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      2002 PRESS RELEASES
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      ALL 2002 U.VA. HEALTH SYSTEM PRESS RELEASES
      December 2002
12/23/02     Storm-Water Plan Combines Innovation, Aesthetics
12/19/02     Awards Will Support Danville Area Leadership And Oral History Projects
12/18/02     The University Of Virginia Art Museum Is Making A Move …
From First To Fourth Fridays
12/18/02     U.Va. Art Museum Begins Spring Schedule With Tribute
To The Legacy Of Lewis And Clark And American Indian Art
12/11/02     Who’s That New Face At The Reference Desk?
Students, Staff And Friends Surprise U.Va Library With Creative Solutions To Budget Gloom
12/10/02     University Of Virginia Art Museum Will Be Closed For The Holiday Season Dec. 23 - Jan. 11
12/04/02     Author Of “A Beautiful Mind” To Speak At U.Va.
12/03/02     Lewis And Clark And The American West: University Of Virginia Resources
12/03/02     Many U.Va. Programs Will Mark Lewis And Clark Bicentennial Launch
12/03/02     U.Va. Center Of Railroad Safety-Critical Excellence
Provides Safety Assessment Support For Launch Of New Performance-Based Standards
12/02/02     U.Va. Library Presents Maps Used By Lewis & Clark
12/02/02     English Professor Jerome McGann Is Honored With MLA Book Prize And Mellon National Distinguished Achievement Award Providing Up To $1.5 Million To U.Va.
      November 2002
11/26/02     Nordic Lands Is Theme Of U.Va.’s International Center Christmas Celebration
11/25/02     Hermitage Museum Curator To Speak At U.Va. Dec. 12
11/20/02     U.Va. Establishes Center To Study Superfund Site Recycling With EPA Grant
11/19/02     Second Annual Lighting Of The Lawn At The University Of Virginia
11/19/02     U.Va. Art Students Exhibit Drawings Dec. 4-13
11/13/02     Monumental Collection Of George Washington Letters
And Documents Now Available Online
11/12/02     Two New Gifts On Display At The University Of Virginia Art Museum
11/12/02     U.Va. Art Museum’s Annual Holiday Auction Set For Dec. 7
11/11/02     U.Va. Alumnus, Class of ’72
EVMS Doctor To Speak At Valediction
11/07/02     From Ancient Scrolls To The Internet
Scriptural Scholars Go Online
11/07/02     IBM Diversity Executive To Speak At The University Of Virginia
11/06/02     Will generate $6.6 million to help offset budget cuts
University Of Virginia’s Tuition Surcharge Set At $385
11/05/02     Talk By Curator Stephen Margulies Illuminates “The Imagination On Edge” At U.Va. Art Museum
11/05/02     “Architectural Objects” Is Subject Of Talk At U.Va. By Sculptor Kendall Buster
11/05/02     'Net Brings U.Va. Math Class To High School
      October 2002
10/31/02     Zintl Award winner
Barnett Honored For Commitment To Teaching
10/30/02     U.Va. Nursing Alumni Association Presents Awards
10/30/02     $1 Million Grant To Improve American History Education In Southwest Virginia
10/30/02     Exhibition at Fayerweather Gallery opens Nov. 7
Artist Reaches Out To Disadvantaged Youth To Create Collaborative Ventures
10/29/02     From Johannesburg To Charlottesville - Challenges Of World Summit On Sustainable Development
10/29/02     David Lubin, American Art And Culture Expert To Speak At U.Va. Nov. 9
10/28/02     Innovative U.Va. Center Will Use Local Communities As Lens For Bigger Picture Of Race, Gender And Nation
10/25/02     Ethicist James F. Childress Receives Thomas Jefferson Award
10/24/02     Community Shielding Key To Attack Response, Report Says
10/21/02     “Wizdumb” Opens At U.Va. Art Museum Nov. 2
10/21/02     Chinese Art Expert To Give Talk At U.Va. Nov. 7
10/21/02     New Civic Engagement Series Launched Nov. 2 Community Forum To Examine The Issue Of Troubled Children
10/16/02     Former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, Authors Samuel Huntington and Robert Kaplan Three Leading Thinkers Will Examine America’s Controversial World Role
10/14/02     U.Va., City, County Collaborate On New Ways
To Promote Good-Neighbor Relations
10/11/02     U.Va.’s Institute For Environmental Negotiation Offers New Handbook To Help Local Governments Protect Streams
10/11/02     Alumni Boards give $300,000 to U.Va.
Funds Will Support Undergraduate Teaching
10/10/02     Casteen Names Lampkin VP For Student Affairs
10/09/02     Hours To Be Restored At Most U.Va. Libraries
