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Student Council prepares for new leadership, transition

By Jane Ma | February 3, 2009

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.

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State bill would evaluate cancer research funding

By Laura Hoffman | February 3, 2009

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.

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Harding named first dean of Batten School

By Kate Colwell | February 2, 2009

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.

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Study shows medical students more likely to suffer from depression

By Branden Ly | February 2, 2009

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.

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120th Cavalier Daily Staff elected Saturday

By Christina Brown | February 2, 2009

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.

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Finding the

By Prateek Vasireddy | February 2, 2009

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.

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U.Va. Art Museum gains new director

By Bethel Habte | January 30, 2009

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.

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Va. Beach four-year university bill withdrawn

By Bethel Habte | January 30, 2009

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.

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Bird

By Olivia Davidson | January 29, 2009

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.

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Va. population growth rate slows

By Katherine Raichlen | January 29, 2009

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.

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The Pulse

By Cavalier Daily Staff | January 29, 2009

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.

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Faculty Senate discusses six new initiatives

By Betsy Graves | January 29, 2009

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.

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New study shows rural road danger

By Sarah Wooten | January 29, 2009

More traffic fatalities occur in the outer suburbs of Virginia than in the commonwealth?s inner suburbs and cities, according to a recent study by William Lucy, a University urban and environmental planning professor.Lucy said he was not surprised by the results of his most recent research because they are consistent with other data he has collected since the 1980s regarding the topic, noting that his goal was ?to see the dangers of leaving home and traveling.?He said people familiar with the rural roads they travel on each day often do not realize those areas are where they are more likely to get in a fatal accident.?I really think people aren?t making wise decisions,? he said.

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More songs in the Bank

By Priya Bhetapaur | January 29, 2009

After a year of praise, accolades and one of the most critically acclaimed albums of 2008, Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon had to be feeling the pressure, fully aware that any new material would be scrutinized and expected to bear the weight of greatness once again.

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