Some 20 years ago, longtime friends Louella Walker (Nurs ’58) and Mary Jones (Nurs ’61) were browsing a former teacher’s estate sale when they unearthed a brown bag filled with black-and-white photos.

Lauren Davis was well aware of the University of Virginia’s complicated racial legacy when she accepted a full scholarship in 1997. “I did not revere Jefferson,” says Davis (Col ’02). Still, she ...

To keep UVA warm for a week during a typical mid-winter cold spell, UVA facility workers first pile up more than 1.5 million pounds of coal, then pipe in some 25 million cubic feet of natural gas.

When Katie Couric (Col ’79) hosted Tina Fey (Col ’92) on her syndicated talk show in 2013, the conversation inevitably turned to UVA nostalgia. It helped that Fey was promoting Admission, a movie set ...

ESPN crews joined Chris Long (Col ’08) and another St. Louis player on the street. Still courtesy of ESPN On a rainy, cold day in March, two men panhandled by the side of a downtown St. Louis highway.

Convinced of empire’s “contemporary resonance,” Kumar takes a top-down approach to investigate how the diversity of great empires of the past can inform today’s world, where the increased connections ...

Esther Bell (Col ’01) loves a surprise. She’s the chief curator at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and—asked to show off a favorite painting in this world-class museum—she ...

Here’s the good news: On the whole, automobiles are getting safer for their occupants. If you’re a seat-belted occupant of a newer-model (2009 or later) car, you’re less at risk of serious injury in a ...

These nonfiction works chronicle some of the diverse experiences of the UVA alumni community.

While on a volunteer trip to Panama in 2011, first-year student Kasey Crute dove into a swimming hole. As soon as she descended below the water's surface, she felt her head hit and then a shock, like ...

As plans for the University of Virginia began to take shape in Thomas Jefferson’s imagination, he envisioned a lawn surrounded on three sides by housing for students and professors, connected by ...

These nonfiction works chronicle some of the diverse experiences of the UVA alumni community.