Editor’s note: Virginia Magazine published this story ahead of the Board of Visitors’ nearly unanimous March 1 vote to rename Alderman Library for former UVA President Edgar Shannon. See our Spring ...

Police have arrested and charged an Albemarle County man in the Sept. 8 hanging of a noose around the neck of the Homer statue on UVA’s South Lawn. According to a news release, Shane Dennis was ...

The Virginia men’s tennis team made a remarkable turnaround from five consecutive losses in February to win its fifth NCAA team national championship in May—the 31st overall team championship for the ...

Undergraduate applications to UVA soared to another record-breaking year in 2021 with 50,800 prospective ’Hoos applying for admission—up 6 percent from 2020 when numbers surged 17 percent. It’s the ...

Running back Wali Lundy (Col class of ’06) burst into the end zone, adding to the Virginia onslaught and further souring the mood of thousands of West Virginia fans on hand in Charlotte, North ...

UVA has always been known for its traditions, many of them dating back decades or more. But every once in a while, it’s good to start a new one—connected to the old. Part of the interest in the event ...

Recent research from UVA suggests that exercise may help fight two serious medical conditions: progressive neuromuscular disease Friedreich’s ataxia and vision-robbing macular degeneration. Friedreich ...

Within two weeks of her July 1 arrival as the McIntire School of Commerce’s new dean Nicole Thorne Jenkins convened her team for a two-day leadership workshop. Meeting virtually, they discussed how to ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic grips the world—having largely shut down life at UVA—here’s a look back at how alumni experienced some other national and international events when they were on Grounds.

Spring semester at the University of Virginia ended not with a bang but the virus. The pomp of Final Exercises went virtual. Walking the Lawn will be an altogether different circumstance. It’s ...

I was only weeks into my position when Charlottesville erupted in the ugly and deadly violence of August 2017. In the months and years that followed, I saw firsthand our collective character as Wahoos ...

Even as the threat of a global pandemic brought an abrupt halt to all but essential activities at UVA, researchers here immediately turned their attention and expertise to helping to combat the virus.