Biotech U: Marrying academia and industry in Charlottesville

Critical mass. With 35 biotechnology companies currently doing business in the city, members of Charlottesville’s biotech industry say they’ve got it. Two years after the University of Virginia retooled its intellectual property regulations to encourage more researchers to move their ideas to market, biotech is bigger than ever here, and looming large in the financial […]

Sharon Love files suit against UVA, coaches


The mother of slain UVA lacrosse player Yeardley Love has filed another civil suit in the death her daughter, this time against the University of Virginia, its athletic director, and two UVA men’s lacrosse coaches, saying they should have stopped George Huguely’s violent behavior before he beat Love to death two years ago.

Mixed-income housing coming on Elliott Avenue

One of the largest plots of undeveloped city-owned land near Downtown—long used as a dumping ground for fill dirt and debris—is slated to become a new 47-unit mixed-income neighborhood, ushered into being by a builder-nonprofit partnership that some say is a model for the future of low-income and public housing development in Charlottesville.