The Jefferson Scholars Foundation recently awarded Economics Prof.
Law School Prof. David Martin will take a two-year leave from teaching to serve as the principal deputy general counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security.Martin is an expert in immigration law as well as refugee law and served as general counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service during the Clinton administration.Law School Prof.
Cancer has been making headlines for years, primarily projecting into our minds images of people going bald from chemotherapy or statistics about the deadliness of various cancers.
As Student Council leaders start planning for an upcoming transition process, Council has suggested strategies to continue recent and important initiatives, such as the University Unity Project.To ensure that newer initiatives continue successfully under new leadership, Council President Matt Schrimper said Council has developed an ?intricate transition process? not previously implemented.
Computer Science Assoc. Prof. David Evans recently received the 2009 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
A state-level bill that could lead to additional funding for the University of Virginia Cancer Center is currently being considered by the Virginia Senate?s Committee on Rules.The bill, Senate joint resolution 292, would establish a joint subcommittee to study the benefits of appropriating additional funds for cancer research at the University Cancer Center and the Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The University?s Young Women Leaders Program recently was awarded the Virginia Mentoring Partnership?s 2009 Outstanding Mentoring Program Award.
University President John T. Casteen, III announced Friday that Harry Harding will serve as the founding dean of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.?The dean in a sense defines a new school,? Casteen said, adding that ?Harding has a wonderful opportunity.?Though Harding is new to the University, he is no stranger to the spheres of leadership, public policy and education, Casteen said.
Though he did not testify, second-year College student Ronald Johnson was acquitted of charges of cheating in an open Honor trial Saturday afternoon.
A significantly higher percentage of medical students suffer from depression than most young adults, the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges reported in the February edition of Academic Medicine.The study, titled ?Depressive Symptoms in Medical Students and Residents: A Multischool Study,? showed that 21.2 percent of medical students suffer from depression, while only eight to 15 percent of the general young adult population is affected.Kimberly Ephgrave, a University of Iowa surgery professor and a contributor to the study, said she was not surprised by the results.
Members of The Cavalier Daily gathered Saturday to elect the newspaper?s 120th managing and junior boards.Former Operations Manager Andrew Baker, a third-year College student, was elected as the paper?s new editor-in-chief.?I?m very excited to work with the new staff,? Baker said.
The Office of Institutional Assessment and Studies (IAS) is conducting an assessment of the writing programs in each of the University?s undergraduate schools in order to follow the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia?s (SCHEV) requirement for the University to evaluate the success of its students in ?core competencies,? said Jonathan Schnyer, IAS Associate Director and University Assessment Coordinator.How it worksThe assessment, upon request by SCHEV, will examine not only the writing skills that students have when they graduate, Schnyer said, but also the ?value added? in terms of what students learn during their four years at the University.
Nine days after the passing of former University Admissions Dean John Blackburn, the University named one of Blackburn?s prot
University faculty, museum staff, administrators and students gathered yesterday at the University Art Museum to witness the introduction of its new director, Bruce Ambler Boucher.?It?s a great honor to have been chosen by the search committee to become the next director of the University Art Museum,? Boucher said, thanking the crowd for being indoors with him on the unseasonably warm winter afternoon.?In Chicago we call this a spring day,? he joked.Boucher has been the curator of European sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago for the last seven years while also teaching at the University of Chicago.
A bill asking the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to consider the possibility of establishing a four-year, public institution of higher education in Virginia Beach was withdrawn yesterday from the Virginia House of Delegates? Subcommittee on Studies due to lack of funding from the commonwealth.Del.
David Slutzky, chairman of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, recently announced his decision not to challenge Del.
With a solid foundation of well-respected work that includes 2005?s The Mysterious Production of Eggs, and 2007?s Armchair Apocrypha, the arrival of Andrew Bird?s newest self-produced effort through Fat Possum Records, Noble Beast, was greatly anticipated.
Recent estimates from the University?s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service suggest that economic factors are responsible for Virginia?s increasingly slow population growth rate in recent years.The population growth rate had been about 1.2 percent from 2001 to 2004 but declined to 1.1 percent beginning in 2005 and has been slightly less than 1 percent for the past two years, said Qian Cai, Cooper Center demographics and workforce section director.?The population is still growing,? she said.
Thriller coming to BroadwayThe Nederlander Organization, owner of the historic Broadway theater, has recently acquired the rights to adapt Michael Jackson?s iconic ?Thriller? music video to the stage.
Following a joint meeting with the Commission on the Future of the University Monday, Faculty Senate members gathered yesterday to further discuss six newly introduced initiatives and what kind of faculty involvement they will require.Faculty Senate Chair Edmund Kitch started by opening a discussion about Monday?s presentation of the six cross-campus initiatives, which include diversifying the University?s faculty, improving higher education instruction, improving academic departments? access to new technology, incorporating more high-level computing systems into faculty resources, better connecting faculty members from different fields through technology, and building programs to make University students global students.
