On the day that Virginia played its first game as the top-ranked team in the country and searched for the program’s 2,,000th win, junior Will Roberts stole the show with a first-time feat that spans 91 years. Roberts retired all 27 George Washington batters that he faced, registering the first perfect game in Virginia history.
Boris P. Kovatchev has been named the Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year by the University of Virginia Patent Foundation.
In the wake of a student’s death exploring the roof of a locked University of Virginia building, school officials have vowed to crack down on such after-hours adventuring.
Two U.Va. students from the McIntire School of Commerce, J. Tyler Matuella and Mannie Ajayi, analyze the performance of Tesla Motors ...
Daniel Bluestone
Director of the historic preservation program at the School of Architecture
Indoor Biotech has ambitious plans for Coca-Cola building
Charlottesville Daily Progress / March 28
Bankole Johnson
Professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
When Creating A New Institute, The Devil's In The Details
Red Orbit / March 28
Jeannine Lalonde
Senior assistant dean of admission
Did you get in? It’s a busy time for Class of 2015 notifications
Washington Post "Campus Overload" blog / March 28
David Martin
Law professor
Roundtable con...
Within days of the devastating tsunami that struck northeast Japan, the situation at the damaged Fukushima I nuclear power plant had become a crisis of nearly unthinkable proportions. … Slate solicited ideas from readers for what to do next. To help evaluate the responses, we enlisted the aid of University of Virginia physicist Lou Bloomfield. Here are his thoughts on the most popular entries, in order of increasing viability.
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Professor of media studies and law
What's next for Google Books?
MSNBC "Technolog" / March 28
When the Supreme Court considers on Tuesday whether hundreds of thousands of women can band together in an employment discrimination suit against Wal-Mart, the argument may hinge on the validity of the hotly disputed conclusions of a Chicago sociologist. … "Bielby made a conclusion that he had no basis to make," said Laurens Walker, one of two University of Virginia professors who coined the term for the analysis almost 25 years ago. “He hasn’t done the research.” (Other U.Va. law professors cited in the article include John Monahan and Gregory Mitchell).
Applicants to the University of Virginia learned Friday whether they’d been accepted. More than 24,000 applied, a record, and 7,750 were accepted into the Class of 2015. Students got the news via a secure website.
Rising sea levels have been described as the big environmental issue of the next generation, especially here in flood-prone Hampton Roads. With that in mind, area residents are invited to four public meetings this week, all in Virginia Beach and all free, on the potential local risks of rising seas, a phenomenon linked to the slow warming of the Earth. Sponsored by the University of Virginia, Wetlands Watch, the Hampton Roads Sanitation District and the city of Virginia Beach, the meetings are intended to educate residents about sea level rise and let local folks voice their concerns and offer...
The University of Virginia School of Law will use a $150,000 grant to help provide legal services to the region’s poor. The grant from the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund will be used to develop the Access to Justice Partnership, which officials hope will ultimately draw on pro bono services from roughly 75 private attorneys and about as many law students annually.
Virginia track and field coach Jason Vigilante could hardly contain his excitement over the announcement Monday of a $5 million gift for construction of a new facility for the sport. Amy Mitchell Griffin, a 1998 UVa graduate and former Cavaliers volleyball player, pledged the gift — the largest ever made for an Olympic sport project at the school — that will kick-start a drive to build a two-phase facility that will enhance the school’s track and field program.
Boreal forests across the Northern hemisphere are undergoing rapid, transformative shifts as a result of a warming climate that, in some cases, is triggering feedback loops producing even more regional warming, according to several new studies. Russia's boreal forest - the largest continuous expanse of forest in the world - has seen a transformation in recent years from larch to conifer trees, according to new research by University of Virginia researchers.
University of Virginia Police are investigating the death of Thomas W. Gilliam IV, a first-year student in the College of Arts & Sciences whose family has deep roots in Charlottesville. UVa police official Melissa Fielding, reports officers responded to the Physics Building on McCormick Road shortly before 11:30 p.m. Sunday to investigate an incident in which a student fell from the roof. Gilliam was taken to the UVa Medical Center where he died Monday from injuries suffered in the three-story fall.
Frank M. “Rusty” Conner III
Law School alumnus and managing partner of DLA Piper
DLA Piper managing partner defines success as ‘having a meaningful impact'
Washington Post Capital Business blog / March 27
Area sixth graders learned a big lesson on Friday. They experienced a day in the life of University of Virginia chemistry students. Students from Walker Upper Elementary School shadowed the UVa students.
University of Virginia students used chalk to make a case for their beliefs on the misconceptions that linger about Health Care reform on Friday. The event fell on the one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act becoming law.
Robert Bruner
Dean of U.Va.'s Darden School of Business
Commentary: Track record of mega mergers not so rosy
Seattle Times / March 27, 2011
Ed Burton
Economics professor
UVA Economics Professor Thinks Gas Prices Will Stabilize
WINA-AM-1070 / March 25
Brandon Garrett
Law professor
Commentary: Gov. Bentley: First do no harm, and then do good
Birmingham (Ala.) News / March 27, 2011
Jeff Goldsmith
Instructor in public health
The Model of the Future? / The health-care law promoted accountable-care organizations. But it's hard to know what they are.
Wall Street Journal / March 28
Dave Grissmer
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