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 ...

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 ...

On a Friday evening in late September, roughly 50 members of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, the oldest student group on Grounds, gather in Hotel C on the West Range (also known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rector Helen Dragas gathers UVA deans and vice presidents together to announce that Sullivan has agreed to resign. "The Board feels the need for a bold leader who can help develop, articulate and ...

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 ...

Chip Apperson ate his first Grillswith when he was 17. The high school senior had finagled a visit to UVA in 1973 for that once famous, since-disbanded annual party weekend known as Easters. He ...

This story is updated to reflect the outcome of the Aug. 28 General Assembly Senate Privileges and Elections Committee meeting. On April 11, the U.S. Department of Justice sent UVA leadership and ...

After the Supreme Court decision last June banning race-based admissions, students and admissions officers navigated a more complicated admissions process this year as application numbers continue 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 ...

Running back Wali Lundy (Col class of ’06) burst into the end zone, adding to the Virginia onslaught and further souring the mood of thousands of West Virginia fans on hand in Charlotte, North ...