In 2019, Magill replaced former UVA provost Tom Katsouleas, who left UVA to become president of the University of Connecticut. He stepped down less than two years later after tensions with its ...

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 ...

The Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry provides insight into the future of health care.

Corpses of African Americans were snatched, illegally, for classes in Jefferson’s Anatomical Theatre, built in the 1820s and razed in the 1930s. University of Virginia Visual History Collection, ...

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 ...

When Alexis Ohanian (Com ’05) was a UVA history major with dyed “iguana-green” hair who loved Metallica and video games, it may have been hard to imagine that in just a few short years Forbes magazine ...

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 ...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have made headlines for all sorts of reasons during their relationship, but their latest stint on the cover of gossip magazines was for something that shouldn’t be all ...

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 ...

In the early ’90s, Debbie Ryan’s basketball teams were among the most dominant in the country. Led by All-American players like Dawn Staley, Tammi Reiss and Tonya Cardoza, the Cavaliers made three ...

Phillip Trella studies bones from the ruins of the ancient cities of Upper Mesopotamia. After several millennia, the cities have been reduced to mounds, the detritus of human habitation piling up year ...

No University of Virginia retrospective would be complete without remembering some of the accomplished men and women who have shared these Grounds. We knew at the outset that narrowing down hundreds ...