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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1903, the Board of Visitors authorized the Ladies’ Confederate Memorial Association to erect “at some suitable place at the University” bronze plaques to commemorate students and alumni “who died ...

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 year before the founding, Thomas Jefferson declines a prominent planter’s suggestion that he expand his revolutionary ideas about education to encompass women. Jefferson notes the rigorous ...

T he BBS stayed relevant as the times changed.. Conversations at the stop had gone from catching Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing in 1989 to the Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas sexual harassment hearings ...

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 ...

UVA baseball coach Brian O’Connor heads to Mississippi State The best of the best: Our entirely arguable, semi-objective list of UVA’s top athletes of all time Head of the class: UVA’s 2026 student ...

After the Supreme Court decision last June banning race-based admissions, students and admissions officers navigated a more complicated admissions process this year as application numbers continue to ...

A Ripple Effect. More than 30 years after publishing the bestselling Life After Life as a medical school resident at UVA, Raymond A. Moody Jr., 62, lives in Anniston, Ala., with his wife, Cheryl, and ...