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Rate Podcast: Charlottesville—Right Now! with Coy Barefoot: Dr. Michael Weber and Meredith Gunter

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Thu, Nov 19

By seantubbs@gmail.com (Sean Tubbs) Coy explores the latest on cancer research at the University of Virginia with Dr. Michael Weber, Director of the UVA Cancer Center, and three-time cancer survivor Meredith Gunter, co-founder of Patients and Friends of the UVA Cancer Center.

Rate Podcast: Edgar Allan Poe appears before Jefferson Society on Friday the 13th

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Mon, Nov 16

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By seantubbs@gmail.com (Sean Tubbs) Scott Craig Jones is the image and voice of Edgar Allan Poe. He presents “Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!” to middle school, high school, and college audiences throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Find out more about The Traveling Jones Theater at his website.

Rate Podcast: Candidates Forum: Albemarle County Board of Supervisors

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Wed, Oct 14

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By seantubbs@gmail.com (Sean Tubbs) Samuel Miller Magisterial District John Lowry He served on the Albemarle County Architectural Review Board and 10 years with the Virginia State Agricultural Council. Duane is the past president of the Charlottesville Rotary Club and is a Paul Harris Fellow.

Rate Podcast: “The Life and Times of Winston Churchill” at Jefferson Society

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Sun, Oct 11

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By seantubbs@gmail.com (Sean Tubbs) Mr. Kelly was a newspaper reporter for 20 years and now teaches news writing at the University of Virginia. Mrs. Smyer-Kelly is a former freelance writer for newspapers. In recent years she has served on the board of the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia in Charlottesville and as...

Rate Timothy J. St. George Joins Troutman Sanders' Richmond Office

Original at jlns.com external link    Wed, Oct 7

St. George received a B.A., with honors, from the University of Virginia in 2005, where he was an Echols Scholar and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2008, where he was The Society of the Cincinnati Scholar, reached the semi-final round...

Year 2009

 

Rate Baker Donelson Expands Real Estate Practice

Original at jlns.com external link    Wed, Sep 23

Mr. Cherry, who joins as an associate, manages a diverse commercial real estate portfolio practice. His experience includes guiding clients through multifamily and golf course development transactions, acquisitions of manufacturing sites in the Southeast, as well as providing ban...

Rate Opinion: Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP Adds Nine Attorneys

Original at jlns.com external link    Tue, Sep 22

Matthew D. Stachel received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and was the technology editor and an editorial board member for the Virginia Tax Review.  He received his B.A. in religion from the College of William & Mary and has joined the firm's Corporate Group.

Rate Podcast: Virginia House of Delegates Candidates Showcase

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Wed, Aug 12

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By seantubbs@gmail.com (Sean Tubbs) David Toscano (Democrat) is the incumbent delegate representing the 57th House District. David Toscano was elected to his first term in the Virginia House of Delegates in November 2005. David was born in Syracuse, New York in 1950, the first of five children. He was educated in the public sc...

Rate Podcast: Health Insurance: The Problem, The Solution

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Wed, Jun 10

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By seantubbs@gmail.com (Sean Tubbs) Robert Graham has, for 10 years, served as director of patient billing for the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Virginia. During this time, Robert has served on a number of committees at the University of Virginia Health Center dealing with billing issues for both physic...

Rate Ted Mathas Becomes Chairman of the Board of New York Life on June 1 - Business Wire

Original at businesswire.com external link    Fri, May 29

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He also serves on the board of the American Council of Life Insurers. Mr. Mathas graduated with an AB from Stanford University, with distinction, in 1989. He received a JD from the University of Virginia in 1992, where he was a member of the Virginia ...

Rate W&L students find Monticello overseer's artifacts

Original at Daily Press external link    Tue, May 26

 VA The Edmund Bacon project is the first time Monticello has hosted W&L for an archaeological dig. Each summer, the University of Virginia offers a field school at Monticello. This year, the U.Va. class will be excavating "site 8," which is a clearing in ...

Rate Modest beginnings for McGuire, others

Original at Richmond Times Dispatch external link    Sat, May 23

 VA McGuire of Georgia Tech and Russell Wilson from NC State, last year's all-ACC quarterback, were members of the team, as were students who went on to play at Boston College, VMI, University of Virginia, University of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney and ...

