Profile for Ted Strong

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• UVa board OKs budget amid concerns about future funding

  The new budget increases the wages of the university’s lowest-paid workers.

  05/22/2012 8:14 PM
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  Couric helps to send off 6,400 UVa graduates

  UVa’s rector introduced Katie Couric, but was interrupted several times by applause as she went through Couric’s background.

  05/20/2012 7:08 PM

• Living Wage Campaign starts up again at UVa

  Protester Tim Bruno, also a graduate student, said the movement would go on “as long as the university’s exploitative labor practices last.”

  05/01/2012 7:41 PM

• Rabid bear attacks in Albemarle; shot dead by victim

  The bear killed Tuesday is the first-ever recorded case of a rabid bear in Virginia.

  04/19/2012 9:20 PM

• U.Va. to dedicate piece of 9/11 steel today

  Today, a piece of steel from the World Trade Center will be unveiled at the University of Virginia.

  04/01/2012 12:00 AM

• UVa living wage campaign breaks hunger strike, vows to 'escalate' action in the future

  "I am struck by the lack of understanding of the complexities of employment policy the demonstrators demonstrate,” wrote the head of the local Chamber of Commerce.

  03/01/2012 7:33 PM

• Huguely Trial, UPDATED 11:30 a.m. - Value of Love's computer contested

  The defense in the Huguely murder trial finished with all its experts save two doctors by 11 a.m. Thursday.

  02/17/2012 11:32 AM

• Defense's expert witnesses: Highly intoxicated Love died from lack of oxygen

  Dr. Jan Leestma said damage to Love’s brain, particularly the brain stem area, was likely caused by CPR pushing oxygenated blood back into her oxygen-starved brain.

  02/15/2012 9:03 PM

• Medical, forensics experts testify in Huguely trial

  Forensic toxicologist Curt Harper testified that Love had in her system only one quarter of the dose of Adderall needed to begin producing toxic effects.

  02/14/2012 8:37 PM
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  Huguely Trial Day 7, UPDATED 4:10 p.m. - Medical experts continue to testify

  there has been hours of medical testimony, much of it repetitious.

  02/14/2012 11:18 AM

• Huguely murder trial: Testimony details Love injuries as sides spar over what caused them

  Prosecution works to show Huguely as a violent ex-boyfriend who had a tumultuous relationship with Love. Defense attacks medical conclusions, circumstances leading up to Love’s death.

  02/13/2012 8:57 PM

• Huguely Day 6: Prosecution to pick up again with its case

  The case is currently expected to wrap up by the end of the week.

  02/12/2012 5:48 PM

• Roommates tell of finding Love's body; mother and sister also take the stand

  “I talked to Yeardley every day,” she said, “every single day of her life.”

  02/08/2012 9:57 PM
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  UVa's efforts to help service members just latest challenge for this doctor

  The White House wanted a veteran to be in charge of implementing the program, and as a senior associate dean with a 28-year stint in the military, Dr. Ray Costabile “stood out like a sore thumb,” he said.

  01/29/2012 4:16 PM
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  Harringtons return to area on grim anniversary

  The parents of Morgan D. Harrington marked the second anniversary of the discovery of her remains with brief remarks Thursday morning.

  01/26/2012 12:25 PM

• Bob Barker wants UVa to stop training with cats

  In a letter to University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan, which was provided to The Daily Progress by the welfare group, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Barker argues that high-tech simulators should replace the cats.

  01/25/2012 8:29 PM

• UVa extends funding campaign, seeking the full $3 billion

  The campaign was started under former President John T. Casteen III.

  01/12/2012 9:48 PM

• Website seeks to study attitudes toward mental illness

  Researchers are hoping that a new website will help people learn more about their unconscious views on mental illness and give them more data for study.

  01/01/2012 12:00 AM

• Albemarle family of 4, U.Va. grad killed in plane crash

  A plane crashed into a northern New Jersey interstate Tuesday, killing four members of an Albemarle County family, a University of Virginia alumnus and a dog.

  12/21/2011 12:00 AM

• Virginia community colleges to ask state for more help

  Among the items the system wants more resources for: more full-time faculty; more students, including veterans; and building more buildings.

  11/15/2011 8:00 PM