Editor’s note: This is a longform story. For an abridged version, click here. The latched door that opened by itself. The face peering over a shoulder. An unlit flashlight in an unoccupied room ...
Tina Fey usually arrived early to her classes at the University of Virginia. Drama professor Richard Warner remembers heading down early to Culbreth B006, a basement classroom, and finding Fey sitting ...
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 ...
Its wonder is realized in the embracing stillness one senses within moments of entering the University of Virginia Cemetery. The nearby commotion of traffic and student life is somehow held at bay, ...
A place with a 200-year history like UVA is bound to have tales to tell—tragedies, untimely deaths, unsettled lore. UVA has begun offering “tech sabbatical” courses, requiring students to put away ...
“The most important thing to point out,” says Michael Suarez, director of UVA’s Rare Book School, “is that despite lots of writing to the contrary, the book is not dead.” Suarez notes that in 2010 ...
The year before the founding, Thomas Jefferson declines a prominent planter’s suggestion that he expand his revolutionary ideas about education to encompass women. Jefferson notes the rigorous ...
“By God, I Think They’re Here to Stay,” declared the Cavalier Daily headline in September 1970. Next to the story about the “young lovlies” [sic] who were moving in as part of UVA’s first truly ...
Virginia Anne “Ginger” Scott (Col ’73, Grad ’80, Educ ’89) showed extraordinary self-possession at 19. Maybe it was her nature. Maybe it was her circumstances. After her mother died, she dropped out ...