Archived News Releases 2005
• Blackburn to offer course in “History of Freedom” at UVa-Wise • Thelma Phipps Weaver leaves $315,000 to UVa-Wise for scholarships • UVa-Wise family saddened by loss of Joseph M. Scolnick, Jr. • George Michael to be featured on “With Good Reason” • UVa-Wise honors Benefactors of the Year • UVa-Wise business students raise money for hurricane relief • Children invited to “Christmas Around the World” at UVa-Wise Dec. 2 • "UVa-Wise announces Sigma Zeta winners • "Holiday Festival with the Arts" at UVa-Wise Dec. 1-13 • Five UVa-Wise alumni honored • UVa-Wise Highland Players to stage Metamorphoses beginning Nov. 11 • Images from Alumni Homecoming Weekend 2005 • UVa-Wise students complete degrees with least debt, according to U.S. News ranking • Prior appointed seventh chancellor of UVa-Wise • Band Festival 2005 • 2005 VACUHO RA Conference to take place at UVa-Wise Nov. 11-12
• UVa-Wise to host Nov. 9 workshop for high school athletes interested in college athletics • UVa-Wise faculty to discuss “Anti-Americanism in Europe” Nov. 7 • Hatfield, Smiddy to be featured during Coffee Night Nov. 10 • Artist Sarah Dolitzky to discuss her work at UVa-Wise Nov. 4 • Bob Colyer honored as 2005 UVa-Wise Volunteer of the Year • 35th Annual Sigma Zeta Math-Science Contest at UVa-Wise Nov. 12 • Music faculty recital at UVa-Wise Nov. 2 • Anne Gilfoil to be featured on With Good Reason • Fall Open House set for Oct. 29 at UVa-Wise • UVa-Wise student to discuss experiences as a “Hardball” intern during Oct. 26 presentation • First-annual Highland Cavalier Marching Band Festivalat UVa-Wise Oct. 22 • Former Mail Boxes Etc. CEO keynote speaker for Napoleon Hill Day at UVa-Wise Oct. 24 • Alumni Art Exhibit Oct. 6-28 • Thomas Jefferson statue dedicated • Alumni and friends of UVa-Wise invited to Alumni-Homecoming Weekend Oct. 6-8 • Jefferson statue dedication Sept. 26 at UVa-Wise • Appalachian Writing Project's annual writing conference in Abingdon Oct. 1 • UVa-Wise alumni invited to showcase original artwork in October • Three new members join UVa-Wise Board • 19th annual Medieval Renaissance Conference at UVa-Wise Sept. 15-17 • Free Reading Clinic for Grades 1-3 at UVa-Wise begins Sept. 27 • Children invited to FUNTASIA at UVa-Wise Sept. 24 • UVa-Wise to mark Constitution Day with Sept. 16 lecture • UVa-Wise to waive tuition for students affected by Hurricane Katrina • UVa-Wise to host College Night Sept. 12 • UVa-Wise posts new enrollment record • UVa-Wise Concert Band invites community participation • Community invited to participate in Relay for Life Aug. 12 • Area high school students conduct science, math research during Governor's School at UVa-Wise • Upward Bound students complete 39th summer of UVa-Wise program • Teachers, other writers invited to attend writing retreat with special guest Sheila Kay Adams • UVa-Wise signs collaborative agreement with University of Appalachia College of Pharmacy • Third candidate for UVa-Wise chancellorship to visit campus June 27-28 • Second candidate for UVa-Wise chancellorship to visit campus June 23-24 • UVa-Wise honors 76 employees who are ‘Making the Difference’ • First candidate for UVa-Wise chancellorship to visit campus June 16-17 • Scholarship established at UVa-Wise in honor of local author, folklorist James Taylor Adams • UVa-Wise inducts 29 members to Omicron Delta Kappa • UVa-Wise student to attend national education conference as one of only two Va. representatives • Summer Session II begins July 6 at UVa-Wise • UVa-Wise chancellor receives Samuel Crockett Award • UVa-Wise announces spring Dean’s List • Potter receives Outstanding Contribution Award • UVa-Wise to offer variety of interesting courses during first summer session • Summer Session I begins May 31 at UVa-Wise • UVa-Wise Class of 2005 largest in the College’s history • UVa-Wise students raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital • Record number of students to graduate at UVa-Wise May 21 • UVa-Wise inducts new Darden Society members • UVa-Wise receives $450,000 from estate of Washington County resident Harold C. Wright • UVa-Wise honored for 50th anniversary activities • UVa-Wise named "School of the Year" • UVa-Wise Lady Cavs headed to national softball tournament • UVa-Wise choral organizations to present concerts May 6, 8, 10 • Student art exhibit at UVa-Wise May 4-10 • UVa-Wise band concerts May 4 and May 6 • Jam-4-Man benefit concert at UVa-Wise May 6-7 • Appalachian Writing Project accepting applications • Drug researcher to speak on April 22 • UVa-Wise nursing program receives $50,000 from Wellmont Lonesome Pine Hospital • Thirteenth-annual Southwest Virginia Early Childhood Education Conference at UVa-Wise April 23 • “Miners and Millhands” debuts April 22 at UVa-Wise • Spring Open House set for April 23 at UVa-Wise • Biological clocks topic of April 12-13 lectures at UVa-Wise • Tenth-annual UVa-Wise Community Spring Swing set for April 22 • UVa-Wise alumni invited to annual meeting April 12 • Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Laurie Garrett visits April 11 • Carter biographer lecture April 8 • Coffee Night reading April 5 • Gray Fossil Site topic of April 4 lecture • UVa-Wise announces fall Dean’s List • Children invited to celebrate Dr. Seuss' 101st Birthday • UVa-Wise Celebrates Black History Month • Teaching ESL students topic of Feb. 28 lecture at UVa-Wise • UVa-Wise professor to discuss capitalism • Huang-Tiller to discuss German playwright Bertold Brecht • Winter Open House set for Feb. 19 • Beegie Adair to perform at UVa-Wise Feb. 16 • Bolton to discuss conservation of fisheries during Feb. 16 lecture at UVa-Wise • Pulitzer Prize-nominee Ron Rash to visit UVa-Wise Feb. 11 • Community invited to participate in theatrical production about history of UVa-Wise and the local culture • Tiller to discuss “Chivalric Landscape of Sir Thomas Malory” during Jan. 28 lecture at UVa-Wise • Major scholarship fund established in memory of William B. Cohen • Virginia Generals Foundation makes $150,000 gift to UVa-Wise • UVa-Wise plans to add majors in Computer Science and Management Information Systems • UVa-Wise receives $200,000 gift from the Napoleon Hill Foundation • UVa-Wise honors Benefactors, Volunteer of the Year • UVa-Wise receives $500,000 from the estate of Dr. Paul Dishner • UVa-Wise to Mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with Candlelight March • UVa-Wise student working as intern on “Hardball with Chris Matthews” • Search committee named to aid in selection of UVa-Wise chancellor • “No Ordinary College,” history of UVa-Wise now available • UVa-Wise to host Financial Aid Workshop Jan. 27 • UVa-Wise faculty member's quilt selected for exhibit in New York
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