Authorities are investigating the cause of a Nelson County fire that destroyed the Norwood plantation, a historic Cabell home, Sunday evening. The house originally was built in the 1850s by Mayo Cabell as a gift for his son, William, when he graduated from the University of Virginia in 1853.

Former U.Va. men's basketball coach and athletic director Terry Holland annouced this week that he would begin the transition to become athletic director emeritus at East Carolina University.

Emoticon-based friendships aren’t strong enough to act as a safety net in an unstable economy, University of Virginia psychology professor Shigehiro Oishi wrote in “Optimal Social-Networking Strategy Is a Function of Socioeconomic Conditions,” a study published last month in the journal Psychological Science.  

The total number of cases that go unreported are believed to be far greater, said Claire Kaplan, director of Sexual and Domestic Violence Services at University of Virginia. According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, 54 percent of sexual assaults go unreported.

Feb. 16 and 17, 2013: Oratorio members will join the University of Virginia’s University Singers — also led by Slon — and the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra to present Sergei Prokofiev’s “Alexander Nevsky” and Borodin’s “Polovtsian Dances,” sung in Russian.

Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans will team up with pianist Florian Weber for an evening of jazz chamber music with classical influences at Brooks Hall at 8 p.m. Saturday in the University of Virginia’s Brooks Hall. 

Two or three decades in the future, how will the counties’ populations match up to what they are now? Larger; older; a bit more ethnically diverse, according to the latest forecast, prepared by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.

Peter Schuck, an emeritus professor of law at Yale University, said achieving the country’s long-term goals would be more likely if the diversity visa program was ended.  “It’s a really absurd way to accept immigrants to allocate 50,000 precious visas in a way that does not reflect priorities and needs of our society,” Schuck said at a conference hosted by the Miller Center of Public Affairs, a nonpartisan research institute based at the University of Virginia.

(Editorial) It is perhaps fitting that a man of complexity and contradictions would yield an institution of the same disposition, but that does nothing to satisfy a palate starved for something more sublime.

—Some people like to have a few close friends, while others prefer a wider social circle that is perhaps less deep. These preferences reflect people's personalities and individual circumstances -- but is one approach to social networks "better" than the other? New research suggests that the optimal social networking strategy depends on socioeconomic conditions. Researchers Shigehiro Oishi of the University of Virginia and Selin Kesebir of the London Business School explore the benefits of social networking strategies in two studies published in Psychological Scienc...

Each Wednesday, we profile a standout professor as identified by students. Today, we focus on Sankaran Venkataraman of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.

Facing the oversaturation of information and intrusive mediums through which to absorb information, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Dean Robert F. Bruner suggests in a recent blog post published on DeansTalk that the key to managing an intellectual lifestyle that benefits you in the business world is to develop healthy reading habits.

Living Wage at UVA spoke out once again Wednesday afternoon. The group rallied for one main cause: equal work for equal pay. They protested on campus between Newcomb Hall and Peabody Hall just a short time before the University of Virginia's steering committee began their open forum meeting on the future of public universities.

Construction is under way for a new child care facility for the University of Virginia Physicians Group. When the center is complete, it will serve UVa. Health System faculty and staff and will accommodate up to 150 kids.

A day after being sanctioned by its accrediting body, the University of Virginia faces a challenge beyond being removed from a one-year warning, professors and students said Wednesday.

The honorees include Jacqueline Novogratz, who earned bachelors degree in economics and international relations from U.Va. and is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to the problems of poverty.

—Moral stereotypes about "typical" liberals and conservatives held by both groups are generally correct, but exaggerated both for their own group and the other, according to new research published December 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Jesse Graham at the University of Southern California and his colleagues at the University of Virginia (Brian Nosek) and New York University.

(Editorial) The governing board of the University of Virginia can certainly continue to claim that there's no backstory to the attempted coup of President Teresa Sullivan in June.

William B. Hopkins Sr. (who attended the U.Va. School of law)  fought in two wars, wrote two books, and used his clout as a state legislator to help modernize Virginia's government and strengthen arts and cultural programs in Roanoke. 

NVIDIA has been awarded a contract worth up to $20 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to research embedded processor technologies that could lead to dramatic improvements in the ability of autonomous vehicles to collect and process data from on-board sensors. NVIDIA researchers will work on the program with academic partners at the University of Utah and the University of Virginia.