A UVA neuroscience professor has found that protecting a gel-like sugary protein substance that surrounds specialized neurons ...

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 ...

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 ...

This fall, UVA welcomed 3,985 first-years to Grounds. College admissions and enrollment have increasingly been under a microscope in recent years, across the country and on Grounds. In June 2023, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Board of Visitors Rector Helen Dragas and Vice Rector Mark Kington meet with Teresa Sullivan in her Madison Hall office at 5 p.m. They inform her they are not satisfied with her performance and have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...