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The Trump administration’s efforts targeting immigration across the country, including on college campuses, left the visa status of one UVA international student and two recent alumni in limbo this ...
“Finis Origine Pendet: The end depends on the beginning,” said then-University Rector Edward Elson, welcoming John T. Casteen III to his inauguration as the University of Virginia’s seventh president.
For many former students, the sight of a blue (or green) examination book might cause stomachs to churn and bring back memories of frantic essay writing and cramped hands. With the permission of some ...
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 ...
Luke Wilson and David Koechner perched on a tree branch 60 feet up in the air while a camera crane filmed them. The actors wore harnesses, and a stunt coordinator watched from the ground. Wilson sat ...
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 ...
Actor Ben McKenzie (Col ’01)—best known for his roles on the dramas Southland and The O.C.—is a Batman fan, but not a hardcore fan. “It’s both exciting to be a part of this kind of mythology that’s ...
To keep UVA warm for a week during a typical mid-winter cold spell, UVA facility workers first pile up more than 1.5 million pounds of coal, then pipe in some 25 million cubic feet of natural gas.
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 ...
The University of Virginia Library has digitally preserved what is believed to be the only surviving TV news archive of original film clips from Virginia’s civil rights era. The audiovisual archive ...
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 ...