10/08/02     Michele Leavitt’s “Tears” Installation to Open at the University of Virginia Art Museum Oct.22
10/08/02     U.Va. Expert On Michelangelo To Give Lecture On Oct. 24
10/04/02     Vernon E. Jordan to Speak at the University of Virginia
10/04/02     Expert On Pornography And The Obscene In Ancient Roman Art To Lecture At U.Va.
10/04/02     No More Parking For First-Year Students At University Of Virginia
10/04/02     Donor’s commitment to U.Va. becomes lasting legacy
$64 Million Gift From Harrison Estate To Endow Professorships In Law And Medicine / $50 Million Trust To Ensure Future Aspirations
10/03/02     Fringe Festival 2002 Makes Waves At U.Va.’s Celebration Of Film
10/03/02     Janine Jagger, Macarthur Fellow And University Professor,To Speak At The University Of Virginia’s Fall Convocation
10/03/02     University Of Virginia Joins Large Binocular Telescope Consortium
10/01/02     California Architect And Educator Will Discuss Federal Architecture And Exhibit Recent GSA Projects At U.Va. School Of Architecture
10/01/02     Exhibition At The University Of Virginia Art Museum Turns“ The Imagination On Edge”
10/01/02     VCU Sculpture Students Bring Work To U.Va.
      September 2002
09/26/02     The Impact Of Art On Contemporary Society Theme Of Lecture Series
09/26/02     University Of Virginia Women’s Center To Receive Aauw Progress In Equity Award
09/24/02     German Bishop To Speak On Guilt And Reconciliation
Wolfgang Huber Considers Christianity In A Violent World
09/20/02     Nobel-Winning Chemist Sherwood Rowland To Lecture At UVA, And To Craig County High School Via Videoconference
09/20/02     Julian Bond Honored By National Civil Rights Museum
09/18/02     University Of Virginia Art Museum Begins 2002 Writer’s Eye Competition Oct. 7
09/18/02     Photographer William Wylie To Give Gallery Talk At U.Va. Art Museum Sept. 29
09/18/02     U.Va. Art Museum Celebrates Chinese Art And Culture
09/18/02     Budget Forces Reduction Of Facilities Management Services
09/17/02     U.Va. School Of Nursing Annual Event To Feature One-Woman Play: “Waltzing The Reaper”
09/17/02     From Home Territory Of Lewis And Clark, University Of Virginia Students And Faculty Focus Closely On The West
09/16/02     Playwright And Activist Amiri Baraka To Speak At U.Va. On Sept. 24 As Part Of Black Leadership Series
09/12/02     U.VA./VCU Nursing Students To Explore Jobs During Career Fair 2002
09/06/02     Media Briefings / Facility Tours
U.Va. Sessions To Illustrate Bond Referendum Needs
09/06/02     Explorations in Black Leadership
Annual Series Features Amiri Baraka And Vernon Jordan
09/05/02     U.Va. Gets State Approval For New Parking Garage
09/05/02     U.Va Nursing Professor Leads Local United Way
09/04/02     Decades After the Montgomery Bus Boycott: What Would Jesus Have Done? Scholars And Activists Gather In Montgomery To Ponder The Role Of Churches In Backing Or Opposing The Boycott
09/03/02     Nationally Renowned Photo Essayist Sam Abell To Lecture At University Of Virginia
09/03/02     Innovative New York Architects To Give Lecture At U.Va. On Sept. 13
09/03/02     “September 11 Remembered” At U.Va. Art Museum
      August 2002
08/29/02     October Meeting Set in Charlottesville
Duke And U.Va. To Bring Together Scholars, Students And University Leaders For Discussion Of Academic Integrity
08/29/02     “The Tocqueville Reader” Offers Range Of Insights Into Democracy
08/29/02     Governor kicks off statewide bond referendum campaign
U.Va. And PVCC Presidents Invite Community Leaders
To Public Discussion
08/29/02     First-Year Class More Diverse, Academically Sharp
08/26/02     Sept. 11 Panel Will Focus On Jefferson, Religion And Today’s Conflicts
08/23/02     Africa Project Takes Two Steps Forward; Consortium Finalized, Swap Receives NASA Award
08/22/02     HHS Report Endorses Tort Reform Concept That Could Speed Resolution Of Medical Malpractice Claims
08/21/02     Urban Landscape Architect Ken Smith To Lecture At U.Va. Sept. 6
08/21/02     “Art Now” Opens At Fayerweather Gallery Sept. 2
08/15/02     New U.Va. Students To Arrive Saturday, Aug. 24
08/14/02     Aging May Desynchronize Body Clocks, Study Shows
08/13/02     Community College Leaders, Economic Development Leaders And Educators To Discuss Professional Development
08/09/02    

