UVA has begun offering “tech sabbatical” courses, requiring students to put away their phones and laptops as part of their coursework inside the classroom and to commit to screen-free hours outside of ...

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 their phones and laptops as part of their coursework inside the classroom and to commit to screen-free hours outside of ...

Make it 15 medals won by Virginia athletes in Paris this year. Just weeks after current and former Cavaliers captured a school-record 14 medals at the Paris Olympics, rower Skylar Dahl (Col ’25) added ...

Editor’s note: This is an abridged version of a story that was published in the Fall 2024 issue of Virginia Magazine. To read the full version, click here. A place with a 200-year history like UVA is ...

Thomas Jefferson's university was a bold experiment. Unlike other schools, the University of Virginia was free of religious control and offered an elective system allowing students to choose what to ...

For many former students, the sight of a blue (or green) examination book might cause stomachs to churn and bring back memories of frantic essay writing and cramped hands. With the permission of some ...

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 ...

Corpses of African Americans were snatched, illegally, for classes in Jefferson’s Anatomical Theatre, built in the 1820s and razed in the 1930s. University of Virginia Visual History Collection, ...

Virginia Anne “Ginger” Scott (Col ’73, Grad ’80, Educ ’89) showed extraordinary self-possession at 19. Maybe it was her nature. Maybe it was her circumstances. After her mother died, she dropped out ...

Luke Wilson and David Koechner perched on a tree branch 60 feet up in the air while a camera crane filmed them. The actors wore harnesses, and a stunt coordinator watched from the ground. Wilson sat ...

Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival by Bob Coltman is the first biography of the folksinger and song collector. Accounts from friends, family and fellow musicians relate Clayton’s life, from his ...