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Major Shifts

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

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

Let there be Lit

After four years and $161 million of construction, the library renovation is complete

Spring 2024

Cooks’ Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Opening Soon

Opening Soon

Here’s a look at what structures are popping up around Grounds.

Summer 2023

From the Grounds Up

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

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

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

Tragedy Strikes UVA

A collection of stories explaining what happened at UVA on Nov. 13—and the sorrow and support that followed.

Spring 2023

Before, During and Aftermath

Before, During and Aftermath

A timeline starting in 2018

Spring 2023

The Night Of

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

Uniform in Their Support

Uniform in Their Support

Around the nation, football pays tribute to UVA’s fallen

Spring 2023

12 Hours in the Dark

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 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

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

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

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

Our No. 1 Top-Ranked Best Story on Rankings

See exactly where UVA stacks up against the competition.

Summer/Fall 2022

Honor Up Close

Honor Up Close

Roger Martin made a convincing case not to cheat in his class. Or so you would have thought.

Summer/Fall 2022