U.Va. Art Museum Exhibits ³Stillwater: Photographs By William Wylie²

08/06/02    

Earlier study results confirmed in re-test U.Va. To Commission Additional Traffic Study 

08/01/02     Good Dads: Faith Makes A Difference
08/01/02     Local Government Officials To Gather At U.Va. Aug. 11-13
      July 2002
07/19/02     University of Virginia and City of Charlottesville Working in Partnership Innovative Program Hones Grassroots Leadership Skills
07/16/02    

VCU Economist Aims to Help Citizens Major Revisions Suggested For Virginia’s Flawed Income Tax To Increase Fairness In Need Of Major Revisions, Analyst Warns

07/15/02     U.Va.-Based Research Consortium Awards Grants To Study Environmental Outcomes Of Collaborative Processes
07/09/02    

U.Va. Foundation Completes Two Real Estate Transactions

      June 2002
06/28/02     Children Share the Care of Aging Parents
06/27/02     Ford Great-Granddaughter Returns Home to Help Uncover Mystery of Who Was Buried in Old Farm’s Family Plot
06/27/02     University of Virginia Library Exhibition to Celebrate American Theatre
06/26/02     Nationally Renowned Photo Essayist Sam Abell to Exhibit Works at University of Virginia Art Museum
06/26/02     U.Va. Art Musem Expands Membership Benefits
06/26/02    

Study Highlights Potential Obstacles To School Voucher Programs And Urban Education Reform

06/25/02    

U.Va. Bookstore To Bring Actor Ethan Hawke To Grounds In July

06/21/02     Educators To Discuss Leadership In Technology
06/20/02     Gift From Educator Edward Cooke Will Benefit Needy Students Enrolling At The University Of Virginia
06/17/02    

Bama Works Fund Of David Matthews Band Supports University Of Virginia Art Museum Youth Programs

06/15/02    

U.Va. Hired Expert To Excavate Area Archaeologist Discovers Evidence Of Grave At Emmet Street Parking Garage Site

06/11/02     U.Va. Art Museum Opens Dutch Print Exhibition
06/06/02    

U.Va. Art Museum Exhibits Japanese Woodblock Prints

06/05/02    

U.Va. Discovers Possible Grave At Parking Lot Site

      May 2002
05/31/02     All Together Now U.Va. Engineering Researchers Confirm 25-Year-Old Theory That Groups Seek Unison
05/29/02    

