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      2003 PRESS RELEASES
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      ALL 2003 U.VA. HEALTH SYSTEM PRESS RELEASES
      December 2003
    12/19/03 Gift continues tradition of academic support
$50,000 From Bowl Proceeds To Support Music Festival
    12/16/03

What about the children? Nursing School Researchers Seek To Learn The Fates Of The Children Of Domestic Homicide
    12/12/03 The University of Virginia Curry School of Education Receives $5 Million Grant to Improve School Readiness
    12/10/03 University Of Virginia Tops Journal’s Survey Of African-American Graduation Rates For The 10th Straight Year
    12/9/03 University Of Virginia Art Museum Holiday Season Closing Schedule
    12/9/03 Humans Began Altering Global Climate Thousands Of Years Ago, Study Shows
    12/9/03 Constitutional Amendment To Hold Back State Government Growth Would Be Fraught With Problems, Economist Cautions
      November 2003
    11/26/03 Mitman Tapped as Marshall Scholar
Mclean Student Will Pursue Master’s In Physics
    11/26/03 Jules I. “Jay” Levine, Ph.D. Named International President Of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity
    11/26/03 University Of Virginia Accepts 872 Early Applicants / 82 Percent Are In-State Students
    11/19/03 University Of Virginia Art Museum Presents “Our View”
Exhibition and Book of Photographs by Area High School Students
    11/19/03 Some El Niño Events May Be Linked To Volcanic Eruptions, Study Shows
    11/13/03 Cited For His Passion, Innovation and Commitment
Edward L. Ayers, U.Va. Historian And Dean, Receives Nation’s Top Teaching Award
    11/11/03 University Of Virginia Art Museum To Honor Ruth And Robert Cross At Gala Event Nov. 21
    11/11/03 Emmet/Ivy Parking Facility Opens Nov. 12
    11/11/03 David J. Neuman, Former Stanford University Architect,
Named Architect For The University Of Virginia
    11/10/03 Noted Authority On Japanese Woodblock Prints To Give Gallery Talk At University Of Virginia Art Museum
    11/10/03 Let’s Swing! U.Va. Library Shows Portraits From The Golden Age Of Jazz
    11/07/03 Japanese Woodblock Prints At U.Va. Art Museum Provide A Glimpse Into Japanese Culture And History
    11/07/03 “Museum To Go” Brings Culture Of Japan To Kindergarten Through Middle School Youngsters
    11/07/03 U.Va. Art Museum’s 17th Writer’s Eye Literary Competition Ends Nov. 21
    11/06/03 Twenty-Nine Institute Graduates Elected Statewide Nov. 4
Sorensen Institute Graduates Continue Strong Role In Setting Ethical Tone For Virginia Campaigns
    11/05/03 U.Va Drama Department Playfully Ponders “The Way of the World”
    11/03/03 University Of Virginia Authority On Culture And Architecture Will Give A Public Talk At School Of Architecture Nov. 14
    11/03/03 Nystrom And Tilghman To Read From New Works
      October 2003
    10/31/03 Thomas Jefferson Award
Dr. Robert M. Carey Receives University’s Highest Honor
    10/31/03 American Culture Expert To Give Keynote Address At U.Va. Art History Symposium
    10/28/03 Aunspaugh Reunion Show At Fayerweather Gallery Opens Nov. 7
    10/28/03 Award-Winning New York Architect To Speak At U.Va. Nov. 7
    10/24/03 State Must Meet Crucial Revenue Needs As It Overhauls Tax System
    10/23/03 Post-World War II Houses And Their Role In Forming Our Culture Is Topic Of Talk At U.Va. Nov. 6
    10/23/03 U.Va.’s Artspace Committee Exhibition Features Recent Works Of The Virginia Stone Carvers Guild
    10/23/03 Archaeological Expert On Prehistoric South Asia To Give Talk At U.Va. Nov. 13
    10/23/03 New Major In Biomedical Engineering Approved
    10/21/03 Classical Indian Vocal Recitals To Be Held Oct. 25
    10/20/03 Universitas 21, international consortium of research universities
Ball State President Blaine Brownell Named To Lead U21 Subsidiary Charged With Academic Standards And Quality
    10/17/03 U.Va., Monacan Indian Nation Leaders To Discuss Collaborative History During Public Discussion Oct. 23
    10/17/03 Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Lecture Will Examine Dynamic French-American Relationship
    10/15/03 The Enduring Influence Of Early African Farmers And Cooks
    10/15/03 William B. Quandt, Expert On International Affairs And University Professor, To Speak At U.Va.’s Fall Convocation
    10/14/03 The Virginia Film Festival Announces Final Programs
Four major movie premieres sweeten the “$” deal
    10/14/03 Specialist In Northern European Renaissance And Baroque Art To Give Talk At The University Of Virginia On Oct. 30
    10/14/03 Public Forum With Noted Speakers Will Focus On Religion, Justice And Violence
    10/13/03 Fiction Writer And Essayist Francine Prose Will Give Reading And Talk At U.Va.
