/15/99     Future Nostalgia: Looking Back on the 1990s
12/13/99     Fraternity Project Aims To Feed Local Families
12/10/99     Frank Batten The Entrepreneur
12/10/99     A Banner Year For Fund Raising At Darden
12/10/99     U.Va.'s Campaign Makes Its Mark A Year Ahead Of Schedule
12/10/99     U.Va. Alumnus Frank Batten Sr. Gives $60 Million To Darden, Largest Gift Ever To A Graduate School Of Business
12/8/99     Small Coastal Atlantic Towns Offer Insight For Today’s Town Planners And Architects
12/8/99     Curry Student’s Innovative Project Earns National Award
12/7/99     George Garrett To Receive Aiken Taylor Award For Modern American Poetry
12/7/99     NEH Challenge Grant Will Help Create $1 Million Electronic Text Center Endowment
12/6/99     On-Line Forms Make Applying To U.Va. Easier
12/3/99     U.Va. Awarded $1 Million IBM Grant To Promote Enabling Technologies For E-Business
12/3/99     Public, Educators To Consider Alternative Schools
12/2/99     U.Va. Library Named To The Digital Library Federation
12/2/99     Youth Leadership Initiative Receives $1 Million Grant From Congress
12/2/99     Area Business Executive James S. Ross Retires From U.Va. Patent Foundation Board
12/2/99     Eight U.Va. Faculty Receive Harrison Teaching Awards
12/1/99     U.Va. Launches Part-Time Graduate Program For Speech Pathologists
      Nov. 1999
11/30/99     Virginia Board Of Education President To Speak Dec. 8 At U.Va.’s Curry School
11/30/99     Rethinking African And African-American Studies: Ford Foundation Grant Will Help U.Va.'s Woodson Institute Develop New Model For Studying Race And Ethnicity
11/29/99     Talk To Explore Relationship Between Federal Aid And College Enrollments
11/29/99     U.Va. Student Wins Slot On "Jeopardy!"
11/23/99     Children’s Success In Kindergarten Can Be Bolstered With Strong Home-To-School Ties, New Book Says
11/23/99     William Morrish, Renowned Community Designer, To Share Insights On Urban Planning & Design With Charlottesville-Albemarle Community
11/22/99     New "Corridor 1" Offices Provide Home For Community Of Start-Up Companies
11/22/99     U.Va.’s North Fork Research Park Welcomes QualChoice
11/22/99     U.Va. And Virginia Tech Form Biomedical Institute With Carilion Health System
11/18/99     U.Va. Announces First Steps In Administrative Reorganization
11/17/99     Emily Couric To Speak Nov. 21 About Education Issues
11/16/99     U.Va. Research Park Recognized For Outstanding Land Stewardship
11/15/99     "Red, White, Blue, And Brimstone: New World Literature And The American Millennium" Exhibition To Open In U.Va. Library Nov. 19
11/15/99     U.Va.’s Darden School Receives Its Largest Gift
11/12/99     U.Va. Historian Erik Midelfort Honored With National Phi Beta Kappa Book Award For ‘A History Of Madness In Sixteenth-Century Germany’
11/11/99     Center for Governmental Studies to Host National Homeownership Summit: National Leaders Gather to Discuss Housing Issues
11/11/99     Two Lectures At U.Va. On The History Of The Criminalization Of Abortion
11/10/99     Women Convene To Learn How To Be Powerful Education Leaders
11/9/99     U.Va. President Cited For Leadership In Encouraging Character Development
11/8/99     U.Va. Architect Maurice Cox Speaks On Preserving Historic African Town
11/5/99     U.Va. Latino Students To Express Diverse Heritage
11/4/99     Noted Specialist In Neoclassical And Romantic Painting And Sculpture To Speak At U.Va.
11/3/99     U.Va. Music Faculty Helps Enhance High School Curriculum
11/2/99     Students Take Initiative To Educate Peers Against Credit Card Debt
11/2/99     Students Learn Dining Etiquette In Hopes Of Impressing Future Bosses
11/1/99     Virginia Officials Will Address School Failure

   
      Oct. 1999
10/29/99     Award Winning Business School Receives National Honor for Innovative Social and Environmental Programs
10/29/99     Architect William Williams To Lecture At U.Va. On Community-Based Architectural Collaboration
10/29/99     Noted Gothic Art And Architecture Scholar To Speak At U.Va.
