
Potential fountain of youth gene helps block heart attacks, stroke
A gene that scientific dogma insists is inactive in adults plays a role in preventing the underlying cause of heart attacks and strokes.

A gene that scientific dogma insists is inactive in adults plays a role in preventing the underlying cause of heart attacks and strokes.

Sandy Williams IV found his niche at the University of Virginia. The fourth-year student spends hours in Ruffin Hall.

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, delivered the 2016 commencement address at VMI.

An emerging strain of tuberculosis, closely related to human TB, has been killing banded mongoose in Northern Botswana.

The General Assembly continues to fail to appoint racially diverse judicial candidates.

A pair of MacArthur Fellowship recipients will teach and mentor aspiring writers at the University of Virginia next academic year.

Two Nelson County residents face multiple charges after turning themselves in to Virginia State Police Thursday (May 12, 2016).

The Charlottesville Reading Series will host a poetry and prose reading on Friday, May 13 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM.

Flying Squirrels centerfielder Austin Slater slashed five hits in a tough 7-6 Richmond loss against Harrisburg on Tuesday night.

Congressman Morgan Griffith visited Virginia Tech’s new aviary on the Blacksburg campus last week to learn about its research.
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