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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Here are some of the luminaries whose work graces Grounds, plus where you will find their work out in the rest of the world.
Richard E. Byrd on the Lawn. Courtesy of UVA Special Collections Library Before embarking on a naval career that would send him to the North and South poles, Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd spent a year ...
Ian H. Solomon, 46, whose career in government and business has spanned more than 20 years, will take over as dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy starting Sept. 1. Ian H.
April may be the cruelest month in college admissions. Even for its deans. When the formal white envelopes go out with decisions on the 3,100 spots in UVA’s first-year class, a returning tide swells ...
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 ...
No University of Virginia retrospective would be complete without remembering some of the accomplished men and women who have shared these Grounds. We knew at the outset that narrowing down hundreds ...
When Alexis Ohanian (Com ’05) was a UVA history major with dyed “iguana-green” hair who loved Metallica and video games, it may have been hard to imagine that in just a few short years Forbes magazine ...
If history is “an argument without end,” as the historian Joseph Ellis says, then the dispute over whether Thomas Jefferson had sexual relations with his slave Sally Hemings might rank as one of the ...
For many former students, the sight of a blue (or green) examination book might cause stomachs to churn and bring back memories of frantic essay writing and cramped hands. With the permission of some ...