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

UVA has begun offering “tech sabbatical” courses, requiring students to put away their phones and laptops as part of their coursework inside the classroom and to commit to screen-free hours outside of ...

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 ...

A place with a 200-year history like UVA is bound to have tales to tell—tragedies, untimely deaths, unsettled lore.

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 ...

The University’s Easters celebrations began innocently enough in the late 19th century as formal dances, held Monday through Saturday of the week following Easter Sunday. In those early days of ...

It is 2 a.m., and a student is stumped. Where to turn for a translation of some opaque academic jargon? Where to go for an inspired idea for a project? Since November, when the research laboratory ...

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 ...

In July 1908, at the peak of his training, James Alcorn Rector (Law 1909) stood a hair under 6 feet tall, weighed 176 pounds and possessed a physique “of the clean-cut, rather slim-looking rangy type ...