"Race and Repair" Brings together UVA Students and Charlottesville Community
March 09, 2010 | C-Ville Weekly
On most days, the Quality Community Council (QCC), a grassroots coalition located in a small space on West Main Street, attacks tangible problems facing Charlottesville’s most troubled neighborhoods—voter education, affordable housing and crime prevention, to name a few.
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Spring Breakers Choose Volunteer Work Over Beach
March 08, 2010 | WWSB ABC 7
Instead of hitting the beaches this spring break, several college students are volunteering their time to help clean up the Suncoast.
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U.Va. Medical Center Personnel Assist in Haiti Relief Efforts
March 3, 2010 | UVAToday
When the devastating earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, University of Virginia nursing professor Audrey Snyder was in St. Kitts and Nevis teaching a January term class on disaster preparedness.
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McCormick Observatory Astronomer Collects Climate Data for Weather Service
March 3, 2010 | UVAToday
When Charlottesville broke a 116-year-old record Feb. 10 with the winter's 55th inch of snow, Ricky Patterson was there to record it.
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Miller Center Debate: To Compete Globally, Do Americans Really Need College?
March 1, 2010 | UVAToday
The United States ranks 10th among industrialized nations in the number of 25- to 34-year olds with college degrees, behind Canada, Japan, Korea and several European countries. China and Japan are quickly catching up and potentially changing the global economic arena.
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University of Virginia Listed on Higher Ed Community Service Honor Roll February 25, 2010 | UVAToday
The University of Virginia has been named to the fourth annual 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
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JPC Students Combine Public Service, Research Efforts in Nicaragua
February 25, 2010 | UVAToday
Robin Kendall first felt a strong connection to Bluefields, Nicaragua, after a January Term trip during her first year at the University of Virginia. Struck by the warm, welcoming community and numerous opportunities for economic development, she knew she wanted to help the economically depressed area.
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U.Va. Art Museum Announces Weedon Asian Arts Lecture by Lewis Lancaster March 11
February 25, 2009 | UVAToday
The University of Virginia Art Museum will host Lewis Lancaster for the semi-annual Weedon Lecture in the Arts of Asia on March 11.
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The Virginia Film Society Continues with a Focus on Indies, Sports Movies February 24, 2010 | UVAToday
The Virginia Film Society, in collaboration with The Paramount Theater, continues its offerings with screenings featuring independent movies in March and sports films in April.
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Dolley Madison PBS Documentary Taps U.Va. Scholars
February 23, 2010 | UVAToday
A historical documentary on Dolley Madison will air Monday on public television stations and include expert commentary from two University of Virginia faculty members, John C.A. Stagg and Holly Shulman.
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U.Va.'s Nosek to Discuss Bias at Annual Ridley Distinguished Lecture March 23
February 23, 2010 | UVAToday
Brian Nosek, whose research interests include implicit cognition, stereotyping and prejudice, will deliver the University of Virginia's fifth annual Walter N. Ridley Distinguished Lecture on March 23. His talk on "Mind Bugs: The Ordinary Origins of Bias" will begin at 4 p.m. in the Dome Room of the Rotunda, with a reception to follow in Pavilion I.
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U.Va.'s Miller Center Kicks off National Debate Series with Education Debate February 22, 2010 | UVAToday
Does the United States need more college graduates to remain an economic power, or is college just too expensive to benefit many Americans?
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U.Va. Institute on Aging Offers Talk March 19 on Caring for Aging Parents
February 17, 2010 — Virginia Morris, a nationally recognized authority on elder care and author of "How to Care for Aging Parents," will lead a discussion titled "Our Parents, Our Selves: The Later Years" on March 19 at 2 p.m. in the University of Virginia's Culbreth Theatre.
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U.Va. Bookstore to Host Reading by U.Va. Historian and Civil Rights Activist Paul Gaston Feb. 23
February 16, 2010 | Arts & Sciences
The University of Virginia Bookstore will host a reading by U.Va. professor emeritus Paul Gaston, author of a new memoir, "Coming Of Age In Utopia," at 5 p.m. on Feb. 23. The event will take place in the bookstore's mezzanine and is free and open to the public.
