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Archived News Releases 2008
August 2008
• Upward Bound students complete summer program
• UVa-Wise selects Jenzabar for new student information system
July 2008
• UVa-Wise Marching Highland Cavaliers band camp set Aug. 10-14
• UVa-Wise freshmen to read bestselling ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’
• Community invited to participate in Relay for Life at UVa-Wise July 18-19
• UVa-Wise professor to discuss german anarchists on 'With Good Reason'
June 2008
• UVa-Wise students to benefit from $4 million gift from Hancock estate
• Jean Good receives Outstanding Contribution Award at UVa-Wise
• UVa-Wise receives Excellence in Technology Education award
• Summer Session II begins July 7 at UVa-Wise
• Summer College 2008 courses at Abingdon open to students at UVa-Wise and other institutions
• UVa-Wise classified staff honored at luncheon
• Classes in digital photography, Web hosting set at Southwest Virginia Technology Development Center
• Highland Cavalier Club awards scholarships to two rising senior athletes
• Community invited to learn about UVa-Wise accounting degree cohort in Abingdon
May 2008
• UVa-Wise honors students at Academic Awards Ceremony
• Sigma Delta Pi inducts seven students at UVa-Wise
• UVa-Wise announces spring Dean’s List
• Appalachian Writing Project to hold sixth annual retreat July 15-17
• UVa-Wise inducts new members into Psi Chi Honorary Society
• Lambda Pi Eta inducts four new members at UVa-Wise
• UVa-Wise awards students at Honors Convocation
• UVa-Wise graduates 18 at Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center
• Registration now open for free reading clinic for grades 1-4 at UVa-Wise
• UVa-Wise graduates largest class in College history
• Public invited to May 28 open house for Southwest Virginia Technology Development Center, Russell County Conference Center
• UVa-Wise, Southwest Virginia Technology Development Center to host information security workshop
• UVa-Wise, Southwest Virginia Technology Development Center to present high-speed Internet workshop May 27
• UVa-Wise Institute for Excellence in Leadership to present first seminar at Southwest Virginia Technology Development Center
• UVa-Wise professor speaks during Williamsburg’s ‘Religion Month’
• UVa-Wise inducts new Darden Society members
• UVa-Wise graduate Donovan Mabe plans to support region through specialized medical treatment
• Helping local children is what drives UVa-Wise graduate Sarah Hamilton
April 2008
• Sigma Zeta inducts 18 new members at UVa-Wise
• UVa-Wise spring art exhibit May 1-6
• Orchestra, soloists to join UVa-Wise choirs for Mozart concert May 5
• UVa-Wise vice chancellor Sim Ewing named Citizen of the Year
• UVa-Wise professor named Speaker of the Year for regional chapter of American Chemical Society
• University of Virginia, Norton City Public Schools Team to Win $1 Million Federal Grant to Enhance Teaching of American History
• Voices from Darfur bring stories of survival to UVa-Wise on April 30
• Logo contest underway for FINS research program
• UVa-Wise bands to present spring concert and chamber music night
• UVa-Wise Alumni Association to host book fair April 18
• Va. Senator John H. Chichester to speak at 39th UVa-Wise Commencement May 17
• Prospective students to preview College from every angle at UVa-Wise 360° April 26
• UVa-Wise to present holocaust drama ‘I Never Saw Another Butterfly’
• UVa-Wise theater students to present ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’
• UVa-Wise Coffee Night to feature professor emeritus Richard Peake< | 
