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Telehealth center receives funding

[caption id="attachment_45296" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Center for Telehealth, located in the University Medical Center, provides care and education to difficult-to-reach patients.


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Research finds

Watching fast-paced television cartoons such as "Spongebob Squarepants" could negatively impact preschool-aged children's readiness for learning, a University study published Monday in the October issue of the journal "Pediatrics" reports. University Psychology Prof.


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Harrington visits Grounds to support bill

Gil Harrington, mother of the late Morgan Harrington, visited the University last Thursday in support of House Bill 2490, a piece of legislation which would require oversight of murder and rape investigations on college campuses in Virginia to be transferred to the appropriate local police departments.


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Report shows need to improve training

The standards of graduate medical education nationwide need to be updated to reflect new population patterns and emerging technology, according to a report released last Thursday by the Josiah Macy Jr.


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Health law survives Cuccinelli

A federal appellate court in Virginia threw out a suit filed by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli which challenged President Obama's 2010 health care reform bill, ruling Thursday that the law's mandate which requires individuals to buy health insurance "imposes no obligations" on the commonwealth. The three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an attorney general has no legal standing to sue the government on behalf of the individuals who may be affected, according to the opinion issued by the court. Cuccinelli filed his lawsuit in direct response to Obama's health care legislation, which was signed March 23, 2010.


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Honor listens to group

[caption id="attachment_45213" align="alignleft" width="205" caption="Barbara Schaedel, president of Families for Honor, gave a speech to the Honor Committee to share the organization's concerns about the honor system.


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Judge OKs stay in A.G.

The long-standing battle between Virginia Attorney General and University alumnus Ken Cuccinelli and the University concerning access rights to private research documents met another delay Friday when a judge approved the University's petition for a temporary stay. Albermarle County Circuit Judge Cheryl Higgins approved the requested postponement of the court's decision during a Friday court hearing, citing a need to defer to the Supreme Court of Virginia's anticipated decisions on appeals related to the case, according to numerous reports. Cuccinelli's revised demand for the documents will be considered once more after the Supreme Court of Virginia issues its rulings on these appeals. Cuccinelli is seeking documents pertaining to the climate change research of former University Environmental Sciences Prof.


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Earlier classes benefit students

[caption id="attachment_45134" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Researchers were surprised by their findings that students with later classes did not perform as well as those who started earlier in the day.


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Monitor saves infants

[caption id="attachment_45132" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Heart Rate Observaton System, described by the Medical Predictive Science Corporation as a non-invasive bio-informatic sytem, examines abnormalities of heart rates in infants.


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Leader alleges racism

M. Rick Turner, president of the local NAACP chapter, publicly accused businesses on the Downtown Mall of racism in their hiring practices during the Charlottesville City Council meeting held Tuesday night. Turner quoted from a letter to the editor placed in The Daily Progress Aug.


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Mann pursues legal action

Former University Environmental Sciences Prof. Michael Mann began legal procedures last Friday to intervene on the attempt of the American Tradition Institute to acquire documents of his research on global warming. The move comes a week after the University submitted nearly 4,000 pages of Mann's documents to ATI, which requested the information through the Freedom of Information Act.


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Scott plans not to run for Senate

Rep. Robert "Bobby" Scott, D-Newport News, announced Monday that he will not run for U.S. Senate in 2012, instead endorsing fellow Democrat and former Virginia governor Tim Kaine. "Though I believe I can win the Democratic nomination and the general election, a winning campaign would require me to devote all of my time for the next 14 months to that campaign," Scott said in a statement.


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Residents meet local farmers

Market Central, a non-profit created by vendors and patrons of the weekly farmers' market downtown, helped these same growers host market customers at 19 local farms around the area Monday. As part of Market Central's 2011 "Meet Yer Eats!" Farm Tour, farmers opened their doors to market regulars, families, students and Charlottesville residents to see the working farms and farmers who live near the City. Event programs included guided tours of greenhouses, meet and greets with farm animals, and seminars on topics such as incorporating culinary and medicinal herbs into daily life.

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