Rate Changing Places Who's coming? Who's going? Who's changing places?

Original at Mass High Tech external link    Thu, May 21

  USA Michitarian graduated from Stanford University and the University of Virginia Law School, where he was an editor of the law review. Law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott LLC has brought on John A. Kostrubanic as a member in the firm's business ...

Rate Division I conference baseball tournaments have limited state flavor

Original at Richmond Times Dispatch external link    Mon, May 18

 VA By Staff Reports Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Richmond, William and Mary and James Madison all failed to qualify for their respective league tournaments. The University of Virginia is the sixth seed in the ...

Rate People & Places for May 18

Original at Richmond Times Dispatch external link    Sun, May 17

People & Places for May 18  VA She earned her bachelor's degree from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. Derwood Chase has assumed the roles of chairman and CEO of Chase Investment Counsel Corp., which he founded. He earned his bachelor's degree from the ...

Rate Far from identical twins

Original at Richmond Times Dispatch external link    Sat, May 16

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 VA Brian Carroll, a junior midfielder, for U.Va. and his brother, Kevin, are one of two sets of twins on the Virginia team. By Jeff White The University of Virginia men's lacrosse team includes two sets of twins, and one is easy to identify. ...

Rate Opinion: Farris championed homeschooling, built college, local church

Original at WND.com external link    Tue, Apr 28

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 DC Students of Farris' have gone on to attend prestigious schools such as Harvard Law and the University of Virginia Law School. One graduate currently writes for the Harvard Law Review. Farris studied law at Gonzaga University in Washington, ...

Rate Podcast: Former Governor Jim Gilmore speaks on “The New Liberty”

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Wed, Apr 22

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By seantubbs@gmail.com (Sean Tubbs) University of Virginia alumnus James Gilmore III has devoted a career of service to his home state of Virginia and to his nation. He served as governor of Virginia from 1998-2002. From 1999-2003, he was the chair of the U.S. Congressional Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilit...

Rate Distorting the Record at the University of Virginia

Original at blogspot/iUOG (Feedburner) external link    Mon, Apr 13

By Rick Sincere(noreply@blogger.com) Last week in the Post's Metro opinion section, Karin Agness wrote about student protests over the choice of federal Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson to be the University of Virginia's commencement speaker. This past Sunday, Amelia Meyer explained some of the reasons for those protests against...

Rate Bob McDonnell Speaks to News Media in Charlottesville

Original at blogspot/iUOG (Feedburner) external link    Tue, Mar 31    1 related articles

By Rick Sincere(noreply@blogger.com) After addressing supporters at a rally in historic Jefferson Hall on the grounds of the University of Virginia, former Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell, who is traveling around the state this week to kick off his campaign for governor, spoke to print and broadcast journalists. H...

Rate Opinion: Andrew Vollmer Named Acting General Counsel of SEC - Lawfuel

Original at Lawfuel external link    Wed, Jan 21

Andrew Vollmer Named Acting General Counsel of SEC press release), New Zealand - Mr. Vollmer received his JD in 1978 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Notes Editor of the Virginia Law Review. ...

Rate Speech Codes 101

Original at FIRE external link    Mon, Dec 22

By none (Sara Dogan) These unconstitutional policies typically take the form of speech codes restricting what the universities view as harassing or intolerant speech. Pennsylvania State University, for example, prohibits its students from "engage[ing] in any behaviors that compromise or demean the d...

Rate How To: Ordering Books through U.Va. Interlibrary ServicesVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Dec 9

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By rss@youtube.com (kweimer2) Video tutorial showing you how to use Worldcat to order books from outside the University of Virginia Library or how to use VIRGO, the library catalog, to request books from remote storage. Keywords: U.Va. "interlibrary loan" "interlibrary services" "University of Virginia" VIRGO Worl...

