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 ...

Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival by Bob Coltman is the first biography of the folksinger and song collector. Accounts from friends, family and fellow musicians relate Clayton’s life, from his ...

Dr. Vivian Pinn (Med ’67) says she will never forget her first day of medical school—when she sat in the back of her class and waited for another woman or person of color to arrive. “I thought they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Americans used to put Jefferson on a pedestal as the primary creator of our democracy. Now his statues attract controversy and graffiti, which cast him as a racist and even rapist. This denunciation ...

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 ...

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 ...