Just weeks after current and former Cavaliers captured a school-record 14 medals at the Paris Olympics, rower Skylar Dahl ...

As temperatures start to rise across the country, we asked alumni to remember their favorite ways to spend time outside at UVA.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed bills ending preferential treatment for applicants related to alumni of the state’s public universities.

Riley Blanks had little cause to ponder the fact that professional athletes were a huge part of her life. It started way too early for her to consider how unusual it was. “I was basically born into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Esther Bell (Col ’01) loves a surprise. She’s the chief curator at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and—asked to show off a favorite painting in this world-class museum—she ...

Editor’s note: Virginia Magazine published this story ahead of the Board of Visitors’ nearly unanimous March 1 vote to rename Alderman Library for former UVA President Edgar Shannon. See our Spring ...

We are surrounded by data. Every second, information is being collected and analyzed by everything from satellites to social media accounts. It’s one reason the amount of data in the world is doubling ...

New York Times puzzle editor Sam Ezersky responded to our questions with anagrams—several of them, specially designed for UVA alumni.