For the Cavs, Will Roberts will get the nod, going 11-1 in his junior season with 2 complete games (one perfect) and a 1.57 ERA . ... Coach Brian O'Connor says he's more than confident in Robert's game. "He's been consistent all year long. Look at the game he threw against Irvine, that was a very impressive start with a lot of pressure. He can handle it and I know that he's going to give us a good quality start."
Opponents are batting .212 against UVa pitching this season, including .204 vs. Roberts.
Virginia Wilkins
A 1947 graduate of the School of Nursing
Barin Kayaoglu
A Turkish citizen who is currently a Ph.D. student
Kim Brooks
Majored in English
Is it time to kill the liberal arts degree?
Salon | June 18
Craig Fravel
A Law School alumnus
Breeders' Cup chooses Del Mar boss as new president
Lexington Herald Leader | June 17
Stuart Ginn
Was an English major at U.Va.
Wineka column: Following fathers into medical profession not always easy
Salisbury Post [Salisbury, SC] | June 19
Justin Grieser
A 2009 graduate who majored in linguistics and French
Introducing our summer intern, Justin Grieser
Washington Post (blog) | June 17
Dr. David Mahoney
Did his residency in family medicine at U.Va.
Controver...
Brian Balough
History professor and co-host of the radio show "Backstory: With the American History Guys."
Why don't Americans know their history?
Minnesota Public Radio | June 17
S. Max Edelson
An associate professor of history
Guns in church: The arguments
Southwest Virginia Today | June 17
Alec Horniman
A business professor in the Darden School
Female master shipbuilder is finishing what she started
Virginian-Pilot | June 20
Waldo Jaquith
Who works at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, was one of 16 people recognized at the June 10 Champions of Change event at the White House...
It was revealed this week that the number of British students applying to top American universities has risen by one third in the past year. The news was greeted not with outrage, but with resigned nods of the head. There’s one thing that all British students acknowledge: you’re expected to work much harder at an American university. “You take five subjects per semester, and in each you have to attend two lectures and one discussion per week, or you get marked down,” says 24-year-old Edward East, who went to the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville.
Solar panels on the roof produce about 6 percent of the building’s energy. Dual flush toilets and waterless urinals help cut water consumption by more than 50 percent. Some of the wall panels are made with wheat fiber. In a region known for energy production, the Science Center at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise is doing its part to reduce energy consumption for the college. The building, which was recently renovated and reopened last year, has been qualified with the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest designation for energy-efficient design, a platinum level ...
National News from AP Virginia News from AP Hundreds of University of Virginia Baseball fans made the trip to Omaha to support the Hoos. Some fans celebrated right on the corner.
Within two weeks of arriving at Virginia in the summer of 2003, baseball Coach Brian O’Connor and his two assistants knew two things about the team they had just inherited: The roster had some serious talent and that ping-pong table in the players’ lounge had to go. “Our job at the time was to change the culture,” McMullan said. The message behind the locker-room changes: “This is a place where you’re going to work.”
Behind strong pitching and defense, plus timely hitting, the top seeded Cavaliers (55-10) won their 2011 College World Series opener 4-1 and advance in the winners bracket.
When Danny Hultzen and the University of Virginia baseball team last played in the College World Series, in 2009, their stay was a short one. The left-hander started both of the Cavaliers' defeats -- though he was not charged with a loss in either -- and Virginia headed home after three games. This year, Hultzen -- the No. 2 overall pick by the Seattle Mariners in last week's First-Year Player Draft -- will try for a better result in Omaha, Neb. But he and his teammates almost didn't have the chance. Facing UC Irvine in the Super Regionals, the Cavaliers needed a ninth-inning comeback in the d...
The polo pitch at King Family Vineyards hosted a match of a different color Sunday afternoon. The 7th Annual Pink Ribbon Polo Classic brought out about 2,000 spectators decked out in their best pink attire. The money from the match goes toward breast cancer awareness and prevention. This year's donations will support the University of Virginia's Emily Couric Cancer Center.
According to researchers from the University of Virginia Health System, early detection may reduce the likelihood of dying from prostate cancer, but the benefit must be weighed against the risks associated with treatment ...
Andrew Krouse was working at the University of Virginia when he learned about a revolutionary technology his neighbor, a professor of medicine, was developing that could be the key to cancer treatment. Not long after, Krouse joined the team and is now president and chief executive of Tau Therapeutics, a life-sciences company based in Charlottesville that is developing a nontoxic pill it believes can stop cancer and block the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. “Our clinical priority for the technology we licensed from U-Va. is a program we call Interlaced Therapy. It promis...
Richard Floyd, a professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of Religious Dissent and Political Modernization: Church, Chapel and Party in Nineteenth-Century England (Studies in Modern History) Floyd spoke on the American Civil War from the British perspective on Sunday, June 12th as part of the James Madison Museum‘s 2011 lecture series.
William Walker, president of HemoSonics LLC, believes his Charlottesville-based medical device startup could bring substantial improvements to the way physicians analyze the balance between bleeding and clotting. When it goes awry, that balance can result in such leading causes of death as heart attack, stroke, pulmonary embolism or excessive bleeding. ... HemoSonics was founded in 2004 by Walker and fellow UVa biomedical engineering professors Francesco Viola and Michael Lawrence. The company’s original prototype was developed in-house at UVa.
University of Virginia Professor Brian D. McKnight also tries to discern fact from fiction in the life of Confederate guerrilla Champ Ferguson, who was executed for murdering 53 loyal citizens of Kentucky and Tennessee during the Civil War, in "Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia." Ferguson became a folk hero to Southerners and was used to create the composite role of Clint Eastwood in "The Outlaw Josey Wales."
[A review of history professor's Gary Gallagher's "The Union War."]
The question raised by Gary Gallagher in his important work "The Union War" centers around the issue of the reasons for fighting the war. Focusing on the Union side, this talented author, who teaches at the University of Virginia, looks to original sources to find out just what the general population and the members of the military thought the war was all about. Answers do not come easy.
Breast-feeding, particularly exclusive breast-feeding, is associated with a lower risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) according to the results of a meta-analysis reported online June 13 in Pediatrics. "Benefits of breastfeeding include lower risk of postneonatal mortality," write Fern R. Hauck, MD, MS, from the Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, and colleagues. "However, it is unclear whether breastfeeding specifically lowers ...SIDS risk, because study results have been conflicting."
Virginia's banks and credit unions could be gathering millions of dollars in additional deposits by reaching out to Hispanic households that lack checking and savings accounts, University of Virginia researchers said. Almost 39,000 Hispanic households in the state have no accounts with banks or credit unions but generate an average annual income of $23,500 that could flow into the banking system, according to the report by the Darden School of Business' Tayloe Murphy Center.