CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia has confirmed cases of norovirus among its students.

News outlets report the university confirmed the cases Tuesday but hasn’t provided an estimate on the number of suspected cases.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia professor has been placed on administrative leave nearly three months after he was charged with felony strangulation and misdemeanor simple domestic battery.

The Daily Progress initially reported Monday that the university confirmed ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia says it will create a School of Data Science after receiving the largest private gift in the institution’s 200-year history.

The school announced Friday that the $120 million gift is from a private charity associated with an investment ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia has declined an alumnus’ effort to play what is known sometimes as the “negro national anthem” at athletic events.

The university’s academic spokesman, Anthony de Bruyn, tells the Daily Progress the ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A predominantly Latina sorority says it was wrongly punished for hazing by the University of Virginia after requiring its members to study 25 hours a week.

The Daily Progress

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr. will visit the University of Virginia as the UVA President’s 2019 Speaker for the Arts.

Odom originated the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway hit “Hamilton.” He is expected to discuss his life and career and the impact of the ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia professor who was found to have violated policy by having inappropriate sexual contact with a student is retiring.

News outlets report a Dec. 7 letter from a disciplinary review panel found English professor John Casey kissed and touched ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A bill that would see a Virginia post office named in honor of a University of Virginia alum killed in action in Iraq has advanced to the U.S. Senate.

The Daily Progress

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — One of four California men accused of violently attacking counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia last year pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to riot.

Cole Evan White, 24, of Clayton, California, entered the guilty plea in U.S. District ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The family of a slain University of Virginia student has refiled a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend, who was convicted of killing her.

The Daily Progress

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will speak about his legacy on the high court at the University of Virginia School of Law this week.

Kennedy will be interviewed by financier-philanthropist David Rubenstein Friday during an inaugural event for ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia on Friday said it banned 10 white nationalists for their actions during a torch-lit campus demonstration that turned violent last year.

The no-trespass warnings were issued to people law enforcement identified “as either committing or ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The new president of the University of Virginia has promised free tuition for students in families earning less than $80,000 a year.

President James Ryan made the pledge Friday during his inauguration.

He said he envisions a community that “opens wide the ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The parents of a slain Virginia Tech student say mementos left to mark the ninth anniversary of her disappearance vanished within hours.

The Daily Progress

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted four California men on conspiracy and rioting charges in connection with a torch-lit march and a rally of white nationalists in Virginia last year.

U.S. Attorney Thomas Cullen’s office announced the indictment Wednesday. It came ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia’s endowment has increased by nearly $1 billion during the past fiscal year.

The Daily Progress

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Every day when Fiza Youivis hears Lisa Black knock on the door, she shouts, “I’m ready for school!”

Recently, Black entered Fiza’s hospital room at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital with a stack of books, worksheets and a fat yellow pencil. She ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia has approved a funding boost to help pay for a new memorial honoring the contributions of slaves who helped build and maintain the school.

The Daily Progress

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A documentary about a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year will premiere at the Virginia Film Festival in November.

Martin Luther King III — the oldest son of the late civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — is among ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A former federal prosecutor who led an independent review critical of the response to the 2017 deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, will become the University of Virginia’s top lawyer.

The Daily Progress

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Civil rights activist, author and politician Julian Bond spent the last 20 years of his career teaching at the University of Virginia.

The school possesses copies of many of his papers, speeches and other works in its special collections archives. Up until now, ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A jury in Atlanta has convicted a Nigerian man on federal charges related to hacking universities.

Prosecutors said in a news release Monday that 34-year-old Olayinka Olaniyi and co-defendant 29-year-old Damilola Solomon Ibiwoye ran several phishing scams targeting employees ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Two historians have resigned from a University of Virginia affiliate over its decision to hire a departing member of President Donald Trump’s administration as a senior fellow.

News outlets report Melvyn Leffler and William Hitchcock notified the Miller Center’s ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia governor’s grandson accused of raping a fellow University of Virginia student has avoided prison time.

The Daily Progress

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Teresa A. Sullivan’s books are still on their shelves at her Madison Hall office at the University of Virginia. She hasn’t yet taken down teaching awards or decided which papers will stay in Charlottesville and which will go with her on a yearlong sabbatical to the ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The head of a University of Virginia affiliate focused on presidential scholarship is defending his decision to hire a departing member of President Donald Trump’s administration as a senior fellow.

Miller Center CEO William Antholis said in a statement Friday ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A petition is calling on the University of Virginia to revoke the teaching appointment of a departing member of President Donald Trump’s administration.

The Washington Post

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — White nationalist Christopher Cantwell has pleaded guilty to two charges stemming from a torch-lit rally at the University of Virginia last summer.

News outlets in Charlottesville report Cantwell entered the plea Friday to two counts of assault and battery after ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia has named a new chief of police.

The Daily Progress reports Tommye S. Sutton, currently the deputy ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A former University of Virginia student who filed a civil rights lawsuit after his 2015 arrest by alcohol-enforcement agents has received a nearly $250,000 settlement.

Martese Johnson sued Virginia’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and three of its ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia is moving forward this summer with plans to install wheelchair ramps to make its famous Lawn more accessible.

The Daily Progress

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Doug Harnsberger first saw the sketch in 2012 while searching through Thomas Jefferson’s papers: a thumbnail drawing of a circle with spokes radiating outwards.

For 200 years, the sketch was mislabeled as a skylight at the University of Virginia’s Rotunda. But ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The family of a slain University of Virginia student has withdrawn a $29.5 million wrongful death lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend, who was convicted of killing her.

The Daily Progress

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The president of the University of Virginia will help Michigan State University as it picks a new leader.

Michigan State says Teresa Sullivan will serve as an adviser to the school’s trustees as they begin a search. John Engler has been interim president since ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Two University of Virginia School of Law alumni have made a $43.9 million donation to the school, which is the largest gift in its history.

The Daily Progress

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia’s police chief will retire this summer after more than a decade on the job.

University Chief Operating Officer Pat Hogan commended Chief Michael Gibson’s “steady” leadership “during a period of significant challenges” in a release. The ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia is changing its policies for outside people or groups that want to meet outdoors on college property — nearly nine months after white nationalists led a torch-lit march through campus.

According to a news release, the new policies that ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia lawyer who gained national attention when she was rewarded with $20,000 on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” for helping juvenile offenders has been charged with smuggling drugs and a cellphone to an inmate.

The Richmond-Times Dispatch