No. 4 South Carolina showed no signs of weakness Tuesday night, scoring early and often in the second round of the College World Series. The Gamecocks' 7-1 win against No. 1 Virginia 7-1, tied a NCAA record for 13th straight national tournament game wins. The Cavaliers will play California at 7 p.m. Thursday (ET) on ESPN2 in an elimination game. The winner will advance to face South Carolina (52-14) on Friday evening. They would have to defeat the Gamecocks twice to advance to the best-of-three finals series.
By Joseph J. Thorndike, director of the Tax History Project at Tax Analysts and a visiting scholar in history
A spate of bad economic news has revived fears of a "double-dip" recession. Since the Great Depression, such a calamity has only occurred once, when the country suffered through a short and shallow recession in 1980, followed by a long and severe one in 1981-1982.
Bank profits grew in the five years after the adoption of the most stringent blue sky laws, according to research by University of Virginia School of Law professor Paul G. Mahoney. And the big national banks that opposed the laws mushroomed in size, with average total individual deposits increasing more than 25 percent from 1914 to 1916. (Much of that can also be attributed to a flood of European money amid the First World War.) While it is difficult to quantify the precise impact of these laws, they certainly did not hinder investment activity or crimp bank profits.
Researchers at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will finally be able to finish work on the secret presidential recordings of Lyndon Johnson, and begin work on those of Richard Nixon, thanks to a $130,000 federal grant. The Miller Center has published eight different volumes of transcripts. The latest round of studies will conclude work on Johnson's private discussions about everything from the Vietnam War to the tumultuous civil rights era. The center can now keep digging with help from a $130,000 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Com...
You can do a lot with 3D printing—even create a working model jet engine. As a final project for a jet engine manufacturing course at the University of Virginia, students led by Professor David Sheffler constructed a one-quarter-scale working replica of the Rolls-Royce AE3007 turbofan jet engine (which is found on the Air Force's RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV) that spins and whirs furiously, and that was built from plastic using 3D printing.
The U.S. Supreme Court, which on Monday dismissed a class-action lawsuit involving up to 1.5 million women who sued Wal-Mart for gender discrimination, cited the work of three University of Virginia law professors who have criticized the empirical methodology behind the plaintiffs' argument. ... The majority opinion cites a Virginia Law Review article by Monahan, Walker and U.Va. law professor Greg Mitchell criticizing Bielby's testimony for not studying Wal-Mart's employment practices through accepted social science research methods.
Virginia swept four ACC foes this season during series in the regular season. The Cavaliers are going to need to duplicate that feat over a three-game stretch against two teams to have a chance to win the 2011 College World Series. ... Virginia (55-11) was bumped down into the loser’s bracket and will face California on Thursday at 7 p.m. in an elimination game. Should the Cavaliers win that game, they would then need to win on Friday and Saturday to eliminate the Gamecocks (52-14).
Aujang Abadi
A Darden School alumnus
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Ann Lugbill
A Law School alumna
Paddelfest to fill Ohio River
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Dr. Eric Houpt
Associate professor, Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Phthisis Diagnostics co-founder
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Studied economics at U.Va.
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Saikrishna Prakash
A law professor
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Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Huntsman revs up for GOP...
By John Elwood, an adviser to the Supreme Court litigation clinic at the Law School
Because the Supreme Court is often portrayed as divided between competing ideological factions, people are sometimes surprised when the court achieves a degree of unanimity in a case, particularly on a contentious issue. But the justices actually agree on a lot. Last year, the court decided almost half of its cases by a unanimous vote, and two weeks ago, a unanimous court ruled for the plaintiffs in a securities class action.
When Brian O'Connor took over as Virginia's head coach in 2004, he told his assistants to emphasize in-state recruiting. Pitching coach Karl Kuhn saw plenty of talent in the area, but it wasn't coming to Charlottesville. ... when Will Roberts (Maggie Walker GS) takes the mound tonight to pitch to John Hicks (Goochland) against defending national champion South Carolina, U.Va.'s dugout will have 19 players from the state, including seven from the Richmond area.
The members University of Virginia and South Carolina baseball teams may feel as if they are looking in a mirror when the meet at TD Ameritrade Park on Tuesday night. Both teams have made their living with outstanding pitching and strong defense while ...
According to a 2010 study by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, only 11 percent of college-educated Americans divorce within the first 10 years today, compared with almost 37 percent for the rest of the population.
Canada's Ivey school of business, one of the world’s biggest publishers of case studies, is making its case study catalogue available on Apple’s iBookstore. More than 500 cases are available for Can$3.99 each through iTunes. ... Ivey is one of the four case study distributors of note. By far the largest of the four is Harvard Business School, while the Darden school at the University of Virginia writes and distributes case studies of US companies.
A new study of children living in institutions has found that intervening early can help young children develop language, with those placed in better care by 15 months showing language skills similar to children raised by their biological parents. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota, Ohio University, The Ohio State University, the University of Virginia, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston, the University of Maryland, and Tulane University.
The University of Virginia is demolishing more of the 1960's Alderman Road dorms. Webb, Maupin, Lile and Tuttle Dorms have dates with the wrecking ball this summer. ... The University launched a multi-phase project of dorm replacement in 2006, and it will continue for several more years. UVA's Cauthen, Woody, and Kellogg Dorms will not be demolished.
Governor Bob McDonnell announced Monday he will hold Orange and Blue Days to raise money for tornado relief in the Commonwealth. The Governor is encouraging all Virginia businesses to participate in showing support for the University of Virginia baseball team while helping out Virginian's affected by April tornadoes and severe storms.
UVA is scheduled to switch some operations to generators Tuesday in an effort to reduce demand by 6 megawatts, or 11 percent of its electric use. The school is asking employees to cut their electrical use at work as much as possible between 2 and 3 p.m. The exercise is part of UVA's participation in the department of Mines, Minerals and Energy's demand response program. In a similar exercise last year, UVA reduced its consumption from the electric grid by nearly three megawatts.
In his research, Robert Emery PhD, Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at the University of Virginia, found that nonresidential fathers saw their children only 4 times per month following divorce, and about 20% of children had no contact at all with their fathers 2-3 years after divorce.
University of Virginia's Cancer Center is working on a treatment that could revolutionize modern oncology. It's a fascinating idea that could change modern cancer treatment. Researchers are taking a drug previously used to treat hypertension, and repurposing it to help kill cancer.