In the college admissions essay she wrote for the University of Virginia, Autumn Adkins said she hoped to open a boarding school for low-income students. Now she's getting a chance to run one. Today, Girard College is scheduled to announce that Adkins, 36, will become the first African American woman to serve as president in the Fairmount boarding school's 160-year history.
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
Trust People To Be Great / Anyone who leads, who mentors others, has the ability to influence the future for the good
The Complete Lawyer / Mar. 17
http://www.thecompletelawyer.com/alternative-dispute-resolution-adr/trust-people-to-be-great-3151.html
Jeffrey Holt
Associate professor of neuroscience and otolaryngology
Callirobics
WVTF Public Radio (Roanoke, VA) / Mar. 16
http://www.wvtf.org/news_and_notes/index.php
Terry Rephann
A regional economist at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Virginia's Farm Economy
WVTF Public Radio (Ro...
... In recent years, the finance sector grew far larger than economic fundamentals said it should be. Thomas Philippon, an economist at New York University’s Stern School of Business, estimates that it was 8.3% of GDP in 2006. He thinks that a more natural level would be around 7%. What’s more, he and University of Virginia economist Ariell Reshef estimate that, controlling for education and employment risk, finance workers were paid about 40% too much in 2006.
A sense of the power of ordinary people -- that's what Julian Bond hopes people come away with after they've visited places that were central to the civil rights movement. Bond, a civil rights activist and the longtime chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is leading a group on a pilgrimage through Alabama and Georgia for a third year.
Mental powers start to dwindle at 27 after peaking at 22, marking the start of old age, US research suggests. Professor Timothy Salthouse of the University of Virginia found reasoning, spatial visualisation and speed of thought all decline in our late 20s. Therapies designed to stall or reverse the ageing process may need to start much earlier, he said.
A first-of-its-kind study has found that forensic experts produced flawed evidence in the trials of 82 men -- four in Virginia -- wrongfully convicted of rape or murder in the 1980s. ... The Virginia Law Review study, released today, was written by Brandon L. Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia, and Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project. It examined 137 trials in which transcripts exist and forensic experts testified for the prosecution.
On a cold, gray, rainy afternoon on March 15, 1809, Thomas Jefferson returned to Monticello on horseback, shortly after his second term as president had ended. ... Monticello hosted the commemoration in honor of the 200th anniversary of Jefferson’s return to private life on his Albemarle estate.
Members of the University of Virginia women's basketball team stopped by Walker Upper Elementary School to talk to sixth graders about the importance of reading.
The No. 4 Virginia women's golf team won the second tournament championship in the program's history in record-setting fashion with a five-shot victory in the LSU Golf Classic in Baton Rouge, La. The Cavaliers turned in the best tournament score in school history. Virginia shot shot 4-under 284, equaling the lowest single-round score in team history, to set an all-time low tournament scoring mark of 8-under 856. U.Va.'s previous best tournament score was 8-over 872 at last year's ACC tournament.
George Cohen
A law professor
Va., Tenn., Among States with No Attorney-Client Sexual Relations Ban
Bristol Herald Courier (TN) / Mar. 16
http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/va._tenn._among_states_with_no_attorney-client_sexual_relations_ban/21737/
Gregory Fairchild
An associate professor at Darden
Values sustain immigrant businesses in downturn
Richmond Times Dispatch / Mar. 15
http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/business/local/article/IMMI15_20090314-193619/231794/
Bob Gibson
Executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
The Changing Face of Virginia Politi...
By Harold A. Gould, visiting scholar in the Center for South Asian Studies
There yet seems inadequate understanding of the complexities and the challenges confronting the Pakistan-Afghanistan region as the mainstream leadership in all camps, including the US, gropes to develop a strategic formula for keeping the jihadi wolves from the door - before they inundate Islamabad and Kabul, and indeed plunge the entire region, including India, into political chaos.
By Larry J. Sabato, a politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Every midterm year, the lion’s share of the attention seems to go to the U.S. Senate and House contests at the national level, even though the governorships are arguably more important. ...
...Dr. Brian H. Annex, chief of cardiovascular medicine at UVa, said the UVa Medical Center’s work with surrounding communities “is a critical part of our mission.” ...
In part four of our special series on graduating in a turbulent economic time, we are joined by Darden Professor Greg Fairchild, a Darden Class of 1992 alumnus.