Ian Baucom, UVA’s executive vice president and provost, will leave UVA in March to become president of Middlebury College in Vermont. Baucom’s tenure at UVA began in 2014 when he joined as dean of the ...

In 2019, Magill replaced former UVA provost Tom Katsouleas, who left UVA to become president of the University of Connecticut ...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have made headlines for all sorts of reasons during their relationship, but their latest stint on the cover of gossip magazines was for something that shouldn’t be all ...

In 1925 “The Cavalier Song,” written in 1923 by then-student Lawrence Haywood Lee Jr., was chosen in a College Topics contest as UVA’s best fight song. The song inspired a moniker for the athletic ...

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 ...

In the early part of the 20th century, Thomas Jefferson’s notion of the Lawn as a place where professors and students lived and studied together was a grand idea in decline. The University had higher ...

In 1903, the Board of Visitors authorized the Ladies’ Confederate Memorial Association to erect “at some suitable place at the University” bronze plaques to commemorate students and alumni “who died ...

Americans used to put Jefferson on a pedestal as the primary creator of our democracy. Now his statues attract controversy and graffiti, which cast him as a racist and even rapist. This denunciation ...

Where does your garbage go? It’s a question that most Americans don’t think much about. They also may not realize that, as a country, the U.S. produces the most trash on earth. In 2007, each American ...

Mushin Jitsu instructor Hank Sohn (Col ’92, Educ ’06) demonstrates a sequence of blows using his fists, elbows and knees that forces student Caitlin Oldershaw (Col ’08) to the ground. His movements ...

A new glass stair wall on the north side of New Cabell Hall has brought more light into the building. Robert Viccellio Opened in 1952 to accommodate a growing student body after World War II, New ...