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 ...

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.

As high school juniors and seniors prepare for standardized testing, many ponder the pros and cons of taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test or the American College Testing Assessment. Either test is ...

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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 ...

Moving beyond its distinction as one of only a handful of two-year elite undergraduate business programs, the McIntire School of Commerce will expand its curriculum to three years beginning in the ...

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 ...

It was nothing more than a dark, hot, sticky, beer-soaked, cavernous roadhouse in an out-of-the-way college town—or so it might have seemed. For two decades, Trax drew big names and packed houses. UVA ...

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 ...

Ian H. Solomon, 46, whose career in government and business has spanned more than 20 years, will take over as dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy starting Sept. 1. Ian H.

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.

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 ...