The Cavaliers face their second consecutive elimination game on Wednesday against Arkansas. After using two starters to help overcome Cal State Fullerton on Monday, Coach Brian O'Connor will likely need to turn to his bullpen early again on Wednesday.
"John's stewardship for 20 years has seen great progress, great change…" (video)
Matthew Crawford
A fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
Book review: In his debut book, "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work," Matthew Crawford examines for us his (mostly) joyful transition from philosopher and think tank director to self-employed mender of motorbikes.
Ted Genoways
Editor of Virginia Quarterly Review
Higher-ed pinching pushes college presses to brink
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jqpGXF8kW1UOrJfxyspSPQKKVwgwD98R8N1G0
Associated Press / June 15
Ruhi Ramazani
Professor emeritus of politics
Iranian natives in Virginia watch warily
http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/world/article/IRAN16S_20090615-220604/274066/
Richmond Times-Dispatch / June 16
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
White House officials express concern about Gov. Jon Corzine's re-election bid
Corzine "will have to b...
Thomas Jefferson began making regular visits to Poplar Forest in 1809, at age 69, to escape the public spotlight. He designed the home, which was America’s first octagonal house, and the landscape surrounding it. ... In the years following Jefferson’s habitation there, the property changed hands, and elements of the landscape and architecture were changed or destroyed. [Jack] Gary’s job is to use the tools of archeology to unearth the past and put the puzzle pieces of Jefferson’s vision back together.
Elaine Ruth Jones
Law School alumna
The prominent civil rights lawyer delivered the commencement address to the summer graduating class of Lane College in Jackson, Tenn.
Emily Nelson and Graham Evans
They'll be driving around the country in an old school bus, powered by waste vegetable oil, with a garden on top and a whole bunch of interesting projects inside: worm compost, yogurt-making, sprout-growing. Everywhere they stop, they hope to talk with locals about what they're up to, collect ideas for a manifesto on nourishment, and hand out free food.
The college in the southwest Virginia county where Dominion Virginia Power is building a coal-fired power plant has named the utility's CEO to its board of visitors.
In late April, UVA closed the search for a Director of Development for the UVA Art Museum, a person who will report directly to Vice Provost for the Arts Elizabeth Hutton Turner. In an interview last week, new museum director Bruce Boucher said that a new development director could be announced within the next few weeks or month, and that UVA is currently interviewing candidates.
The fifth-ranked Cavaliers’ offense provided timely hits, propelling Virginia to a 7-5 victory over the Titans and allowing UVa to survive an elimination game and extend its stay at the College World Series.
Dr. James Turner
Executive director of the Elson Student Health Center
Turner maintains that colleges have been making considerable progress in curbing binge drinking over the past few years, especially at his home institution, the University of Virginia.
When the Board of Visitors first approved the Arts Gateway to the University of Virginia in 2007, the project—an estimated $118 million plan that would include, among other buildings, a new art museum at the current site of the Cavalier Inn—was slated to begin construction during the spring of 2009. Now, with renovations underway for the UVA Art Museum on Rugby Road, Vice Provost for the Arts Elizabeth Hutton Turner says that plans for the Arts Gateway are on “indefinite hold.” “We’ve pressed the ‘restart button’ for the museum and are proceeding...
Gordon Burris, senior assistant to the president, discusses Blackburn with Coy Barefoot.
Daniel Cox
A professor of psychiatry and neuroscience
ADHD drugs linked to sudden death
He fears the study will have an overall negative effect on the health of these young patients if the public misinterprets its findings.
KTRK ABC13, Houston / June 15
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/health&id=6865232
Lois Shepherd
An associate professor of law
UVa professor discusses new book on the rights, and responsibilities, to life
Charlottesville Daily Progress / June 15
http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/education/article/uva_professor_discusses_new_book_on_the_rights_and_resp...
Despite its losses, Virginia has a chance to again finish second behind Virginia Tech in the Coastal division, though Miami’s improvement may dictate where the Cavaliers fall in the conference standings.
People of all ages came out in Charlottesville Sunday to raise money for skin cancer research.
The University of Virginia, in addition to seeing an influx of applications from in-state residents, has partnered with Northern Virginia Community College to launch the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program, which will allow students to take classes at a community college campus and transfer the credits in order to receive a degree from the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at the University of Virginia.
Matthew Crawford
A fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
Crawford has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, … a fellowship at the University of Virginia, and, most important, a scrappy motorcycle-repair shop in Richmond. His book is called “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work” (Penguin; $25.95), and it’s intended as a challenge, a declaration of gearhead pride in an ever more gearless world.