According to Bob Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, there is a “diversification discount” the market puts on conglomerates due to their complexity. Investors, he says, are understandably worried that buried in the layers of corporate infrastructure are red flags that they can’t easily analyze.
The memory clip always rolls in Nick Clooney’s mind just as he’s about to drift off to sleep. The wide-eyed little boy is back, still clutching his beloved chicken.
Seventy-five years have come and gone, and this raven-haired beauty still turns heads. Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” already was celebrating its golden anniversary when the Virginia Film Festival, then billed as the Virginia Festival of American Film, rolled out its first red carpet.
Filmmakers don’t need a horror movie to scare them witless. Distribution screenings at which studio execs give a film a yea or nay are immeasurably more terrifying.
All proceeds will benefit the Marty Whitlow Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at the University of Virginia Cancer Center.
University of Virginia researchers found that the very simple eyes of fruit fly larvae, with only 24 total photoreceptors (the human eye contains more than 125 million), provide just enough light or visual input to allow the animal's relatively large brain to assemble that input into images.
The live electronic international conversations of the audiences contributed to the thought cloud as the ecological drama unfolded within us and around us at the University of Virginia OpenGrounds performance space on October 29th.
Hidden in the shadows cast by the University of Virginia's white pillared buildings, some residents of Charlottesville, Va. are regularly forced to go without food for themselves and their families. This is the "forgotten population" according to Anna Karnaze, a first-year graduate student at UVA who has set out to fight hunger in the small college town. And as the winner of The Greeks Give Back Challenge, a contest in which students compete for grant money to help finance community service projects, she will have the funding she needs to get started.
“There’s a very high likelihood Democrats will hold onto the Senate, and it’s the Republicans’ own fault,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s annual Quadruplicity conference will return in February with a new award honoring the leadership of local women in business and a new title sponsor, the University of Virginia Health System.
A trick or treat tradition at the University of Virginia was held Wednesday afternoon. Costumed kids prowled the walkways of UVA's Lawn from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Some students at the University of Virginia are chasing around the area looking high and low for things that will hopefully earn them a trip to Scotland.
Nicole Bailey, a third-year student at the University of Virginia and editor-in-chief of The Virginia Advocate, was a guest yesterday discussing the election from the point of view of college campuses.
Seen on Facebook earlier last week: "Without Bruce, the Dalai Lama or Obama coming to Cville today, life feels a bit dull here in town. At least The Virginia Film Festival is just a week away..." C'ville, or Charlottesville, has had a lot going on lately.
“If the DNA is not matching up, this is probably a fairly law-abiding person,” said Dr. Janet I. Warren, professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia. “He likely has a job and is going about his business.”
Take a look, for example, at some research conducted by a New York based economist, Thomas Philippon, partly in association with Ariell Reshef of the University of Virginia. They chart the fluctuations of American finance since 1880 and show, firstly, how dramatically finance swelled from the late 1970s to today.
University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said lawmakers who go to bat for other candidates, especially the party standard-bearers, are looking for benefits down the road.
"North Dakota looked like a sure pickup too, and now that is in question," says Kyle Kondik, an expert on congressional races at the University of Virginia.
The fourth annual Will Barrow Memorial Flag Football Tournament will be held Saturday at Virginia's historic Lambeth Field with proceeds going to the UVa HELP Line, a nonprofit, student-run crisis hotline. Established in memory of Barrow, a former Cavaliers defensive midfielder who was found dead of an apparent suicide in November 2008, the UVa HELP Line is an anonymous, confidential telephone service for residents of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia. It is affiliated with the university's Madison House.
The state's results were reflective of Obama's victory as a whole. Of the 50 states, it was the closest to his national average of 52.9 percent of the vote. "It is somewhat of a barometer of what's happening in the country," says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia