From eating chicken brains to shopping in Shanghai, six cadets from Fork Union Military Academy spent two weeks immersed in an entirely different culture. Nothing, however, was more rewarding than the time they spent volunteering in an orphanage.

A quarterback with the University of Virginia football team has been charged with underage possession of alcohol, marking the latest in a string of headaches for the Cavaliers.

Scholarships awarded to black students at the University of Virginia by the Walter Ridley Scholarship Fund will increase by $2,500, from $7,500 to $10,000.

In Albemarle County, rising 6th-grade students need immunization vaccines before school starts on Aug. 20.

The University of Virginia is escalating its efforts to discourage new students from imbibing staggering amounts of alcohol.

Math classes in Greene County’s primary and elementary schools are about to get more hands-on.

Former astronaut Dr. Bernard Harris asked more than 50 middle school students and their parents on Friday to use their imaginations as he described what it was like to walk in space.

Billy Cannaday Jr. plans to resign from his post as the state’s Superintendent of Public Instruction to become a dean at the University of Virginia. 

The city of Charlottesville is getting $328,280 as part of the statewide Safe Routes to School program, designed to make bicycling and walking to school safer and more appealing for students from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Piedmont Virginia Community College will host a series of free information sessions to introduce potential students to the college’s high-tech and health-care offerings.

Murray High School, an Albemarle County charter school, is accepting applications for fall 2008.

A plan to reduce chemical toxins in Albemarle County schools by restricting traditional pesticides and disinfectants won support from a handful of residents Thursday.

The Albemarle County Planning Commission made a recommendation Tuesday that could help pave the way for a new $30 million academic building at St. Anne’s-Belfield.

A contest, “JT’s ‘Tell Us What You Think,’” challenges elementary, middle and high school students in greater Charlottesville to devise gas-saving solutions and describe them in 150 words.

St. Anne’s-Belfield School officials believe combining middle and elementary school students into a new building would benefit younger students while allowing the expansion of arts and science programs at the high school.

The marching band at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise will be getting new uniforms and instruments thanks to a $1.28 million gift from the Hunter J. Smith Family Foundation.

School is out for the summer, but activity in and around Charlottesville schools is not stopping.

Piedmont Virginia Community College enrolled a record-breaking number of students during the 2007-08 academic year.

The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors has voted to tap deeper into its $3.2 billion endowment.

The University of Virginia has named a prominent Alzheimer’s disease researcher as dean of its medical school.

The University of Virginia’s longtime dean of admissions announced Monday that he will retire in June 2009.

For weeks now, a group of James Madison University and University of Virginia students have been digging up history in the backyard of America’s fourth president, James Madison.

There’s been bad news on Wall Street. The markets are soft. The dollar is weak. And in this slumping economic climate, Robert D. Sweeney faces a self-imposed goal of raising $1.25 million dollars a day, every day, for the next three years. 

The Charlottesville School Board selected the Virginia Department of Planning and Budget to conduct a study measuring the city school division’s use of resources.

Virginia Commonwealth University is forming a task force to review its policies on corporate research in the wake of a controversy over a consulting contract with tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris USA.

Several dozen rising sixth- and seventh-grade students in Charlottesville and Albemarle County this summer will explore science through the Odyssey 2025 program.

William B. Harvey, the University of Virginia’s top diversity officer, is one of four finalists for the presidency at the University of the District of Columbia.

William B. Harvey, the University of Virginia’s top diversity officer, is one of four finalists for the presidency at the University of the District of Columbia.

The future of Greene County schools does not include the Health Cottage, but it does have augmented pay scales for division employees.

Walker Upper Elementary School perform a living Olympic Rings.