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New housing data refines census

Following three months of research, University demographers from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service have added and corrected information about Virginia addresses for the 2010 U.S.


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University receives efficiency grant

Google announced that the University Asst. Computer Science Prof. Sudhanva Gurumurthi is among the recipients of its Focus Research Awards yesterday, which total $5.7 million of unrestricted grant money to fund 12 projects at 10 different academic institutions. The grant money will be divided among four areas of interest to both Google and the research community: machine learning; mobile phones as data collection devices for public health and environment monitoring; energy efficiency in computing; and privacy, said Sean Carlson, Global Communication and Public Affairs manager at Google. The awards are partly geared toward promoting projects that investigate energy efficiency in both hardware and software design, he added. "As more people use cloud computing, all this information is processed somewhere," Carlson said.


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Perriello raises $1.1 million for upcoming race

Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Charlottesville, incumbent congressman and stand-alone Democrat, thus far has garnered nearly five times the amount raised by his Republican competitors for the November election. The campaign raised a record $308,725 during the fourth quarter of 2009, adding to its total of $1,140,470 for the 2010 election year. "We're thrilled to have gained support from over 2,100 individual donors - nearly five times as many donors as all the Republican candidates combined - 77 percent of whom are small donors," said Anna Scholl, finance director for the Perriello campaign.


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Snowfall prompts quick action, coordination by Grounds teams

After last semester's snow storm trapped several students in Charlottesville at the beginning of Winter Break, some students may have been apprehensive about the University's response to weather-related events. But University Services pulled together Saturday to combat the unexpectedly heavy snowfall that hit Grounds. "What we had projected as a pretty moderate event turned out to be much more significant," said Jay Klingel, director of operations and maintenance.


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Cooper Center estimates recovering population growth rate

The state population's growth rate is beginning to return to figures close to those from before the recession, according to a study by the University's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The population grew by 87,000 people from July 2008 to 2009, said Mike Spar, a research associate with the Center's Demographics and Workforce Group.


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