Any architectural history of UVA starts with Thomas Jefferson, of course. His concept for the Academical Village, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was crafted across decades, nurtured through his ...

Graduating from UVA’s School of Architecture can be intense. But for these eight architects—and countless others—all those hours in the studio paid off. Here are some of the UVA-trained architects who ...

Editor’s note: This is a longform story. For an abridged version, click here. The latched door that opened by itself. The face peering over a shoulder. An unlit flashlight in an unoccupied room ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 James Monroe, the United States’ fifth president, builds his law office and home at what would become the Monroe Hill Complex, atop Monroe Hill. In 1814, John Perry, a builder working on UVA and ...

Here are some of the luminaries whose work graces Grounds, plus where you will find their work out in the rest of the world.

Maury Hall, home to UVA’s Naval ROTC program since it was built in 1942, has been renamed for former U.S. senator, Navy veteran and Secretary of the Navy John W. Warner (Law ’53). The building’s ...

In the words of Mark Twain: “Prediction is difficult—particularly when it involves the future.” But what about when it’s informed by research and scholarship? Surely then prediction is less perilous?

UVA lacrosse coach Lars Tiffany spends a Saturday morning in January chopping and loading firewood for Start a Spark, a Virginia nonprofit. After a year of isolation for some and the loss of regular ...