The early decision admission option is back for prospective students, 13 years after UVA ended it amid concerns it benefited well-heeled applicants who didn’t need financial aid. This fall, students ...

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 ...

When Katie Couric (Col ’79) hosted Tina Fey (Col ’92) on her syndicated talk show in 2013, the conversation inevitably turned to UVA nostalgia. It helped that Fey was promoting Admission, a movie set ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Americans used to put Jefferson on a pedestal as the primary creator of our democracy. Now his statues attract controversy and graffiti, which cast him as a racist and even rapist. This denunciation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Student culture has its own traditions and customs—some lost to time, others alive and well. Here is a look at just a few of the more notable. “Every college has a campus, but only the University of ...

Students mourn the death of Seal, the dog who served as the football team's unofficial mascot from 1947 to 1953. Donald Scott (Col '54) submitted these photos, which he took of Seal's funeral in 1953.

Every May, thousands of students walk the Lawn in processions filled with black gowns, colorful tassels and deep slashes of rich velvet. Beyond that official regalia, students also express themselves ...