... Pay cuts are likely to wash across Wall Street no matter what happens in Washington, given the rocky financial markets and reined-in risk-taking at many firms. Ariell Reshef, an economics professor at the University of Virginia, predicts that financial-industry wages likely will decline relative to other industries, reversing an upward trend coinciding with a deregulation wave that began in 1980 and with the bull market. "When there's a lot of credit risk, innovation and initial public offerings, you have to pay" more to financial professionals, says Mr. Reshef, who has studied t...
A Charlottesville biotech company has begun shipping out samples of its cutting-edge home tests for male sterility. ... The [SpermCheck Vasectomy] test, which is based on a protein discovered at the University of Virginia, aims to measure a man’s sperm count following a vasectomy. ... The Charlottesville company’s technology is based on inventions by the firm’s founder, John C. Herr, a UVa professor of cell biology and director of UVa’s Center for Research in Contraceptive and Reproductive Health.
Stephen Salsbury A second-year student
When you head out to a sporting event on grounds at the University of Virginia cheering on your team is your top priority. If bad weather should ever strike the athletics Department is already working to protect you before the weather arrives.
L. Jay Bourgeois A professor at the Darden School of Business Searching To Escape Short-Term Planning Investors Business Daily / Apr. 17 http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=474343 Robert Bruner Dean of the Darden School of Business US tax hammer not so painful Business Times (Singapore) / May 9 http://news.asiaone.com/News/The%2BBusiness%2BTimes/Story/A1Story20090509-140386.html David Newkirk CEO for executive education at Darden Executive Education: Crisis sends shockwaves through sector Financial Times (London) / May 11 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d71c5a8c-3b64-11de-ba91...
A new report from the University of Virginia shows that Virginia's public schools are going to get a little more crowded very soon. The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service predicts about 42,000 more students will hit the halls over the next five years. Susan Perrone, a statistician for the Weldon Cooper Center, says the bulk of the projected increase will be in the elementary grades.
Ten years ago, the University of Virginia had only 17 Chinese applicants. This year, there are more than 800.
... The avid cook and gardener bought several herb and tomato plants Saturday afternoon at the 20th Annual Garden Fair at the University of Virginia’s Blandy Experimental Farm and the State Arboretum of Virginia in Boyce. ... “We pride ourselves on having many local plant vendors,” said David Carr, director of Blandy Experimental Farm.
... How many times have we sat hunched over a task, stressed out, taking short breaths? To get air to where it needs to go, and enjoy the air you take in, laugh! Humor promotes quicker healing and better health, dissipates anxiety and lends perspective, according to Peter Sheras, a psychologist at the University of Virginia. ...
A new education center near the Dahlgren Navy base will offer graduate-level science and engineering programs in partnership with U.Va. and four other state universities.
Professors John Mugler and Jim Brookeman were named U.Va. Inventors of the Year for their groundbreaking work in magnetic resonance imaging
Reynold Levy Ph.D. graduate in government and foreign affairs, now president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
... A memorial service was held Monday at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, where he was a former treasurer and elder. Mr. Kinnier will in a way continue to teach his specialty through the Henry L. Kinnier Professorship in Civil Engineering, funded by donations from more than 200 colleagues, friends and former students, his family said.
Rita Dove Commonwealth Professor of English Rita Dove, former US poet laureate, will read at the Crest Sacramento Bee / May 12 http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/1853347.html?mi_rss=Our%2520Region Thomas Hafemeister A professor of law The Tricky Question of Competence New York Times blog / May 11 http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/the-tricky-question-of-competence/ Robert Van de Castle A dream expert and former director of the Sleep and Dream Research Laboratory Presidential dreams / Local woman’s Obama visions undergo an expert’s scrutiny Fort Wayne Journal Gazette...
Investigators warned attendees here at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2009 Annual Meeting that the 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) criteria for the diagnosis of acute otitis media (AOM) might lead pediatricians to prescribe antibiotics unnecessarily in a significant number of cases. Results of a prospective longitudinal study of 40 children, aged 6 months to 3 years, were presented by Carlos E. Armengol, MD, from the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Dorrie Fontaine, dean of the University of Virginia School of Nursing, joins us during National Nurses Week (May 6-12) to discuss the role that nurses can play in healthcare reform. From the Nasdaq Market Site in New York.
... Another new study examined how state medical privacy laws affect adoption of electronic medical records. That work [coauthored by U.Va. economics professor Amalia Miller], to be published in the journal Management Science, found a tradeoff between privacy and electronic medical records. When a state has health privacy laws in place, it reduces the likelihood a hospital will adopt an electronic medical record system by 20 to 30 percent...