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U.Va. Conference Explores 'Cultural Crossings: China and Beyond in the Medieval Period'
February 15, 2010
The University of Virginia will host a three-day conference, "Cultural Crossings: China and Beyond in the Medieval Period," that will investigate exchanges between China and neighboring cultures during third through 10th centuries from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives.
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Annual Myles H. Thaler Lecture to be Given at the U.Va. School of Architecture
February 15, 2010 | Architecture
Dirk Sijmons, former Dutch national landscape architect and co-founder of H+N+S LandscapeArchitects, will give the Myles H. Thaler Lecture, "The City and the World," at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture on Feb. 26, from 5 to 7 p.m., in Campbell Hall, room 153.
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U.Va. Art Museum's Family Program to Focus on Chinese Sculpture
February 11, 2010 | UVAToday
Families are invited to an afternoon of fun and hands-on creativity as the University of Virginia Art Museum continues its monthly children's program, the Family Art JAM. On Feb. 21, the museum will offer "Ritual and Tradition: Understanding Chinese Sculpture" for children ages 5 to 12.
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U.Va. Art Museum to Offer Saturday Special Tour Feb. 20
February 11, 2010 | UVA Today
Clarke Hudson, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, will lead a tour of "Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University" on Feb. 20 from 2 to 3 p.m.
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Award-Winning NBC Correspondent to Address U.Va. Women in Leadership Conference Feb. 18
February 11, 2010 | Arts & Sciences
Sara A. James, an award-winning correspondent for "Dateline NBC" who has covered some of the most compelling stories of the past two decades, will speak at the University of Virginia on Feb. 18. Her talk, "Live from Down Under: Lessons from Network News, Motherhood, and Oz," will begin at 2 p.m. in Newcomb Hall's South Meeting Room. The talk is free and open to the public.
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U.Va. Department of Drama Continues Season with Chekhov Classic, 'The Seagull'
February 10, 2010 | UVAToday
What do you get when you put a fascinating and disparate group of characters in a single house and watch as they wrestle unrequited love, lust, ambition, jealousy and the intoxicating allure of celebrity? When you put it all in the hands of one of the most gifted minds in theater history, you get Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," which continues the 2009-10 University of Virginia Drama Department season.
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U.Va.'s Lindner Center for Art History Continues Spring Lecture Series Feb. 25
February 09, 2010 |UVAToday
The University of Virginia's Carl H. and Martha S. Lindner Center for Art History continues its spring lecture series with "The Dream of the Moving Moses: Michelangelo and the Jewish Imagination."
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U.Va. Nursing Students Conduct Teddy Bear Clinic at Clark Elementary
February 08, 2010 | Nursing
Most children hate going for a health checkup because they are scared of being in an unfamiliar setting with foreign medical instruments. But introduce a teddy bear to the process, and suddenly a visit to the doctor's office is fun. On Jan. 29, University of Virginia nursing students and assistant professor Carol Lynn Maxwell-Thompson conducted a Teddy Bear Clinic at Clark Elementary School in Charlottesville.
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Prospective Students and Public Invited to Annual Engineering Open House at U.Va.
February 08, 2010 | Engineering
Prospective students and the public can learn about the wonders of engineering when the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science holds its annual Engineering Open House on Feb. 20 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Thornton Hall.
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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear U.Va. Law School Clinic Case
February 06, 2010 | Law
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a man represented by the University of Virginia Law School’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. It will be the fifth of the clinic's cases heard by the Supreme Court in the past four years.
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U.Va. Demographers Improve State's 2010 Census List
February 04, 2010 | UVAToday
Under a grant awarded by the governor's office, demographers at the University of Virginia Cooper Center represented Virginia in the "Local Update of Census Addresses," or LUCA, program, sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau to develop the most complete and current address list for use in this year's decennial census.
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U.Va.'s Annual Tournées Francophone Film Festival To Be Held Feb. 18-21
February 02, 2010 | Arts & Sciences
The Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Virginia will present its annual Tournées Francophone Film Festival Feb. 18-21.
