In this edition of the Darden BusinessCast, we speak with Alice Schroeder, author of "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life," and the keynote speaker at the first-ever Value Investing Conference, held at Darden last week. Also joining us is second year student Patrick Connell, the CIO of Darden Capital Management.
A group of middle school students from Buford experience a day in the life of a college student at the University of Virginia. ...The hope is that local students will learn about UVA so they'll look forward to college. ...Since it began, over 3,000 local kids have been mentored by UVA students in the "Day in the Life" Program.
By John W. Snow, former Secretary of the Treasury and Newman Visiting Fellow at the Miller Center. He shares lessons from the Miller Center's global financial summit in September as a roadmap for this weekend's G-20 Summit on the global financial crisis
The U.Va. Hospital and Drs. Barry Farr and Richard Wenzel have developed a proven national model for reducing deadly MRSA outbreaks, called Active Detection and Isolation, but other hospitals and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been slow to adopt these changes
University of Virginia officials are aiming to allay concerns about the state of the school's investments and overall stability in light of a financial crisis that is wracking financial markets worldwide. In a letter sent out Thursday evening, UVa President John T. Casteen III wrote that while UVa's endowment investments were hit to the tune of close to $900 million in the first quarter of this fiscal year, the investments will rebound in the long run.
... there are things you can do to feel better while the cold runs its course. The University of Virginia Health System offers these suggestions: ...
The UVA Football Alumni Club has become the latest organization to honor University Dean of Admissions John Blackburn. Blackburn will retire next summer after 23 years at the helm. The 450-member Football Alumni Club has presented Blackburn with its annual Order of the Crossed Sabres. The award recognizes those who've had an extraordinary impact on the Virginia football program. ...Blackburn has overseen the admission of players who graduated at a 72% rate, nearly 20 percentage points higher than the national average. ...
University of Virginia researchers have confirmed the accuracy and reliability of SpermCheck Vasectomy, the first FDA-approved at-home test for detecting low concentrations of sperm.
Elliott Woods
2008 graduate in English after leaving school to serve in Iraq, maker of a documentary film on Iraq veterans, and author of a new story in the VQR
Jason Alvis
A graduate student who lives in an historic Lynchburg apartment building that he helped renovate
... Past beneficiaries of similar grants from the alliance include ... Intelliject LLC, a company founded by University of Virginia students that makes a wallet-size drug injector called the EpiCard.
Julie Bargmann
Associate professor of landscape architecture
Five Designers Awarded $50,000 Fellowships
Architectural Record / Nov. 10
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/081110usafellowships.asp
Chris Brightman
CEO of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company
Venture Capitalists Have Flashbacks as Institutions Dump Stakes
Bloomberg / Nov. 14
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aGoLeqw51UGg&refer=us
Stephen A. Macko
Professor of environmental sciences who uses isotopes to study the human diet
Fast Food's Corny Roots / Isotope survey is the fi...
Some people who suffer Seasonal Affective Disorder may also have a genetic mutation that may, in part, bring on wintry depression, a study by a University of Virginia researcher has found.
... University of Virginia chemistry professor James Landers and other UVa researchers are working on a small glass panel that would allow physicians and crime-scene investigators to conduct DNA tests anywhere without the need for a laboratory.
...The 10th annual American Democracy Conference is sponsored by UVa's Center for Politics and will take place Nov. 21 at Alumni Hall, 211 Emmet St.
... this summer the 26-year-old MBA student [Ari Perlman] at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business signed on with Lehman Brothers for an internship. Then all hell broke loose. ...
The Cooper Center co-hosts a forum on "Making Ends Meet" in Martinsville, led by Nancy Gansneder, director of the Academy for Civic Renewal at the Cooper Center
...WVTF's Sandy Hausman reports on a UVA study that shows strenuous exercise is needed to reshape your middle.