Editor’s note: Virginia Magazine published this story ahead of the Board of Visitors’ nearly unanimous March 1 vote to rename Alderman Library for former UVA President Edgar Shannon. See our Spring ...

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 ...

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.

Lauren Davis was well aware of the University of Virginia’s complicated racial legacy when she accepted a full scholarship in 1997. “I did not revere Jefferson,” says Davis (Col ’02). Still, she ...

More than a century ago, the University’s Central Grounds rose from the ashes of the 1895 Rotunda fire, and much of the original character of Jefferson’s Academical Village began a process of ...

After serving in the U.S. Army in South Korea during the 1940s, Gaston graduated from Swarthmore College and earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In ...

Some 20 years ago, longtime friends Louella Walker (Nurs ’58) and Mary Jones (Nurs ’61) were browsing a former teacher’s estate sale when they unearthed a brown bag filled with black-and-white photos.

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

Each of the new dorms on Alderman Road includes a large multipurpose room on the ground floor where students can relax on couches, watch TV or even bake chocolate chip cookies in a kitchen complete ...

Rolling Stone magazine’s $1.65 million settlement with the UVA chapter of Phi Kappa Psi in June all but ends litigation surrounding the sensational and since-retracted December 2014 story, “A Rape on ...

As plans for the University of Virginia began to take shape in Thomas Jefferson’s imagination, he envisioned a lawn surrounded on three sides by housing for students and professors, connected by ...

Now that the humanities library has reopened after its $161 million renovation, one question remains: What will it be called?