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U.Va. Professor Helps Students Examine Poetry 'For Better for Verse'
February 02, 2010 | Arts & Sciences
Herbert "Chip" Tucker, John C. Coleman Professor of English at the University of Virginia, has put together a Web site, "For Better for Verse," which he describes as an interactive learning tool that can help students understand what makes metered poetry in English tick.
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Patent Foundation Seeks Nominations for Inventor of the Year
February 02, 2010 | UVAToday
U.Va. The University of Virginia Patent Foundation is now seeking nominations for the 2010 Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year.
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Jones Lecture Brings Groundbreaking Young Designer to the U.Va. School of Architecture
February 02, 2010 | Architecture
Tom Wiscombe will give the Michael Owen Jones Memorial Lecture at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture on Feb. 5 from 5-7 p.m. in Campbell Hall, room 153.
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The Virginia Film Festival, Paramount Theater Host 'Oscar Night America' Celebration March 7
February 02, 2010 | UVAToday
The excitement and glamour of Hollywood are coming to Charlottesville on Oscar Night. Movie fans are invited to wear their best Hollywood-inspired attire and experience the 82nd Academy Awards on March 7 at Charlottesville's own "Oscar Night America" party to be held at the Paramount.
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U.Va. Art Museum's Final Friday Celebrates Chinese New Year
January 8, 2010 | UVAToday
On Jan. 29, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the University of Virginia Art Museum hosts its Final Friday Chinese New Year Celebration in conjunction with the special exhibition "Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University."
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University of Virginia Art Museum Installs New Acquisitions
January 4, 2009 | UVAToday
The University of Virginia Art Museum is featuring new acquisitions from its Print and African American collections.
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U.Va. Art Museum's Family Program to Focus on Animal Statuary
January 5, 2010 | UVAToday
Families are invited to an afternoon of fun and hands-on creativity as the University of Virginia Art Museum continues its popular monthly children's program, the Family Art JAM.
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Winners Announced for U.Va. Art Museum's 2009 Writer's Eye Contest
January 5, 2010 | UVAToday
The University of Virginia Art Museum has selected the winners of Writer's Eye 2009.
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U.Va. Art Museum to Offer Saturday Special Tours
January 4, 2010 | UVAToday
Guest curator Dorothy Wong will provide an overview of the University of Virginia Art Museum's exhibition "Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University" on Jan. 16 from 2 to 3 p.m.
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Orchestra Bringing Classical Music to New Audiences
January 4, 2010 | UVAToday
Speaking to an audience of musical novices at one of his famous Young People's Concerts, Leonard Bernstein once vividly described composer Johann Sebastian Bach's construction of a fugue as "Bach's Erector Set."
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New Course Offers 'Local Food For Thought'
January 4, 2010 — Do you like local vegetables, but wish you could find them more easily? Are you stumped about how to cook them when you do find them? Is buying local produce more expensive or more hassle than shopping in a conventional supermarket?
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U.Va. Art Museum Hosts 'Treasures Rediscovered'
December 22, 2009 | UVAToday
The University of Virginia Art Museum is the final venue of a two-year tour of "Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University," an exhibition organized by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University.
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Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra Offers New Mini-Subscriptions
December 18, 2009 | UVAToday
The Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra is offering a new mini-series ticket package for the rest of the 2009-10 season.
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U.Va. Art Museum and Library Exhibits You Can See Over the Holidays December 21, 2009 | UVAToday
Looking for a way to while away a few hours during the winter break at the University of Virginia? Here are a few exhibits at the U.Va. Art Museum and Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, several of which close in January.
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Water Quality Improves in Meadow Creek, Dell Pond
December 17, 2009 | UVAToday
Biofiltration is cleansing runoff in the University of Virginia's award-winning stormwater management system.
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U.Va. Offers Public a Course in Local History
December 17, 2009 | UVAToday
Local Historian Coy Barefoot will offer a course in the history of Charlottesville, Albemarle and the University of Virginia through U.Va.'s School of Continuing Studies. The seven-lecture course begins in January.
