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Basketball season is just around the corner, and national championship plates have been popping up all over the commonwealth—more than 1,325 at last count, according to the Virginia DMV. Fortunately, ...
University Hall fell in just seconds on May 25, leaving dust, rubble and plenty of memories. U-Hall, after all, was Ralph’s House—home court to UVA men’s and women’s basketball for decades. But it ...
During a November 1 forum at Alumni Hall, Board of Visitors Rector Frank “Rusty” Conner III (Col ’78, Law ’81) said University of Virginia officials had believed that protests by white supremacists in ...
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 ...
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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.
An experiment in risk and randomness ended badly for first-year Darden student Hideki Inoue. Identified as Darden’s “luckiest student” through a series of random drawings, Inoue could have won a ...
Catherine Winslow (Col ’12, Educ ’12), top, and Arthur Pelham-Webb (Col ’12, Com ’12), above, are current students completing bachelor’s and master’s degrees in four years. First-year students who ...
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.
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 ...
I was only weeks into my position when Charlottesville erupted in the ugly and deadly violence of August 2017. In the months and years that followed, I saw firsthand our collective character as Wahoos ...
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 ...