As the players raise their bets, they also will be raising funds to help support research at the U.Va. Cancer Center. The goal: $20,000.

Climate change, cyber security and global demographic shifts will be three of the biggest public policy challenges of coming decades, U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly told a new Batten School class.

A recent student body vote that adopted a new “informed retraction” option for the honor system, but roundly rejected a jury reform proposal, was discussed by student leaders, a professor and the dean of students.

Media studies chair Siva Vaidhyanathan will help guide what is basically a public, noncommercial version of the Google book project.

Simone Polillo’s book, “Conservatives Versus Wildcats: A Sociology of Financial Conflict,” uncovers a seesaw push and pull intrinsic to banking.

The “Building Public Servants” conference will feature a Virginia lieutenant governor candidate, a former aide to President Obama, a former Charlottesville vice mayor and a talk on women in combat.

After studying U.S. immigration reform for weeks, students in a “Global Immigration” Pavilion Seminar met with U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who is at the center of crafting immigration reform.

Five U.Va. students will be honored Saturday by former President Bill Clinton and will take home $10,000 for winning a nationwide competition to educate college students about the federal debt.

This year’s medalists – landscape architect Laurie Olin, FBI director Robert Mueller and Teach For America founder Wendy Kopp – join a distinguished roster of winners that includes architects I.M. Pei and Frank Gehry; seven U.S. Supreme Court justices; and several U.S. senators.

The South-By-Southwest-inspired, four-day festival of innovation, presented in partnership with U.Va., features myriad U.Va. connections.