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 ...

Here are some of the luminaries whose work graces Grounds, plus where you will find their work out in the rest of the world.

On a Friday evening in late September, roughly 50 members of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, the oldest student group on Grounds, gather in Hotel C on the West Range (also known as ...

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 ...

For decades, the scarf that inspired the University’s orange-and-blue colors appeared to have been lost in the fog of history. But during research for the documentary film Wahoowa: The History of ...

In 1903, the Board of Visitors authorized the Ladies’ Confederate Memorial Association to erect “at some suitable place at the University” bronze plaques to commemorate students and alumni “who died ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The year before the founding, Thomas Jefferson declines a prominent planter’s suggestion that he expand his revolutionary ideas about education to encompass women. Jefferson notes the rigorous ...

No other country protects controversial speakers with the zeal of American First Amendment doctrine. Whether American free speech exceptionalism is a good thing remains deeply contested, and the ...