Rate How To: Creating an Interlibrary Loan Account with U.Va. LibraryVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Dec 9

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By rss@youtube.com (kweimer2) video tutorial explaining hwo to set up an account to get interlibrary loan books or books from the University of Virginia Library remote storage facility. Author: kweimer2 Keywords: "interlibrary loan" "interlibrary services" U.Va. "University of Virginia" Added: December 9, 2008

Rate How To: Google Books and Google ScholarVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Dec 9

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By rss@youtube.com (kweimer2) Video tutorial explaining how to use Google Books and Google Scholar to narrow Google searches to scholarly books and articles. Author: kweimer2 Keywords: "Google Books" "Google Scholar" U.Va. "University of Virginia" Added: December 9, 2008

Rate How To: Page2RSSVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Dec 9

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By rss@youtube.com (kweimer2) Video tutorial showing how to use http://page2rss.com to create RSS feeds from websites that do not have RSS capabilities. Author: kweimer2 Keywords: RSS Page2RSS U.Va. "University of Virginia" Added: December 9, 2008

Rate How To: Creating RSS Feeds from EBSCO DatabasesVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Dec 9

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By rss@youtube.com (kweimer2) Video tutorial showing you how to create RSS feeds from journal or topic searches in EBSCO databases like Academic Search Complete. Author: kweimer2 Keywords: RSS "University of Virginia" U.Va. EBSCO Added: December 9, 2008

Rate How To: Adding RSS Feeds to CollabVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Dec 9

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By rss@youtube.com (kweimer2) Video tutorial showing you how to add RSS feeds to a Collab site. collab is the University of Virginia (U.Va.'s) course management software). Author: kweimer2 Keywords: RSS U.Va. "University of Virginia" Collab Added: December 9, 2008

Rate Opinion: Peter Schrag: Give up the lie that all UC campuses are equal

Original at Sacramento Bee external link    Tue, Nov 25

Birgeneau pointed out both the obvious fact that state support for higher education has declined sharply in the past 30 years and that UC was still charging less than other flagship public universities like Michigan, Penn State, the University of Virginia and Rutgers. At the same time it...

Rate Minnesota task force aimed at student-athletes

Original at usatoday.com external link    Wed, Nov 19

C.P. Schlatter, a former All-America wrestler at the University of Minnesota, says he majored in nursing even though some of his coaches suggested that he take an "easier" major so he could "breeze through" to an undergraduate degree."Their philosophy was you could always go back to (grad...

Rate Defending Google

Original at BuzzMachine external link    Sat, Nov 15

By Jeff Jarvis Tuesday night, I’m joining in an NPR Intelligence Squared debate - Oxford format - on the motion, Google violates its “don’t be evil” motto. I’m speaking against - surprise, surprise. Esther Dyson and and Jim Harper of CATO are on my side; on the other are Siva Vaidhyanathan of the Universit...

Rate Mark Meier: Virginia's Legal Residents Step Up: If You Can't Vote for Them, Campaign for Them

Original at Huffington Post external link    Tue, Oct 21

By Mark Meier Those green-card holders and their foreign compatriots living here cannot vote in a U.S. presidential election. Nonetheless, that doesn't mean they might not tip the balance in the Old Dominion: they can't vote, but they can certainly campaign.

Rate America's Biggest Universities Build 78-Terabyte Library, Still Missing Front Door [Digital Libraries]

Original at Gizmodo external link    Mon, Oct 13

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By Wilson Rothman Indiana University Michigan State University The Ohio State University Penn State University Purdue University The University of Chicago University of Illinois The University of Iowa University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of Virginia

Rate More on the consortial repository of Google-scanned books

Original at Open Access News external link    Mon, Oct 13

By noreply@blogger.com (Peter Suber) The project is called HathiTrust, and so far it consists of the members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium of the 11 universities in the Big Ten Conference and the University of Chicago, and the 11 campuses in the University of California system. The University o...

Rate Opinion: Charlotte Kohler | Literary editor, 99

Original at Philly.com Obituaries external link    Mon, Sep 29

Charlotte Kohler, 99, who as a longtime editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review was a quiet influence on the course of 20th-century writing, died on Sept. 15 at her home in Charlottesville, Va. Dr. Kohler died a day before her 100th birthday.

Rate College library system ranked 8th best by Princeton Review

Original at The Flat Hat external link    Sat, Aug 2

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 VA - Aug 2, 2008 The University of Virginia placed 19th. Dean of University Libraries Connie McCarthy sees this rank as a positive spotlight for the College’s library system ...

Rate Podcast: The 2009 General Assembly Session

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Thu, May 8

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By seantubbs@gmail.com (Sean Tubbs) An honors graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia Law School, Rob Bell served as a state prosecutor for five years. He prosecuted over 2,400 cases, working with the police and crime victims to bring criminals to justice.

