The Good Old App for the Droid is now available for free download.   The school had launched the "Good Old App" for the iPhone a year ago.

Jon Monceaux of UVA Parking  and Transportation said, "We feel that cycling at UVA is a sustainable alternative to bringing their cars. We're just trying to make it as safe as possible for our students to get around grounds."

So far, more than 95 buyers in Charlottesville, including the University of Virginia Healthcare System, have begun to buy locally produced goods thanks to the ease of working through a single distribution channel.

As part of the program, the school is teaming up with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for hands-on environmental science and advocacy skills, and the University of Virginia for lessons about real-world leadership.

A study by Dr. Philip E. Castle, American Society for Clinical Pathology Institute, and Dr. Mark Stoler, University of Virginia Health System, and colleagues of over 47,000 women suggests that testing for the two most dangerous strains of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) detects more serious pre-cancerous lesions which can lead to cervical cancer than current cervical cancer screening using cytology alone.

Martin Davidson, associate professor of business administration, associate dean and chief diversity officer at the Darden School wrote an op-ed reflecting on celebrations of the new monument commemorating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

On Saturday afternoon, University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan welcomed the parents of incoming first-year students — and begged them not to hover over their children. Some of her remarks are relayed in the article.

Propelled by budget crises, California is becoming more like other states in passing more of the burden of a college education on to students.

This year 325 students transferred to UVa from community colleges, though not all students who transfer from community colleges to four-years use the guaranteed transfer route.

Virginia potentially lost more than $7.3 million in state income-tax revenue in one year on the diminished salaries of just one class of college dropouts, says a study critical of the nation's low degree-completion rates.

Lenard R. Berlanstein Professor of modern European cultural history French reporter witnesses Virginia execution Richmond Times-Dispatch / Aug. 21 Kevin Everson Art professor and filmmaker and Feedback: Places #6: Kevin Everson C-ville / Aug. 22 James Galloway Professor of environmental sciences EPA Science Advisory Board Urges Action on Nitrogen Pollution Science / Aug. 19 Jonathan Haidt Professor of psychology and author of "The Happiness Hypothesis" The difference between liberals and conservatives Bluffton News (S.C.) / Aug. 20 Edward D. Hess Professor of business administrat...

Kyle Kondik Political analyst, Center for Politics That price is oftentimes accessibility, to the general public and the press alike, Kondik says.

Samuel E. Bodily John Tyler Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School Bodily discusses proactive, ethical, multi-attribute risk analysis to avoid stalemates between entrenched, extreme views, using hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" to drill for natural gas as an example.

Study author Brad Wilcox told msnbc.com, “But what is surprising about this is that when it comes to religion as well as marriage, we find that the college educated are more conventional in their lifestyle than middle Americans.”

The study, which was to be presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Las Vegas, focused on whites because religiosity among blacks and Hispanics is less affected by education and income, the researchers said.

A report released last week by the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project found the break-up rate is 170 percent higher in households where unmarried partners have young children, compared with married households.

W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist in University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage Project, says the study is co-authored by 18 family scholars from leading institutions. "The divorce rate for married couples with children has returned almost to the levels we saw before the divorce revolution kicked in during the 1970s. Nevertheless, family instability is on the rise," Wilcox says.

Large numbers of less-educated white Americans are abandoning religious service attendance much faster than their counterparts with higher education. "Our study suggests that the less educated are dropping out of the American religious sector, similarly to the way in which they have dropped out of the American labor market," said senior author W. Bradford Wilcox from the University of Virginia.