The worst of the nation's economic crisis may be over soon, according to Robert F. Bruner, dean of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. 'We may be on the outbound side of the eye of the hurricane,' Bruner told a crowd Wednesday at UVa's Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Robert Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business
US bailout has history behind it
United Press International / Oct. 14
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/10/14/US_bailout_has_history_behind_it/UPI-76181223992247/
Paul Freedman
An associate professor of politics
The last debate: What to expect
Media General News Service / Oct. 14
http://www.mgwashington.com/index.php/news/article/the-last-debate-what-to-expect/1909/
Dan Keyserling
Deputy director of communications for the Center for Politics
Analysts: Obama could turn Virginia blue
Loudoun Times-Mirror (VA) / Oct. 14
http://www.lou...
By Scott Clemente, a second-year at Darden
... It was interesting, for me at least, to see a lot of the concepts I learned during my first year [at Darden] actually being put to work to make decisions on the allocation of capital. What I found was that, although it was a little messier, a lot of the models I built were similar to the ones I would do in my Valuation and Finance classes at Darden. For the hotel deal in Brooklyn, I did a discounted cash-flow analysis that looked frighteningly similar to part of my Valuation final.
If you think the financial bailout is expensive, consider how much the U.S. wastes on unnecessary medical care each year. This Christian Science Monitor article by Dr. Arthur Garson Jr., executive vice president at the University of Virginia's School of Medicine, is an eye-opener.
... Crawford cites University of Virginia research that shows higher reading and math scores for Responsive Classroom children and fewer discipline problems.
In what may be the library community's most ambitious digital collaboration so far, some two-dozen large research libraries this week announced the launch of a single, shared repository of digital collections, including scanned books, articles, special collections, and a range of 'born digital' materials.
... This time around, the government has committed only to investing in banks. But opening such a Pandora's box is bound to increase the pressure to save other failing companies, said Robert Bruner, dean of the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, who has studied past financial crises. "That is part of this deal with the devil," Bruner said. "My gravest concern is where do you stop? There are number of industries in free fall, like autos, airlines and newspapers."
... Newspaper headlines about chief executives' pay could write themselves. Nothing pleases editors more than tales of fat cats creaming off the profits while their companies' balance sheets flounder. It might make good newspaper copy, but is it fair to criticise chief executive pay packages? The answer from [Darden professor] Jared Harris is ambivalent. Applying a philosophical lens to the commonest criticisms about executive pay, his paper discovers that not all that bad press is justified.
A new minimally invasive procedure that attacks cancerous cells only at the site of diseased tissue is claimed to cause patients fewer ill effects. The treatment, which is being studied by researchers at Philips Research and various academic institutions, involves injecting patients with microscopic polymer bubbles filled with anti-cancer drugs. The bubbles are then tracked in the bloodstream with ultrasound imaging and burst using a focused ultrasound pulse to release the drugs at the desired spot. ... Philips is working with several academic partners, including the University of Virginia...
... The University of Virginia houses 750,000 books and bound journals at Ivy Stacks, but in the almost 15 years since it was built, the facility has run out of space. Every year, UVa adds roughly 65,000 books and bound journals to the university's 15 libraries, which all use Ivy Stacks' climate-controlled storage.
Students at the University of Virginia are giving up their warm beds and sleeping outside for the next seven nights. The "sleepout" will raise money for Charlottesville's homeless population. This is the third year in a row that groups at UVA are getting together to raise money for local organizations that help the homeless.
Vesla Weaver is a professor at the University of Virginia. She has done extensive research on how voters react to candidates' skin color... On college campuses, even in southern Republican states, Obama has been extremely popular with students. The University of Virginia is in Charlottesville. We asked some of the students whether they thought race would have an impact on the 2008 Presidential Election. ...
The University of Virginia is joining with Harvard and Princeton to take the message of college accessibility to cities across America. ...
Stephanie Clark
A second-year who had to get used to two roommates during her first year, after always having had her own room
Lindsay Shoop
Charlottesville native, 2003 graduate and Olympic gold-medalist on the U.S. Rowing Team in Beijing, given a Key to the City
Lindsay Shoop Day
WVIR NBC-29 / Oct. 10
http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=9160031&nav=menu496_2_5
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Charlottesville Honors An Olympic Gold Medalist
WINA / Oct. 10
http://www.wina.com/Local-News/3077192?contentId=2880881
Despite increasing availability of off-Grounds housing due to an increase of 45 percent in units the last three years, students sign leases for the next academic year as early as October, because of peer pressure and strict competition from landlords, says UVA sophomore Colin Hood. He's concerned that it penalizes freshmen who may not be well equipped to make that decision yet.
Political Ads Beneficial in Mobilizing the Vote
There's an old adage: turn up the flame if you want the pot to boil. That's the approach that candidates in recent political contests have been following with increasing enthusiasm, unleashing a growing torrent of incendiary ads with each election cycle. As U.Va. politics professor Paul Freedman sees it, hotter is better, not just for the candidates, but for democracy as a whole.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6703
Mead Grants to Foster Faculty-Student Interaction
Dreams are coming true for 10 University of Virginia faculty...
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