A place with a 200-year history like UVA is bound to have tales to tell—tragedies, untimely deaths, unsettled lore.

Civil War history has always been a UVA strength, especially as home to the Nau Center devoted to the subject. These recent works by alumni and faculty may teach even the most avid history buffs ...

It would have made perfect sense for Kate Douglass (Col ’23, Grad ’28) to swim for Stanford University. The insider websites had her as either the No. 1 or No. 2 girls recruit in the country her ...

Its wonder is realized in the embracing stillness one senses within moments of entering the University of Virginia Cemetery. The nearby commotion of traffic and student life is somehow held at bay, ...

A place with a 200-year history like UVA is bound to have tales to tell—tragedies, untimely deaths, unsettled lore. UVA has begun offering “tech sabbatical” courses, requiring students to put away ...

“The most important thing to point out,” says Michael Suarez, director of UVA’s Rare Book School, “is that despite lots of writing to the contrary, the book is not dead.” Suarez notes that in 2010 ...

The year before the founding, Thomas Jefferson declines a prominent planter’s suggestion that he expand his revolutionary ideas about education to encompass women. Jefferson notes the rigorous ...

Virginia Anne “Ginger” Scott (Col ’73, Grad ’80, Educ ’89) showed extraordinary self-possession at 19. Maybe it was her nature. Maybe it was her circumstances. After her mother died, she dropped out ...

Sirens have become part of civilization’s background noise; most people carry on with their routines as the sound wails by. For me, having served as a trauma nurse for half my career, the sound is a ...

During Final Exercises, graduates stream down the Lawn in an exuberant sea of color. Every piece of regalia carries meaning, but the most personalized messages of all adorn the simple black ...

Red Cross nurses tend to wounded soldiers during World War I. When Arlene Keeling (Nurs '74, '87, Grad '92), a UVA nursing professor, was completing her Ph.D. coursework at the University, she took a ...

When I think of the work we do at Alumni Hall, it all comes down to people. The strength of the Alumni Association truly is in our community of passionate alumni and students. This year, we’re doing ...