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

Just weeks after current and former Cavaliers captured a school-record 14 medals at the Paris Olympics, rower Skylar Dahl added another.

Tom Amlong, who died in 2009 at age 73, is believed to be the first from UVA to climb atop the medal stand. UVA has begun offering “tech sabbatical” courses, requiring students to put away their ...

Editor’s note: This is an abridged version of a story that was published in the Fall 2024 issue of Virginia Magazine. To read the full version, click here. A place with a 200-year history like UVA is ...

Many first-years come to Grounds cherishing the dream of living on the Lawn their fourth year. Bryanna Miller (Col ’18) went them one better. She knew which room she wanted. She had a friend who’d ...

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 ...

Dr. Charles T. Pepper earned his medical degree in 1855 from the University of Virginia Medical School, then served as a surgeon for the Confederacy during the Civil War. After the war, Pepper moved ...

In May 2013, photographer Stacey Evans captured Charlottesville sites from the same angles and perspectives as Rufus Holsinger did in the early part of the 20th century. Evans took her photographs ...

Among the dinosaur bones and 4.5-billion-year-old meteorites on the shelves of Stephen Macko’s office are tiny plastic containers that hold hair samples from the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, George ...

In 1925 “The Cavalier Song,” written in 1923 by then-student Lawrence Haywood Lee Jr., was chosen in a College Topics contest as UVA’s best fight song. The song inspired a moniker for the athletic ...

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 ...

When the University of Virginia intensified efforts to recruit African-American students in 1969, it didn’t hold back. Nor did it hide the sentiments of the few black students already enrolled. The ...