By David W. Breneman, a professor of the economics of education and a former dean of the Curry School of Education
... We approach what may be our next recession with a country that is not particularly happy with higher education. Some people doubt its performance, others question its cost and priorities, and still others attack its focus on prestige instead of public service. Many observers are also concerned that we have lost our lead over other countries in a globally competitive economy that requires us to do an ever-better educational job than we have to date. The previous recessions have...
The University of Virginia Medical Center offers these suggestions for asthmatic women who are pregnant:...
... Brightman said UVa's returns on its $5 billion-plus endowment - at 5.9 percent for fiscal 2008 - is in line with returns of other schools in its peer group, which includes Duke University and Brown University, who each had returns of a little more than 6 percent.
Student leaders at the University of Virginia spent Sunday afternoon reminding first-year students about ways to stay safe on Grounds.
By Robert F. Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business and co-author of "The Panic of 1907"
... The financial free market in the U.S. ended in 1912 with the passage of legislation to create the Federal Reserve System--the central bank. Before that, financial crises were simply Darwinian: fearful depositors, numerous bank failures, economic contractions, no management of the economic cycle or monetary policy, no safety nets for consumers and no government bailouts. Depositors usually responded with panic, creating bank runs that destabilized institutions and the entire financial system. ......
... When researchers studied [the cancer drug] cetuximab in clinical trials, they reported serious allergic reactions in 3 percent of patients taking the medicine. But when the drug became widely available, a significantly higher number of patients in Tennessee and North Carolina -- more than 20 percent -- had severe allergic reactions when they began using the same drug. Researchers studying the geographical differences eventually discovered that most of the people who had an allergic reaction to cetuximab also had a previously existing antibody in their blood that targeted a specific sugar o...
U.Va. Law School Launches Innocence Clinic
The U.Va. innocence clinic, launched in June, is part of the Innocence Network, an international affiliation of organizations dedicated to overturning wrongful convictions. Led by 1992 Law School graduate Deirdre Enright, the clinic includes 12 students each year and will soon employ a full-time investigator to help collect evidence for appeals.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6604
Engineering Students Build Water-Purification System
With the aid of a Davis Projects for Peace award, fourth-year U.Va. chemical engineering students...
Marc Abraham
Director of the new movie "Flash of Genius" about Bob Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper
Director Marc Abraham tells story of common man with 'Genius'
Baltimore Sun / Oct. 3
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/custom/today/bal-to.sragow03oct03,0,7589915.story
Leland Melvin
Graduate with a master's degree in materials science engineering, scheduled for his second space shuttle mission in October 2009
Lynchburg native Leland Melvin heading back to space
Media General News Service / Oct. 2
http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/state_regional/article/lynch...
Avik Ghosh and Mircea Stan
Professors of electrical and computer engineering
Nanoelectronics: Computer heat solution?
United Press International / Oct. 2
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/10/02/Nanoelectronics_Computer_heat_solution/UPI-26551222965441/
Harold Gould
A visiting scholar at the Center for South Asian Studies
Experts delighted over Congressional nod to N-deal
Zee News (India) / Oct. 2
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=473582&sid=NAT
James Harrigan
Professor of economics
Examining the candidates
Economist / Oct. 2
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaysto...
A visiting professor at the University of Virginia is the winner of this year's International Sackler Award for music composition. He'll receive a prize of $20,000 and the chance to write a piano concerto. But first, Nathan Currier is off to Germany, working on ways to save the world.
The University of Virginia's Institute on Aging is hosting a conference on Oct. 10 to focus on voting among seniors living in long-term care facilities. The day is intended to address how people with cognitive and physical impairments can participate in elections without being defrauded or exploited.
... Since these products are not regulated by government agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, it's important to research whether they are safe and effective. The University of Virginia Health System recommends these precautions:...
The Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia has given the go-ahead for planning two new major sports facilities.
The problems within America's healthcare system have been around longer than $4-a-gallon gas, longer than sub-prime mortgages, longer than the war in Iraq, says Dr. Arthur Garson Jr., vice president and provost at the University of Virginia. And they're not going away. That's why he hosted a debate Oct. 1, which you can see on podcast in full, at the university between representatives of the two presidential candidates.
By Michael Nelson, a nonresident senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs
The first presidential debates occurred 48 years ago, in 1960. The first vice presidential debate didn't take place until debates resumed in 1976, 16 years later. How come? The answer is that three very significant things happened to the vice presidency during those 16 years.
Viewers of Thursday night's debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden included a group at the University of Virginia's campus in Wise County. Steve Inskeep watched the debate with them and talks to Renee Montagne about what the group had to say about the only debate between the vice presidential candidates.