Children of UVA alumni, who have recently made up as much as 14.7 percent of incoming first-year classes, can no longer enjoy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iran is the land of my birth and the University of Virginia has been my intellectual home for 60 years. In all these decades at my beloved institution, I have tried to help advance a better ...

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 ...

When Alexis Ohanian (Com ’05) was a UVA history major with dyed “iguana-green” hair who loved Metallica and video games, it may have been hard to imagine that in just a few short years Forbes magazine ...

In the early part of the 20th century, Thomas Jefferson’s notion of the Lawn as a place where professors and students lived and studied together was a grand idea in decline. The University had higher ...

No one wants a fair-weather friend. But having a friend nearby might make the weather seem fairer. Researchers placed students wearing heavy backpacks at the base of a hill and asked them to estimate ...

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 ...

For many former students, the sight of a blue (or green) examination book might cause stomachs to churn and bring back memories of frantic essay writing and cramped hands. With the permission of some ...