10/28/99     U.Va.’s Darden Business School Elects New Trustees Including Top Leaders In Business And Non-Profit Fields
10/27/99     NEH Grant Will Help U.Va. Work With Historically Black Colleges To Develop African-American History Projects On The Web
10/25/99     Internet Initiative Brings Democracy To Va Schools Mock Ballot Believed Largest Online Election Ever
10/22/99     Landscape Architect William Wenk To Give Benjamin C. Howland Memorial Lecture
10/22/99     "Something Is Very Wrong Here!" Exhibit At Fayerweather
10/22/99     University Of Virginia Among Consortium Selected To Manage Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
10/22/99     Nobel Peace Laureate And Childen’s Advocate Betty Wiliams To Speak At U.Va. Oct. 28
10/22/99     Former Dean Raymond J. Nelson Receives U.Va.'s Highest Honor
10/21/99     U.Va. Conference To Explore Family Violence
10/21/99     U.Va. Launches Immunization Program To Guard Students Against Meningitis And Flu
10/20/99     U.Va. Institute For Global Policy Research To Sponsor Lecture Series
10/20/99     Marriage Benefits Men By Giving Them Positive Identity, Book Asserts
10/20/99     Local Parents, Educators Will Discuss Youths’ Access to Technology Following Screening of PBS Film On Oct. 23
10/20/99     Talks Will Address Techniques and Impact of Magazine’s Annual Ranking Of Colleges
10/20/99     Scores Of Projects Will Benefit Charlottesville Area Residents On Oct. 23, National Make A Difference Day
10/18/99     U.Va.’s Master’s Degree Program In MIS Is Ranked Among Nation’s Best
10/18/99     Arts Focus On Technology: Visiting Artists To Share Innovative Techniques And Sound
10/18/99     Rebecca Rimel, Head Of Pew Charitable Trusts And U.Va. 1999 Distinguished Alumna, To Give Public Talk Nov. 3
10/15/99     University Of Virginia To Host e-summit@virginia, A Public Conference About The Internet, Led By Industry Leaders
10/14/99     U.Va. Conference To Explore Family Violence
10/13/99     Engineering and Commerce Schools Receive $1 Million Gift
10/13/99     Crime-Mapping Software Aids Detective Work and Wins State Technology Award for U.Va. Professor Donald Brown
10/13/99     Scholar to Speak on the Relation Between Abortion and the Falling Crime Rate in the United States
10/12/99     Research Reveals People Overestimate Slants, Heights
10/11/99     CBS News Correspondent Andy Rooney to Speak at the University of Virginia
10/8/99     Report Urges Coordinated Community Effort To Combat Teen Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Disease
10/8/99     Health System Press Release -- Nobel Prize Winner Presents Special Mini-Med School Lecture
10/8/99     A Celebration Of African-American Poetry At U.Va. Oct. 28 Will Feature Legendary Poet Gwendolyn Brooks
10/7/99     Health System Press Release -- U.Va. Medical School Donates 93 Microscopes to Public Schools
10/6/99     Clinton Adviser Gene Sperling, Kennedy Adviser Theodore Sorensen To Help Launch Miller Center Research Project On Presidency And The Economy
10/6/99     Curry School Receives Nearly $4 Million To Help Teachers Use Technology
10/5/99     Health System Press Release -- University of Virginia Physician Uses Computer-Based X-Ray System for Guidance During Surgery
10/5/99     "Acquainted With The Night": Anthology Gathers Poems About Insomnia And Its Creative Legacy Through The Ages
10/5/99     ITC Announces Microsoft Select Contract at U.Va.
10/5/99     U.Va. Acknowledges Secondary Violations In Men's Basketball Program
10/4/99     Health System Press Release -- Grant Will Allow University of Virginia Researchers to Investigate New Treatments for Hepatitis C

   
      Sept. 1999
9/30/99     Miller Center Announces National Fellowship Program In Politics
9/30/99     Record Crowd Expected For Virginia-Virginia Tech Football Game
9/29/99     Health System Press Release -- U.Va. Researchers Develop New Test for Residual Prostate Cancer
9/29/99     Bill of Rights Lecture by U.Va. Professor Set for Madison County
9/28/99     Health System Press Release -- NINDS to Support Eight New ParkinsonŐs Disease Research Centers of Excellence
9/28/99     University Turns Back The Clock To Honor Poe on 150th Anniversary of His Death
9/27/99     U.Va.'s Fifth Annual Energy Awareness Day to be Held Oct. 6
9/27/99     Health System Press Release -- National Cancer Institute Reaffirms University of Virginia Cancer Center Status, Increases Funding
9/27/99     University of Virginia Male Sexual-Assault Peer-Education Group Presents Programs
9/26/99     Faculty Senate Executive Committee Equal Opportunity Statement
9/24/99     ‘Poetry At Its Most Genial, Humane And Entertaining’: New Collection Brings Together ‘Harlem Gallery’ And Other Work Of Melvin Tolson
9/24/99     Health System Press Release -- University of Virginia Researcher Receives Award to Examine Genetic Causes for High Blood Pressure
9/24/99     David A. Harrison III To Establish Institute For Study Of American History, Literature And Culture
9/23/99     U.Va. Professor Meets With White House Staff To Discuss Public School Leadership
9/22/99     American Government Expert Matthew Holden Jr. To Speak At Fall Convocation
9/22/99     U.Va. Conference To Address Ethics In The Classroom
9/21/99     U.Va. Chemistry Professor to Get Service Award
9/20/99     "Body Shop" Featured At U.Va.'s Fayerweather Gallery
9/20/99     Judaism Expert David Novak Will Present Meador Lecture On Law And Religion Oct. 14
9/20/99     Poet-Critic Stephen Cushman Will Discuss "Bloody Promenade: Reflections On A Civil War Battle" At U.Va. Bookstore Sept. 30
9/17/99     Pre-Revolutionary French Women Writers Are Focus Of U.Va. Conference
9/17/99     Sounds Of Indian Flute To Fill Cabell Hall On Oct. 2
9/17/99     New Journal At U.Va., The Hedgehog Review, Offers Forum On Contemporary Culture
9/16/99     "Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline?"
