Maryland midfielder Jeremy Hall scored the game's lone goal in the third minute, and Maryland held on to defeat Virginia for the ACC Championship, 1-0.
On Friday night in Cary, N.C., the Virginia men's soccer team pulled off one of the major upsets of the season when it beat previously undefeated and top-ranked Wake Forest in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.
... In the Washington area, the University of Virginia's longtime president, John T. Casteen III, received nearly $800,000 in 2007-08 from public and private sources, making him the third-highest paid public university president last year.
Sara Dexter
Assistant professor of technology leadership at the Curry School of Education
Chalk one up for device / Digital whiteboard establishes itself as a teaching tool.
Allentown Morning Call (PA) / Nov. 16
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-5smart.6649288nov16,0,4781764.story
Cordel Faulk
Communications director for the Center for Politics
Virginia Seeing Widening Political Divide Between Southwest, Northern Regions Of State
Bristol Herald Courier (TN) / Nov. 16
http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/virginia_seeing_widening_political_divide_between_southwest_northern_region/...
Stephen Bradford knew he would be commuting hundreds of miles a week when he started classes at the University of Virginia this semester. So, the part-time student converted his 1985 Mercedes-Benz 300 to run on a combination of vegetable oil and diesel. ... Rebecca White, UVa's director of parking and transportation, said she can see possibilities for a project to get one of the university's diesel vehicles converted to veggie oil.
By Mark D. Nevin, a doctoral candidate in American history and research assistant at the Miller Center, and creator of a website called Has Polling Killed Democracy?
... But this recipe for Republican electoral success is simplistic and wrong headed. Ideas do matter in politics, but they aren't the only things that do. The key to the Republican Party's past triumphs and its possible future success has more to do with demography than ideology.
By Larry Sabato, a politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
As routine as elections may seem, they are the seminal events in the life of a democracy. Campaigns and elections not only set the direction of the Republic; they also shed light on America's po litical health. Every November we have the opportunity to take stock of what we did at the polls, and what that says about the status of the 232-year-old American experiment. The historical significance of what happened on Nov. 4 is immediately obvious. ...
U.S. researchers have confirmed the accuracy and reliability of SpermCheck Vasectomy, an at-home test for detecting low concentrations of sperm. In the clinical trial, University of Virginia Health System researcher John C. Herr and colleagues used SpermCheck to evaluate a cohort of 144 post-vasectomy semen samples. The test achieved an accuracy rate of 96 percent in identifying whether sperm counts were greater or less than a threshold of 250,000 sperm per ml -- a level associated with little or no risk of causing pregnancy.
Artifacts from the shuttered Flowerdew Hundred Museum have found a new home at the University of Virginia.
... Sally LeBeau, the [U.Va.] Medical Center's manager in the hospital's patient and guest services department, said the hospital's interpreter program has evolved from a few staff members and volunteers to something much more formal. The hospital now has interpreters on staff 24 hours a day. LeBeau said the trained interpreters on staff attend more than 20,000 appointments for patients with limited English proficiency each year.
In this edition of the Darden BusinessCast, we speak with Alice Schroeder, author of "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life," and the keynote speaker at the first-ever Value Investing Conference, held at Darden last week. Also joining us is second year student Patrick Connell, the CIO of Darden Capital Management.
A group of middle school students from Buford experience a day in the life of a college student at the University of Virginia. ...The hope is that local students will learn about UVA so they'll look forward to college. ...Since it began, over 3,000 local kids have been mentored by UVA students in the "Day in the Life" Program.
By John W. Snow, former Secretary of the Treasury and Newman Visiting Fellow at the Miller Center. He shares lessons from the Miller Center's global financial summit in September as a roadmap for this weekend's G-20 Summit on the global financial crisis
The U.Va. Hospital and Drs. Barry Farr and Richard Wenzel have developed a proven national model for reducing deadly MRSA outbreaks, called Active Detection and Isolation, but other hospitals and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been slow to adopt these changes