    10/10/03 Virginia Film Festival Plans Extensive Series of Absolutely Free Panels on Movies and Money
    10/10/03 Fringe Festival Stocks the Former IGA Supermarket with Art and $
    10/09/03 U.Va. School Of Nursing To Lead Local Collaboration Aimed At Increasing, Diversifying Pool Of Nurses
    10/09/03 University Of Virginia Hosts Statewide Conference For Teachers Of English As A Second Language
    10/08/03 Award-Winning Architect To Give Talk At U.Va. School Of Architecture Oct. 17
    10/07/03 Acclaimed Photographer To Lecture At U.Va. Oct. 20
    10/03/03 New York Couple Funds Expansion Of U.Va. Architecture School
    10/03/03 Rotary Club Of Charlottesville To Host Inaugural Rotary Beaux-Arts Ball To Benefit The University Of Virginia Art Museum And The Charlottesville-Albemarle Community
    10/03/03 U.Va. Art Museum Announces Publication Of New Book: “Siting Jefferson: Contemporary Artists Interpret Thomas Jefferson’s Legacy”
    10/01/03 Story Tips From The Curry School Of Education At The University Of Virginia
    10/01/03 Civil Rights Leader Dorothy Height To Speak At U.Va.
Related “Wednesdays In Mississippi” Records Given To Library
    10/01/03 Award-Winning Poet Anne Carson Will Read At U.Va. Bookstore Oct. 27
    10/01/03 Historian Edward Ayers Will Discuss New Civil War Book Oct. 28
    10/01/03 U.Va. School Of Nursing Annual Event Reveals The Faces Of Aids In Developing Countries
    10/01/03 Nine General Assembly Members To Participate In Legislative Forum On Virginia Public Higher Education
      September 2003
    09/29/03 The U.Va. Art Museum Tracks A Lost Culture With The
Exhibition “Steam Power: Railroad Photographs
Of O. Winston Link”
    09/29/03 U.Va. Art Museum Features Work By Video Installation Artist Pierre Huyghe In Conjunction With 2003 Virginia Film Festival
    09/29/03 U.Va. Art Museum Begins 17th Writer’s Eye Literary Competition Oct. 6
    09/26/03 ‘Day In The Life’ Mentoring Program Marks Second Year Of Encouraging Local Youth To Consider College
    09/26/03 16TH Annual Virginia Film Festival Wants to Show You the $ …
From low-budget to mega-budget, four days of movies on moolah, and the money behind them…
    09/26/03 Photographer Doug Dertinger To Exhibit Works At Fayerweather Gallery In October
    09/26/03 Internationally Acclaimed Artist To Give U.Va. Art Museum’s 11th Gladys S. Blizzard Lecture
    09/25/03 Noted Art Historian And Critic To Give Talk At U.Va.
    09/25/03 U.Va Drama Department Launches 2003-2004 Season with the Compelling
“ The House of Bernarda Alba”
    09/24/03 New Map Of The Milky Way Shows Our Galaxy To Be A Cannibal
Study Shows the Milky Way is Out to Lunch
    09/24/03 Papers Of Civil Rights Pioneer Who Was Denied Admission Come Home To University Of Virginia Library
    09/22/03 Grand Opening And Public Lecture Set For Oct. 3
Renovated Science And Engineering Library Offers Inviting Ambience For 21st Century Scholarship
    09/22/03 Grant To Help University Of Virginia Develop Historical Preservation Plan
    09/22/03 Art And The Natural World Exhibit At Science Library
    09/18/03 Wilsdorf Hall Groundbreaking
Engineering School Expects New Building
To Foster Collaborative, Nanotechnology Research
    09/18/03 Architect James Dayton To Give Talk Oct. 3 On Current Work At U.Va.
