Charlottesville police say two men picked the wrong students to rob at gunpoint. The robbery suspects are behind bars, badly beaten by their victims. The robbery happened along the 2300 block of Fontaine Avenue. When police arrived on the scene, they found two University of Virginia students had beaten up the suspects and detained them.
"It's just part of the general diaspora of Mormonism and the change of policy on African-Americans," said Kathleen Flake, a Mormon studies professor at the University of Virginia. "Mormonism has found a way to make meaning that attracts people from a variety of cultures."
Saturday morning will mark the 25th anniversary of the Charlottesville Women's Four Miler. Nearly 5,000 women will fill Garth Road in support the University of Virginia Cancer Center's Breast Care Program.
Kyle Kondik, a political analyst with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, says that is a fair argument, but it may not help Cuccinelli get elected. "That's a good message for southwest Virginia," Kondik said. "But the problem is, there's not enough voters in southwest Virginia to make a huge difference in the race."
The new Ivy Fire Rescue Station is officially open. Dozens of people were on hand for the dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday. University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan and Albemarle County Supervisor Ann Mallek cut the ribbon.
The University of Virginia, UVA Health System and Albemarle County funded the $2 million project.
Students rarely study in the University of Virginia's oldest library, the Rotunda. Now, the administration is making some changes to bring students closer to the heart of Thomas Jefferson's "academical village."
A scientific study has confirmed something many of us hoped wasn't true -- that men feel threatened by their female partners' success. Psychologists Kate Ratliff from the University of Florida and Shigehiro Oishi from the University of Virginia conducted five different experiments with 896 participants overall to see how the men in heterosexual relationships were affected by their female partner's successes. The results are detailed in a paper published in the August 2013 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology – and it's not pretty.
The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business is out to change the game and it needs your help to do it. Faculty and staff are creating a game called BizHero, a business simulator that puts you in the shoes of the CEO.
Mary Butcher, a University of Virginia graduate student who recently moved back to Charlottesville, said she is an avid biker who wants the transportation system to be safer for cyclists. “Since going away and coming back, I’ve noticed there are a lot of issues, not just with biking but for pedestrians and public transit,” Butcher said.
A small area plan for the River Road-Rivanna River corridor likely would draw upon work done earlier this year at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture’s week-long design contest called the Rivanna Vortex.
The study did not find that two-year-olds who drank at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day were heavier than their nondrinking peers right away, but toddlers who drank sugary drinks daily were heavier by age five. In fact, they were 1.43 times more likely to be obese than preschoolers who consumed sugary drinks less than daily, even after accounting for other factors that could influence weight gain. Mark DeBoer, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia, says the findings support the hypothesis that regular consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has a cumulative e...
We wanted to know what is it like for a girl to join on a traditionally all male-team? We spoke with the family of a Riley High School Grad who says playing football certainly changed her life. In 1999 Allison Nickle told FOX28, "Definitely had some doubters last year. People told me I couldn't do it." That's when she was the kicker for Riley High School Football. Now she is Allison Nickle Egidi and all grown up, living in Virginia (and working as a major gift officer for the College of Arts & Sciences).
CPSDA's nine-member Board of Directors, now led by President Randy Bird from the University of Virginia, studied the 1980s surge of strength coaches and athletic trainers and found that most athletic departments hiring Registered Dietitians for the first time would need to squeeze tight budgets to create the new position. So the CPSDA ambitiously recruited college students of dietetics.
So which 49ers besides outside linebacker Cam Johnson will make the Pro Bowl this season? Johnson, a relatively anonymous 2012 seventh-round pick, introduced himself to casual fans Thursday night during the 49ers' 41-6 preseason victory over the Chargers with a performance that almost surely secured him a roster spot.
Republicans have had an on-again, off-again relationship with primaries dating to 1949, said Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Parachute always makes a happy landing in Charlottesville. This time, the homegrown pop band is bringing a new album to share in a two-night celebration, which starts tonight at the Jefferson Theater. Since graduating from the University of Virginia in 2008, members of the band formerly known as Sparky's Flaw haven't had much free time.