Virginia has filed a lawsuit seeking $1.15 billion in damages against 13 of some of the largest commercial banks in the world for allegedly committing fraud against taxpayers in the commonwealth during the real estate bubble that led the country into recession. … The lawsuit differs from most others that have resulted from the financial crisis in that it was brought under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. Most other lawsuits of this type are brought under federal securities laws, said Quinn Curtis, an associate professor of law at the University of Virginia.
“When I attend conferences focusing on economic innovation or investing, I see a different audience than I see when I attend conferences, like this, that focus on economic development,” said speaker Gregory B. Fairchild, a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.Fairchild noted that those attending innovation and investing conferences are more akin to his students at Darden. They come from top-tier schools, have top-tier test scores and pay about $90,000 for two years of study to learn successful innovation and investment str...
By Philip Zelikow, the Visiting Managing Director of the Markle Foundation and the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia.... The deliberate industrial design of today’s America is about 140 years old.A different kind of economy and society beckons: disaggregated, decentralized, and networked. How it develops will vary by community and person, depending on our choices. Past revolutions, including the Industrial Revolution, unfolded differently from one place to the next. Some choices enlarged the scope of social betterment. Others confined it. Intentions ...
John Summers is responsible for the second life of The Baffler, which relaunched in 2012. The Baffler was a zine founded in 1988 by Thomas Frank and Keith White at the University of Virginia that grew up into a sort of anti-academic journal in Chicago.
Checking out the maps above created after the 2010 census at the University of Virginia, the city seemed to divide into a clock face with each quarter mark set aside for a different racial make up.Now some say that is changing with the half a million extra people who've come to Houston since then changing the dynamic of our city.
Shenandoah National Park has joined a nationwide study to sample mercury levels in national parks to identify threats to natural resources, officials said. ... SNP has done research with a mercury specialist, Dr. Ami Riscassi of University of Virginia, throughout the past decade and the park wanted to continue its efforts, Cumming said.There is a mercury deposition station within the park that monitors mercury release in the water, Riscassi said. ...
The blended and extended families created by high rates of divorce, remarriage and cohabitation – along with the worldwide migration prompted by economic turmoil and war – have combined to change forever the view of family as limited to a mother, father and their children. “The family is the core institution for child-rearing worldwide, and decades of research have shown that strong families promote positive child outcomes,” said Laura Lippman, co-director of the World Family Map and senior program director for education at Child Trends.The report, co-written by Li...
Charlottesville based company Psikick has been working on a technique called subthreshold processing, that could solve this kind of problems and ...
We have 3D printed keys, guns and shoes -- now a research team at the University of Virginia has created a 3D printed UAV drone for the Department of Defense.In the works for three years, the aircraft, no bigger than a remote-controlled plane, can carry a 1.5-pound payload. If it crashes or needs a design tweak for a new mission, another one can be printed out in a little more than a day, for just $2,500 (£1533). It's made with off-the-shelf parts and has an Android phone for a brain."We weren't sure you could make anything lightweight and stron...
But a new study of the sleek little brown anolis lizard in the Bahamas is challenging the notion that tropical lizards can’t stand the heat. Yes, researchers at Dartmouth College and University of Virginia say, the expected two-degree rise in temperatures over the remainder of the century will likely do a number on lizards. However, they said, researchers should give more consideration to the lizard’s ability to adapt and evolve.The scientists moved male lizards from the cooler and more forested end of a Bahamian island to a peninsula that baked under the sun. The results showed th...
The University of Virginia Center for Politics Global Perspectives on Democracy program is hosting students from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru this week as a part of its Youth Ambassadors Program for South America.Tuesday the teenagers talked to UVA Center for Politics director Larry Sabato about getting involved back home. They also experienced some American culture at Monticello High School, where they learned more than how classes are different - and took part in a dance party.