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Josh Bennett and Bailey Wilson second-year Darden Business School student and undergraduate engineering student respectively

Some students at the University of Virginia are making sure their dining hall food doesn't go to waste by helping hungry people in central Virginia get meals on the table. Campus Kitchen is cooking for a cause at UVA by taking food that would probably be thrown away and giving it to the Charlottesville community one meal at a time.

University of Virginia students will gather this week to discuss ways to prevent anti-gay bullying, as five gay teenagers have committed suicide in the past three weeks. The “End Victimization of LGBTQ Youth” community action meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kaleidoscope Room on the third floor of Newcomb Hall.

John Casteen President emeritus Report on NCI future due Oct. 21 Martinsville Bulletin / Oct. 4 James Coan Assistant professor of psychology Just the right touch CTV Canada| / Oct. 3 Arthur Garson Provost and an expert on medical pubic policy Grand-Aides WVTF Public Radio | Oct. 4 AE Dick Howard Professor of law Many factors figure in death-penalty cases Richmond Times-Dispatch | Oct. 3 Jeannine Lalonde senior assistant dean of admissions More parents hovering over their college-bound teens Reuters | Oct. 3 Barbara Perry A senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs and a scholar...

Overall, the University of Virginia won the men's race, followed by Georgetown in second and William and Mary in third.

Dog piles in the middle of the field are usually reserved for postseason games. The Virginia women’s soccer team could care less about sports protocol. On Sunday afternoon, UVa — thanks to a sudden-death goal in overtime by Meghan Lenczyk — formed a very large pile. They had every right to. The sixth-ranked Wahoos overcame a second-half deficit to defeat No. 1-ranked Boston College, 3-2, on a picturesque fall day at Klockner Stadium. It was the program’s first-ever triumph over a top-ranked team (0-18-1 in previous attempts).

Thomas Jefferson wanted only three things on his tombstone: "Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statutes of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." No other achievement could match, in his mind, the testimony his life gave to political and religious freedom and freedom of thought. A child of the Enlightenment as was Thomas Paine, he saw a future pregnant with human happiness as long as conscience and reason remained unfettered. America, of course, has not always lived up to Jefferson's epitaph or Paine's dictum. This is one o...

A profile of how the McCormick observatory came to be at U.Va.

A 2002 study by University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Ken Goldstein and University of Virginia Professor Paul Freedman found exposure to negative ads, whether contrast ads or "pure negative spots," actually stimulates voter turnout. "It does so, we find, without regard to partisanship, information or attention to the campaign," the professors wrote.

Last month, the Department of Heath and Human Services proposed regulations that would require the bottom 25 percent of Head Start organizations -- which can include nonprofits, municipalities and school districts -- to reapply for grants. Tough benchmarks on management, health and safety, and financial accountability will be imposed. Most welcome are plans to measure how well teachers interact with children, using a respected classroom assessment developed by University of Virginia researchers. New training and technical assistance will be provided in what HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius call...

The abundance of homes for sale right now could have more to do with changing age demographics than with overbuilding or foreclosures, according to an urban planner at the University of Virginia. Over the past decade, the number of households with individuals older than 55 across the country has grown by roughly 8 million while the number of households with individuals between the ages of 30 and 45 has fallen by 3.6 million. That change has created an imbalance in the number of potential buyers and potential sellers, said William Lucy, the University of Virginia professor.

Investors react to all sorts of uncertainty, including news of a change at the top. Indeed, Campbell Soup shares fell 70 cents, or 1.9 percent, in the first two days after word of the management changes broke. They gained back 34 cents Friday to close at $36.09. That share-price decline tracks the findings of research by a professor at the University of Virginia, who found a definite gender effect on stock prices when companies pick a woman as its CEO. Darden Business School professor Erika H. James and coauthor Peggy M. Lee, of Arizona State University, analyzed 1,624 announcements involving ...

The city is painting the town pink for breast cancer awareness. Mayor Dave Norris, the Charlottesville Fire Department and other gathered outside City Hall Saturday morning to kick of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.... Officials from Martha Jefferson Hospital Breast Health and the UVa. Breast Care Program were also on hand to discuss their services.

GrammaTech, Inc., a leading manufacturer of software-analysis tools, today announced it has been awarded a multi-year, $12.9M contract focused on improving software security. GrammaTech will lead the development and demonstration effort, working with subcontractors Raytheon Company, the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Georgia Institute of Technology; this team brings together world-class expertise in software analysis, security, and development.

U.S. investment in preservation and development of transportation infrastructure lags so far behind that of China, Russia and European nations that it will lead to "a steady erosion of the social and economic foundations for American prosperity in the long run." That is a central conclusion in a report issued on behalf of about 80 transportation experts who met for three days in September 2009 at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. Few of their conclusions were ground-breaking, but the weight of their credentials lends gravity to their findings.

University of Virginia Police have offered a late-night shuttle for the past 20 years that offers a safe ride home to students when all other transportation options have shut down. After recent events around grounds, police are seeing an increase in students' use of the shuttle.

Rebecca White, of the University of Virginia's Parking and Transportation Department, joined CBS19's Tiffani Sargent for this week's edition of UVa. Today to discuss the NuRide Program.

Darden's weekly podcast called the "BusinessCast," features Kulwant Rai, research director for the Tayloe Murphy Center at Darden. He discusses issues specific to the Latino community and banking.

Celebrities and politics have shaped verdicts in the courtroom long before the days of O.J. Simpson and Timothy McVeigh, said CBS News legal analyst Jack Ford. Ford, who covered the Simpson and McVeigh trials during his years at TruTV, was the guest speaker Friday at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs public forum series.