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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A typical day for John Otho “Rob” Marsh III (Col '78) starts around 6 a.m., when he heads to the Augusta Health hospital in Fishersville, Virginia, to do morning rounds for the patients he’s admitted.

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 ...