Rebecca Deeds
B.A., English
Hoping for a change of address
Washington Post / Oct. 21
Jeanne Liedtka
Darden professor
National Design Week: The Business of Design
BusinessWeek / Oct. 20
Larry Sabato
Professor of politics and director of the Center for Politics
Debate's moderator donated to campaigns
Boston Herald / Oct. 21
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On the Agenda: Obama Campaigns in Gubernatorial Races
FOXNews / Oct. 21
This week Darden Professor Jeanne Liedtka joins us to discuss her new course on Corporate Innovation and Design. The course gives students an opportunity to learn and apply a set of techniques around design thinking. In this week’s Darden news: “Welcome Aboard,” “Alumni Leaders Gather,” “Amazon to Visit Darden,” and “The Value Investing Conference.”
Local movie buffs with a passion for films such as Pink Flamingos and Hairspray will be in luck on Friday...
Polls opened Monday for the nation’s largest, student-only mock election, run annually by the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ Youth Leadership Initiative. ...
The United States is a country founded on the principles of freedom, justice, and tolerance. These fundamental ideas are revisited in Journey into America, a documentary that explores American identity through the Muslim lens. Professor Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, traveled with a team of young Americans for nine months, visiting over 75 cities and 100 mosques in the United States. ... When the team visited the University of Virginia, they encountered a statue of Thomas Jefferson. In the hands of the third US President was a book dated 1786 and ...
... Morgan Harrington, a 20-year-old education major, went to the concert at the University of Virginia's John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville with several girlfriends but disappeared from their sight around 8:40 p.m., according to police, who are calling it a missing person case. ...
[CNN interview with mother of missing Va Tech woman at: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/21/virginia.missing.student/index.html#cnnSTCVideo]
Charlottesville writers dominated in poetry at the 12th Library of Virginia awards October 17 in Richmond. UVA English prof Lisa Russ Spaar won the poetry prize for Satin Cash, her fourth collection. The Weinstein Poetry award went to Charles Wright and Eleanor Ross Taylor. ...
The federal government has begun a study of how much swine flu vaccine to give to people with asthma. ... The study also is being conducted at Emory University in Atlanta; the University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute; the University of Virginia; ...
The economic slump has not slowed the upward spiral of college costs, the College Board reported Tuesday. Tuition and fees now average $26,273 at private colleges and $7,020 at public four-year institutions, with prices rising faster in the public sector. ... Locally, tuition and fees at the public University of Virginia rose 4 percent, to $9,872, this year. ...
Karen Booth Adams
B.S., psychology, 1990
Serial entrepreneur enjoys investing in others’ ventures
Richmond Times Dispatch / Oct. 19
Carla Zeballos
U.Va. alumna
Eliana Papadakis named 2010 WOMAN ONE Award recipient
Cherry Hill Courier Post / Oct. 19
John Griffin
Visiting professor
Valuation of Guru Holdings: Apple Inc (AAPL)
Gurufocus.com / Oct. 19
Bob Gibson
Executive director of The Thomas C. Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
The Race for Governor
WMRA "Virginia Insight" / Oct. 19
David Newkirk
Darden CEO
Executive education fights back
Forbes / Oct. 15
Jack Oakes
Darden director of career services
GMAT: The MBA job seeker’s best friend
Business Week / Oct. 19
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Deeds fights to hold Obama’s Va. coalition
Richmond Times Dispatc...
The University Of Virginia School of Nursing is getting a $1.2-million federal grant. It's a first of its kind for the program. The money will pay for a project that will help improve access to quality health care and to help eliminate health barriers and disparities in rural and underserved parts of the state.
... the grant will pay for two students each summer to spend 10 weeks at the Mountain Lake Biological Station near Blacksburg. The station is run by the University of Virginia. There, the students will research how to conserve bees native to western Virginia so that they can ...
... At UVa all online faculty must be approved by a credential-based program and online and on-campus courses are taught by the same faculty, with some adjunct additions. "We don't want to have volume being the driver," says Billy Cannady, dean of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies. "Our focus is on providing high quality staff, excellent instruction, and creating the UVa. experience." UVa with an enrollment last year of approximately 2,300 online students, is working on expanding its program carefully and creating partnerships with other schools. ...
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Melvin Leffler and Jeffrey Legro are organizers of an upcoming conference at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia that will explore how policy-makers reacted after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers: When Walls Came Down: Berlin, 9/11 and U.S. Strategy in Uncertain Times.
The University of Virginia has a clinic for screening adults with flu-like symptoms. It will be from 1-8 p.m. each day this week through Friday at 1222 Jefferson Park Avenue. ...
Police continued to seek help Monday in finding a Virginia Tech student from Roanoke County who went missing during a Metallica concert in Charlottesville on Saturday night. Morgan Dana Harrington, 20, was last seen near John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, according to University of Virginia police. ...
Money Magazine has named Charlottesville one of the top 50 places to start a small business. Additionally, Charlottesville was ranked 19th among small cities in the country. It was the only Virginia locality on the list. Much of the success of small ventures is due, according to Money, to UVA’s Darden School of Business, to which Charles Seilheimer and his business partner Adam Healey say, word up. ...