Cordel Faulk
Communications director for the Center for Politics
GOP Advance Plots to Win '09 Governor's Race
WCAV CBS-19 / Dec. 4
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/35582044.html
Everette Fortner
Executive Director of Corporate Relations at the Darden School of Business
To Be or Not to Be ... an English Grad During a Big Recession?
Jewish Exponent (PA) / Dec. 4
http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/17783/
Michael Krepon
A diplomat scholar and visiting lecturer in politics, and co-founder of the Henry L. Stimson Center
Analyst Takes Issue With Estimate of WMD Risk
Global S...
University of Virginia Police are stressing bicycle safety following a Wednesday night accident.
The University of Virginia School of Nursing honored Amy Drake Boitnott on Nov. 14 as the school's first Doctor of Nursing Practice.
... "In most children the biggest issue of diluted formula is you're not delivering enough calories. And since one of the principal jobs of an infant is to grow because when they grow everything gets better, if you don't provide enough calories they won't grow normally and they won't develop normally," said Dr. Stephen Borowitz of UVa's Children's Hospital. ...
... In other matters, the University of Virginia's College at Wise Chancellor David J. Prior provided supervisors with an impressive list of recent, ongoing and/or future capital projects at the college. Crockett Hall's $6.9 million renovation is complete and houses all student services offices, the new $2 million campus boulevard entrance is pretty much complete, the college hopes to open a new $14.5 million Center for the Arts next fall, and site preparation is under way for a $30 million Convocation Center that will seat 3,000 for athletic and other events. ...
... Shigehiro Oishi, a University of Virginia psychologist who studies the causes and consequences well-being, said the importance of geography was a profound finding. "Although we are connected with friends and family members who live far away via cellphone and the Internet, these results indicate that there is nothing like a face-to-face interaction," Oishi said. "We are told to get connected by cellphone companies, but in order to get connected you really have to live close by and interact face to face."
College endowments and state pension funds plowed billions of dollars into hedge funds and private-equity investments as a way to balance their stock holdings, and for a time they got supercharged returns. Those days are over. ... Private-equity funds account for about $900 million of the University of Virginia's endowment and other funds, or about one-fifth of the total holdings. Those private-equity investments dropped nearly 13 percent from July to September.
...Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, a 1983 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, has been nominated as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
... "It's not going to look particularly good for the president-elect and his team if Americans see limousine after limousine, fur coat after fur coat, at a time when just about everybody else is suffering," said Larry Sabato, director for the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
The Lawn will be a bit greener when it lights up tonight for the holidays. In years past, incandescent bulbs have illuminated the University of Virginia's historic centerpiece, but this year they've been replaced with more energy-efficient LED bulbs.
Louisa County High School is home to the newest branch of the UVA Community Credit Union. Louisa County Schools Superintendent Deborah Pettit cut the ribbon on the Lion Nation Branch Wednesday morning. The branch is run by students. One goal of having a branch inside the school is to help students develop good money management skills.
Demographers at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service found that some tax allocations to local school divisions might be unfair because they don't always count their school-age residents accurately. York County and Poquoson were among those that might have missed out on funds in the recent past, according to the study.
By Melissa Coretz Goemann and Jeffrey Aaron, U.Va. assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and forensic coordinator at the U.Va.-affiliated Commonwealth Center for Children & Adolescents
... Studies have consistently found that adolescent offenders who are transferred into the adult justice system where they face harsher sanctions and less rehabilitation offend more, not less, and commit more serious offenses than their counterparts who remain in the juvenile system. Thus, while the impulse to punish - either for retribution or protection - is understandable, such punishment comes at the c...
...Some people may be genetically predisposed to SAD, but the environment can trigger it as well, said Ignacio Provencio, a biology professor at the University of Virginia. A recent study led by Provencio shows that a genetic mutation in the eye could play a role in seasonal affective disorder. The mutation makes a person with SAD less sensitive to light. ... The information may also help predict which people with seasonal affective disorder will respond to light therapy, because the mutated genes involve light sensitivity, he said.
America's young people may be educationally unprepared to fill the shoes of baby boomers soon to retire from the work force, the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education said Wednesday. "We're on the cusp of the retirement of the best-educated generation or set of cohorts in the history of the world," said David Breneman, director of the master's program in public policy at the University of Virginia and a producer of the report. "We need to worry very deeply about the young people coming along to take those positions."