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 ...

Rocky collected money for the Mafia. A typical bagman, he was immersed in the material world of fast cars, quick cash and getting ahead by butting heads. One day, he was shot in the chest and left for ...

When Ryan Hammons was 4 years old, he began directing imaginary movies. Shouts of “Action!” often echoed from his room. But the play became a concern for Ryan’s parents when he began waking up in the ...

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 ...

When roughly 18 inches of snow led Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to declare a state of emergency last January, hundreds of UVA students took it as a call to arms. They headed to the Lawn for an ...

Many first-years come to Grounds cherishing the dream of living on the Lawn their fourth year. Bryanna Miller (Col ’18) went them one better. She knew which room she wanted. She had a friend who’d ...

“By God, I Think They’re Here to Stay,” declared the Cavalier Daily headline in September 1970. Next to the story about the “young lovlies” [sic] who were moving in as part of UVA’s first truly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emil Heineking (Col ’11) made Cavalier history with his showing at the NCAA cross-country championships in November. The only true freshman to earn All-America recognition a year ago, Heineking became ...

University President John Newcomb introduces United States President Franklin Roosevelt in Memorial Gymnasium. Courtesy of University of Virginia Alumni News, July-August 1940 What should have been a ...

If the University of Virginia’s landscape were to represent the human mind, with the Rotunda and pavilions being our most sophisticated thoughts, what better to represent our imaginations, where we ...