Students at the University of Virginia held an America Recycles Day Thursday to raise awareness about cutting down on waste. Activities include a "Dumpster Dive" where participants rummage through a first-year residence hall trash container to see what items could have been recycled. Other games included a taste test to compare bottled water to filtered water and tap water.
When Karen McDowell dressed up in a purple fish costume and walked around the University of Virginia's campus last month, she got plenty of attention for her cause, even though she had to explain the meaning of her outfit. Ms. McDowell is a security analyst for the university, and her goal was to raise awareness about e-mail phishing schemes, in which con artists send e-mail messages hoping to lure people into giving out their passwords or other personal information.
David Breneman
University Professor and a professor of the economics of education
Euphoria of Obama win tempered by budget woes
Times Higher Education (UK) / Nov. 13
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404280&c=1
Cordel Faulk
Communications director for the Center for Politics
'President Obama' Will Be Greeted By A Stack Of Problems
Afro-American Newspapers / Nov. 12
http://www.seattlemedium.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=92509&sID=3&ItemSource=L
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Observers: Perriello skills, timing key
Martinsville Bulletin (VA) / Nov. 13
http://www.martinsvilleb...
... The University of Virginia Health System lists the benefits of exercise for people with rheumatic disease:
The University of Virginia Center for Politics will host a conference next Friday November 21, analyzing the 2008 election. Party insiders, leading journalists, and political pundits will gather to examine the impact of the 2008 presidential, senatorial, and congressional election results.
... Among the young PopTech social innovators polishing their pitches were Chip Ransler and Manoj Sinha, cofounders of Husk Power Systems in Charlottesville, Va. The business partners, who met while attending graduate school at the University of Virginia, have built five mini-electric power plants in remote villages in India. The plants use discarded husks from locally grown rice as fuel. The two hope to have 20 miniplants online by next summer.
... Google Earth's "Ancient Rome 3-D," which was unveiled Wednesday at a news conference in city hall, is based on a simulation created by an international team led by the University of Virginia and the University of California. Using laser scans of today's ruined monuments and advice from archaeologists, experts worked for about a decade to reconstruct ancient Rome within its 13-mile-long (21-kilometer-long) walls, said Bernard Frischer, who heads Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
Dave Burden
Operator of SouthEast Expeditions, which guides kayaking tours all around the Eastern Shore, including a clamming trip
UVA junior guard Monica Wright has been named a preseason candidate for the Wooden Award all-American team and player of the year trophy. Wright, who is also a preseason all ACC selection and Wade Watch List member, led the Cavs in scoring and steals last year.
UVA men's lacrosse coach Dom Starsia was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame this weekend. In 26 seasons as a collegiate coach Starsia stands sixth in college history in wins. In 1993, he took over at Virginia and has led the Cavaliers to three national championships.
Mike Baudinet
Assistant to the director of the Center for Politics
What's next for Virginia's Republicans?
Loudoun Times-Mirror (VA) / Nov. 11
http://www.loudountimes.com/news/2008/nov/11/whats-next-virginias-republicans/
Michael P. Dooley
A law professor and director of Graduate Legal Studies
Port authority's Barclay ponders resignation
Newport News Daily Press / Nov. 12
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_barclay_1112nov12,0,3018086.story
Connie English
Darden's director of alumni career services
Executive Search Engines / Does it make sense to pony up for $100K-plus job sites?
Slate's...
By Ron Wilcox, a Darden professor and author of "Whatever Happened to Thrift?"
... Despite the recent small uptick in the U.S. savings rate, we remain the laggard of the developed world. Americans don't save. And if this pattern persists, our national wealth--indeed our national power--will surely fade. Our current tax policies even encourage this reckless behavior. ...Federal and state governments should begin the process of stripping tax disincentives away from all forms of savings, levying consumption taxes rather than income taxes.