The environment Bennett referred to is the rapid, dizzying transformation of major college sports toward a professional model ...

When Katie Couric (Col ’79) hosted Tina Fey (Col ’92) on her syndicated talk show in 2013, the conversation inevitably turned to UVA nostalgia. It helped that Fey was promoting Admission, a movie set ...

When Ryan Hammons was 4 years old, he began directing imaginary movies. Shouts of “Action!” often echoed from his room. But the play became a concern for Ryan’s parents when he began waking up in the ...

Second-year student Hannah Graham disappeared during the early morning hours of Saturday, Sept. 13, after last being seen on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. The following Thursday, thousands of ...

If history is “an argument without end,” as the historian Joseph Ellis says, then the dispute over whether Thomas Jefferson had sexual relations with his slave Sally Hemings might rank as one of the ...

When roughly 18 inches of snow led Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to declare a state of emergency last January, hundreds of UVA students took it as a call to arms. They headed to the Lawn for an ...

Student culture has its own traditions and customs—some lost to time, others alive and well. Here is a look at just a few of the more notable. “Every college has a campus, but only the University of ...

In 1911, the UVA School of Law relocated from the Rotunda to Minor Hall, a building designed to meet the school’s growing needs. When a Law School alumnus came back to visit Grounds in 1916, the ...

To keep UVA warm for a week during a typical mid-winter cold spell, UVA facility workers first pile up more than 1.5 million pounds of coal, then pipe in some 25 million cubic feet of natural gas.

Bennett walks away at the relatively young age of 55 as Virginia basketball’s winningest coach.

In a tiny black lacquer box, Caroline Lindemann keeps one of her favorite miniature books, a 120-year-old Japanese fortune-telling book called an omikuji. The inch-thick book, printed on the thinnest ...

It would have made perfect sense for Kate Douglass (Col ’23, Grad ’28) to swim for Stanford University. The insider websites had her as either the No. 1 or No. 2 girls recruit in the country her ...