9/16/99     U.Va. Shifts Emphasis In Courses For Educators
9/15/99     Woodson Institute Announces New Fellows In African And African-American Studies
9/15/99     U.Va. Promotes Bill Smyth to Head Assistant Swimming Coach
9/15/99     Nature Writer Wendell Berry To Give Two Presentations Sept. 23
9/14/99     Health System Press Release -- U.Va. Researchers Find Possible Chemical Link Between Urinary Incontinence and Depression
9/13/99     Charlotte Quesada One of 10 Finalists for the 1999 NCAA Woman of the Year Award
9/13/99     U.Va. Patent Foundation Steps Up Efforts For Inventors
9/10/99     New Pictorial History Of University Of Virginia Offers Two-Century Pageant Of Educational Life In Jefferson’s ‘Academical Village’
9/9/99     An Island's Past Is Coming To Light, Thanks To Technology And Cooperative Efforts With U.Va.
9/7/99     Peace and Harmony Annual Art Show at U.Va. Law School Library
9/7/99     Health System Press Release -- Researchers at U.Va. Awarded Over $4 Million to Study Prostate Cancer
9/3/99     U.Va. Series On Educational Issues Starts By Addressing Historical Themes
9/2/99     Free Guide Helps Sexual Assault Survivors In Healing And Recovery
9/2/99     Wole Soyinka, Winner of The 1986 Nobel Prize In Literature, To Give A Series of Lectures At U.Va.

   
      August 1999
8/31/99     U.Va. Students To Stage Original Production Revealing The Hopes And Dreams of Entering Class
8/31/99     Robertson Media Center Grand Opening And Open House To Be Held Sept. 17
8/31/99     U.Va.'s Fayerweather Gallery Kicks Off The Year With Its Annual Faculty Exhibition
8/30/99     New Jersey Student Secures Over $20,000 In Scholarships
8/28/99     U.Va. Parents Double University Reward For Information Leading To The Arrest of Robbery/Rape Suspect
8/27/99     University Of Virginia Offers $5,000 Reward For Information Leading To The Arrest Of Robbery/Rape Suspect
8/26/99     Virginia Student Earns More Than $20,000 From 13 Scholarships To Pursue U.Va. Education
8/25/99     New Students To Arrive Saturday At U.Va.
8/25/99     Update On Turkish Students At The University of Virginia And U.Va.'s College At Wise
8/25/99     University Launches Water Conservation Campaign As Students & Faculty Return
8/24/99     Keeping the Faith: Web Sites Provide Foundation for Understanding Religion
8/23/99     Hearing Screenings Can Help School Children Learn
8/18/99     U.Va. Research Helps VDOT Keep Traffic Flowing In Hampton Roads And Washington Metro Areas
8/11/99     University Of Virginia Researchers Link Cocaine Addiction Responses To Biological Clock Genes
8/11/99     U.Va. Creates Training Program For Nannies, Child Care Workers, Teachers
8/11/99     U.Va. Begins Water Conservation Efforts/Supports Voluntary Community Cutbacks
8/10/99     President Casteen's Statement Regarding Qatar
8/9/99     Will Technology Change Learning? Teachers Are The Ones With The Answer, New Book Says
8/5/99     Health System Press Release -- New Pain Relief Treatment for Spinal Compression Fractures Related to Osteoporosis Pioneered at University of Virginia
8/5/99     Health System Press Release -- University of Virginia Researchers Find Key to Infertility Problem
8/5/99     Health System Press Release -- Health System Press Release -- U.Va. Scientists Discover New Link in Genetic Research
8/4/99     NSF Awards $2.5 Million For Multidisciplinary Project On Laser Research & Education
8/3/99     New Web Site Offers Children Hours Of Fun
8/3/99     University Professor Wins Several Awards For Outstanding Work

   
      July 1999
7/30/99     U.Va. Energy Conservation Measures Merit National Award
7/29/99     Center For Governmental Studies Director Larry J. Sabato Releases "Virginia Votes 1995-1998"
7/28/99     University of Virginia Launches New Program to Meet the Demand for Special Education Teachers
7/28/99     Qualchoice Ahead of Budget, Attracts New Investment
7/23/99     University Of Virginia Library Receives $500,000 Grant From The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
7/21/99