U.Va. announces the establishment of the Richard Lyman Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies, named in honor of the leader of one of the first Mormon studies programs in the country.

Economics will be the focus as U.Va.’s Frank Batten of Leadership and Public Policy celebrates its fifth anniversary during Homecomings Weekend.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen A. Merrigan will give a free public talk on local food Thursday at 5 p.m. in Garrett Hall.

The Robertson Media Center has a suite of new 3-D digital tools, including laser scanners, Hollywood-standard modeling and animation software, a motion-capture system, an immersive virtual-reality display and one of the largest active-shutter 3-D display arrays in the world.

Thanks to a new U.Va. Jefferson Public Citizens program, children who visit the Charlottesville City Market on any Saturday morning through Oct. 13 can get a free $2 in “Fun Bucks” to spend on any fruits and vegetables they want.

With a new $130,000 National Science Foundation grant, U.Va. professor Ahmed Abbasi and four collaborators will analyze social media to identify adverse drug reactions much faster than existing methods.

The University of Virginia and Virginia Tech are jointly opening a new regional center in Newport News, near the entrance to City Center.

U.Va.’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy hosted the governor’s annual Cabinet retreat Sunday, and it included several presentations from Batten faculty members.

Jeffrey Walker, former chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase's global private equity group and current chairman of the U.Va. Council of Foundations, will speak tomorrow on collaborative leadership at noon at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

uilding on last year’s inaugural Jefferson Innovation Summit and the resulting “Declaration of Innovation” principles to foster entrepreneurship and innovation, this year’s summit will bring together Virginia’s governor, business leaders, entrepreneurs, scholars and policymakers to apply those principles to Virginia.