Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis, executive vice president and chief operating officer, will serve as acting president before an ...

A period of transition, many times described as moving swiftly through a tunnel, follows. The individual enters a realm of indescribable radiance, where he is met by deceased relatives and friends. A ...

Grennan heard the story in 2004 when he visited Nepal. He had long been fascinated by the mountainous country, and after eight stress-filled years working for the EastWest Institute in Prague, where ...

Building Big Careers: Eight School of Architecture alumni whose groundbreaking work is changing the world Game Changer: Behind Tony Bennett’s surprise retirement and what’s next for Virginia men’s ...

The University hired Henry Ward, a naturalist, scholar and entrepreneur who preserved an elephant for P.T. Barnum and buffalo heads from hunting trips with Buffalo Bill Cody, to gather the museum’s ...

For many former students, the sight of a blue (or green) examination book might cause stomachs to churn and bring back memories of frantic essay writing and cramped hands. With the permission of some ...

Every May, thousands of students walk the Lawn in processions filled with black gowns, colorful tassels and deep slashes of rich velvet. Beyond that official regalia, students also express themselves ...

Crowing up on the Oneida Reservation in Wisconsin, Chris Cornelius (Arch ’00) noticed the differences between his neighborhood and those of his non-Indigenous friends. His community had no trees, ...

UVA’s top athletes; Remembering John Casteen; Research funding uncertainty ...

The first women to “horn into” classrooms In their full-length ruffled skirts, some of the female members of the University Normal School, Session 1880, posed for a picture with their male ...

Constant contact In the fall of 1989, Laurie Howard Felton (Col ’92) moved into the Rogers portal at Brown College and met Anh Chau (Col ’92) and Jessica Jamieson (Col ’92). “They were roommates on ...