Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen were found guilty Thursday of accepting bribes from Jonnie Williams, CEO of the dietary supplements company Star Scientific, to promote a dietary supplement in exchange for nearly $170,000 in gifts and loans.
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The Board of Visitors convened Friday to review committee reports and welcome new student member of the Board, Meg Gould.
The Rotunda will be closed during Final Exercises 2015, University officials confirmed at a meeting Thursday in the Rotunda Lower West Oval Room.
Virginia state senator Mark Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg, officially conceded the Virginia attorney general race to state senator Mark Herring, D-Loudon, on Wednesday.
Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and renowned holistic health doctor and author Deepak Chopra led several hundred members of the University community in a large-scale public meditation session on the Lawn Tuesday afternoon.
The student organization Off the Hook hosted a panel Thursday evening discussing the hookup culture at the University.
Three Charlottesville residents accused of producing and selling more than 25,000 fake IDs to mainly college students pled guilty Wednesday morning in the U.S.
The first phase of the University’s Rotunda restoration efforts are rapidly approaching a conclusion. The renovations, which began on the Rotunda in May 2012, are the landmark’s most comprehensive since it was rebuilt by McKim, Mead and White between 1895 and 1898, according to the project website.
Forty percent of May 2012 graduates from the College of Arts & Sciences had acquired full-time employment or were self-employed after Final Exercises this past May, according to a recently unveiled report that profiled graduates’ post-college paths.
