In Fall 2022, we relaunched the Jeffersonian Dinner series that has taken place on and off over the years. The idea is simple—gather about a dozen people around a shared meal and help to facilitate a ...

Editor’s note: Virginia Magazine published this story ahead of the Board of Visitors’ nearly unanimous March 1 vote to rename Alderman Library for former UVA President Edgar Shannon. See our Spring ...

To a generation of students, B.F.D. Runk (Col ’29, Grad ’30, ’39) loomed large over college life. He was the archetype of the old-school, Old U, dean of students. “Dee” Runk, as Benjamin Franklin ...

Undergraduate applications to UVA soared to another record-breaking year in 2021 with 50,800 prospective ’Hoos applying for admission—up 6 percent from 2020 when numbers surged 17 percent. It’s the ...

Running back Wali Lundy (Col ’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 Carolina, for ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic grips the world—having largely shut down life at UVA—here’s a look back at how alumni experienced some other national and international events when they were on Grounds.

Spring semester at the University of Virginia ended not with a bang but the virus. The pomp of Final Exercises went virtual. Walking the Lawn will be an altogether different circumstance. It’s ...

I was only weeks into my position when Charlottesville erupted in the ugly and deadly violence of August 2017. In the months and years that followed, I saw firsthand our collective character as Wahoos ...

Even as the threat of a global pandemic brought an abrupt halt to all but essential activities at UVA, researchers here immediately turned their attention and expertise to helping to combat the virus.

Sustainability work began at UVA in the 1980s as a grassroots, student-led recycling effort. Now the entire University is involved and has set its boldest green challenge yet: to become carbon neutral ...

In north-central France, Harriet Kiers (Col ’19) lives in a one-bedroom cottage with little pink shutters, surrounded by everything the area is renowned for—stone buildings with terra-cotta shingles, ...

When I think of the work we do at Alumni Hall, it all comes down to people. The strength of the Alumni Association truly is in our community of passionate alumni and students. This year, we’re doing ...