When I saw this story I couldn't help the huge grin that appeared on my face. I was born and raised in Charlottesville, Va so a story such as this in my small hometown lightens my heart. While hospital food certainly has a bad reputation, and in many cases, it's deserved, the University Health System at the University of Virginia is taking steps to change all that thanks to Local Food Hub.

A picnic brought together the community in Charlottesville Saturday afternoon. UVa.-HealthSouth kicked off National Rehabilitation Week.

The University of Virginia Health System came through the last year with higher income than the previous fiscal year, a positive for one of the region’s largest employers. … The road ahead, however, includes its share of bumps and unknowns.

Virginia Intermont College's new president has strong ties to the University of Virginia, and so does its newest board member. E. Clorisa Phillips, former associate provost for institutional effectiveness at U.Va., became Intermont's president Aug. 1. She asked John T. Casteen III, who retired this summer as U.Va. president, to serve on the board of trustees.

Happy managers reap big rewards in small stores. Managers in small enterprises play a key role in setting the tone for customer satisfaction. And customer satisfaction relates directly to profitability, research says. Researchers Richard Netemeyer, James Maxham III at the University of Virginia, and Donald Lichtenstein at the University of Colorado at Boulder studied 306 store managers responsible for 1,615 employees and 57,656 customers in a single retail chain over a two-year period.

A recent study involving overweight women clearly demonstrated the importance of endurance exercise intensity for losing weight and for reducing fat in the abdominal area. Researchers from the University of Virginia divided the women into two matched groups.

Confessing to a murder or rape you did not commit is unthinkable. But as Miami Herald readers are aware, it happens, and people spend decades in prison for crimes they didn't commit. How often it happens is now, to some extent, a matter of record. Recent research by Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, found that in 250 U.S. cases where DNA exonerated convicted rapists and murderers, more than 40 of the convicts had confessed the crime to police.

University of Virginia researchers say they need more children to participate in developmental studies. The Child Development Laboratories at UVA hosted Family Fun Day to get the word out about the importance of these studies.

[Deborah] Dix and three other local women made the trip to the University of Virginia on Monday to hear Nader’s take on energy policy in his talk titled “Megawatts, Negawatts and You.” Event sponsors included the People’s Alliance for Clean Energy and Donal Day, a U.Va. research professor of experimental nuclear and particle physics.

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business is launching an executive MBA program designed specifically for executives interested in international business.

Eleven principals will be trained… through the Texas Turnaround Leadership Academy. The principals were selected from schools with a history of low performance or because they were identified as potential future "turnaround" leaders. The program involves schools from five districts statewide working with specialists from the University of Virginia, which created a turnaround program in 2004 through its Darden School of Business and Curry School of Education. The program helps principals and other educators identify systemic problems in struggling schools and develop ways to ad...

A cast and technical crew of 48 University of Virginia students will premiere at 8 tonight the first episode of “Musical: The Online Musical” — a project being billed as the first ever interactive online musical production.

As the state faces an estimated shortage of 2,700 physicians by 2030, only 35 percent of graduates from Virginia's medical schools remain in Virginia to practice medicine, according to a new report issued by the Virginia Department of Health Professions. … University of Virginia Provost Arthur Garson suggested during Thursday's news conference … that the state should consider funding additional residency positions. Those state-funded spots should come with the stipulation that recipients work in Virginia for a specified number of years and treat a certain number of Medicaid patie...

On Wednesday, more than 50 employees from the University of Virginia’s human resources office will set up a carnival in the back parking lot of WorkSource’s Carlton Avenue location. They will trade their office garb for clown outfits and UVa shirts and help dozens of disabled adults have a great day. UVa human resources is just one of more than 100 teams that will participate Wednesday in the United Way — Thomas Jefferson Area’s annual Laurence E. Richardson Day of Caring.

Former Delaware Attorney General Charles M. Oberly III has been nominated by the Obama administration to be Delaware's next U.S. Attorney. … A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Oberly currently is of counsel at the law firm of Drinker Biddle and Reath LLP, where he specializes in criminal defense and corporate, commercial and civil litigation.

A.E. Dick Howard, White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs Survey: U.S. admires, but hasn't read, Constitution Charlottesville Daily Progress, Sept. 16 Larry Sabato, professor of politics and director of the Center for Politics Palin to make high-profile visit to Iowa Reuters, Sept. 17 Jerry Stenger, director of the state climatology office State's drought could quickly become much worse Richmond Times-Dispatch, Sept. 17 Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology Drill, Baby, Drill New York Times magazine, Sept. 16 Dr. Andrew Wolf, professor of medicine One-Time PSA Test at 60...

At the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Professor Elizabeth Meyer teaches a whole course on the Mall, in which students are asked to sketch out ideas for how the nation’s front yard might be reimagined …

No Child Left Behind, the most influential and infuriating federal education law in 40 years, is not quite dead, but getting close. … So I was pleased to see that two of those superbright economists who seem to be doing all the education research these days, Thomas S. Dee of the University of Virginia and Brian Jacob of the University of Michigan, have provided a quick summary of what NCLB did, before we forget it ever existed.

There is a common perception that the hand sanitizers are better than common soaps against germs and bacteria infection. However, a recent study carried out by the University of Virginia has hinted that their effectiveness may not be that good in reality.

All mental abilities appear to decline with advancing age, but the decreases aren't as sharp as some research has suggested, a new study contends. In the study, Timothy Salthouse, a University of Virginia psychologist, analyzed scores from 1,616 adults, aged 18 to 80, who completed tests of five key cognitive (or "thinking") abilities: reasoning, spatial visualization, episodic memory, perceptual speed, and vocabulary.