Just weeks after current and former Cavaliers captured a school-record 14 medals at the Paris Olympics, rower Skylar Dahl added another.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

When Amos Leroy “Roy” Willis petitioned the College of Arts & Sciences to accept him as a student in 1959, he cited Thomas Jefferson’s “all men are created equal” passage from the Declaration of ...

AccessUVa is the financial aid program for the University of Virginia. It guarantees 100 percent of the demonstrated financial need of undergraduate students, all of whom are admitted on a need-blind ...

When Katie Couric (Col ’79) hosted Tina Fey (Col ’92) on her syndicated talk show in 2013, the conversation inevitably turned to UVA nostalgia. It helped that Fey was promoting Admission, a movie set ...

No other country protects controversial speakers with the zeal of American First Amendment doctrine. Whether American free speech exceptionalism is a good thing remains deeply contested, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...