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 ...

Old vs. new, UVA past vs. UVA future: North Grounds gives a nod to Jeffersonian design, but at a distance. Virginia’s Curry School of Education climbs in the rankings; a new student center opens on ...

Some 20 years ago, longtime friends Louella Walker (Nurs ’58) and Mary Jones (Nurs ’61) were browsing a former teacher’s estate sale when they unearthed a brown bag filled with black-and-white photos.

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.

Lolita Foster (Col ’01) as Eliqua Maxwell in Orange is the New Black JoJo Whilden/Netflix When actress Lolita Foster—best known for her role as corrections officer Eliqua Maxwell on Netflix’s prison ...

A visual stroll through some magical moments provided by bands that made their mark on the music scene at UVA.

It was nothing more than a dark, hot, sticky, beer-soaked, cavernous roadhouse in an out-of-the-way college town—or so it might have seemed. For two decades, Trax drew big names and packed houses. UVA ...

Lauren Davis was well aware of the University of Virginia’s complicated racial legacy when she accepted a full scholarship in 1997. “I did not revere Jefferson,” says Davis (Col ’02). Still, she ...

As plans for the University of Virginia began to take shape in Thomas Jefferson’s imagination, he envisioned a lawn surrounded on three sides by housing for students and professors, connected by ...

Sustainability work began at UVA in the 1980s as a grassroots, student-led recycling effort. Now the entire University is involved and has set its boldest green challenge yet: to become carbon neutral ...

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 ...