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• Hawkeyes looking for second rowing coach in 10 months

  
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  The University of Iowa will be looking for its second women’s rowing coach in just 10 months. The school announced Monday that coach Steve Pritzker is leaving to become the chief financial officer for the athletic department at the University of Virginia. Pritzker spent nine seasons at Virginia before taking over at ...
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• Stephen Colbert Commencement Speech at University of Virginia’s Class of 2013

  
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  The post Stephen Colbert Commencement Speech at University of Virginia’s Class of 2013 appeared first on Doobybrain.com .
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• Stephen Colbert Delivers University Of Virginia Valedictory Address

  
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  It’s that time of year again. Every year when the weather begins to warm countless prestigious institutions rally famous celebrities and comedians to speak at their commencement or graduation. Naturally, the speeches are extremely popular. This year, students at  University of Virginia   lucked out as web ...
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• Colbert: Grads ‘owe the previous generation nothing’

  
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  Satirist Stephen Colbert gave the commencement speech at the University of Virginia, telling graduates the baby boomers “have given you a gift, a particular form of independence . . .  because you do not owe the previous generation anything. Thanks to us, you owe it to the Chinese.”
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• Stephen Colbert Gave An Inspiring Graduation Speech To UVA Students On Playboy, The Chinese

  
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  While most of you suffered through graduation speeches from former deans and, ugh, SENATORS, University of Virginia students were treated to remarks from none other than Stephen Colbert. For over 17 minutes, The Colbert Report host discussed UVA’s high party school ranking in Playboy (“I only read Playboy ...
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• Solar-Powered Wheelchair Wins First Place in Competition

  
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  A student team from the University of Virginia School of Engineering won first place in the 2012 World Cerebral Palsy Day “Change My World in One Minute” competition with their prototype design of a solar-powered wheelchair with retractable panels. Seventeen million people worldwide live with cerebral palsy, a ...
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• UVMC: Coordinate care, engage patients with ED case managers

  
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  The University of Virginia Medical Center (UVMC) gave case managers a more empowered role and found they improved their ED in three ways: care coordination, patient transitions and patient engagement. read more
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• 6 Ways to be getting smarter brain

  
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  Did you know that many people do not fear that the condition of decreased memory, and probably will happen the next few years? According to a study conducted by the University of Virginia, impaired memory will begin to appear from the age of 20 years. After examining more than 2,000 men and women aged between [...] 6 ...
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• UVas Miller Center announces fellows for 2013-2014

  
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  The University of Virginia’s Miller Center has named nine promising young scholars as 2013–14 Miller Center national fellows. Each fellow will receive a one-year $22,000 grant to support research and writing as they complete dissertations on the history of U.S. politics, foreign policy, and global politics. ...
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• ‘Roadmap’ of human metabolism offers new understanding of cancer, obesity, more

  
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  An international consortium of researchers has created the largest computer model of human metabolism to date, an astonishingly detailed roadmap that points the way to better understanding of cancer, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and a host of other conditions. It’s a powerful new tool that will speed the ...
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• Clint Sintim, Former Second Round Pick of New York Giants, Retires

  
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  Andrew Weber-USA TODAY Sports After being selected by the New York Giants in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft, Clint Sintim looked to be a promising prospect for the team. Sintim, coming from the University of Virginia , was 6-foot-3, 254 pounds and considered by fftoolbox.com to “have the ...
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• Does aluminum in pans and antiperspirants lead to Alzheimer’s disease?

  
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  I’ve seen friends fret over the purported link between aluminum and Alzheimer’s disease and have often wondered if their fears are founded on fact. Should they give up aluminum pans or aluminum-containing antiperspirants? I’ve always heard that aluminum’s health dangers are just hype. So what’s the real ...
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• A New Humanism: Part 18

  
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  Following an “introduction” in parts 1 and 2 were a series of posts exploring the evolutionary “origins” of our responses to built environments and then, more specifically, “The Mind that Encounters Architecture.” This next series explores what happens in “the body that responds.” In their innovative ...
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• North Carolina: A banana republic for dirty energy interests?

  
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  Clean energy opponents turned to dirty tactics to advance a bill repealing North Carolinas renewables program -- and thats not the only example of the states energy policy being hijacked by powerful interests. read more
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