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

April may be the cruelest month in college admissions. Even for its deans. When the formal white envelopes go out with decisions on the 3,100 spots in UVA’s first-year class, a returning tide swells ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Student culture has its own traditions and customs—some lost to time, others alive and well. Here is a look at just a few of the more notable. “Every college has a campus, but only the University of ...

When Conor Grennan met with this couple (far right), they had not heard news of their son for three years. “Half the village was gathered around to hear the story of how we have brought this child ...

Esther Bell (Col ’01) loves a surprise. She’s the chief curator at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and—asked to show off a favorite painting in this world-class museum—she ...

During the summer of 1818, 75-year-old Thomas Jefferson composed two remarkable pages of notes concerning his soon-to-be-constructed University of Virginia. At the center of his Academical Village, he ...

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 ...

A new glass stair wall on the north side of New Cabell Hall has brought more light into the building. Robert Viccellio Opened in 1952 to accommodate a growing student body after World War II, New ...

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 ...