Revisiting Title IX Policy
Inside Higher Ed / May 11
It's been more than two years since the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights released a letter clarifying that one way in which colleges can show they are in compliance with Title IX is by using a survey meant to gauge female students' interest in athletics.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/05/11/titleix
Gender-Equity Advocates Brace for Civil-Rights Commission Briefing on Title IX
Chronicle of Higher Education / May 11
How to improve a controversial way of measuring female students' interest in playing college sports ...
Language Push for ROTC Students
Inside Higher Ed / May 11
As a general rule, language departments - especially those that emphasize non-Western languages - just about always welcome more students and more money to support those students. But when the money is coming from the Pentagon and the languages are those spoken in the Middle East, things get complicated.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/05/11/arabic
Medical Students' Group Gives 40 Schools an F on Policies Regarding Access by Drug Companies
Chronicle of Higher Education / May 11
A majority of medical schools have no policies i...
Edgar B. Hatrick
Who earned his undergraduate degree and teacher certification at U.Va.
Shenandoah University to Graduate Approximately 550 Students at its 132nd Commencement Ceremony
Shenandoah.com (VA) / May 11
http://www.shenandoah.com/stories/?headlineID=12520
Thomas M. Hickey
Echols Scholar who holds a B.A. with distinction in economics and
English literature
Buyout Firm Castle Harlan Promotes Thomas Hickey to Managing Director
PRNewswire / May 10
http://tinyurl.com/26qybe
Louis J. Rogers
Who earned a J.D. in 1984 from the School of Law
First Montauk Announces Settlement with Edward H....
Audrey Catalfamo
First student to graduate with U.Va.'s bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies through U.Va. classes taken at Tidewater Community College
Student earns U.Va. degree at TCC
The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot / May 8
http://tinyurl.com/yuckja
Maureen Singer
First year at the Darden Graduate School of Business
Your questions about Southern Co.
CNBC Fast Money Face 2 Face segment / May 9
http://www.cnbc.com/id/17390456
Robert F. Bruner
Dean of the Darden Graduate School of Business and author of, "Deals From Hell."
Murdoch's $5 Billion Bid Places Google-Like Value on Dow Jones
Bloomberg News Service / May 11
http://tinyurl.com/2zjm5q
Robert Carraway
Associate Dean for MBA Education at Darden Graduate School of Business
US Calls for Visa Reform
Financial Times / May 10
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c687e66c-ff18-11db-aff2-000b5df10621.html
James Coan
A psychology professor
Americans and Japanese Read Faces Differently
LiveScience / May 10
http://www.livescience.com/health/070510_facial_culture.html
Valerie Coop...
U.Va.'s Biomedical Engineering to Lead Global Network
Briefing Outlines U.Va.'s South Lawn Project
Saturday Fireworks to Briefly Close Copeley Road
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/
The founders of these local idols wanted to bring a different sound to the acapella scene on UVa grounds. WAHU FOX 27 photojournalist Erik Meltzer shows us what the members of Remix did to change things up.
What happened to TimesDispatch.com? For the past four months, the online staff has been redesigning and restructuring the site. The result is inRich.com, a new regional Web site. ...The Richmond Times-Dispatch remains the primary news and information provider for the site, ...The name inRich.com focuses on our community, and you'll see our new site does as well. ...Our site contains many features you've been asking for, including: RSS Feeds. Our NewsGator feature offers news from other local and national sources, including NBC12, Entertainment Weekly, and the VCU, Virginia Tech, and University...
Only a dozen or so business schools, the ones making up the top tier of MBA programs nationwide, can confer instant credibility to candidates seeking their first bulge-bracket investment banking job. ...According to U.S. News & World Report, the top MBA schools are ... and Darden (University of Virginia).
Nine University of Virginia students have been charged with felonies in connection with the disappearance of one of Blacksburg's fiberglass statues of the Virginia Tech mascot.
Representatives from Virginia Tech and UVA will meet Friday in Charlottesville to discuss a number of food-related topics and the need for a state-level food security policy. The conference will also examine Virgina's role in the food production capabilities of the United States. The role that Virginia agriculture plays in the national economy will also be discussed.
Just how ready is our area for a mass emergency? That question was put to the test Thursday as local emergency officials from Albemarle County, the City of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia met to undergo a mock emergency and mass casualty drill. ..."Essentially what we are doing is taking a look at what the possibilities could be if we have a very heavy rainfall and we need to possibly do some evacuations, set up some shelters, make some decisions now and practice in the event something like this happens in this area in the future," said Marge Thomas, our local Emergency Manageme...
In yeast at least, the molecular pathway that extends an organism's life when it is put on a diet can be induced - without calorie restriction - by a vitamin found in milk. So says a team led by ... and Jeffrey Smith from the University of Virginia Health System ...Yeast make use of the vitamin through molecular pathways that have some genes in common with humans, raising the possibility that supplements could be designed to enhance humans' longevity.
In 2001, UVA physics professor Louis Bloomfield made national headlines for catching cheaters. Six years later, Bloomfield is making headlines for catching something else: pennies. Bloomfield, author of the 2006 book How Everything Works, will be featured on the ABC news show 20/20 [on May 4] to debunk the widespread myth that a penny falling from a skyscraper could kill a pedestrian below.
The most intense NBA confrontation of the last week ... started with a front-page New York Times story about an academic project that found variations in foul calls based on the racial composition of the officiating crew, putting black players at a slight disadvantage. ...Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia professor of psychology... does know a lot about the connection between race and snap judgments, like the ones referees make every game. He and two other researchers have developed a test (see box) that measures subconscious preferences, which appear to be shaped by cultural surroundings,...
...Research shows that the regrets you expect tend to be more painful than the ones you experience. And doing nothing - exactly what you should do when the market falls - will leave you feeling better than selling in a panic. A team of psychologists led by Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia and Daniel Gilbert of Harvard recently had people take a simple gamble: Each person got $5, then faced a coin toss. Those who called it right won another $5; those who got it wrong lost $3 out of the original $5...