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Save the Date: Annual Martin Luther King Event to be Held Jan. 25
December 14, 2009 | UVAToday
To commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the University of Virginia's Luther P. Jackson Black Cultural Center is planning an event on Jan. 25. A documentary, "Greensboro: Closer to the Truth," will be screened, followed by a panel discussion.
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ecoMOD4 House in Charlottesville Dedicated; ecoREMOD is Kicked Off
December 14, 2009 | Engineering | Architecture
A crowd of more than 100 well-wishers braved the cold Saturday afternoon for a ribbon-cutting marking the fourth ecoMOD4 project. The house, located at 104 Elliott Ave., is a collaboration between the ecoMOD project at the University of Virginia, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville and the City of Charlottesville.
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December Safety Tip of the Month: Winter Can Be Mighty Frightful
December 11, 2009 | UVAToday
Snow. Freezing temperatures. Strong winds. Ice. Rain storms. Winter weather in Virginia can knock out electricity and communications services, sometimes for days at a time.
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'Health House' Project Aimed at Reducing Costly Hospital Readmissions of Chronically Ill
December 11, 2009 | Medicine
Groundbreaking ceremonies on Dec. 15 will mark the launch of a unique project that exemplifies how new technologies are being used to address a key health care reform issue: the multi-billion dollar cost of repeatedly hospitalizing patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart failure, asthma and lung disease.
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Retired Law Professor Earl Dudley Publishes Memoir, 'An Interested Life'
December 04, 2009 | Law
One of Earl Dudley's first memories is the sky full of white parachutes as the U.S. Army arrived to rescue his parents and him and some 2,000 other prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines. It was Feb. 23, 1945.
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American Democracy Conference Looks Ahead to 2010 Elections
December 1, 2009 | UVAToday
Leading journalists, political party insiders and political analysts will share their views on the 2010 midterm elections at an afternoon conference sponsored by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics and POLITICO.
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Virginia Film Society to Screen 'Peter and Vandy'
November 25, 2009 | UVAToday
The Virginia Film Society concludes its fall schedule with a screening of "Peter and Vandy" Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. at Vinegar Hill Theatre, 220 Market St. in Charlottesville.
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U.Va. to Hold Ninth Annual Lighting of the Lawn on Dec. 8
November 20, 2009 | UVAToday
At the University of Virginia, most of the autumn leaves have fallen, the days are shortening, classes are ending and exams are looming. Clearly, it's time to lighten up. The University will host its ninth annual Lighting of the Lawn event on Dec. 8, from 7:30 to 10 p.m.
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U.Va. Demographers Shed Light on Mexican-Virginians
November 19, 2009 | UVAToday
Virginians of Mexican descent are among the largest groups of Hispanics in the commonwealth. Mexican-Virginians make up less than 2 percent of the total population, and nearly 60 percent are U.S. citizens, either by birth or by naturalization.
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Palladian Chamber Orchestra Premieres Sunday
November 19, 2009
The University of Virginia's newest ensemble, the Palladian Chamber Orchestra, makes its debut Sunday at 7 p.m. with a free concert at the Forum, located at the back of the Observatory Hill Dining Hall.
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Art Exhibit Space Opens in Engineering School's Thornton Hall
November 18, 2009 | Engineering
The newest art gallery at the University of Virginia is in the second-floor foyer of Thornton Hall. It's hosted by the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Department of Science, Technology and Society.
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Exhibit of Sanda Iliescu's Paintings, Drawings and Collages on display in New Gallery at U.Va. Architecture School
November 16, 2009 | Architecture
"Lines," a compilation of work by University of Virginia associate professor of art and architecture Sanda Iliescu, is on display in the Dean's Gallery on the second floor of Campbell Hall through Jan. 29.
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VQR Blogs on Mumbai Terrorist Attacks a Year Ago
November 16, 2009
"Sixty Hours of Terror: Ten Gunmen, Ten Minutes" – a serial blog running on the Virginia Quarterly Review Web site today through Thursday – covers the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, that happened a year ago, the worst terror attack in the country, committed by Muslim militants.
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