News Releases, 2001

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			2001 PRESS RELEASES (View the list chronologically below or use search function on left hand bar for keyword/s search)
			ALL 2001 PRESS RELEASES
			December 2001
12/20/01			Northern Virginia, Led By Loudoun County, Continues To Dominate Income Levels Across The State
12/20/01			U.Va. team creates video tour of historic British landmark London’s Vanished Crystal Palace Is Brought Back To Life For Special Exhibit At The Museum Of London
12/05/01			New Historical Research Fire Of Liberty: Civic Dedication Of Firefighters Was A Key Link In America’s Founding
12/04/01			U.Va. Selects Award-Winning New York Architect To Design South Lawn Project
12/03/01			U.Va. Art Museum Earns National Accreditation
12/03/01			University Of Virginia Architecture School Faculty To Design School's Addition And Renovation
			November 2001
11/30/01			U.Va. Art Museum Hosts "Season’s Celebration" Dec. 13
11/30/01			U.Va's Mcintire Department Of Art FeaturesTwo Student Exhibits In Fayerweather Hall In December
11/29/01			Mark Warner to Highlight American Democracy Conference Center for Governmental Studies and The Hotline To "Explore New Political Landscape"
11/29/01			U.Va. economics expert offers long-term solutions State’s Critical Financial Needs Require More Than A Quick Fix
11/28/01			U.Va. Economics Professor To Urge Congress To Overhaul Approach To Public Housing
11/28/01			University Of Virginia Art Museum Will Be Closed For Holiday Season Dec. 24 - Jan. 11
11/28/01			U.Va. Art Museum Will Be Closed Saturday, Dec. 8, To Prepare For Holiday Auction
11/27/01			"From Alf to Zox" Exhibt Of Contemporary Art From The University Of Virginia Art Museum Collection
11/16/01			Christoph W. Leemann Named Jefferson Lab Director
11/14/01			University of Virginia Art Museum Will Hold Annual Holiday Ornament Auction
11/13/01			U.Va. Institute for Environmental Negotiation Receives $375,000 Hewlett Foundation Grant to Aid Research in Environmental Management
11/12/01			Caroline Bruzelius, Expert on Medieval Architecture and Sculpture, to Speak at U.Va.
11/12/01			Poet and Editor R.T. Smith Will Read at U.Va. Nov. 29
11/12/01			U.Va. Library to Build Digital Information Community to Support American Studies Research Worldwide
11/12/01			Biological Weapons Expert Judith Miller, Co-Author of "Germs," Will Speak at U.Va. Nov. 18
11/12/01			Landscape Architect Warren Byrd to Address School of Architecture Fall 2001 Lecture Series
11/12/01			Princeton University Professor Thomas Y. Levin to Speak on The Aesthetics of Surveillance at U.Va.
11/09/01			Virginia Quarterly Review Fall 2001 Issue U.S. Should Pursue Global Strategy In A Unipolar World
11/08/01			"Battle for the Ballot Box" Set for Nov. 13 Miller Center Launches Live Webcast Discussions On Politics
11/07/01			Exhibition Of "Lincoln Square Murals" To Conclude "Fringe Festival"
11/06/01			U.Va. Center Puts Yancey Collection on the Web Family Letters Offer A Rare Glimpse Of African-American Life And Education In The Rural South Of The Early 1900s
11/05/01			Suspense Novelist David Baldacci Is Chosen As Valedictory Speaker By U.Va Class Of 2002
11/02/01			Fall Lecture Series: "Building and Grounds in Transition" Award Winning New York Architects To Speak At U.Va. School Of Architecuture
			October 2001
10/31/01			U.Va. Research Park To Open Emerging Technology Center Two Biotech Firms To Establish North Fork Operations, And U.Va. Technology Firm Will Take Lab Space In New Center
10/30/01			Educators From Many Countries Will Speak At Conference On "The University In The Era Of Globalization"
10/29/01			$20 Million Gift From Alumnus Paul Tudor Jones Puts U.Va. Basketball Arena Project On The Fast Track
10/26/01			"Rwanda: Scenes From A Genocide" At Fayerweather Gallery
10/26/01			Government Professor Larry Sabato Is Honored With Thomas Jefferson Award
