It takes just 90 minutes for the pipes and boilers to cool enough so that workers can begin. Then it’s a precisely choreographed 24-hour marathon—broken into 12- and 16-hour shifts—that is five months ...

“While it is difficult to prove how the dome was first skinned, we can demonstrate that its shape and character were altered at least five times over 150 years,” wrote the late Murray Howard, curator ...

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 ...

Through March 2025, Virginia has won a total of 35 NCAA team national championships, plus nine non-NCAA titles (indicated with an asterisk). By Year 2025 —Women’s Swimming & Diving 2024 —Women’s ...

Flip through cable TV channels today and you may come across paranormal investigation shows such as Ghost Hunters, in which “detectives” search for spirits using digital and infrared cameras, among ...

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 ...

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 ...

“It has been nearly three years since we and the entire University of Virginia community were shocked by the now infamous article, and we are pleased to be able to close the book on that trying ordeal ...

Out with the hall carpet and room linoleum, and in with laminate wood flooring. Out with the old windows, whose screens always displayed that circular dust buildup endemic to box fans; in with ...

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.

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 ...

Not many people may know it, but Thomas Jefferson liked brewing beer—lots of it. Historians say he made the equivalent of 6,400 of today’s average-size bottles each spring. As a tribute to Jefferson’s ...