The reports offer the first detailed account of how UVA has rewritten policies, overhauled admissions and redirected funding under a deal with the Trump administration.

Laurence “Larry” W. Fredrick of Charlottesville died May 19, 2024. He joined UVA in 1963 as the first chair of the astronomy department. Under his leadership, and through strategic hiring, the ...

Editor’s note: This story is a deep dive. Click here for a condensed version. The classified ad appeared in the back of the Cavalier Daily in March 1972, under the Miscellaneous section. It got right ...

As midnight neared, 2,000 antiwar activists surged up Carr’s Hill to the steps of the University president’s darkened mansion. The radical lawyer William Kunstler spurred them forward, shouting, fist ...

This collection of historical objects contains some of the tangible reminders of the University’s past that can be found on, or nearby, Grounds. From a lock of Thomas Jefferson’s hair cut off just ...

It would have made perfect sense for Kate Douglass (Col class of ’23, Grad class of ’28) to swim for Stanford University. The insider websites had her as either the No. 1 or No. 2 girls recruit in the ...

It began as the quintessential college field trip, a day filled with learning, laughter and genuine kindness. It ended with three shot dead, two wounded and a student charged with murder. What ...

A Gus Burger at 1 a.m. A pewter mug with your nickname on it. A Grillswith before an all-nighter. Alumni shared with us memories of their favorite spots, and we did some digging of our own. The ...

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 ...

The words “student self-governance” may never have flowed from Thomas Jefferson’s quill, but the concept was on his mind in the earliest days of UVA’s founding. In the margins of a letter to his ...

When the University of Virginia intensified efforts to recruit African-American students in 1969, it didn’t hold back. Nor did it hide the sentiments of the few black students already enrolled. The ...