Greta Garbo once famously quipped, “I want to be alone,” but recent studies by UVA psychology professor Timothy D. Wilson indicate the reclusive actress may have regretted that wish. Wilson conducted ...

On Oct. 22, 2012, a University of Virginia landscaping crew began clearing topsoil from land just north of the University Cemetery. Founded in 1828, the cemetery provides a final resting place for ...

Classes have ended and Grounds have cleared out; it’s time for breezy summer reading. We asked UVA faculty and staff members who spend their days surrounded by books what they like to read when they ...

Chances are, when Mr. Jefferson set forth his plans for an Academical Village, he didn’t envision wildlife moving in alongside faculty or masses of shrieking streakers providing the soundtrack for the ...

Editor’s note: This is a condensed version of a story that ran in Virginia Magazine’s Fall 2024 edition. For the full version, click here. Just five or six people showed up to start “Charlottesville’s ...

On October 31, 2011, the U.N. identified a newborn in the Philippines as the 7 billionth person on the planet. Danica May Camacho was born in Manila two minutes before midnight. Her father is a driver ...

Tributes to the slain players left at Scott Stadium’s North Gate, which has become a place to linger and reflect for students and other members of the community. Ézé Amos Devin Chandler (Col ’24) ...

Mamadi Diakite’s buzzer-beater threw Saturday’s NCAA Tournament game against Purdue into overtime. And five well-executed minutes later, with an 80-75 final score, UVA men’s basketball shot into its ...

The UVA women’s swim team celebrates its fourth consecutive NCAA title in Athens, Georgia. UVA Athletics ATHENS, GA—While most Virginia fans spent another March quietly contemplating a more prominent ...

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, ...

Margie Delacruz Murphy (via Facebook) : FSU in 1995. I was a fourth year and that was the greatest game I ever saw. Wahoowa! Maria Mattera (via Facebook): Beating Clemson in football in 1990 and ...

Faculty members look back on their years at UVA and give advice for the future Big changes lie ahead for the University of Virginia: over the next decade, UVA will replace half its professors as a ...