As Virginia's businesses expand their investment in high technology, a new Virginia Commonwealth University training initiative is helping executives learn how to expand their business globally, with a particular focus on Europe, the South Pacific and Southeast Asia. Other project goals include boosting international business research by VCU faculty and building a Web site that will serve as a one-stop resource site for Global View participants. VCU faculty will participate in seminars and publish their research in a Global View monograph due in 2001. The program begins at noon in Room 1132 of the Business Building. The program will feature the use of School of Business interactive teleconferencing technologies, bringing together experts on world financial markets from VCU and the University of Wales, where VCU professor of finance, Neil Murphy is currently on Fulbright Scholarship.
All seminars are open to the public.
For details about spring seminars, call 828-1619. The piece uses the ebb and flow of the cello to create a visual and physical marriage of movement and music. Five members of the New York cast will join her in the VCU performance. Gestures of discourse, games of ambition and obsessive trains of thought are some of Curtis' inspirations in creating this new solo. This is her first choreography piece since becoming chair three years ago.