The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors heard Friday that the school’s mission to raise $3 billion by 2011 is still on course — despite the economic downturn.

Ruffin Hall is the second new building at the University of Virginia to be dedicated this week.

The University of Virginia’s Institute on Aging is hosting a conference on Oct. 10 to focus on voting among seniors living in long-term care facilities.

The University of Virginia has topped a list of 10 Virginia schools participating in a national survey that rates the country’s greenest campuses.

A panel tonight will discuss the human papillomavirus vaccine that is required for all sixth-grade girls in Virginia.

Two of presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s most ardent supporters — his wife, Michelle, and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine — were in Charlottesville on Wednesday, but for different reasons.

A 24-hour vigil for prisoners of war and those soldiers still missing in action ended with taps being trumpeted from the front north steps of the Rotunda on Tuesday evening.

The polish that University of Virginia professor Rob Kelly helped put on the Pentagon Memorial — opening today in Arlington — should last a hundred years.

Buying and eating local doesn’t get much easier for University of Virginia students than when a farmers’ market sets up on Grounds.

Republican John McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate was a “brilliant” pick, according to two University of Virginia political scientists.

University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III said he’s not convinced that lowering the drinking age to 18 won’t have a negative impact.

Zack Ketz will start classes at the University of Virginia this fall and it’s unlikely the “imaginary people on the Internet” will foot the bill.

This summer, like the last seven, Professor Tim Salthouse and undergraduate students are testing the cognition of hundreds of people — ranging in age from their early 20s to late 90s — at UVa’s Cognitive Aging Laboratory.

Students and faculty at the University of Virginia are organizing concerts and dramatic and dance performances to raise money to help the 4.8 million people left homeless by an earthquake in China on May 12.

I am writing about the parking situation at the Uni-versity of Virginia Medical Center. It is, in a word, disgraceful.