With their names and faces popping up all over Sports Illustrated and ESPN, it’s easy to forget that college athletes are, in fact, students. Virginia Magazine caught up with a few of UVA’s ...

Before the University’s new library could open in 1938, someone had to come up with a plan to fetch the books from the old library, the big round one up the hill. That someone was legendary ...

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 ...

Are Americans living the Jeffersonian ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? It turns out that some enjoy more longevity, freedom and fun than others. Kelly Johnston, a geographic ...

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 ...

Growing up in Charlottesville, Mason Hereford (Col ’08) wasn’t a fan of the bologna sandwich his mother used to make. It consisted of a couple of slices of bologna with yellow mustard and potato chips ...

Corpses of African Americans were snatched, illegally, for classes in Jefferson’s Anatomical Theatre, built in the 1820s and razed in the 1930s. University of Virginia Visual History Collection, ...

Mike Leinbach (Arch ’76, Engr ’81) was a launch director at the Kennedy Space Center. Bill Ingalls/Getty Mike Leinbach stood on the runway at 9 a.m., waiting for his crew to return. This was the best ...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have made headlines for all sorts of reasons during their relationship, but their latest stint on the cover of gossip magazines was for something that shouldn’t be all ...

Every month or so, hundreds of copies of a unique publication arrive in first-year dorms around UVA. Volunteers post the one-page journal, bubbling with a lively array of news and information, in ...

2014 was the hottest year on record since recordkeeping began in 1880, making the changing climate an urgent concern. As temperatures rise, the subtle warming has set off changes in every part of the ...

A federal jury in Charlottesville awarded Associate Dean Nicole Eramo $3 million in November against Rolling Stone magazine over its portrayal of her in a discredited story on sexual assault at the ...