University Of Virginia, World Wildlife Fund Join Forces For African And Latin American Conservation

05/29/02    

U.Va. Library Receives Original Washington Irving Manuscript

05/23/02     University Officials From Africa To Visit UVA To Discuss Consortium
05/22/02     Student Research Projects Will Look At U.Va.’S African-American Heritage And Other Less-Known Topics
05/22/02    

Three Exhibits During June Honor Former U.Va. Art Professor

05/17/02    

"Opting For Realism: American Painting In The 1970s" Opens At The U.Va. Art Museum June 15

05/15/02    

University Of Virginia Chooses Chickering For Student Health Plan

05/15/02    

Virginia Natural Resource Leadership InstituteTo Kick Off Third Year Of Successful Program

05/14/02    

Three Exhibits Featured At U.Va. Art Museum June First Friday Reception

05/13/02     Study Finds Extensive Variations In First-Grade Classrooms
05/10/02     Collins Takes On International Human Rights
05/09/02    

Service Is Bottom Line For Business Student

05/09/02     Unity, Healing Are Student’s Passions
05/09/02     Students Get Grad School Boost With Cooke Scholarships
05/09/02     Warner And Baldacci Will Speak At U.Va.’S Finals Exercises
05/09/02    

Poet Charles Wright Is Named To American Academy Of Arts And Sciences

05/07/02     U.Va. English Professor Jerome Mcgann Is First Recipient Of Major National Award For Digital Humanities Scholarship
05/06/02    

Religion in American Society, 1935-43 U.Va. To Host "Picturing Faith" Photography Exhibit

05/06/02     Watercolors By Architecture Alumnus Victor Elmaleh To Be Exhibited At The University Of Virginia Beginning May 16
05/06/02     Beauty Of Antarctica Beckons, But U.Va. Graduate’s Passion Is Teaching
05/06/02     U.Va. Student Rallies Volunteers To Bring Arts To Local Schools
05/06/02    

Student Is First At U.Va. To Win St. Andrew’s Society Fellowship

05/06/02     U.Va. Graduate Reaches For The Stars
05/06/02     15 Dozen Cookies And A Law Degree
05/06/02     Student Finds Her Fit In Academic Cinderella Story
05/06/02     Cheating Scandal Met Its Foil In U.Va. Leader
05/06/02    

U.Va. Nursing Graduate Turns Grief To Renewed Commitment

05/06/02     Natural-Born Leader At U.Va. Puts Teaching Over Politics
05/06/02    

U.Va. Student Takes Spiritual Search To Nigeria

05/06/02    

The Play’s The Thing For U.Va. Student

05/06/02     U.Va. Adult Degree Program Graduates First Students
05/06/02    

U.Va. Student Finding Cultural Identity In Deafness And Teaching Others

05/01/02    

"New Work" By U.Va. Fifth Year Art Student Sara Hutson Opens May 13 At Main Street Market Gallery

05/01/02     "Touch Places" Opens May 15 At U.Va.’S Fayerweather Gallery
      April 2002
04/30/02    

Henry L. And Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Grants $400,000 For U.Va. Eastern Shore Research And Education Project

04/30/02

   

DANGER IN EXURBIA U.Va. Study Reveals Outer Suburbs More Dangerous Than Cities

04/26/02    

Anonymous Challenge Gift To Provide $5 Million For Arts Grounds At U.Va.; Goal Is To Encourage SupportFor Building Projects

04/25/02    

Study Of Ambulance Diversion At Richmond Hospitals To Be Presented At U.Va. Symposium

04/25/02     U.Va. Announces Awards For Excellence Of Character
04/25/02     University Of Virginia Press: A Slight Change In Name Signals A Significant Confirmation Of Institutional Support
04/25/02    