10/26/01			Page-Barbour Lectures Historian And Folklorist Charles Joyner To Lecture On Southern Music Nov. 6, 7 And 8
10/26/01			The University Of Virginia Art Museum Will Hold "Masquerades" Family Workshop Nov. 4
10/24/01			"Nordic Postmodernism" At Fayerweather Gallery
10/23/01			U.Va. Chemist Brooks Pate Named Macarthur Fellow
10/23/01			U.Va. Art Museum Will Hold Panel Discussion On Folk Art Nov. 8
10/23/01			University Of Virginia Art Museum Invites The Public To Special Family Weekend Tour Oct. 27 And Reception Nov. 2
10/23/01			University Press Of Virginia Appoints Manager For New Electronic Imprint
10/23/01			Religion And Globalization Will Be Theme Of Lecture And Discussion
10/22/01			Transforming Third-World Cities: The Shining Example Of Bogota
10/22/01			University Of Virginia Art Museum Presents Two Public Lectures On The Arts Of Asia
10/22/01			Peter Parshall, National Gallery Of Art Curator Of Prints, To Speak At U.Va. Nov. 8
10/18/01			32^nd Annual Llewellyn G. Hoxton Lecture Nobel-Winning Physicist Gerard 'T Hooft To Speak On "The Universe Of The Elementary Particles
10/16/01			Architect Zvi Hecker To Speak At U.Va.
10/16/01			Classics Scholar To Discuss Greek Komast Vases
10/16/01			John Witte Jr., Expert On Family Law And Marriage, To Speak At U.Va. Law School Thursday, Oct. 18
10/16/01			U.Va. Study Finds State Funding Shortfalls Limit Potential Of Community Mediation Centers To Reduce Conflict
10/15/01			Peters Rushton Visiting Writers Poets And Editors Sarah Gorham And Jeffrey Skinner To Read At U.Va. Oct. 25
10/11/01			U.Va. Expands Management Education in Northern Virginia Mcintire School Of Commerce To Offer I.T. Master’s Degree, Darden School Expands Management Excellence Series
10/10/01			University Of Virginia Library Exhibit To Explore Music In American Life
10/10/01			The American College: Past, Present and Future Symposium Examines Unique Aspects Of Collegiate Architecture And Landscape Design
10/10/01			Environmentally Concerned Artist Steven Siegel To Create Sculpture With U.Va. Students
10/08/01			U.Va. Historian Philip Zelikow To Be Appointed To President¹s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
10/08/01			Secret Kennedy Tapes Are Published As First Volumes In Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Project
10/08/01			University of Virginia Experts Continuing Coverage Of War On Terrorism
10/08/01			"Fringe Festival" Adds To U.V.A.¹S Celebration Of Film
10/04/01			Common Native Plant Of Great Plains May Be Threatened By Climate Change
10/03/01			Robert S. Harris Named Dean Of U.Va.’S Darden School
10/01/01			Ed Ayers, Dean Of The College, To Speak At Fall Convocation On Oct. 26
			September 2001
09/28/01			Indian Ambassador To The U.S. Will Speak At U.Va. Oct. 4
09/28/01			Inaugural Jefferson Lectures Will Help Celebrate Lewis And Clark Bicentennial With New Research
09/26/01			"Masquerades" Exhibit To Open At The University Of Virginia Art Museum Oct. 13
09/26/01			U.Va. Art Museum Features Exhibition Of Works By Multimedia Artist Lynn Hershman
09/26/01			Architecture Lecture, Oct. 5 "Cultural Landscapes And The Culture Of Preservation"
09/25/01			Composing Community in a Diverse, Changing World’ Mary Catherine Bateson, Anthropologist And Author, To Speak At U.Va .On Oct. 4
09/25/01			U.Va. Law Library Acquires Two Major Research Collections Dalkon Shield Papers Promise To Be A Goldmine For Law, Health Researchers; Judge Butzner Papers Reveal Inner Workings Of Independent Counsel Office On Whitewater, Iran-Gate
09/25/01			Impact Of The Life Sciences On Contemporary Society Theme Of Fall Lecture Series
09/25/01			U.Va. Library Names Ann Whiteside As Fine Arts Librarian
09/24/01			I n wake of national tragedy University Of Virginia To Implement New Security Measures At Home Football Games Beginning Sept. 29
09/21/01			Leadership and Ethics Conference: "Leadership for Ethical Schools" International Conference To Be Held Oct. 4-6 At U.Va.