    09/18/03 Early Italian Renaissance Art Expert Andrew Ladis To Give Talk At U.Va.
    09/16/03 Virginia Universities Combine Forces For The National Lambdarail
Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership (MATP) is Formed
    09/16/03 “Valley Of The Shadow” Civil War Web Archive Adds Thousands Of New Documents
    09/16/03 In The Presence Of Mine Enemies
New Book Takes An Eye-Level View Of Civil War To Present A More Accurate Picture
    09/15/03 “Roads Taken: 20th-Century Prints and Drawings from the Collection”
Curator To Give Gallery Talk At U.Va. Art Museum
    09/15/03 University Of Virginia Exhibits Photographs Of Shenandoah National Park In Newcomb Hall Art Gallery
    09/15/03 Donor Support For University Of Virginia Sets Record
    09/12/03 NASA Rocket To Loft Tests By U.Va. Students And Pennsylvania Schoolchildren
    09/10/03 First-Ever Virginia Film “Festival 101” Introduces Students To Filmmaking
    09/10/03 University Of Virginia Students To Mark Sept. 11 Anniversary With Vigil On South Lawn
    09/09/03 Daphne Spain To Chair Department Of Urban And Environmental Planning At U.Va.
    09/09/03 Joining Architecture and Landscape Architecture Departments Fosters Multidisciplinary Teaching and Collaborative Research
A New Model For Design Practice
    09/09/03 William H. Sherman Named Chairman Of New Department Of Architecture And Landscape Architecture
    09/08/03 University Of Virginia Authority On Culture And Architecture Will Give A Public Talk At School Of Architecture Sept. 19
    09/05/03 Opening Sept. 19
U.Va. Art Museum Exhibits “Purple With Love’s Wound”:
Tim Rollins + K.O.S.
    09/04/03 U.Va. Appoints Three New Vice Provosts
      August 2003
    08/28/03 U.Va. Art Faculty Exhibit “Last Tango” At Fayerweather Gallery
    08/25/03 U.Va Library’s Japanese Text Initiative Receives Grant From Toshiba Foundation
    08/21/03 U.Va.’s Class Of 2007 More Diverse, Better Qualified
    08/21/03 In a tie with UC-Berkeley
U.Va. Regains No. 1 Position Among Best Public Institutions; Jumps To No. 21 Among Best National Universities In U.S.News Rankings
    08/21/03 Changes In University Transit Service Schedule, Debut Of ‘Saferide’ To Enhance Student Safety On Nights, Weekends
    08/20/03 The Class Of 2007 To Arrive Saturday
    08/20/03 Native Virginian William Pease To Lead U.Va.’s New Marching Band
    08/15/03 Sculptor Gay Outlaw Exhibits New Work At U.Va. Art Museum
    08/11/03 On-Grounds Construction Causes Parking Shuffle For U.Va. Home Football Games
    08/07/03 U.Va. Art Museum Presents Exhibition Of Work By Summer Arts Artists
    08/07/03 U.Va.’s McCormick Observatory Offers ’Mars Mania’ Open House Series In August And September
      July 2003
    07/31/03 “Roads Taken: 20th-Century Prints And Drawings From The Collection” Opens At U.Va. Art Museum Aug. 16
    07/29/03 Heat-Related Death Rates Declining Across U.S., Even As Summer Temperatures Rise, Study Says
    07/24/03 Long-time University treasurer
Alice Handy, Who Oversaw Incredible Growth In University Endowment, Leaves To Pursue Personal Business Interests
    07/10/03 U.Va. President John T. Casteen III Selected To Serve
On Alcohol And Other Drug Prevention Leadership Group
    07/08/03 Brian O'Connor Named Head Baseball Coach At Virginia
    07/01/03 Composer Judith Shatin’s Interactive “Tree Music” Brings Forest Alive at U.Va. Art Museum’s Brzezinski Exhibit
      June 2003
    06/30/03 Media Advisory/Technology and 21st Century Learners to be Discussed
    06/20/03 The University Of Virginia Receives Gift To Enhance Study Of Japanese Politics And Government
