UVA has begun offering “tech sabbatical” courses, requiring students to put away their phones and laptops as part of their coursework inside the classroom and to commit to screen-free hours outside of ...

To keep UVA warm for a week during a typical mid-winter cold spell, UVA facility workers first pile up more than 1.5 million pounds of coal, then pipe in some 25 million cubic feet of natural gas.

When Katie Couric (Col ’79) hosted Tina Fey (Col ’92) on her syndicated talk show in 2013, the conversation inevitably turned to UVA nostalgia. It helped that Fey was promoting Admission, a movie set ...

Riley Blanks had little cause to ponder the fact that professional athletes were a huge part of her life. It started way too early for her to consider how unusual it was. “I was basically born into ...

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 ...

New York Times bestselling author Jia Tolentino (Col ’09), dubbed a key voice of the millennial generation, ruminates plenty over excess, scams and bad actors in her debut book, Trick Mirror: ...

Call it another blow to our faith in rational decision-making. In a new paper, UVA professors Patrick Dennis and Benjamin Converse present strong evidence to argue that all numbers are not equal in ...

Rolling Stone magazine’s $1.65 million settlement with the UVA chapter of Phi Kappa Psi in June all but ends litigation surrounding the sensational and since-retracted December 2014 story, “A Rape on ...

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 ...

In 1921, crowds of Wahoos streamed onto the Grounds to commemorate the University’s centennial. The wind-down of World War I had delayed the celebration, but it hadn’t dampened festive spirits: A ...

As preparations begin for the University’s 200th anniversary in 2019, UVA hosted a national symposium on Grounds in October titled “Universities Confronting the Legacy of Slavery.” The conference ...

In recent years, we have taken numerous steps to make an exceptional UVA education accessible and affordable for the very best and brightest students, regardless of their financial circumstances. Our ...