09/21/01			Ancient Japanese Art — Bunraku Puppet Theater Returning To Charlottesville
09/21/01			Stalking: A Deadly Syndrome
09/20/01			Los Angeles-Based Artists Bring Performance Art / Exhibition Of Photographs And Paintings To The University Of Virginia
09/20/01			Statement from University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III in response to remarks made today by Al Groh, U.Va. football coach
09/20/01			Statement from Al Groh, University of Virginia football coach, in response to remarks he made earlier today
09/18/01			University Of Virginia Art Museum Begins 2001 Writer’s Eye Competition Oct. 4
09/18/01			U.Va. Art Museum Holds Folk Art Family Workshop On Sunday. Oct. 7
09/18/01			U.Va. Art Museum Opens "Singular Visions: Folk Art From Charlottesville Collections"
09/18/01			U.Va. Art Museum Offers Bus Tour To Homes Of Local Folk Art Collectors
09/14/01			University of Virginia Experts Continuing Coverage Of Terrorism
09/14/01			University Of Virginia Cancels Classes Friday In Recognition Of National Day Of Mourning
09/13/01			Guide a Blueprint for Environmental Activists and Others Considering Collaboration Audubon, University Of Virginia, Wilderness Society Publish ‘Collaboration: A Guide For Environmental Advocates’
09/13/01			U.Va Science Day -- For Kids Of All Ages
09/11/01			University Of Virginia Experts On Terrorism-Related Topics
09/11/01			Fall Lecture Series: "Buildings and Grounds in Transition" National Endowment For The Arts Design Director To Speak At U.Va. School Of Architecture
09/07/01			Next Generation Of High-Tech Innovators Seeking Corporate Partners At Sbir/Sttr Workshop
			August 2001
08/30/01			Parents’ Attitudes And Sexual Orientation May Influence Gender Stereotyping In Children’s Environments
08/29/01			Four partners to share grant funding over three years U.Va., Three Others Receive $7.2 Million From State, Gates Foundation To Place Technology In All State Schools
08/29/01			Curator And Photographer Roger Sayre To Give A Talk In Conjunction With University Of Virginia Art Museum Exhibit
08/29/01			Bayly Changes Name
08/27/01			Frontier Histories: Study Of Captivity Narratives Shows Panorama Of Indian Life In Hispanic America
08/22/01			Dr. Ariel Gomez Is Appointed Interim Vice President For Research And Public Service
08/21/01			"Concepts Of Creativity" Is Theme Of Three-Day Humanities And Technology Conference At U.Va.
08/21/01			U.Va. Launches Undergraduate Program In Poetry Writing As Part Of English Major
08/21/01			Authors Ann Beattie And Christopher Tilghman Join U.Va.’S Creative Writing Faculty
08/21/01			Littlepage Named Athletics Director At University Of Virginia
08/20/01			Virginia Teachers Hope to Gain Tips on Incorporating Charlottesville Reading Program Into Their Schools
08/17/01			Bayly Art Museum Seeks Gallery Guides
08/17/01			"New Art" Showcases Works By U.Va. Faculty And Staff At Fayerweather Gallery
08/17/01			Bayly Art Museum Hosts Two Events In Conjunction With Exhibit: The Art Of John Dos Passos
08/14/01			National organization taps her for top award U.Va. Treasurer Alice Handy Honored For Work In Building University's Endowment
08/10/01			Sabatos OVERTIME! Release Event
08/06/01			Bayly Art Museum Opens "Singular Visions: Folk Art from Charlottesville Collections"
08/06/01			For Etext Center Endowment $200,000 Gift To U.Va. Library Completes NEH Challenge Grant Two Years Early
08/05/01			University Officials, Fired Medical Center Employees Come To Amicable Resolution
08/01/01			New Focus On Learning Plus Emphasis On School Design Keys To Creating Safe Schools, Author Says
			July 2001
07/25/01			Fayerweather Gallery Exhibits Work By U.Va. Alumna "Unknown Paths: Choice And Chance"
07/25/01			Bayly Art Museum Shows American Prints Of The Post-World War II Period
07/18/01			"This Is Not A Photograph" Exhibition Opens At Bayly Art Museum Aug. 3
07/18/01			Bayly Art Museum Offers October Trip To Berlin
07/11/01			Bayly Art Museum Opens John Dos Passos Exhibition July 21
07/03/01			U.Va.’s C. Brian Kelly To Speak at July 4 Monticello Graveside Ceremony Remembering "Mr. Jefferson’s Forgotten Expedition"
			June 2001
06/25/01			$1.5 Million Gift From N.Y. Businessman Will Fund New Poe/Faulkner Writing Fellowship At U.Va.
