It’s worth remembering that not so long ago, the phrases “University of Virginia” and “baseball powerhouse” went together only in moaning jest. Yet today UVA is a legitimate baseball powerhouse, and a May 14 game against Miami demonstrated why Head Coach Brian O’Connor has been so doggone successful.

While the University of Virginia men’s tennis team disappointed in this year’s national championships and the top-seeded baseball team has yet to play in its tournament, the spotlight now shines solely on Dom Starsia’s lacrosse players — surprise winners of the NCAA national title.

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Josipa Roksa assistant professor of sociology Other Departments' Business Inside Higher Ed / June 2 Dewey Cornell education professor More schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline stand Washington Post / June 2 Farzaneh Milani professor of Persian Literature and Studies in Women and Gender Paradoxes of Iranian Society Spur on Heroic Women IPS / June 1

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The UVa baseball team is the top seed in the NCAA Tournament. Virginia begins its quest to get to its second College World Series in Omaha, facing Navy Friday at 1pm in the Regional.

The University of Virginia’s School of Architecture has launched the Center for Design and Health to advance the planning of patient-oriented facilities and healthy neighborhoods and cities.

Robert Fatton Politics professor New Study Questions Quake Toll In Haiti Wall Street Journal / June 1 and Report questions casualty count for Haiti earthquake Miami Herald / May 31 Kyle Kondik Communications director at U.Va.'s Center for Politics Kathy Hochul Sworn Into Congress Today WREN radio (Buffalo, N.Y.) / June 1 Larry J. Sabato Politics professor and director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics Two US women stars may shake up 2012 vote Agence France Presse / June 1 and Sizing Up a Rick Perry White House Bid Texas Tribune / June 1 and If Bachmann runs for president, observers say there i...

Brian Moriarty and R. Edward Freeman Darden professors Commentary: Case in Point: The wisdom of managing trust as a critical asset Washington Post / May 24

Better communication between police and college officials might have averted a fatal attack on a University of Virginia women’s lacrosse player a year ago, but such a policy has to be weighed against privacy and fairness concerns, Gov. Bob McDonnell said Tuesday.

Research strongly links anesthesia to brain deficits in children. According to a Pediatric Anesthesia Neurotoxicity Panel, led by Dr. Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic, professor of anesthesiology and neuroscience at the University of Virginia Health System, infants and children who undergo procedures requiring anesthesia could experience learning disabilities, memory problems, ADHD and cognitive difficulties.

There is one telling number to judge the strength of a school's alumni network: the percentage of graduates who give money to a school every year. Here are the schools with the most alumni donors. … And after Tuck? It's Yale University's School of Management, which last year saw 46 percent of its MBA alums reach into their pockets to donate money to the school; the University of Virginia's Darden School, the beneficiary of a 43 percent alumni giving rate last year; and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, which reported a 41 percent participation rate by MBA alums.

It's worth remembering that not so long ago, the phrases "University of Virginia" and "baseball powerhouse" went together only in moaning jest. Yet today U.Va. is a legitimate baseball powerhouse.

Alexis Ohanian Co-founded Reddit while a student at U.Va. Founder Stories: Reddit’s Ohanian: What Competition? Tech Crunch (video) / May 30, 2011 Carrie Perdue Commerce School graduate Life in Honduras / Business advisor and Peace Corp volunteer shares adventures Bluefield (W.Va.) Daily Telegraph / May 29 Andrew Rose Darden graduate and CEO of Elephant Insurance Getting to know: Andrew Rose from Elephant Insurance Richmond Times-Dispatch / May 28 Dr. William Sykes 19th-century U.Va. student and an inspiration behind Memorial Day Ask Rufus: Memorial Day and the legacy of Dr. William S...

Edmund D. "Butch" Brodie III Biology professor My view: State's 'official reptile,' the garter snake, poses no threat to humans Salem (Mass.) News / May 31 Susan Chaplinsky Darden professor IPO for Virginia Beach company assessed Norfolk Virginian-Pilot / May 29 Greg Fairchild Darden professor Commentary: Let's Breed Some Dolphins Tidewater News / May 28 Brandon Garrett Law professor From Bin Laden to Ex-IMF Chief, the Devil’s in the DNA Agence France Presse / May 29 Jonathan Haidt Psychology professor Commentary: Winning Argument: As a 'New' Critique of Reason, Argumentat...

Yet another study questions the value of the cholesterol-lowering drug ezetimibe, marketed by Merck as Zetia. Previously, two major clinical trials found that even though ezetimibe decreases LDL cholesterol, it doesn't halt artery wall thickening, called atherosclerosis, and may even make it worse. The new study, by University of Virginia Health System researchers, looked at the impact over two years of combining ezetimibe with a statin, a class of drugs that lowers cholesterol in a different way.

Virginia's Asian population has grown nearly 70 percent over the past decade and now accounts for 5.5 percent of the state's total population. A University of Virginia study of 2010 U.S. census data shows that almost 440,000 state residents are of Asian descent, up 69 percent from 2000. The growth reflects a continuation of Asian immigration to Virginia that started in 1990.

The list of crimes punishable by execution during England’s Bloody Code included everything from murder to theft from a rabbit warren. A University of Virginia associate professor of law said those mandatory death sentences have similarities with modern mandatory life without parole sentences. Josh Bowers said the comparison and a look at the rigidities of mandatory life without parole sentences are the topics of an essay he recently wrote called “Mandatory Life and the Death of Equitable Discretion.”

While UVA students have fled Grounds in favor of sandy beaches and the luxuries of summer vacation, construction crews are gearing up for the completion of five new University buildings by the end of August.

Freedom of information laws are critical tools that allow Americans to see what their leaders do on their behalf. But some global warming skeptics in Virginia are showing that even the best tools can be misused. Lawyers from the Environmental Law Center at the American Tradition Institute have asked the University of Virginia to turn over thousands of e-mails and other documents written by Michael E. Mann, a former U-Va. professor and a prominent climate scientist.