Robert F. Bruner is the dean of the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. Last year, he and Sean D. Carr, the Director of Corporate Innovation Programs at the Darden Schools' Batten Institute, published "The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned From the Market's Perfect Storm," detailing a historic financial crisis eerily similar to the one now gripping Wall Street.
... Scottish Aramark chef, Bruce Harper, is one of 25 chefs to be selected for the Aramark's International Guest Chef Program. Harper says giving UVa students a taste of the Scottish culture has made this experience very special.
A while back I wrote a piece about my teenaged son's fabulous experience at the University of Virginia's Sorensen Institute. Sorensen is dedicated to bringing civility back to the political sphere, encouraging mature dialogue and understanding by putting people from opposing ends of the political spectrum together in an environment in which they can find commonality. Sorensen has become fertile ground for growing a new generation of leaders committed to ethics, leadership and bipartisanship, all honorable concepts and something sorely lacking in today's public arena.
UVa officials say that the university has never laid off any workers due to a deficit and things won't change now.
... The drug, marketed as topamax, is approved for epilepsy and migraines. Now research suggests it can also treat alcohol addiction. Dr. Bankole Johnson led the study on the drug.
... Despite the hoopla about zinc for treatment of colds, scientific studies are scarce, says Jack M. Gwaltney, MD, professor emeritus of internal medicine at the University of Virginia and a longtime cold researcher. Gwaltney tells WebMD that he and his colleagues could find only 14 published studies that looked at zinc the scientific way, with both placebo and treatment groups. Zinc lozenges, they conclude, have no effect. ... [Dr. Owen] Hendley and other University of Virginia researchers did a study published in 2007 of people with a cold who stayed overnight in a hotel. ...
Doctors at the University of Virginia Medical Center are working on a new way to treat epilepsy. It is not a pill or medicine, it is a tiny computer implanted directly in the brain.
... [U.Va. professor Eric] Turkheimer's own research illustrates another kind of complexity in the link from genes to intelligence: genes do not act in isolation from the environment. In fact, the same gene can have different effects in different environments. ...He found that the strength of genes' effect depended on the socioeconomic status of the children. In children from affluent families, about 60 percent of the variance in IQ scores could be accounted for by genes. For children from impoverished families, on the other hand, genes accounted for almost none. ...
The University of Virginia will lose $10.6 million of its $161 million state funding appropriation, a cut of nearly 7 percent. The $10.6 million reduction, announced Thursday, is on top of the $9.2 million slashed during the last fiscal year. That cut carried over into this year as a permanent reduction. The announcement also means that state-funded salary increases scheduled for later this year will be put off.
Research Center Will Free Chemistry from Earth's Bonds
A new, multi-institutional research center combining the tools of chemistry and astronomy, to be headquartered at U.Va. and led by Brooks Pate, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Chemistry, will use the unique laboratory of interstellar space to free the study of basic chemistry from the restrictive bonds of Earth.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6666
Groundbreaking Discovery May Lead to Stronger Antibiotics
A new breakthrough by U.Va. researchers, including John H. Bushweller, provides physicians and patients a po...
Ed Hess
Darden professor and Batten Executive-in-Residence, and co-author of "So, You Want to Start a Business? 8 Steps to Take Before Making the Leap"
Ten Ways to Safeguard Your Small Business
ITworld.com / Oct. 8
http://www.itworld.com/small-business/55853/ten-ways-safeguard-your-small-business
Ed Murphy
Associate professor of astronomy
Astronomer Ed Murphy on the Hubble, African meteors and the future of NASA
WINA's "Charlottesville–Right Now!" / Oct. 8
http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2008/10/08/astronomer-ed-murphy/
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Po...
The Virginia Film Festival has made some additions to this year's events. Sissy Spacek will appear for the opening night screening of the film 'Lake City,' festival officials announced Wednesday. ... Festival organizers also announced the addition of two films:...
More than half of Albemarle County residents would be open to paying taxes specifically for transportation needs, according to a new survey that underscores the demand for roads, education and rescue services. The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors was briefed Wednesday on results from the 2008 survey, conducted by the University of Virginia's Center for Survey Research.
... Robert Bruner, dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and author of 'The Panic of 1907,' said that at the center of every market scare, micro or macro, is a kind of disorientation that comes when some people know what's going on and others don't. 'Somebody asked me, 'So how is today's crisis different from the great crash of 1929?' And the answer is the speed, complexity and sheer scale' of the market system. It's no coincidence that the same phrase describes the Web's central information problem as well. There are so many parties both producing and consuming informat...
... Dr. Amalia Miller, an economist at University of Virginia, has studied the effect of wages and motherhood, and found that delaying motherhood significantly increases a woman's earnings. ...
Staff at the UVa Teen Health Center are gearing up for their biennial Teen Culture Conference, an opportunity to tackle some of the major issues facing teens today. They say they're hoping to open some eyes on statistics, like the fact that one in three girls will find herself in an abusive relationship.
Maria Stenzel
National Geographic photojournalist who has specialized in Antarctica
... Brady Quinn is one of the most famous backup quarterbacks in the NFL. Kelly Quinn is a senior midfielder on the University of Virginia women's soccer team. They are standing under the lights in empty Klockner Stadium half an hour after a 6-0 win last week against North Carolina State.
David W. Breneman
University Professor and director of the public policy program
As Credit Crisis Chills Campuses, Worries Mount
Chronicle of Higher Education / Oct. 10
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i07/07a00102.htm
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Support for Report on 'Rethinking' Student Aid
Inside Higher Ed / Oct. 8
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/08/rethink
James Ceaser
A politics professor
True or False: Emails about Presidential Candidates
WQAD NewsChannel 8 (IL) / Oct. 7
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=9142704
Cordel Faulk
Communications director for the Center for Politics
McCain Looks To M...