On Sunday in Durham, in a match that was delayed two hours and moved indoors due to rain, second-ranked Virginia won its sixth consecutive ACC Tournament title with a 4-1 win over eighth-ranked Duke. It marked the third consecutive season that the Cavaliers defeated the Blue Devils in the final.

On April 5, the Marshall Expedition began its upstream journey on the James River, covering 138 miles between Richmond and Lynchburg in ten days. Led by Andrew Shaw, a Lynchburg native and recent graduate of the University of Virginia [College '11], their mission is to follow the James River and Kanawah canal lines across the Appalachian Mountains into West Virginia.

Interview with 2004 MFA graduate Chad Harbach, who was appearing at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this past weekend.

Mike Cubbage, a University of Virginia alumnus who grew up in Charlottesville and still resides in the area, is in his seventh season as a Tampa Bay Rays scout.

Coker, a 2000 graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences, portrays Larry Bird in the new Broadway play, "Magic/Bird."

Sunday, several University of Virginia students held "Lick for a Cure," an ice cream fundraiser. Their goal is to raise money for the Emily Couric Cancer Center at UVa.

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Three  U.Va. astronomers, Steven Majewski, John Wilson and Gail Zasowski, discuss APOGEE. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment is giving scientists views of the universe never before seen.

[I]f teachers pause frequently during the story to draw children’s attention to the printed words, they can boost reading, spelling and comprehension in kindergarten and first grade. … Those are the results of a study [Ohio State University\'s Shayne] Piasta co-authored with Laura Justice at OSU, Anita McGinty at the University of Virginia and Joan Kaderavek at the University of Toledo that is published in the current issue of Child Development.

Dan Warren, president of Guardian Angel Service Dogs, said his organization guarantees the dogs and also has the support of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. This fall the organization is partnering with the University of Virginia to research the impact the dogs have on improving blood glucose levels in diabetics. He hopes the resulting evidence will help bring about insurance coverage.

The parking lot at the John Paul Jones Arena transformed into a recycling drive-through as part of a community cleanup on this Earth Day. Cars pulled through the E-scrap Recycling event to drop off used electronics.  Volunteers from the University of Virginia and Cycle Systems in Charlottesville were there to collect and safely dispose of old, unwanted electronic devices.

From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, visitors can see the Pavilion Gardens and their trademark serpentine walls. The Garden Club of Virginia began restoring the West Pavilion Gardens in 1947 and the East Lawn portion in 1960.

The University of Virginia Alumni Association announced the recipients of the seventh annual Jefferson Trust grants. The trust awarded 13 grants totaling $523,653.

Features video from the Miller Center of author and environmental historian Adam Rome of the University of Delaware talking about the origins of Earth Day in a 2009 podcast.

What [scientists] don’t know is how changes in human behavior and climate will impact the bay.  The University of Virginia came up with a computer simulation to answer those questions – but there are so many possible scenarios that it would take decades for the university to crunch all the numbers. Virginia scientists and engineers would like to forecast the environmental and economic effects of possible changes to agriculture, commerce and industry over the next twenty years for the nation’s largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay, and IBM says it’s willing to help.

A technology at the University of Virginia that’s getting worldwide attention has let doctors there ease a nonfatal but bothersome disease for more than a dozen people. The technology is focused ultrasound. The disease is essential tremor.

In her new book, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter — And How to Make the Most of Them Now, University of Virginia clinical psychologist Meg Jay argues that those first years of adulthood are the most important time in a young person's life.

The University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs today will introduce a report detailing practical ways to invest in transportation infrastructure. Miller Center Director and former Virginia Gov. Gerald Baliles and former U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta will present the report in Washington at 3 p.m. at the Rayburn House office building.

John Herbert "Tug" Coker III 2000 graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences, playing Basketball Hall-of-Famer Larry Bird in "Magic/Bird" on Broadway Va.’s Tug Coker finally gets to wear a Celtics uniform — in ‘Magic/Bird’ on Broadway Washington Post / April 20 Maurice Jones Law School graduate Maurice Jones Sworn In As HUD's Deputy Secretary RealEstateRama / April 19 Alan Shephard Received his Ph.D. in English from U.Va.' has been selected as president and vice chancellor of Concordia University in Montreal Candidate for Concordia presidency says learning French is priority Montreal Gazett...

Qian Cai Director of the Demographics and Workforce Group at U.Va.'s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service As Asians Flock to Northern Virginia, Laws and Palates Collide New York Times / April 19 Dewey Cornell Youth violence researcher, clinical psychologist and professor in the Curry School of Education Roundtable: Lessons Learned From Virginia Tech Security InfoWatch / April 19 E.D. Hirsch Professor emeritus of education and humanities Talking pineapple question on state exam stumps ... everyone!  New York Daily News / April 19 Kyle Kondik Analyst at U.Va.'s Center for Politics Romne...