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 ...

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 ...

For decades, the Cavalier Inn was the focal point of a mishmash of private businesses and UVA properties on the northwest corner of Emmet Street and Ivy Road. The hotel was a gathering place for ...

How did life begin? How did we get here? These questions are universal in the human experience. Virtually every culture has posited answers based on religion, philosophy or science. These days, ...

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 ...

Led the women’s golf team last season with a 73.53 stroke average and was UVA’s top finisher in seven of 12 tournaments Tied teammate Calle Nielson (Col ‘11) for second place at ACC Championships ...

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 ...

Among the dinosaur bones and 4.5-billion-year-old meteorites on the shelves of Stephen Macko’s office are tiny plastic containers that hold hair samples from the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, George ...

Hints of UVA’s rich history can be found in its architecture, its Honor Code and the clothes worn by its student body. Here, we explore the historical progression of fashion trends from the past ...

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 ...