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, ...

The lines of fans—tens of thousands—wrapped around UVA’s Scott Stadium on a sunny September afternoon for the Concert for Charlottesville, spearheaded by local music star Dave Matthews. The show ...

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 ...

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.

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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Do you believe in ghosts? As Halloween approaches, this question pops up frequently. Virginia Magazine turned to UVA academics from six disciplines and asked them how each of their respective fields ...

Growing up in Rhode Island, Georgia Hunter (Col ’00) had no idea her relatives were Jewish Holocaust survivors until, at age 15, she began delving into her ancestry for a class assignment. Her ...

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 ...

These nonfiction works chronicle some of the diverse experiences of the UVA alumni community.

J. Garnett Bruce Jr. (Med ’40 A/M) of Orange, Va., died July 3, 2010. During World War II, he was a physician with the Tennessee Valley Authority during construction of Fontana Dam in western North ...