RELEASE ON RECEIPT

	          HARRISON AWARDS RECOGNIZE WORK OF 10 OUTSTANDING 
                       U.VA. FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS;
                         Each to Receive $10,000 Stipend

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.,  Nov. 6 -- Thanks to a University of Virginia 
alumnus who believes in rewarding exceptional teaching and leadership, ten 
U.Va. professors and administrators will receive $10,000 Harrison Fund Awards 
this month.
	The stipends are the latest benefit of the more than $15 million that 
retired investment banker David A. Harrison III of Hopewell has contributed 
in recent years to U.Va. programs in medicine, law, archaeology and athletics.
	A year ago, he funded one-time bonuses to dozens of U.Va. faculty as 
a precursor to the Board of Visitors' comprehensive plan to supplement state 
salaries with private funds to make them competitive in the national labor 
market.
	In announcing the 1997 Harrison awards today, President John T. 
Casteen III noted the importance of a program that provides tangible rewards 
for work less often recognized.
	"David Harrison asked us to select five of the University's very best 
teachers and, for the first time, five general faculty members whose 
exceptional work last year helped sustain the University's national stature," 
Casteen said.
	"Mr. Harrison's continuing generosity, combined with his 
understanding of our most important needs, does more than make possible 
well-deserved rewards to these individuals.  These awards symbolize the 
academic and administrative commitment that is valued here."
	The awards recognize a wide range of contributions to students, 
University colleagues and the general public.  Among them are history 
professor Ed Ayers' pathbreaking use of technology for both instruction and 
scholarship, as well as his leadership of the Faculty Senate's initiative to 
improve teaching; Dr. Steven Meixel's model as a family medicine practitioner 
for the medical students and residents he teaches; Bill Randolph's commitment 
of considerable time and effort beyond his regular work assignment to help 
streamline University-wide business systems, thereby both saving money and 
improving services to most students and patients; and Nancy Bertram's 
contributions to redesigning the University's administrative computer systems 
that will both cut costs and improve effectiveness.
 	The 1997 award winners were selected from nominations submitted 
through the University's vice presidents.
	The academic faculty are:
Edward L. Ayers, Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History and chair-elect of the 
Faculty Senate

Dr. Valentina Brashers, assistant professor of nursing and clinical assistant 
professor of medicine

Barry W. Johnson, professor of electrical engineering and director of the 
Center for Semicustom Integrated Systems

Michael J. Klarman, professor of law

Dr. Steven A. Meixel, Harrison Teaching Professor in Generalist Medicine and 
director of residency in family medicine

	General faculty award winners are:

Nancy C. Bertram, associate dean for management and budget, College and 
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Donald W. Lindsey, senior investment officer, Office of the Treasurer

William J. Randolph, associate dean for finance, School of Medicine

James H. Scott III, director, University Budget Office

Carol S. Wood, director of news services, University Relations

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                                                         November 5, 1997

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Relations, at (804) 924-1400.  Television reporters should call our TV News 
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