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The Jefferson Hotel
in Richmond received Mobil Travel Guide’s five-star
award, its highest rating, for the fifth consecutive
year. The Inn at Little Washington was
the only other Virginia property so honored.
Only 31 hotels, resorts and inns in North America
received five-star recognition for 2005. The
Inn’s restaurant also received a five-star designation,
one of 14. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
George Mason University
announced plans to build a 70,000-square-foot
high-security lab in Prince William for the
study and testing of new vaccines and other
defenses against bioterrorism. GMU will seek
$25 million of the $40 million cost from the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases. Groundbreaking for the facility, to
be part of GMU’s National Center for Biodefense,
is envisioned for 2006, depending on fund raising.
(The Washington Post)
James E. and Robert
S. Ukrop received the 2004 Volunteer of
the Year Award from the Virginia Economic Development
Association, given to honor individuals who
have committed time and effort in bringing jobs
to Virginia. James Ukrop is chairman of Ukrop’s
Super Markets Inc. and First Market Bank; and
Robert Ukrop is president and CEO of Ukrop’s
Super Markets. (Press release)
The University of Virginia’s
Darden Graduate School of Business plans
to launch an executive MBA program on the Charlottesville
campus in 2006. Details of the program, offered
to executives who seek graduate study but face
difficulties in leaving their full-time jobs,
are yet to be worked out with U.Va. and the
state. (The Virginian-Pilot)
Virginia Tech received
a $2 million grant from the National Science
Foundation supporting efforts to increase the
number of engineering graduates. The grant will
fund three new programs, based on existing programs,
designed to improve retention and graduation
rates among engineering students. (Press
release)
Virginia Tech leads a
consortium of colleges that hope to secure approval
to build an advanced, $300 million underground
research facility 7,000 feet beneath Butt Mountain,
15 miles west of Blacksburg. The National Science
Foundation has sought proposals for such a facility
to conduct research in astrophysics, geoscience
and particle research that must be shielded
from cosmic rays. The facility would be a national
lab like the Jefferson Lab in Newport News or
Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Tech’s
partners in the enterprise are North Carolina
State, West Virginia University, the University
of Tennessee, Iowa State, the Michigan Technology
Institute and Oak Ridge. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
The College of William &
Mary’s executive MBA program ranked 33rd
in the country and 57th worldwide
in a survey by the Financial Times. W&M’s
program is 20 years old and has over 600 graduates.
(PRNewswire)
The College of William &
Mary’s Mashall-Wythe School of Law received
a $1 million gift from the Gladys and Franklin
Clark Foundation, the largest one-time donation
ever received by the law school. The money will
help finance a renovation and expansion of the
law library. (Daily Press)
