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 ...

A composite of contrasting styles, from top: B.F.D. Runk, Robyn S. Hadley, Robert Canevari, and Penny Rue Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare; photos courtesy Albert and Shirley Small Special ...

A noose placed on UVA's Homer statue in early September sparked a hate crime investigation that drew the help of the FBI. Sanjay Suchak Police have arrested and charged an Albemarle County man in the ...

The Virginia men’s tennis team made a remarkable turnaround from five consecutive losses in February to win its fifth NCAA team national championship in May—the 31st overall team championship for the ...

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 ...

A new twist has emerged in UVA’s ongoing research on the link between the lone star tick and an allergy to red meat: In Texas and other Gulf states where the invasive fire ant is common, the allergy ...

I wanted to make a guest appearance in Virginia Magazine to write you and call attention to this special anniversary issue. It tells the story of how the last public university in the country—not ...

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 ...

Concern about liberal bias in the media is widespread in the United States. But soon-to-be published research reveals that while most journalists lean liberal, their ideology does not affect how they ...

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.