A memorial to victims Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry and Devin Chandler on the Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds Emily Faith Morgan / UVA Communications The former student accused of fatally shooting ...

Civil War history has always been a UVA strength, especially as home to the Nau Center devoted to the subject. These recent works by alumni and faculty may teach even the most avid history buffs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rare is the person who can walk by the Pratt Ginkgo in late fall without stopping to stare at branches full of gold coins, shining in the light. And if you’re fortunate enough to be in the right place ...

Its wonder is realized in the embracing stillness one senses within moments of entering the University of Virginia Cemetery. The nearby commotion of traffic and student life is somehow held at bay, ...

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

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 ...

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?

In July 1908, at the peak of his training, James Alcorn Rector (Law 1909) stood a hair under 6 feet tall, weighed 176 pounds and possessed a physique “of the clean-cut, rather slim-looking rangy type ...