CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier and a film crew were visiting a Baghdad neighborhood on May 29, 2006, to cover an assignment about U.S. soldiers working with Iraqi security forces. 'It was a neighborhood that was supposed to be so safe, but we ended up walking into an ambush,' Dozier recalled Monday at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
... At separate events, former Republican Gov. George Allen and former Democratic National Chairman Terry McAuliffe made the case for their respective parties' candidates -- and fielded questions from government students [at Cosby High School in Chesterfield] ... The Times-Dispatch was privileged to help sponsor the events. We were fortunate to work with two sterling partners, Chesterfield County Public Schools and UVa's estimable Center for Politics.
The Kellogg House was officially dedicated Monday. The ceremony honored the legacy of a member of the University of Virginia Community and kicked off a new trend in high-tech housing.
...UVA Darden School of Business Professor Andrea Larson is at the forefront of a new movement to implement strategies to solve the conflict among economic growth, the ecological system and public health. ... In April 2008, Darden Dean Bob Bruner announced a new sustainability initiative. ... The school's goal is to become a top 10 school for teaching and research that integrate a sustainability mindset by 2013.
... "Heat dissipation is the most imminent and dangerous limit to Moore's law," says Avik Ghosh, assistant professor at the department of electrical and computer engineering in the University of Virginia. ...Ghosh, his colleague Mircea Stan, and other researchers are trying to solve the problem of the overheating laptops.
As the country faces what could be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, UVA Darden School of Business students launched a new student-run entrepreneurial society. Its goal: increase the flow of successful businesses started by the University community.
Pete Martin
A writer for the Saturday Evening Post
Brendan Mason
A member of the Hullabahoos
Second year student Bill Boucek, president of the Darden Military Association (DMA), joins Ken in the interview segment.
Nancy Forbes, author of "Imitation of Life: How Biology is Inspiring Computing," and George O. Strawn, CIO of the National Science Foundation, spoke to the members of the Jefferson Society on the topic of "The Development and Dangers of Technology in Society."
Charlotte Kohler, who as a longtime editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review was a quiet influence on the course of 20th-century American writing, died at her home in Charlottesville, Va., on Sept. 15. She was 99.
Richard DeMong and Laurence Pettit
Professors of finance at the McIntire School of Commerce
Little guys avoid Wall St. woes
Culpeper Star Exponent / Sept. 28
http://www.starexponent.com/cse/news/local/article/little_guys_avoid_wall_st_woes/21822/
Jared Harris
Professor of ethics and strategy at the Darden School of Business
Paulson's banking ties taint Wall Street bailout plan
Reuters / Sept. 26
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE48P8UK20080926
Dan Keyserling
Deputy communications director for the Center for Politics
Voters use YouTube to keep eyes on politicians
Journal and...
... Even those who agree a bailout is needed have big questions about whether this bill will help. Among the concerns: ... The government might have to pay too much for the assets to get firms to participate, says David Smith, associate professor of commerce at the University of Virginia.
By Lynn Sanders, a politics professor
I'm a political scientist who does research on the issues raised in your column "Blame Deep-Seated Racism if Obama Loses." ... The poll is incredibly problematic from a scientific point of view. Bottom line, there is no way researchers can tell how they came up with the 6-point estimate.
Scientists at the University of Virginia think they may have a new way to deal with a common fertility problem in women; a treatment that involves no drugs and no serious side effects.