06/25/01			$2 Million In Anonymous Gifts Launch Project To Transform U.Va. Baseball Complex
06/21/01			University Press Of Virginia Names New Director University Of Chicago Press Executive Signed
06/16/01			U.Va. Foundation Will Not Place Conservation Easements On Kluge Properties
06/15/01			Statement from President John T. Casteen III: Anonymous Donor Pledges $20 Million To Athletics
06/07/01			U.Va. Institutes New Safety and Security Procedures at Medical Center
06/06/01			Casteen Names New Provost Gene Block, U.Va. Vp For Research And Public Service And Renowned Biologist, To Become Provost Sept. 1
06/05/01			U.Va. Board Seeks Fund-Raising Options Over Athletics Task Force's "Tiering" Proposal
06/05/01			William W. Harmon Named Senior Vice President At U.Va.
06/04/01			Psychologist Receives Profession's Largest Monetary Prize for Research on How Moral Emotions Motivate People to do Pro-Social Deeds
			May 2001
05/31/01			Bayly Art Museum Offers Summer Arts Camp For Middle-School Students July 30-Aug. 16
05/31/01			Bayly Art Museum "Early Visions" Participants Exhibit Photographs At Charlottesville High School
05/30/01			Artist Jan Aronson To Give Talk And Gallery Tour Of Her Work On Exhibit At The Bayly Art Museum
05/25/01			Philanthropist John Kluge Gives Virginia Estate, Valued in Excess of $45 Million, to University of Virginia Foundations
05/25/01			Edward L. Ayers, Southern History Expert, Appointed Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
05/24/01			U.Va. Real Estate Foundation, Rivanna Trails Foundation Blaze Trail At Fontaine Research Park
05/24/01			Search Committee For U.Va. Athletics Director Named
05/23/01			U.Va. students test e-books Two Classes Use Innovative Curriculum, Fostered By Etext Center And Using Microsoft Software
05/22/01			Paul E. Norris Jr., Chief Of Indiana University Police, To Head University Of Virginia Police Department
05/16/01			Alumni leader helped establish new organization Alan Y. Roberts Elected President Of U.Va. College Foundation
05/14/01			Overcoming Financial Pressures, Demanding Work Schedules And Self-Doubt, Graduate Learns It Is Never "Too Late"
05/11/01			U.Va. Schedules Free Arts Events During Reunions Weekend June 2-3
05/09/01			For Some Students, All The University's A Stage Students Enrich The University Of Virginia By Giving Voice To The Community
05/09/01			Leaving U.Va. On A High Note Benjamin Hirsch Levy III Shares His Passion For Music
05/09/01			U.Va.'S Final Exercises To Be Broadcast Live On Grounds
05/08/01			Election Reform Commission Hearings Will Be Webcast Live
05/08/01			Graduate Leaves Legendary Legacy Of Men Helping Women
05/08/01			C. Ray Smith to step in as interim dean July 1 Darden's Snyder Named Dean At University Of Chicago
05/07/01			Guide Dog, in Miniature Cap and Gown, Will Accompany Graduate During May 20 Final Exercises Graduate Leaves Public Reminder Of Needs Of Those Who Are Visually Impaired
05/07/01			Miller Center Of Public Affairs Awards Fellowships To 11 Outstanding Scholars
05/04/01			Vesla Weaver: Seeking To Change Election Laws That Discriminate
05/04/01			Multiple Jobs and Hard Work Pay Off Woman To Receive Two Degrees From U.Va. On May 20
05/04/01			Top Student Focuses On Government And Foreign Affairs, French, Russian -- And Quilting
05/04/01			U.Va. President Announces Actions University Will Take On Recent Athletics Task Force Report
05/03/01			U.Va. Patent Foundation Announces Award Materials Scientist Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf Named 2001 Inventor Of The Year
05/03/01			Kenneth Schwartz, U.Va. Associate Professor Of Architecture, Elected Fellow Of The American Institute Of Architecture
