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• Fed Presidents Debate
• The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business Foundation hosted "Monetary Policy: Opportunities and Limits" a rare public discussion between Charles Evans, Ph.D. (Chicago Fed president) and Jeffrey Lacker, Ph.D. (Richmond Fed president) on April 2. The event received national coverage by the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The New York Times and others. Al Broaddus, former Richmond Fed president, served as moderator.
  

   

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  • VCU Business 75th Anniversary Program Wins Prestigious Award
  • The VCU Business 75th Anniversary Program recently won a CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) District III Inspire Award in the communications and marketing program category. Thank you to the numerous hours of support given by the dedicated anniversary committee members, faculty and staff members, retired faculty, VCU University Relations, VCU Development and Alumni Relations, and volunteers that helped make the program a success. 

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  • Information Systems Professors Fix Computers to Help Save Brazilian Rainforest
  • Two VCU Business professors recently volunteered in Brazil redesigning the computing infrastructure for a non-profit organization whose mission is to restore the rainforest.  George Kasper, professor in information systems, was contacted in the spring of 2012 by Partners of the Americas, a non-profit grassroots network that connects individuals and other organizations on an international level, to see if he wanted to help reconfigure the technological workings of the Iracambi Research Center through USAID’s Farmer-To-Farmer program.  To read more about this story please click here.
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  • VCU Business Students Hope to Win Big With Software Design
  • Three VCU Business School students plan to submit their prize-winning app to the Imagine Cup, a worldwide student technology competition powered by Microsoft that takes place in May, in hopes of winning up to $50,000. Charlie Andrews, Gabriel Bradley and Patrick Crawford have recently been working on an app called SQWABBL (Server Query With Arbitrary Based Block Language), an app that takes large datasets and sorts them by certain parameters to make the information more reader-friendly.

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