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University of Richmond
w The Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business will host its annual symposium, "Online Vice: Legal Issues in Online Gambling," from 1:30 to 5 p.m. March 19 in the Moot Court room of the University of Richmond School of Law. The event is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow. (MCLE credits are pending.) A panel discussion will showcase some of the nation’s leading experts on gaming law: Professor John Kindt of University of Illinois School of Business, Professor Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, Professor I. Nelson Rose of Whittier Law School, Professor Frank Vandall of Emory School of Law, and Andrew Woods, executive director of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society.
w The university has named Thomas C. Gutenberger, a 1987 graduate of the university with 20 years of successful development and alumni relations experience in higher education, its next vice president for advancement. Gutenberger will be responsible for managing Richmond’s alumni relations, communications, community relations and development, as well as foundation, corporate and government relations.
w The university has joined with 14 other Virginia colleges and the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges in launching Career 15, an initiative matching Virginia companies with Virginia college students looking for jobs and internships. In recent years, recruiters have reduced the number of visits to small college campuses, focusing instead on larger institutions. Career 15 will gather students from several small, private Virginia colleges and universities in one location — a Web site, vfic.org/career15.html — to interact with participating recruiters. Students will be able to post resumes and search job postings in a format similar to monster.com or hotjobs.com. Virginia recruiters can review the resumes and set up interviews. In addition to the Web site Career 15 will hold job fairs and interview days for student and business participants. More than 20,000 students from VFIC member schools will have direct access to recruiters' participating companies, including such Fortune 1000 firms as Philip Morris USA, Genworth Financial and Luck Stone.
w Chemistry professor John Gupton has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health–National Cancer Institute and named a fellow of the Council on Undergraduate Research. The $202,555 NIH grant will support Gupton’s research for three years, including the cost of equipment, resources and four undergraduate student researchers each year. Gupton and his team are researching the synthesis of biologically natural products which display properties that appear to fight tumors. NIH has funded the research since 1992.