U.Va. students and professors discuss how today's Virginians view race and Obama
More than 205,000 students from around Georgia avoided long lines to cast votes for the presidential election. Voting online in a mock election, their choice was Barack Obama by 58.6 percent. John McCain captured 35.5 percent of the vote. Local students are among more than 1 million nationwide who voted in the mock election, sponsored by the Youth Leadership Initiative, an education program based at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Students at 1,128 schools across the country picked Obama by 60 percent, said Meg Heubeck, director of instruction for the YLI.
Tina Fey
Star of NBC's "30 Rock," which a Television Week critics' poll put as the No. 3 show overall, trailing only "Lost" and "The Wire."
'30 Rock' returns with a lot of Emmys and attention
Chicago Sun-Times / Oct. 30
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/1252001,30-rock-tina-fey-103008.article
Adrienne Kinne
2001 graduate who is a whistleblower against the NSA spying on U.S. citizens that she did as an active duty sergeant in the Army Reserve after Sept. 11
Whistelblower sparks spying probe
Burlington Free Press (VT) / Oct. 31
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20081031/NEWS/810310...
...For decades this tragic human exodus went virtually unknown outside the families that suffered through it. This changed last year with the release of the award-winning film 'Koryo Saram - The Unreliable People.' The hour-long documentary will be presented today at 12:30 p.m. ... The producer of the film, Meredith Jung-En Woo, will introduce the film.
The University of Virginia's Larry J. Sabato, who directs political analysis at the Crystal Ball Web site of the school's Center for Politics, was online Thursday, Oct. 30 at 3 p.m. ET to take your questions Tuesday's election and what might come next. The transcript follows. ...
Susan Chaplinsky
Darden professor
Private equity in a market freeze
NPR's Marketplace / Oct. 29
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/10/29/private_equity
Gary Gallagher
John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War
Commanding Presence: Historian James McPherson Brings Abraham Lincoln Back to the Front Line
Washington Post / Oct. 31
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103004478.html
Brian Nosek
A psychology professor
Undecided Voters Probably Have Decided
LiveScience / Oct. 30
http://www.livescience.com/culture/081029-...
... University of Virginia researcher Rosalynd Berne, who spent five years interviewing cutting-edge genetic engineers and nano-scientists about their research goals, their ethical values, and the connections between them comes to the unmistakable conclusion that the scientists with the greatest amount of power (who are deciding for all of us how far the cutting-edge will take us) have often thought the least about the ethical implications of their research.
TV remote controls, bathroom taps and refrigerator doors are hotspots for the common cold virus, experts have warned. Researchers at the University of Virginia swabbed these common household surfaces in 30 homes and found traces of rhinovirus 42% of the time.
Researchers at the University of Virginia assigned 27 obese women with an average age of 51 years to either a control group that did no exercise, a group that did low-intensity exercise five days a week or a group that exercised three days a week ...
Trustees and other leaders of colleges need to more explicitly define institutions' roles in advancing states' economies, and identify strategies as well as measures to evaluate those strategies, according to a new report from the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities and the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Among the suggestions in the report: More of a focus on reaching adult learners and closer ties to elementary and secondary schools. ...
... Temple Fennell, a film producer with ATO Pictures and University of Virginia graduate, discusses the decline of mid-production companies during his lecture, 'Financing Independent Films,' before about 150 people at UVa's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
By Robert F. Bruner, dean of the Darden Business School and co-author of "The Panic of 1907"
... The current crisis overshadows previous crises in four key ways: complexity, inflexibility, speed and scale. ... leaders should address these four novelties as they design the new global financial system. .. No matter what the leaders decide, caution is warranted. These antidotes are not panaceas; they can only influence the occurrence and severity of future crises; they cannot prevent them. Worse, over-exuberant regulation in any of these areas could have costly side-effects on economic growth, in...
By Ronald T. Wilcox, Darden professor and author of "Whatever Happened to Thrift"
... Conservatives used to ask the tough questions and did not accept simplistic solutions. That is why it is deeply disappointing to me, both personally and professionally, that John McCain has run a campaign that is so antithetical to rational discourse about public policy. ... And yet the reason I now support Obama is only partially due to McCain's decision to embrace this base form of populism. It also stems from a growing respect for Obama's thoughtfulness, which reveals itself when he's faced with difficult ...
By David W. Breneman, University Professor, a professor of the economics of education and a former dean of the Curry School of Education
... Why have all states subsidised higher education to some degree? Higher education has long been viewed by economists as investment in human capital, required to enhance the productivity of individuals, both in the marketplace and as citizens of the community. The benefits produced are both private and public, a classic example of externalities. The fact that educated people earn more income is reason for them to bear much of the cost, but if any state lef...