05/03/01			After Earning U.Va. Degree In Two Years, Graduate Looks Forward To Earning Two More
05/03/01			Graduate Views Degrees As Means For Removing Family From Deteriorating Neighborhood
05/02/01			Bayly Art Museum Presents "Elements: New Work By Jan Aronson" May 18 Through July 22
05/02/01			"Be Willing To Explore": Mellon Fellowship Winner And Colleagues Draw A New Picture Of "Jim Crow" Era In Central Virginia
05/02/01			U.Va. Athletics Director Terry Holland Announces Move To New Position
05/01/01			Christy Ferguson: Defining American Muslim Identity
05/01/01			Tedros Birhane: Building An American Dream
05/01/01			Brad Barnett: Finding Room In Your Heart For The Homeless
05/01/01			Sarah Anthony: On The Road To Public Service
05/01/01			Alhaja Affinnih: Family And School Mean Late To Bed, Early To Rise
05/01/01			U.Va. Anthropologist Will Shed New Light On American Elections
			April 2001
04/30/01			Simply Amazing U.Va. Student Develops New Sign Communication System
04/30/01			Three From U.Va. Named Fellows By American Academy Of Arts And Sciences
04/26/01			Virginia Natural Resource Leadership Institute To Kick Off Second Year Of Successful Program
04/26/01			University Of Virginia Library Becomes Co-Publisher Of Meridian
04/26/01			Two From U.Va. Are Tapped To Receive Guggenheim Fellowships
04/26/01			Seven Society Honors Graduate Teaching Assistants
04/25/01			Renowned British Psychiatry Professor To Deliver First Talk In New Endowed Lecture Series
04/23/01			U.Va. Systems Engineering Students Study Charlottesville's Voting Systems
04/20/01			U.Va. Researcher Part Of Study That Finds First-Grade Classes May Not Meet Children's Needs
04/20/01			Virginia Public Service Week May 7-13
04/20/01			Private donors commit $77.7 million for endowment New Foundation Will Support Arts & Sciences At UVA
04/19/01			New U.Va. Logo Debuts
04/18/01			31^st Annual Llewellyn G. Hoxton Lecture Intel's Justin Rattner To Speak On Electronics In Internet Age
04/12/01			Business Guru Jim Collins To Speak At Mcintire Symposium On "Creating And Sustaining Visionary Organizations"
04/12/01			U.Va. To Propose Health Insurance Subsidy For Graduate Assistants
04/12/01			The National Commission on Federal Election Reform Goes West to Further Its Work with a Second Public Hearing
04/11/01			Second Dave Matthews Band Concert Cancelled
04/11/01			Prominent Landscape Architect, Laurie Olin, To Speak At U.Va. School Of Architecture
04/11/01			Innovator In Computer Aided Design Technology To Lecture At U.VA. School Of Architecture
04/11/01			Electronic Artist Ben Rubin To Give Dean's Forum Lecture At U.VA. School Of Architecture
04/10/01			Candidates For UVA-Wise Chancellorship Set To Visit Campus
04/09/01			U.Va. Students Aim To Nurture Spirit As Well As Mind
04/09/01			One Of America's Foremost Photography Historians To Give Talk At University Of Virginia
04/09/01			Artistic Traditions Of Ottoman Turks To Be Topic Of Talk At University Of Virginia
04/06/01			Athletics Task Force Report Recommends Restructuring Of Sports Program, Finances, Academic Support
04/05/01			Awards To Celebrate Dedicated Teaching At U.Va.
04/05/01			U.Va. Alumni to Speak During Finals Weekend Graduation Events Set For May 19-20 At The University Of Virginia
04/04/01			Participatory Bayly Exhibit Matches Flowers To Art
04/04/01			Photo Opportunity: Days on the Lawn at U.Va.
04/04/01			Innovative School Designs To Be Presented April 25 At U.Va.
04/04/01			U.Va. Mails Acceptance Letters To Class Of 2005
04/03/01			U.Va. Talks On April 20 Will Explore "Surprising Partnership" In Science And Literature
04/03/01			U.Va. To Bestow Annual Thomas Jefferson Medals For Architecture And Law
04/03/01			Award-Winning New York Architect Laurie Hawkinson To Spea