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• Sheila C. Johnson.(NEWSMAKERS)(Interview)

  - 2007-03-27

  Speech-language-hearing services in Virginia recently received a huge boost. The help came from businesswoman and children's advocate Sheila C. Johnson, who pledged $5 million to the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia UVa. Her gift will establish the Sheila C. Johnson Center for...

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• Laura M. Justice.(AWARDED)(Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers)(Brief article)

  - 2006-09-05

  Laura M. Justice, a clinical speech-language pathologist at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education Charlottesville, received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on early-career scientists and engineers. President Bush presented...

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• Bonner's Jones is sure: It's Virginia

  - 2006-08-19

  Last time, he thought he was 100 percent sure. This time, he said, he's 110 percent certain. Jeff Jones, a 6-foot-4 wing guard from Monsignor Bonner High School, orally committed to the University of Virginia yesterday. As a junior, Jones gave Maryland an early pledge. But in May,...

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• Malvern's Gosselin will play for Virginia

  - 2006-08-04

  Phil Gosselin, a senior shortstop from Malvern Prep, has accepted a scholarship to play baseball at the University of Virginia. According to Mike Hickey, his coach at Malvern, Gosselin picked the Cavaliers over ACC rivals Georgia Tech and Clemson. Gosselin, a slick fielder who batted over .500 for...

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• James McClellan, R.I.P.

  - 2005-02-07

  The conservative movement was saddened last week by the loss of one of its intellectual powerhouses. Dr. James McClellan, constitutional scholar, attorney, teacher, historian and author, died January 28 after a long illness.A graduate of the University of Virginia Law School who also earned a doctorate from the University of...

  Tags: CAREER, Government, U.S. Senate, University of Virginia

• Rita Frances Dove

  - 2005-01-01

  Rita Frances Dove Rita Frances Dove (born 1952) is a poet, writer, and educator. In 1993, she became the youngest to hold the title of poet laureate of the United States Library of Congress. In announcing Rita Frances Dove's appointment, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said, "I take much...

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• Dumas Malone

  - 2005-01-01

  Dumas Malone American historian and editor Dumas Malone (1892-1986) is known chiefly for a multi-volume, landmark biographical study of Thomas Jefferson, which garnered the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history. He also contributed widely to other literature about the third U.S. president. But he did not apply his scholarly versatility only...

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• Archimuse

  - 2004-11-24

  Cynthia Kracauer, AIA, LEED, has been named a principal atarchitectural firm, Archimuse. Ms. Kracauer has over 25 years of experience in architecture, interior design and historic preservation. She previously served as managing principal of the New York office of Swanke Hayden Connell Architects SHCA. Her recent projects include a...

  Tags: CAREER, Princeton University, University of Virginia

• William Ronald Bunge.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

  - 2003-07-17

  William Ronald Bunge Memorial services for William Ronald Bunge, of Slidell, La., will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, at North Riverside Community Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. James A. Shiflett officiating. William grew up in Downers Grove and graduated from Downers Grove High...

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• Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth.(Book Review) (book review)

  - 2003-03-22

  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 352 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1157-6 Publication Date: February 2002 Stephen F. Knott is an assistant professor and research fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. His previous work includes Secret and Sanctioned: Covert...

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