In 2019, Magill replaced former UVA provost Tom Katsouleas, who left UVA to become president of the University of Connecticut. He stepped down less than two years later after tensions with its ...

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 ...

While on a volunteer trip to Panama in 2011, first-year student Kasey Crute dove into a swimming hole. As soon as she descended below the water's surface, she felt her head hit and then a shock, like ...

Ben Potenziano remembers his aha moment. It was the seventh-inning stretch in an away game in Denver against the Colorado Rockies. As “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” played in the stadium, Potenziano, ...

In 1911, the UVA School of Law relocated from the Rotunda to Minor Hall, a building designed to meet the school’s growing needs. When a Law School alumnus came back to visit Grounds in 1916, the ...

In 1925 “The Cavalier Song,” written in 1923 by then-student Lawrence Haywood Lee Jr., was chosen in a College Topics contest as UVA’s best fight song. The song inspired a moniker for the athletic ...

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 ...

Chip Apperson ate his first Grillswith when he was 17. The high school senior had finagled a visit to UVA in 1973 for that once famous, since-disbanded annual party weekend known as Easters. He ...

Dr. Charles T. Pepper earned his medical degree in 1855 from the University of Virginia Medical School, then served as a surgeon for the Confederacy during the Civil War. After the war, Pepper moved ...

Among the dinosaur bones and 4.5-billion-year-old meteorites on the shelves of Stephen Macko’s office are tiny plastic containers that hold hair samples from the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, George ...