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...
[The Center for Politics' Youth Leadership Initiative held an online mock election for 19,600 Florida youngsters at nearly 900 schools]
... Larry [Sabato] is a dynamic and prolific University of Virginia political science professor immensely popular with students (and with many journalists, who appreciate his willingness to speak in English instead of in academese.) Although Sabato is not at all ideological-another rarity in college faculty lounges-he has been confidently predicting for months that the 2008 election shapes up as a Democratic rout of Republicans. With five days to go, he's surer than ever. Sabato shares his crystal ball on a blog called…Crystal Ball. ...
..."Lake City" played to a full house at Culbreth Theatre at the University of Virginia. It not only has a Virginia star, the writers and directors are from Virginia, most of the crew came from Virginia and it was shot in and around Richmond.
... Rolls-Royce will be working with the area's community colleges and the engineering departments of Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia to develop the skilled workers it needs for the plant.
Cameron King
A first-year voting for McCain
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Obama ad a 'closing argument'
Miami Herald / Oct. 30
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/747593.html
Ronald T. Wilcox
Darden professor and author of "Whatever Happened to Thrift"
A return to thrift / Main Street should follow Wall Street's example when it comes to deleveraging.
CNNMoney.com / Fortune Magazine / Washington Post / Oct. 30
http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/29/magazines/fortune/thrift_colvin.fortune/?postversion=2008103005
Daniel T. Willingham
A psychology professor and cognitive scientist who st...
[Comments from anthropologist Wende Marshall and Dr. Norm Oliver, a professor of family medicine]
The 21st Virginia Film Festival kicks off today and tickets to two of its premier events have almost, or completely, sold out. The first, a re-broadcast of Orson Welles' 1938 the-Martians-are-here radio classic 'War of the Worlds' being presented at the McCormick Observatory, has sold out. In addition, advance tickets to Sissy Spacek's new film 'Lake City' are all gone. Standby tickets, however, may become available for $20.
... The data come from a sample of more than 400,000 people who anonymously took a race attitude Implicit Association Test. The test captures subconscious bias by asking people to quickly associate positive or negative words with a series of photographs. (The test can be found on the website of Project Implicit, which is operated by the University of Washington, University of Virginia and Harvard University.)
... McCain may also benefit from undecided white voters' subconscious biases. Many of the 4,000 self-proclaimed undecideds who completed a test of implicit feelings conducted by University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek had a noticeable internal preference for Obama or McCain; on average, the university said in a press release Tuesday, undecideds reported feeling "slightly warmer toward Obama than McCain" but "implicitly showed a slight preference for McCain over Obama."