Students working toward minors in Arabic Studies will have fewer ways to meet their requirements next semester after University administrators canceled two upper-level Arabic courses. ARAB 226, "Topics in Arabic Prose" and ARAB 584, "Conversational Arabic" will not be offered since Prof.
Biomedical projects to research diabetes and cancer may be underway at the University by the end of the year, thanks to $7 million in funding from a new independent foundation. The Ivy Foundation is dedicated to helping the University fund its top research priorities in biomedicine, said William Battle, chairman of the foundation's board.
With an anonymous $1 million gift lining its pocket, the University's Nursing School will be able to recruit a new faculty member with expertise in the field of pediatric nursing. The gift, which will establish a distinguished professorship, sets a new mark as the largest gift to the Nursing School from an individual donor and will be the first $1 million professorship to go before the Board of Visitors, which approves all new funded professorships. "The named professorship allows us to attract faculty members who have done prominent research in the area" and are often known nationally and internationally, Assoc.
As the 2000 elections campaigns are heating up, former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder (D) provided living proof yesterday that elections are won by focusing on the people and not the polls. Although the former Virginia governor is celebrated as the first and only black governor in the United States, he said he reminds candidates they will not get elected for trying to make history. Wilder spoke before a crowded GFAP 101 class, taught by Larry J.
The Darden School has decided to build a Northern Virginia office in the heart of the high-tech corridor running from Tysons Corner to Dulles Airport. The office will not function as a satellite campus, but will instead promote Darden student business projects, foster executive education with area corporations and provide opportunities for case writing with such corporations. Classes may be offered at the Northern Virginia office in the future. "There needed to be a stronger relationship between Darden and the high-tech communities," Darden Vice President of Communications Phil Giaramata said.
Three Democratic Charlottesville City Council candidates encouraged student activism in local politics and addressed city-University issues before the University Democrats last night. "I'm suspicious of those who say students are temporary citizens who have no role," incumbent Council member Maurice Cox said. Cox, fellow incumbent Meredith Richards and challenging candidate Kevin Lynch face election May 2 against three Republican candidates and two independents.
More evidence has been discovered in the Sally Hemings-Thomas Jefferson saga, this time casting doubt on the claims of the descendants of Monticello slave Tom Woodson, who assert Woodson was the product of the Hemings-Jefferson affair. A DNA test on the Rev.
