Ian Baucom, UVA’s executive vice president and provost, will leave UVA in March to become president of Middlebury College in Vermont. Baucom’s tenure at UVA began in 2014 when he joined as dean of the ...

In a tiny black lacquer box, Caroline Lindemann keeps one of her favorite miniature books, a 120-year-old Japanese fortune-telling book called an omikuji. The inch-thick book, printed on the thinnest ...

Thomas Jefferson's university was a bold experiment. Unlike other schools, the University of Virginia was free of religious control and offered an elective system allowing students to choose what to ...

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” says Libby O’Connell (Grad ’79, ’87), quoting the writer L.P. Hartley. The idea serves as a sort of philosophy for O’Connell, a ...

In 1942, at the age of 18, Caroyl Beddow Gooch began a job at UVA’s Leander McCormick Observatory, working alongside Observatory director Samuel Alfred Mitchell and several other internationally known ...

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 ...

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 ...

When roughly 18 inches of snow led Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to declare a state of emergency last January, hundreds of UVA students took it as a call to arms. They headed to the Lawn for an ...

In the words of Mark Twain: “Prediction is difficult—particularly when it involves the future.” But what about when it’s informed by research and scholarship? Surely then prediction is less perilous?

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

No University of Virginia retrospective would be complete without remembering some of the accomplished men and women who have shared these Grounds. We knew at the outset that narrowing down hundreds ...

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 ...