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.

Walter Dexter Whitehead Jr., a longtime University of Virginia dean and professor of physics, died Tuesday after a long fight with prostate cancer. He was 85.

The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia signed off on a partnership Tuesday that will bring up to 60 Swiss students per year to study at the school.

October will be Disabilities Awareness Month in the Charlottesville school division, thanks to the efforts of Daniel Milner, a senior at Charlottesville High School.

The rewards and difficulties of offering teachers merit pay — and ways to get good teachers where they’re most needed — were hashed over by Albemarle school officials Thursday, with two School Board members signaling a willingness to pay more for better instruction.

Richard and Judy Nunley, the owners of Better Living Furniture and Better Living Building Supply, started the Golden Apple Awards in 2001 to honor local teachers for the work they do in building a better community.

After several years of planning by co-founders Sandy Richardson and Bobbi Snow, the Community Public Charter School will open its doors in Albemarle County. About 20 students have completed the enrollment process and another eight to 10 are expected to by the time school starts.

Virginia Tech officials say the school has received deposits from 5,601 freshmen for fall 2008, up from 5,215 deposits received last year.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Virginia is offering local senior citizens an array of more than 50 classes for the fall semester.