Make it 15 medals won by Virginia athletes in Paris this year. Just weeks after current and former Cavaliers captured a school-record 14 medals at the Paris Olympics, rower Skylar Dahl (Col ’25) added ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is an abridged version of a story that was published in the Fall 2024 issue of Virginia Magazine. To read the full version, click here. A place with a 200-year history like UVA is ...

Among the dinosaur bones and 4.5-billion-year-old meteorites on the shelves of Stephen Macko’s office are tiny plastic containers that hold hair samples from the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, George ...

Students spent years lobbying the BOV for the privilege to represent their peers, ultimately winning BOV approval in March 1983.

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 ...

Dr. Charles T. Pepper earned his medical degree in 1855 from the University of Virginia Medical School, then served as a surgeon for the Confederacy during the Civil War. After the war, Pepper moved ...

When the Claude Moore Medical Education Building emerged from the construction rubble in 2010, it was apparent that the rules were changing. Set among all the square profiles and institutional red ...

In 1925 “The Cavalier Song,” written in 1923 by then-student Lawrence Haywood Lee Jr., was chosen in a College Topics contest as UVA’s best fight song. The song inspired a moniker for the athletic ...

Many first-years come to Grounds cherishing the dream of living on the Lawn their fourth year. Bryanna Miller (Col ’18) went them one better. She knew which room she wanted. She had a friend who’d ...

“By God, I Think They’re Here to Stay,” declared the Cavalier Daily headline in September 1970. Next to the story about the “young lovlies” [sic] who were moving in as part of UVA’s first truly ...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have made headlines for all sorts of reasons during their relationship, but their latest stint on the cover of gossip magazines was for something that shouldn’t be all ...