Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis, executive vice president and chief operating officer, will serve as acting president before an ...

Building Big Careers: Eight School of Architecture alumni whose groundbreaking work is changing the world Game Changer: Behind Tony Bennett’s surprise retirement and what’s next for Virginia men’s ...

Every May, thousands of students walk the Lawn in processions filled with black gowns, colorful tassels and deep slashes of rich velvet. Beyond that official regalia, students also express themselves ...

Three volunteers guide 11-year-old Jasmine as she rides a brown mare named Pearl. Xara Davies (Col ’20) walks on the horse’s left, offering instructions and placing her arm on Jasmine’s leg to keep ...

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 ...

The first women to “horn into” classrooms In their full-length ruffled skirts, some of the female members of the University Normal School, Session 1880, posed for a picture with their male ...

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” says Libby O’Connell (Grad ’79, ’87), quoting the writer L.P. Hartley. The idea serves as a sort of philosophy for O’Connell, a ...

The University’s Easters celebrations began innocently enough in the late 19th century as formal dances, held Monday through Saturday of the week following Easter Sunday. In those early days of ...

The youngest children can often seem a bit self-centered, refusing to share with a friend or insisting on having all eyes on them. But beneath those outbursts, their brains are working hard to develop ...

Caroline Preston Davis applies to take the bachelor’s-level math exams at UVA. While the Board of Visitors says it “is impracticable and inexpedient for the University to undertake the duties of ...

If a patient in the emergency room requires aggressive care, we are always ready to give it our best efforts. If CPR is part of the scenario, our team dives in as quickly as possible. Time is brain: ...

The University’s first African American student, Gregory Swanson (Law ’53), enrolled in 1950, and Harold considers the trickle of African American students to follow him until around 1970 as the ...