Archived News Releases 2006

December 2006

• UVa-Wise Board welcomes seven new members

• UVa-Wise to add major in music in fall 2007

• Book by UVa-Wise professor examines the depiction of the Civil War in film

• UVa-Wise students win Goodman Accounting Challenge

• UVa-Wise to host 11th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day March Jan. 15

• 'Holiday Festival with the Arts' at UVa-Wise Dec. 4-15

• Campus community invited to Holiday Open House Dec. 8

• UVa-Wise faculty authors to sign copies of their latest works Dec. 7

November 2006

• UVa-Wise dedicates plaque to student veterans

• UVa-Wise Alumni Association to host holiday reception Dec. 14

• Alumni Association to host basketball event Dec. 2

• 'Christmas Around the World' set for Dec. 1 at UVa-Wise

• Acclaimed Civil War historian "Bud" Robertson at UVa-Wise Nov. 30

• Public invited to Coffee Night at UVa-Wise Nov. 16

• UVa-Wise, Emory and Henry alumni invited to pre-game tailgate Nov. 6

• UVa-Wise Division of Music to host pianist Phillip Hayner

• Author Denise Giardina to speak at UVa-Wise Nov. 14

• UVa-Wise announces Sigma Zeta Math-Science Contest winners

• UVa-Wise faculty and alumni honored in awards ceremony

October 2006

• UVa-Wise announces $50 million capital campaign goal

• Trombone master Terry Russell leads UVa-Wise Jazz Quartet

• UVa-Wise Theatre Department to present ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

• Second annual Highland Cavalier Marching Band Festival at UVa-Wise Oct. 21

• LuAn Mitchell-Halter to speak at Napoleon Hill Day at UVa-Wise Oct. 23

• Prospective students to preview College from every angle at UVa-Wise 360° Oct. 28

• UVa-Wise art professor to be featured on With Good Reason radio program

• UVa-Wise to host Wetlands Symposium Oct. 26-27

• UVa-Wise to host Nov. 7 workshop for high school athletes interested in college athletics

• UVa-Wise to host 36th annual Sigma Zeta Math-Science Contest

September 2006

• UVa-Wise, Northrop Grumman announce technology partnership

•  Culbertson Hall dedicated in Sept. 8 ceremony at UVa-Wise

• Prospective students to preview College from every angle at UVa-Wise 360° Oct. 7

• "Funtasia" coming to UVa-Wise on Sept. 30
• UVa-Wise Faculty Colloquia features discussion of Jean Renoir

• Alumni Homecoming Weekend Sept. 21-23

• Lecture by UVa-Wise professor to air on CSPAN-2

• UVa-Wise to host Powell River Symposium

• Appalachian Writing Project’s annual conference at UVa-Wise Sept. 9

• Community singers, musicians invited to join UVa-Wise groups

• Medieval Renaissance Conference Sept. 14-16

• Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to visit UVa-Wise Sept. 18

August 2006

• UVa-Wise newest member of COPLAC

• UVa-Wise welcomes largest freshman class in its history

• Expedition 2006

• UVa-Wise students complete degrees with least debt, according to U.S. News ranking

• Marching Cavaliers band camp underway at UVa-Wise

• UVa-Wise students learn about business during study in Mexico

• Upward Bound Students complete 40th summer of UVa-Wise program

• UVa-Wise freshmen to read 'The Color of Water'

• Proceeds from new ‘Papa Joe’ Smiddy CD to benefit UVa-Wise

• ‘Miners & Millhands’ soundtrack CD now available

July 2006

• UVa-Wise provost on 'With Good Reason' radio program July 26

• UVa-Wise honors outstanding faculty with Harrison Awards

• UVa-Wise classified staff honored at luncheon

June 2006

•Smiddy, Dale honored by Virginia General Assembly

•Hensley awarded first Julia R. Heise Scholarship at UVa-Wise

•College mourns passing of E. L. “Buck” Henson

•UVa-Wise to launch software engineering degree in fall 2006

•Summer Session II begins July 10 at UVa-Wise

• UVa-Wise students named to Who's Who

• Tamara Robinson receives Outstanding Contribution Award

May 2006

• UVa-Wise announces spring Dean's List

• UVa-Wise to host memorial service for Professor E. L. “Buck” Henson, Jr. on Wednesday, June 7

• UVa-Wise inducts new Darden Society members

• UVa-Wise inducts 20 members into Omicron Delta Kappa

• College mourns passing of E. L. “Buck” Henson

• UVa-Wise Class of 2006 largest in College history

• UVa-Wise receives $2.7 million gift for nursing program

• Alumna Marcia Adams Gilliam to speak at 37th Commencement

• UVa-Wise Community Spring Swing a success

• Auditions for UVa-Wise marching band set for May 13

• 13th Annual Jam-4-Man kicks off May 5 at UVa-Wise

• UVa-Wise hosts Spring Student Art Exhibition beginning May 3

• UVa-Wise students collect books for Mississippi elementary school

• UVa-Wise Music Division to perform "Prism Concert" May 1

April 2006

• Scott County students to benefit from Claude and Agnes McMurray Scholarship at UVa-Wise

• 14th Annual Southwest Virginia Early Childhood Conference at UVa-Wise April 22

• New book by UVa-Wise professor McKnight explores Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia

• Spring Open House set for April 29 at UVa-Wise

• High school students invited to leadership retreat April 21

• Appalachian Writing Project accepting applications for summer writing institute

• UVa-Wise Community Spring Swing set for April 21

• "Manifestations of Art and Literature" to be discussed on April 26

• David Volk to present two solo piano recitals at UVa-Wise April 28

• UVa-Wise professor to discuss Clinchco family during April 19

• Author to discuss Mary Greenhow Lee at UVa-Wise April 17

• “Three Artistic Perspectives” at UVa-Wise April 14

• UVa-Wise to explore “Mountain Music and Storytelling in Film” during Coffee Night April 13

• UVa-Wise alumni invited to Annual Meeting April 11

• David J. Prior installed as seventh chancellor of UVa-Wise

• UVa-Wise Theatre to stage “The Water Engine” April 6-8

• Employers invited to participate in Career Fair 2006 on April 5

• UVa-Wise to celebrate Appalachian culture during April 3 symposium

• UVa-Wise to add marching band in 2006

March 2006

• Folk studies pioneer to lecture at UVa-Wise March 27

• Clark to discuss literacy of Appalachian women at UVa-Wise March 29

• UVa-Wise to launch software engineering degree program in fall 2006

• First Julia Heise Scholarship to be awarded in fall 2006
• 310 students named to Dean's List
• Children invited to celebrate Dr. Seuss' 102nd birthday March 2

February 2006

• Harvey to deliver address as part of Black History Month event Feb. 27
• College Reality Store at UVa-Wise Feb. 25
• Winter Open House set for Feb. 18 at UVa-Wise
• "Super Saturday" Financial Aid Workshop at UVa-Wise Feb. 4
• Space activist, author Rick N. Tumlinson to lecture Feb. 6

January 2006

• UVa-Wise to celebrate Mozart's 250th birthday with Jan. 27 concert

• UVa-Wise to host 10th annual Martin Luther King Day March Jan. 16
• UVa-Wise family saddened by loss of Joseph M. Scolnick, Jr.