For the first time in 22 years, the Virginia baseball program has new leadership. Just over a week after the departure of longtime coach Brian O’Connor, who led the Cavaliers to seven College World ...

William W. Beville Jr. (Educ ’50) of Dowling Park, Fla., died March 3, 2008. A U.S. Army veteran, he worked with Brown & Grist, a window manufacturing firm in Newport News, Va., for 35 years, becoming ...

Virginia Anne “Ginger” Scott (Col ’73, Grad ’80, Educ ’89) showed extraordinary self-possession at 19. Maybe it was her nature. Maybe it was her circumstances. After her mother died, she dropped out ...

It would have made perfect sense for Kate Douglass (Col ’23, Grad ’28) to swim for Stanford University. The insider websites had her as either the No. 1 or No. 2 girls recruit in the country her ...

1 James Monroe, the United States’ fifth president, builds his law office and home at what would become the Monroe Hill Complex, atop Monroe Hill. In 1814, John Perry, a builder working on UVA and ...

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 ...

President John F. Kennedy Courtesy of the White House Press Office Half Century, Sabato's 25th book, marks a departure for one of UVA's best-known professors. "My previous books have been about ...

Greta Garbo once famously quipped, “I want to be alone,” but recent studies by UVA psychology professor Timothy D. Wilson indicate the reclusive actress may have regretted that wish. Wilson conducted ...

In a change both stunning and at least 50 years in coming, the University of Virginia Honor System will no longer expel students who violate the Honor Code. Following a University-wide student vote ...

Editor’s note: This is a condensed version of a story that ran in Virginia Magazine’s Fall 2024 edition. For the full version, click here. Just five or six people showed up to start “Charlottesville’s ...

UVA head basketball coach Tony Bennett announces his retirement on Oct. 18, 2024. UVA Athletics In the same room where he was introduced as Virginia’s men’s basketball coach in 2009, Tony Bennett sat ...

Robert Pianta, outgoing Dean of the School of Education and Human Development Dan Addison Robert Pianta, who has led the School of Education and Human Development since 2007, will step down as dean at ...