As part of his work as an architectural conservator at UVA, Mark Kutney has fielded plenty of calls from carpenters working on projects across Grounds. But one call, from the lead carpenter on a ...

The UVA women’s swim team celebrates its fourth consecutive NCAA title in Athens, Georgia. UVA Athletics ATHENS, GA—While most Virginia fans spent another March quietly contemplating a more prominent ...

In the long history of UVA sports, mascots have come and gone. Beta and then Seal were much-loved dogs who roamed Grounds from the 1920s to the 1940s. The ’Hoo, a furry orange character, appeared and ...

Tina Fey usually arrived early to her classes at the University of Virginia. Drama professor Richard Warner remembers heading down early to Culbreth B006, a basement classroom, and finding Fey sitting ...

The University’s Easters celebrations began innocently enough in the late 19th century as formal dances, held Monday through Saturday of the week following Easter Sunday. In those early days of ...

Beeping construction trucks and scaffolding dot the UVA landscape these days. From massive renovations, like the complete makeover of Alderman Library, to brand-new spaces, like the opening of a ...

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 ...

We asked you, dear readers, to tell us about your most prized UVA mementos—the quirkier, the better—and you did not disappoint. We received a bucketload of submissions, from bobbleheads and birdhouses ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...