University of Virginia News

IF YOU'RE in your 20s and you think you've got, like, a decade before you have to get serious about your future, you'd better think again.

Baltimore-based higher education consulting firm Art & Science Group told the University of Virginia's governing board Tuesday that despite the university's stature as a "public Ivy," school and state leaders have been complacent in the past 15 years and the school is now falling behind many of its competitors, The Washington Post reported.

Even in Charlottesville, considered one of the most liberal cities in Virginia, blacks and whites had to fight to be seen not only equal as late as the 1970s and beyond.

It released its 'Charlottesville Works' project Monday. It stems from the 2011 "Orange Dot Project" report that found 27 percent of people in the city are living in poverty.

Rachel Stuckey, a resident of Metairie, is the daughter of James and Terri Stuckey.

Researchers have developed an experimental iPhone application, or app, designed to help emergency medical technicians diagnose a particularly deadly form of heart attack and send that information quickly to waiting hospital surgical teams.

Some are calling this year's GOP ticket the most conservative in recent memory. And now, just days after nomination, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor is coming under fire for a series of controversial statements.

The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors is meeting in Charlottesville Monday and Tuesday to discuss strategies for the school's future.

"Books Behind Bars" is program which pairs undergraduates from the University of Virginia with inmates at the Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center to read classic Russian literature.

The school announced Monday that coach Steve Pritzker is leaving to become the chief financial officer for the athletic department at the University of Virginia.

A traffic alert for drivers at the University of Virginia: The Virginia Department of Transportation is closing the McCormick Road Bridge over Emmet Street at 12 p.m. Monday to begin the process of replacing the aging bridge.

You'll now be forking up more money if you get a parking ticket in Charlottesville.

A University of Virginia analysis of census data finds that 2-in-3 people who live in Illinois were born in Illinois.

Stephen Colbert tried to transfer to University of Virginia in 1984, but never completed his application essay.

It's cap and gown season and The University of Virginia YouTube channel has uploaded comedian Stephen Colbert's Valedictory Address to the school's class of 2013.

Jeff O'Dell stands with colleagues Staff Sgt. Chris Earles and Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Tippett in Iraq in 2010.

To a crowd of 12,000 graduates and their families, Stephen Colbert acted as the keynote speaker at the valedictory exercises for the 2013 University of Virginia graduating class.

The "Scandal" star and 1998 GWU grad sweetly attempted the usual rite of self-deprecation expected of all commencement speakers: "Year after year, GW sends its graduates into the world on the wings of advice from esteemed leaders and thinkers.

The nationwide Click It or Ticket campaign starts off Monday morning. Albemarle police tell say they will have several officers working grant-funded overtime shifts for extra enforcement.

Robert Straus Lipman and Susan Orr Gracey of Nashville proudly announce the engagement of their daughter, Margaret Norman Lipman to Stephen August Orthwein Junior, son of Stephen August Orthwein and Virginia Flynn Orthwein of St.