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FCLRad.qxd 3/4/08 6:01 PM Page 1 Faculty Conference on Learning and Research June 29-July 1, 2008 St. Pete Beach Florida, USA Teaching: At the crossroads of theory and practice Register by May 29, 2008 to save 200 USD with the early registration discount. Faculty rules when it comes to shaping the knowledge and experience of business school students. This increasingly popular conference - designed specifically for those on the front lines of business education - returns for its third year. Join your peers to explore groundbreaking ideas for learning across business disciplines while strengthening your own approach to teaching and research. Located on Florida's beautiful gulf coast, this conference is the perfect opportunity for you to bring the entire family. For the latest information, including registration details, please visit www.aacsb.edu/conferences. ing undergraduate and graduate business students, finance professors, and student investment clubs. Last fall, UpDown.com hosted a competition that involved 1,600 participants from 390 colleges who vied for a $10,000 cash prize. From October 1 to December 14, participants tried to build the most lucrative stock portfolio. The winner earned a virtual return of 97.64 percent. Participants from the University of Wyoming posted the highest aggregate return of any other school, 26.27 percent. Regis- tration for the site's latest portfolio contest, open to undergraduate students at colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada, closes on May 31. UpDown.com was founded by three Harvard students, Michael Reich, Georg Ludviksson, and Phuc Truong. In the next year, they plan to launch a hedge fund or mutual fund based on the investing strate- gies of the site's top performers. NEWSBYTES n TURBINE AT BABSON The Babson Energy and Environ- mental Club (BEEC), a student-led organization at the Olin Gradu- ate School of Business at Babson College in Wellesley, Mas- sachusetts, has spearheaded a project to install a wind turbine on the school's cam- pus. The proj- ect will be par- tially funded by $5,000 raised by the BEEC through its e-waste recycling campaign and solicited contribu- tions. The residential-scale turbine, the Skystream 3.7 from Southwest Windpower, is expected to be operational by the end of the spring semester. It will supply 60 percent of the energy needed to power the school's entrepreneurship gallery. n BOOSTING FINANCIAL LITERACY The Marriott School of Manage- ment at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, has developed a personal finance Web site to help individuals and fami- lies boost their financial knowledge. The site, found at personalfinance. byu.edu, is divided into three parts: a beginning course for high school students and college freshmen; an intermedi- ate course for college students and married couples; and a final course that covers retirement planning and investing. At the end of each course, users compile their assignments into a financial plan. People participating in an advanced course also may download the col- lege manual used by MBA students in Marriott's personal financial plan- ning course. n z BizEd MAY/JUNE 2008 63 AACSB International Conferences