Graduate Teaching Assistants Honored By Seven Society

04/24/02    

Law Students Aid Rape And Sexual Assault Victims

04/24/02     Carl Smith, U.Va. alum and Wise native, follows up on earlier gift U.Va. College At Wise Receives Largest Gift Ever, A $3 Million Pledge To Complete Football Stadium
04/23/02    

U.Va. Department Of Student Health Receives Top Marks From Joint Commission On Accreditation

04/22/02     University Of Virginia Library Acquires Historic Cabell Family Papers And Creates Website Highlighting The Collection
04/17/02    

Marsha Haufler To Give Weedon Lecture On The Temples Of Ming Beijing At U.Va. April 25

04/17/02     U.Va. Officials To Discuss Large Binocular Telescope Project
04/17/02     Honoring Great Teaching
04/15/02    

Three Exhibits Featured At U.Va. Art Museum First Friday Reception

04/11/02     National Physics Day Show At U.Va. April 24
04/11/02    

Historic Bolivar Materials To Be Donated To U.Va. In Honor Of Jefferson-Era Connection

04/10/02     Family Workshop At U.Va Art Museum To Focus On Native American Art
04/10/02    

"Flowers Interpret Art" At The U.Va. Art Museum On Tuesday, April 23

04/10/02    

U.Va. Patent Foundation Announces Inventor of the Year Dr. Joel Linden, Prolific Inventor And Entrepreneur, Recognized For Developing Agent That Reduces Swelling

04/09/02    

Engaging The Mind Lecture Series Brings University Of Virginia To Virginia

04/09/02     International Students Share Their Culture Over The Airwaves
04/05/02     Ward Buchanan’s planned gift was set in motion 60 years ago U.Va. Receives $52.6 Million Bequest, Second Largest Gift In School’s History/ Unrestricted Endowment To Generate $2.5 Million A Year For Medical Center
04/05/02    

Dedication set for April 13 U.Va.'S Board Of Visitors Names Baseball Field In Honor Of The Late Ted Davenport

04/04/02     $500,000 gift from Commerce School alum to fund interdisciplinary initiatives College Of Arts & Sciences And Commerce School Announce Innovative Collaborative Initiative That Includes New Academic Programs And New Construction
04/04/02    

U.Va. Engineering Student Says "Nuts" To Allergies Invents Handy "Epi-Card" For Emergencies

04/04/02    

Visionary Winemaker Robert Mondavi to Speak at Symposium U.Va.’s Mcintire School Of Commerce Cultivates Innovation, Explores Creativity And Success In The Wine Industry

04/03/02    

Lone Oak Farm, Part Of The Kluge Gift To The University, Sold For $3.35 Million

04/03/02     "Re-Collection" Photographs At Fayerweather Gallery Jog The Memory
04/02/02     Fiction Writer Thomas Mallon Will Present Reading And Talk As Rea Visiting Writer At U.Va.
04/01/02    

"Art Beyond The Classroom: Selections From The Curriculum Support Fund" Opens At University Of Virginia Art Museum April 13

04/01/02    

Contemporary Art Historian And Critic To Lecture On Artist Gerhard Richter At U.Va. April 11

04/01/02    

Lecture On The Work Of Charlottesville Architect Eugene Bradbury At The University Of Virginia April 10

04/01/02    

Photography Curator At Corcoran Museum To Give Talk On Influential Photographer And Filmmaker Robert Frank At U.Va. On April 16

      March 2002
03/28/02     New International Center And Undergraduate Major Will Focus On Understanding America From Many Viewpoints
03/27/02    

U.Va. To Confer Annual Thomas Jefferson Medals In Architecture And Law

03/27/02     Artist James Turrell To Receive 37th Annual Thomas Jefferson Medal In Architecture At The University Of Virginia
03/27/02    

Washington, D.C. Based Photographer And Book Artist To Speak At U.Va. April 2

03/27/02    

Tort Reform Concept Could Speed Resolution Of Medical Malpractice Claims