Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN THE NEWS

STUDY: OLDER DRIVERS AT RISK
By Aaron Kessler of The Daily Progress / Aug. 22
Could drivers soon see the day when their cars adjust not just to the conditions of the road, but the state of their bodies? Richard Kent, a University of Virginia professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, believes the answer is unquestionably yes - and that with baby boomers quickly graying, safety features that can compensate for old age could save countless lives.

MIDDLE EAST OIL EXPORTERS SEEN HIT HARDEST BY US SETBACKS
By Santhosh V. Perumal of Gulf Times / Aug. 13
With every 10% unanticipated fall in the US bond and equity markets as well as in the exchange value of the greenback, the world in general could lose 4% of GDP, a study says. In the case of the Middle East oil exporters the losses are seen at a higher 4.6%. The study by Francis E Warnock of the Darden Business School of the University of Virginia presented in an International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper found that for every 10% drop in US bond markets and in the exchange value of the dollar, foreigners’ (world’s) wealth losses would amount to 2.5% of GDP.

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

LOUIS BLOOMFIELD
Bloomfield, professor of physics, is mentioned in a Roanoke Times article headlined:
THE SAME TECHNOLOGY THAT ENABLES CHEATERS ALSO HELPS NAB THEM
By Albert Raboteau of the Times / Aug. 21

GREGORY FAIRCHILD
Fairchild, a professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business, was quoted in a Baltimore Sun article headlined:
EVADE MD. TAXES LEGALLY THIS WEEK / STATE IS FORGIVING ITS 5% SALES LEVY FOR 5 DAYS ON SOME ITEMS
By Andrea K. Walker of the Baltimore Sun / Aug. 22

DR. BRUCE J. HILLMAN
Hillman, chairman of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network and a professor of radiology, was quoted in a WebMD article headlined:
DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING: BEAM ME UP DR. MCCOY / WE'RE NOT QUITE AT THE STAR TREK LEVEL YET WITH IMAGING TECHNOLOGY, BUT RECENT ADVANCES ARE FINE-TUNING YOUR MEDICAL CARE
By R. Morgan Griffin for WebMD / Aug. 22

RICHARD KENT
Kent, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was quoted in a Daily Progress article headlined:
STUDY: OLDER DRIVERS AT RISK
By Aaron Kessler of The Daily Progress / Aug. 22

LARRY J. SABATO
Sabato, politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, was quoted in a McClatchy Newspapers article headlined:
BATTLE FOR DELAY'S SEAT COULD HELP TILT BALANCE OF POWER
By Jay Root of McClatchy Newspapers / August 21
    
EDWARDS MAY GET BOOST FROM EARLY S.C. PRIMARY
By Jim Morrill of McClatchy Newspapers / August 21

FRANCIS WARNOCK
Warnock, professor at the Darden School of Business, was cited in an article in Gulf Times headlined:
MIDDLE EAST OIL EXPORTERS SEEN HIT HARDEST BY US SETBACKS
By Santhosh V. Perumal of Gulf Times / Aug. 13

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

RICHARD BODSON
Bodson, an alumnus of U.Va., was featured in a Busiiness Wire press release headlined:
AVIEL APPOINTS RICHARD E. BODSON CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
By Business Wire / Aug. 21

JOHN D. WILLE
Wille, who received a Bachelor of Science degree from the McIntire School of Commerce, was featured in a Business Wire press release headlined:
ASCENDIA BRANDS APPOINTS NEW CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER; JOHN D. WILLE BRINGS NEARLY 30 YEARS OF CONSUMER PRODUCTS EXPERIENCE
By Business Wire / Aug. 21

U.VA. TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ENGINEERING STUDENT HELPS MAKE AMERICA 'REALLY READY'

JAZZ MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER JOHN D'EARTH SEES MUSIC AS 'SOCIAL ART'

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER RECEIVES RECOGNITION FOR NURSING EXCELLENCE

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

HOW WE ENDED WELFARE, TOGETHER
By Bill Clinton for The New York Times
[...] We should address the inadequacies of the latest welfare
reauthorization in a bipartisan manner, by giving states the flexibility to
consider higher education as a category of “work,” and by doing more to help
people get the education they need and the jobs they deserve. And perhaps
even more than additional welfare reform, we need to raise the minimum wage,
create more good jobs through a commitment to a clean energy future and
enact tax and other policies to support families in work and child-rearing.

EDUCATORS QUESTION ABSENCE OF EVOLUTION FROM LIST OF MAJORS ELIGIBLE FOR NEW GRANTS
By Sam Kean of the Chronicle of Higher Ed / Aug. 22
Like a gap in the fossil record, evolutionary biology is missing from a list of majors that the U.S. Department of Education has deemed eligible for a new federal grant program designed to reward students majoring in engineering, mathematics, science, or certain foreign languages. That absence apparently indicates that students in the evolutionary sciences do not qualify for the grants, and some observers are wondering whether the omission was deliberate.

ONLINE TRAINING FOR ADJUNCTS
By Elia Powers of Inside Higher Ed / Aug. 22
Job prospects for adjunct faculty have never looked better (for better or worse),and the market for online programming designed to help them in the classroom is expanding. A new company, AdjunctSuccess, offers colleges that employ adjuncts a range of Web-based resources, including remote conference sessions called Webinars that are viewed by all parties on the Internet.

THE BOOKS GOOGLE COULD OPEN
By Richard Ekman, president of the Council of Independent Colleges,
for The Washington Post / Aug. 22
The nation's colleges and universities should support Google's controversial
project to digitize great libraries and offer books online. It has the
potential to do a lot of good for higher education in this country.

AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES

THROWING IN THE TOWEL
By David Epstein of Inside Higher Ed / Aug. 22
The constant calls, the people frightening his children, and the demonstrations in front of his home apparently became a little too much. Dario Ringach, an associate neurobiology professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, decided this month to give up his research on primates because of pressure put on him, his neighborhood, and his family by the UCLA Primate Freedom Project, which seeks to stop research that harms animals.

THE PARTY IS AT THE U. OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN THIS YEAR, RANKINGS SAY
By Sara Lipka of the Chronicle of Higher Ed / Aug. 22
Stick up those pointer and pinkie fingers: Stock in the "Hook 'em, Horns" signal -- a 50-year-old sign of support for the University of Texas at Austin Longhorns -- is on the rise. The hand gesture has recently been spotted from the Rose Bowl to the White House, and now Austin students can flash it to celebrate not only their national-championship football team, but their status as the top "party school" in the nation, according to Princeton Review Inc. The party-school distinction has induced institutional groans since 1992, when the test-preparation company began publishing rankings, based on survey responses from college students, in its annual Best Colleges guide.

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