Rate Podcast: Human Genome expert Collins addresses Jefferson Society

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Thu, Mar 20

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By Jefferson Society Dr. Collins earned a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Virginia in 1970, a PhD in physical chemistry from Yale in 1974, and an M.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1977. In the 1990s he led the Human Genome Project. This international effort to decode the entire human genome was comp...

Rate Podcast: Weldon-Cooper expert explains why Virginia’s Hispanic population has tripled since 1990

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Sun, Mar 9

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By Coy Barefoot Qian Cai is the director of the Demographics and Workforce unit at the Weldon-Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. She joined Coy Barefoot on the February 6 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss the Center’s recent study of Virginia’s His...

Rate Opinion: Zuker, Better a Catholic Than a Communist?

Original at Icerocket blog search external link    Thu, Mar 6

By Mary L. Dudziak Better a Catholic Than a Communist has just been published by James Zucker, a recent University of Virginia Law School graduate and 5th Circuit law clerk, in the Virginia Law Review. It is nice to see a law school supporting good student work in legal history all the way to publication. Here'...

Rate Podcast: Perceptions and the Gender Gap

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Wed, Mar 5

By Jacob Canon In today???s show, adapted from an article published this month on the Oscar Web site written by Anne Bromley, a senior editor/writer for UVa Media Relations, we look at a recent study by University of Virginia Sociologist Elizabeth Gorman which said, no matter how the data was sliced or...

Rate Opinion: Virginia colleges make Kiplinger's 'best values' list - Daily Press

Original at Daily Press external link    Tue, Jan 8

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 VA - The University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary were listed third and fourth, respectively. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill led ... Kiplinger's Ranks U.Va. Third Among 'Best Values' in Public Education University of Virginia

Year 2007

 

Rate Weekend Forum Answers

Original at San Gabriel Valley Tribune external link    Sun, Dec 9

By Scott Wolf(scott.wolf@dailynews.com) The Weekend Forum is brought to you by the University of Virginia, which offers a state-of-the-art TV channel for FREE. Since the Cavaliers host USC next year in football, check it out here http://www.virginiasportstv.com... The Weekend Forum is brought to you by the University of Virginia,...

Rate Who Is Henry Hagar? - WSBtv.com

Original at WSBtv.com external link    Thu, Aug 16

Who Is Henry Hagar?  GA - He is studying for his Masters in Business Administration at the University of Virginia. His dad John is the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia. ...

Rate Trib recognizes 'best of the best' - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Thu, May 17

Trib recognizes 'best of the best'  PA - Rittenhouse, who plans to attend either the University of Virginia or the University of Pittsburgh and eventually become an orthodontist, was nominated ...

Rate UNC Asheville ranked as a “Best Value” in US by Princeton Review - Asheville Citizen-Times

Original at Black Mountain News external link    Tue, Apr 24

UNC Asheville ranked as a “Best Value” in US by Princeton Review Asheville Citizen-Times, NC - Other Top 10 public colleges include New College of Florida, University of Virginia, University of California-Berkley, University of California-San Diego ...

Year 2006

 

Rate YEAR IN REVIEW: Other stories outside the Top 10

Original at Richmond Times Dispatch external link    Tue, Dec 26

 VA - Ryan Zimmerman, who came to the Washington Nationals via the University of Virginia and his hometown of Virginia Beach, drove in 110 runs and finished a close ...

Rate Are out-of-state students crowding out in-staters?

Original at USA Today external link    Wed, Aug 30

BURLINGTON, Vt. - For Virginia native Max Wilson, getting into the University of Vermont, his top choice, practically was easier than driving up to start his freshman year. Not only was he accepted early, he was admitted into the honors college, which landed him in a brand-new dorm "an awes...

Year 2005

 

Rate Tech, U.Va. represented on all-ACC team

Original at Richmond Times Dispatch external link    Mon, Nov 28

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 VA - Virginia Tech has placed five players and the University of Virginia three on the 2005 all-Atlantic Coast Conference football team. ...

Rate U.Va. student found dead in apartment

Original at Richmond Times Dispatch external link    Sat, Nov 19

 VA - CHARLOTTESVILLE - A 20-year-old University of Virginia student was found dead in her apartment by a housemate early Friday. Michelle ...

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