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 ...

Bernard Mayes had a long list of notable achievements before he even came to UVA: He’d served as an Anglican priest, created the country’s first suicide-prevention hotline and was at the forefront of ...

Long before Leonard Sandridge retired in July after 44 years at the University, signs of his influence and his extraordinary career were easy to see. A reception hall at John Paul Jones Arena and a ...

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 glory days on the fields and courts of athletic competition fade quickly for many student-athletes, but 30 Cavaliers have earned a place in history and have been inducted into the statewide ...

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 ...

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 ...

We waited for signs of water. For three days, my mother and I had been sitting together, anxious, fidgety, more and more aware of the uneasy tension between us. After two and a half weeks, the bore ...

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 ...

It would have made perfect sense for Kate Douglass (Col ’23, Grad ’28) to swim for Stanford University. The insider websites had her as either the No. 1 or No. 2 girls recruit in the country her ...