Any type of exercise is beneficial for health, but high-intensity exercise is likely necessary to achieve significant improvements in body composition, researchers at the University of Virginia have found.

Nearly six weeks after the University of Virginia banned all signs at its sporting events — including football and basketball — the university abruptly switched course Thursday afternoon and rescinded its controversial no-sign policy.

Construction of a terrace that will extend over Jefferson Park Avenue, connecting New Cabell Hall and the under-construction South Lawn, should begin by the middle of September.

A student-led initiative at the University of Virginia is taking the trays out of the school’s dining halls.

This newspaper backs the University of Virginia’s efforts to combat plagiarism.

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

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

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

Amid sauna-like heat, three dozen University of Virginia students spent Wednesday afternoon hanging Sheetrock, hammering nails and attaching vinyl siding.

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 protagonist may be gone but his stories go on.

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.

One of the key causes of global climate change remains something of an unsung eco-villain, one University of Virginia researcher believes.

The executive committee of UVa’s Board of Visitors on Wednesday set undergraduate tuition rates for the 2008-09 academic year.

The executive committee of UVa’s Board of Visitors is meeting today to set undergraduate tuition rates for the 2008-09 academic year.