The ACAC Fitness Center and the University of Virginia Institute on Aging hosted a panel discussion Tuesday afternoon to explain the latest research on aging and exercise.
Central Virginia Community College next year will introduce systems engineering as the fourth track in its collaborative program with the University of Virginia, the school's Stan Shoun said Tuesday. The program will be supported by a wireless technologies laboratory paid for with a $100,000 National Science Foundation grant plus contributions from the Center for Advanced Engineering and Research.
Jill Biden, wife of Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, will join Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, for a [Virginia Women for Obama] voter registration rally at the University of Virginia today. ... Doors open for the forum at 3 p.m. and the event will start at 4:50 p.m. It will be held at Newcomb Hall Plaza at 180 McCormick Road. The event is free and open to the public.
A 24-hour vigil for prisoners of war and those soldiers still missing in action ended with taps being trumpeted from the front north steps of the Rotunda on Tuesday evening. The vigil began at 5:30 p.m. Monday with University of Virginia ROTC cadets - Air Force, Army and Navy - marching in pairs for 15-minute rotating shifts.
By Robert F. Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business, and co-author of "The Panic of 1907"
... Coming hard on the heels of the U.S. government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, these events are consistent with a full-blown financial panic, or bank run. ... All this and more occurred in the Panic of 1907, which Sean Carr and I recounted in our book. ... Like the retail depositor of 100 years ago, the institutional investors are effectively withholding their liquid funds from banks whose viability they doubt. The doubts may be warranted. But the withholding produces a self-fulfillin...
Professor's Book on Bus Travel Reveals Portrait of America
When is a bus trip not just a way to get from point A to point B? Before she joined U.Va.'s faculty this fall, Kath Weston spent more than five years crisscrossing the nation on buses -- not just to reach a destination, but also to chronicle the lives of Americans who travel via the cheapest transportation option.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6444
U.Va.'s Financial Aid Guru to Receive Zintl Award
Yvonne Hubbard, director of U.Va.'s Student Financial Services, will receive the Women's Center's 2008 Elizabeth Zin...
Louis Bloomfield
Physics professor and debunker of Internet videos showing popcorn popped by energy from mobile phones
False internet rumours: recent highlights
The Telegraph (London) / Sept. 15
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/2964722/False-internet-rumours-recent-highlights.html
Robert F. Bruner
Dean of the Darden School of Business and co-author of "The Panic of 1907"
A new world on Wall Street
Globe and Mail (Canada) / Sept. 16
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080916.WALLSTREETLEHMAN16/TPStory/International
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As markets reel, the blame game begi...
With 12 billion trees in Virginia to choose from, Nancy Ross Hugo, Jeff Kirwan and Robert Llewellyn had to pick just 120 that they considered the most remarkable in the state. ... The result is "Remarkable Trees of Virginia," a 216-page book of narrative and photographs published in August by the University of Virginia Press.
... Virginia could be on the cutting edge of another alternative energy form. WVTF's Sandy Hausman reports from Charlottesville on how "pond scum" may someday power our cars.
Changes in patients' physical health status during the year after being diagnosed with head and neck cancer appear to predict survival at five years, according to a new report.
The UVa Center for Politics will host a discussion on religion in American politics on Monday, September 22, 2008, from 5:15 - 6:30 p.m.
Charlottesville will not invest in companies that do business with the Sudanese government, the City Council decided Monday... 'The world is linked economically,' said Laura Harris, president of UVa's Students Taking Action Now: Darfur and one of the resolution's authors. ... Charlottesville's resolution, co-proposed in the spring by two University of Virginia students, was crafted from a similar proclamation passed by the university's Board of Visitors in 2006.
... "This crisis stands out because of its sheer scale, the monetary value, its complexity and the speed with which it is happening," said Robert F. Bruner, dean of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and co-author of The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm.
... The 42,000-square-foot, three-story facility brings together all studio art programs -drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, new media and film, installation and performance art-under one roof for the first time.
The University of Virginia Medical Center is celebrating nearly two tons of going green. Credit hospital staffers and their recycling efforts. ... Over the course of a month, they were able to recycle more than 13,000 gallons of IV bags, latex glove boxes, trays and other medical waste.
Lighted Crosswalks to Increase Pedestrian Safety
With pedestrian safety at the forefront, U.Va. has installed seven crosswalks with light-emitting diodes -- flashing lights in the street that illuminate the crosswalk paths and warn approaching drivers. The first was installed last spring across Emmet Street at its intersection with Sprigg Lane, a crossing used heavily by the students at the International Residential College.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6425
Kellogg House Opens Path for New Generation of Dorms
Kellogg House, the first of the next wave of first-year res...
Rev. Dr. Brad R. Braxton
A Jefferson scholar and Rhodes scholar, just affirmed as senior pastor of the renowned Riverside Church in Manhattan
Divided Landmark Church Picks 'Progressive Evangelical' as New Leader
New York Times / Sept. 15
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/nyregion/15riverside.html?ref=nyregion
Jen Casto
Recent graduate with a double major in English and foreign affairs, whose Peace Corps placement was postponed
Budget-crunched Peace Corps cuts volunteer positions
Los Angeles Times / Sept. 14
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-peacecorps14-2008sep14,0,3857618...