    06/19/03 U.Va. Art Museum Announces “Our View” Contest Winners
    06/16/03 Dr. R. Ariel Gomez Is Appointed Vice President For Research And Graduate Studies
    06/16/03 Limited Blasting To Occur At Arena Site
    06/13/03 University Of Virginia Experts Available For Comment On The U.S. Supreme Court Decision On Affirmative Action
    06/10/03 Theodore H. “Ted” Genoways Named Editor Of Virginia Quarterly Review
    06/09/03 University Of Virginia Sponsors June 12-13 Conference On Suicide And Related Issues On University Campuses
    06/06/03 U.Va. Art Museum Begins Third Summer Of Successful Summer Arts Program
    06/04/03 U.Va. Foundation Signs New Tenants To North Fork Research Park
Tiaa-Cref, Northrop Grumman Corp. And Padow’s Hams & Deli
    06/04/03 Child Prodigy To Attend University Of Virginia For Ph.D. In Mathematics
    06/03/03 U.Va Patent Foundation Names Inventors Of The Year: Microbiologists William Petri And Barbara Mann
    06/02/03 U.Va. Selects Boston Architects Schwartz/Silver To Design New Studio Art Building
      May 2003
    05/30/03 John Paul Jones Arena
Paul Tudor Jones, University Alumnus And Benefactor, Honors His Father With Naming
    05/22/03 Exhibit At Fayerweather Gallery Celebrates Work Of U.Va.’S Mcintire Department Of Art Alumni
    05/22/03 Artist Emilie Brzezinski Reveals Essential Forms In Wood Sculpture At U.Va. Art Museum
    05/19/03 U.Va. To Establish Four Endowed Professorships For New Research Institute
    05/16/03 Kyle Gabler’s Dorm Room Seethes With Creativity
    05/13/03 University Of Virginia To Host Symposium In Morphogenesis And Regenerative Medicine May 19-21
    05/13/03 U.Va. Conference On Faith And Social Action Gathers
Grassroots Activists And Distinguished Theologians
    05/13/03 U.Va. Alumni To Speak During Finals Weekend
    05/07/03 Student Pursues Dream Of Improving Women’s Health Care
    05/07/03 U.Va. Student Leader Sarah Jobe: Promoting Inclusiveness For Everyone
    05/07/03 Student Helping People See That ‘No Man Is An Island’
    05/07/03 Advocate For Diversity Leads By Example
    05/07/03 From A One-Room School To The Athletic Field / U.Va. Alumna Watches Granddaughter Make Strides
    05/01/03 University Of Virginia Art Museum Exhibits Works By Celebrated Photographer And Alumnus Rodney Smith
      April 2003
    04/25/03 “Ephemeris” Sculpture Relocated To Culbreth Theatre
    04/24/03 Web Archive Of Rare Material Will Show How Railroad Brought Change To The Eastern Shore
    04/24/03 $22 million to a performing arts center / $1.5 million to endow a marching band
Alumnus Carl W. Smith And His Wife, Hunter, Support Efforts To Enhance The Arts At The University Of Virginia
    04/23/03 Graduate Teaching Assistants Are Honored By Seven Society
    04/22/03 U.Va.’s Institute For Environmental Negotiation Announces New Leadership Institute For People Involved With Natural Resources In The Southeast
    04/21/03 Motivational Speaker To Address Issues Of Diversity
    04/21/03 A Day In The Life At U.Va. Gives Buford Middle School Students A Taste Of College Life
    04/21/03 U.Va. Teachers Honored For Inspirational Work
    04/18/03 University Of Virginia Experts Available For Comment
    04/15/03 U.Va. Panel To Discuss Pros And Cons Of Affirmative Action
    04/10/03 U.S.-Cuba Relations Will Be Subject Of April 21 Program
    04/10/03 Virginia Natural Resource Leadership Institute To Kick Off Fourth Year Of Successful Program
    04/08/03 National Physics Day Show At U.Va. April 23
    04/08/03 Nurse Staffing And Patient Complications To Be Discussed At U.Va.
