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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students with talent in visual art, dance, drama or music, and who plan to participate or major/minor in the arts are encouraged to submit an optional art supplement with the admission application.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

From the Publisher: Our Future, Your Home After four years of planning and design, the Alumni Association is embarking on a once-in-a-generation project: building a new Home for Every Hoo. Summer 2025 ...