In 2019, Magill replaced former UVA provost Tom Katsouleas, who left UVA to become president of the University of Connecticut. He stepped down less than two years later after tensions with its ...

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 ...

Understanding the major drivers of the U.S. opioid epidemic is considered essential to fighting the crisis. One theory widely reported in the news media holds that job loss and depressed economic ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mike Leinbach (Arch ’76, Engr ’81) was a launch director at the Kennedy Space Center. Bill Ingalls/Getty Mike Leinbach stood on the runway at 9 a.m., waiting for his crew to return. This was the best ...

There have been election seasons in America during which the candidates politely and respectfully outlined their stands on the issues before the electorate, then sat back to await the election returns ...

Among the dinosaur bones and 4.5-billion-year-old meteorites on the shelves of Stephen Macko’s office are tiny plastic containers that hold hair samples from the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, George ...

Fresh out of college, Brit Hume (Col ’65) landed in the noisy newsroom of the now-defunct Hartford Times in Connecticut. He immediately knew that he’d found his calling. He joined the fledgling FOX ...

The death of second-year student Hannah Graham has many discussing student safety on and around the Grounds. The following is a brief overview of some of the security measures and resources the ...