Department: Features
Major Shifts
Explore which majors have boomed in popularity—and which have dwindled—over the past decade at UVA
Spring 2024
Renovating the name, too
Now that the humanities library has reopened after its $161 million renovation, one question remains: What will it be called?
Spring 2024
Let there be Lit
After four years and $161 million of construction, the library renovation is complete
Spring 2024
Cooks’ Books
Whether it’s weekend gatherings, weekday dinners, big holiday meals or tiny moments worth celebrating, these ’Hoos have a recipe for that.
Winter 2023
Alternating Coasts Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference, founded in 1953 in North Carolina, is going bicoastal. Cal, Stanford and SMU will join next fall.
Winter 2023
Bennettball
We offer this look at how Tony Bennett has gone about his business and arrived at iconic status, in a uniquely Bennett way.
Winter 2023
Distant Replay
The debate centered on issues that still resonate: the role of athletics at a university, the growing commercialization of college sports, and the balancing act involved in competing at the highest level without compromising academic standards
Winter 2023
Getting Inside Cavman’s Head
Beneath that macho exterior beat some very big hearts, surrounded in buckets of sweat
Fall 2023
No ifs, ands or bots? How to control AI
UVA task force confronts artificial intelligence—the good, the bad, the downright scary
Fall 2023
Vox Alumni: Meet Gen V
They attended college amid the tumult of our times, the triumphs and the tragedies, the basketball victory and the virus. Meet the rising generation of Virginia alumni.
Fall 2023
From the Grounds Up
Construction crews are in high gear on Grounds, but the construction of UVA has been a centuries-long process. Here’s a look at the history of buildings across Grounds.
Summer 2023
Grounds Keepers
Meet the gardeners, arborists and landscape architects working behind the scenes to maintain UVA’s sprawling Grounds
Summer 2023
Archi-texts: A book tour of Grounds
Here are some books about UVA architecture by architects, historians and professors that show Thomas Jefferson’s vision and how it has continued to inform the architecture of Grounds.
Summer 2023
Tragedy Strikes UVA
A collection of stories explaining what happened at UVA on Nov. 13—and the sorrow and support that followed.
Spring 2023
The Night Of
It began as the quintessential college field trip. It ended with three shot dead, two wounded and a student charged with murder. What happened?
Spring 2023
12 Hours in the Dark
Shots fired, then doors locked, and students sheltered with their fears
Spring 2023
The Joy, the Love, the Light
The profound loss and legacies of Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry
Spring 2023
The Bee Keeper
New York Times puzzle editor Sam Ezersky responded to our questions with anagrams—several of them, specially designed for UVA alumni.
Winter 2022
Making a Mountain into an O-Hill
The wellspring for the founding, and where UVA split the atom, behold the fantastical history of Mount Jefferson.
Winter 2022
It’s Not Easy Being Dean
The role comes with a giant set of responsibilities. Here’s a look at some of UVA’s famous (and infamous) deans of the past.
Winter 2022
Our No. 1 Top-Ranked Best Story on Rankings
See exactly where UVA stacks up against the competition.
Summer/Fall 2022
Honor Up Close
Roger Martin made a convincing case not to cheat in his class. Or so you would have thought.
Summer/Fall 2022