    04/07/03 U.Va. Offers Admission To 5,661 Students For Fall / Dramatic Increase Seen In Electronic Applications
    04/04/03 $200,000 GRANT
Alderman Library’s Historic Mcgregor Room Will Be Restored To Full Grandeur As A Student Reading-Room
    04/04/03 Mellon Grant Will Enable U.Va. Library To Develop A Plan For Preserving Its Millions Of Manuscripts And Archives
    04/03/03 University Announces $8.5 Million Lead Gift For Arts & Sciences South Lawn Project
    04/03/03 U.Va.’s bond rating upgraded to AAA by Standard & Poor’s
Three AAA Bond Ratings Put U.Va. In Financial Elite
    04/03/03 A BOV special committee and a presidential commission
Univerisity Announces Two New Diversity Initiatives To Take Lead In Recommending Changes
    04/03/03 Annual “Flowers Interpret Art” Event At U.Va. Art Museum Concludes With Buffet Reception
    04/03/03 Rainey Elected 37th Rector Of U.Va.’S Board Of Visitors / Farrell To Become First Vice Rector
    04/03/03 U.Va. To Move Forward With Construction Of Arena And Special Events Center
    04/02/03 U.Va. Military Nurse Prepared For Deployment, But Not For Separation From Children
    04/01/03 McIntire School of Commerce Sponsors Spring Symposium
Nobel Prize Winner In Economics Is Keynote Speaker
    04/01/03 Bill T. Jones, Icon Of American Dance, To Perform At U.Va. April 25
    04/01/03 Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy To Receive Jefferson Law Medal At U.Va.
    04/01/03 U.Va. To Award Annual Thomas Jefferson Medals In Architecture, Law
      March 2003
    03/31/03 National Gallery Of Art Expert To Speak On Michelangelo’s Architectural Influences
    03/27/03 Springfest 2003 To Feature Nickel Creek, Others
    03/26/03 Background On Emmet Street / Ivy Road Traffic Study
    03/24/03 Novelist And Short-Story Writer Richard Bausch Will Give A Reading And Talk As U.Va.’s Rea Visiting Writer
    03/21/03 “Masterworks Of African Art” On Exhibit At U.Va. Art Museum Through May 4
    03/21/03 “Re-Imagining Ireland: Irish Art Today” Exhibition Opens April 12 At The University Of Virginia Art Museum
    03/21/03 University Of Virginia Art Museum Receives Works By 20th-Century Artist Joseph Cornell
    03/19/03 Iraq War And Related Issues
University Of Virginia News Media Resources
    03/18/03 International Artists Celebrate Digital Art With Exhibition And Events At U.Va.’s Fayerweather Gallery
    03/18/03 Museum Of Modern Art Expert To Lecture On Artist Joseph Cornell
    03/18/03 U.Va Art Museum Open For Fourth Friday Reception March 28
    03/17/03 U.Va. Law School To Host Conference Exploring Legal, Economic Issues Of Watershed Management
    03/17/03 The New Accountability For School Systems Calls For New Roles For Virginia’s School Leaders
    03/14/03 Conference On Affordable Architecture To Be Held At U.Va. School Of Architecture March 28-30
    03/13/03 “The Mosquito’s Point Of View”: Student’s Research Documents History Of Autograph-Collecting In U.Va. Exhibit
    03/11/03 Artist And Educator To Speak About Art As A Catalyst For Social Change March 20
    03/11/03 U.Va. Conference To Convene Supreme Court Affirmative Action Contenders
    03/11/03 U.Va.’s Higher Education Center Receives $950,000 Grant To Study Nontraditional Students
    03/06/03 University Of Virginia School Of Nursing To Host Agnes Dillon Randolph Lecture And Award Ceremony
    03/06/03 Gerontology Nursing Leader Joins U.Va. Nursing School
    03/05/03 Spring Discussion Series To Focus On International Indigenous Communities
      February 2003
    02/28/03 U.Va. Symposium Will Focus On Tibetan History
    02/28/03 Cartoons effect change
“Political Humor: A Tribute To Herblock” Opens At U.Va. Art Museum March 15
    02/28/03 Photographer William Christenberry Will Speak About His Work At U.Va. March 17
    02/24/03 Specialist On Modern Italian Art And Fascist Culture To Give A Talk On “The Faces Of Modigliani”
    02/24/03 U.Va. English Department Literary Scholars And Creative Writers Will Present “Works In Progress” At Virginia Book Festival
    02/21/03 Honor Committee At University Of Virginia Produces CD-Rom; Invites Faculty To Attend Trials
    02/18/03 New York Artist Reveals The Heavens At U.Va.’s Fayerweather Gallery
    02/18/03 Former IRS Official to Speak at U.Va.
Alumnus To Give Commencement Address