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

Monica Wright (Col ’10), UVA’s all-time leading scorer in women’s basketball, was named to the 2010 WNBA All-Rookie Team after scoring in double digits in 10 games for the Minnesota Lynx. While at UVA ...

Mike Curtis helps athletes recover from injuries and maintain peak form.

UVA head basketball coach Tony Bennett announces his retirement on Oct. 18, 2024. UVA Athletics In the same room where he was introduced as Virginia’s men’s basketball coach in 2009, Tony Bennett sat ...

Bennett walks away at the relatively young age of 55 as Virginia basketball’s winningest coach.

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 ...

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 ...

Rocky collected money for the Mafia. A typical bagman, he was immersed in the material world of fast cars, quick cash and getting ahead by butting heads. One day, he was shot in the chest and left for ...

No one wants a fair-weather friend. But having a friend nearby might make the weather seem fairer. Researchers placed students wearing heavy backpacks at the base of a hill and asked them to estimate ...

UVA endocrinologist Dr. Mary Lee Vance (Col ’72), who, with Dr. Jason Sheehan (Engr ’92, Grad ’97, Med ’98), treated 8’3” Sultan Kosen for a pituitary tumor that encouraged his astonishing growth.

James Coan probes how the mind reacts to emotional situations, from holding hands to being homesick.