[caption id="attachment_47394" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Student Council hosted a debate last night between Democratic State Sen.
Stephen Braga, partner in law firm Ropes & Gray's Government Enforcement Practice in Washington, D.C., and renowned white-collar criminal defense and innocence lawyer, began teaching a seminar yesterday at the University's Law School concerning his involvement with the prominent West Memphis Three Case.
[caption id="attachment_47334" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward spoke at the Miller Center yesterday.
[caption id="attachment_47332" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The new pay system at the University Medical Center was implemented earlier this month.
The American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is adding new reporting requirements for law schools releasing information about their graduating classes, the ABA announced last week in response to a letter from Sen.
The University Health System and 27 other participating universities published a study last week about a new, noninvasive prenatal blood test which can detect Down syndrome in a fetus. The test, which was released in 20 metropolitan regions last week, can reduce the need for risky diagnostic procedures which may put the health of the mother and the fetus at risk. The study, published in the journal "Genetics in Medicine," found that a noninvasive method using blood tests may be a safer alternative to the normal screening process, said Glenn Palomaki, a lead researcher on the study and senior research associate in the division of biology and medicine at Brown University.
[caption id="attachment_47251" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Sen. Jim Webb, D.-Va., delivered the keynote address at a luncheon Friday celebrating the opening of the Batten School's new location in Garrett Hall.
[caption id="attachment_47249" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Honor Committee continued last night to debate the possibility of an informed retraction option for students who violate the honor code.
A new report from a Georgetown University team shows that students who major in science, technology, engineering or mathematics fields will have greater income potential than non-STEM majors, though they show high levels of attrition from the job field. The report finds that non-STEM occupations will earn on average an entry salary of $36,000, compared to a STEM employment's $51,000.
The "Keep the Fires Burning" campaign, which aims to raise the $3.7 million required to repair the broken Lawn and Range fireplaces, received $100,000 as its first donation Wednesday. [caption id="attachment_47204" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="University Facilities Management discovered cracks in the fireplaces last summer, deeming them unusable for current Lawn and Range residents.
[caption id="attachment_47202" align="alignleft" width="237" caption="In his letter, Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., said the county suffered damages to homes and other buildings, necessitating assistance from FEMA.
Narayan Lakshman, Washington correspondent for The Hindu, India's largest English-language daily newspapers, spoke at the University yesterday about corruption in India and the role of newspapers in politics today. In his lecture, titled "Corruption, Poverty, and Political Power: The Great Democratic Game," Lakshman described corruption in India as both rampant and "necessary to lubricate the wheels of development." He said the central causes of this corruption is the changing balance of power between agrarian masses and the ruling elite. "Indians are very familiar with corruption," Lakshman said.
The American Council on Education announced this week the formation of the Commission on Higher Education Attainment, a group designed to look at President Obama's proposal to improve higher education by the year 2020, analyze the current educational system and then offer advice to universities and governmental agencies. Its first meeting will take place Monday at ACE's Washington, D.C.
[caption id="attachment_47129" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Protestors in Lee Park have received a three-day permit to stay on the City property after curfew.
Medical School Prof. Fern Hauck and the American Academy of Pediatrics' Task Force on SIDS released an expansion of recommendations Tuesday for a safe infant sleeping environment.
A team of cancer biologists at the University and the University of Colorado were awarded $9.55 million by the National Cancer Institute last week to fund five years of prostate cancer research.
!["Like many scholars and practicing writers who also teach," writes Lisa Russ Spaar, "I do so because I loved being a student and am grateful for the ways in which teaching invites a lifetime practice of intellectual, creative rigor and (re) visiting texts in fresh ways." Described by colleague Michael Levenson as a "teaching legend," Spaar is praised by students for giving them "new ways to think about poetry and the recurring themes of love, death, truth, beauty, God and time."
A former student writes, "She expected us to move fluidly between critical and writerly lenses. In this way, Professor Spaar not only supported my developing sensibility as a writer, but also as a young scholar." English department chairman Jahan Ramazani summarizes: "Lisa Russ Spaar is a stunning teacher, one of the very best at the University and quite possibly anywhere in the country."
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[caption id="attachment_47125" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Lisa Russ Spaar received $10,000 Saturday for her contribution to contemporary poetry.
[caption id="attachment_47055" align="alignleft" width="201" caption="Editor-In-Chief Jason Ally exited the University Judiciary Committee trial last night free of any penalty.
Gil Harrington, mother of murdered Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, announced Monday that she has filed a civil lawsuit against Regional Marketing Concepts for failing to protect her daughter the night she was abducted after leaving a concert at John Paul Jones Arena.
[caption id="attachment_47052" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Members of the Virginia Sierra Club disapprove of the Governor's approach to alternative energy sources.
