
Living Legends: The Trees of Grounds
With photography from last fall's peak color, we’ve been waiting a year to tell you this story.
With photography from last fall's peak color, we’ve been waiting a year to tell you this story.
Researchers in the Department of Environmental Studies predict that climate change will result in more hot days.
Mike Leinbach (Arch ’76, Engr ’81) led the extraordinary effort to piece together the space shuttle Columbia just days after he gave the go-ahead at its launch.
Assistant Professor Nicola Bezzo's research focuses on creating systems to allow self-driving cars to deal with surprise events, such as a blown tire or sudden traffic.
The physics class, created by professor Louis Bloomfield in 1991, is a big hit with nonscience majors.
Sandy Liss (Grad ’14, ’19), Sabrina Stierwalt and Chris Wiens’ (Col ’17) findings could give astronomers new data about how galaxies formed.
A partnership with Dominion Virginia Power will provide electricity to the University from a new solar farm in King William County, cutting UVA’s carbon footprint by 11 percent.
Margot Lee Shetterly discovered an important part of American space race history in her own childhood neighborhood.
What exactly is "the Anthropology of Outer Space," and how does it help science students gain valuable perspective about their work?
Current UVA Medical School research on mice may lead to a greater understanding of how immune cells affect the brain.
Behavioral epigenetics is the study of how emotional trauma can affect the genes passed down to the next generation, and the study of prairie voles can shed some light on this phenomenon in humans.
The University is taking another step toward a better understanding of the brain through its newest initiative: the UVA Brain Institute. Here’s what they hope to accomplish through cross-Grounds collaboration in the field of neuroscience.
University Advancement and the Women’s Center gain new leadership; new leaders appointed to the Board of Visitors; two distinguished Writers-in-Residence come to Grounds.
In a series of experiments in a lab on Grounds in 1977, pharmacology professor Alfred G. Gilman made a breakthrough that won him a Nobel Prize.
Psychology graduate student Marissa Drell wanted to know: Does an apology help a child feel better? She set up an experiment to find out.
Other schools’ alumni love their alma maters too. But it’s just not the same. Here’s why.
Take an overhead look at UVA then and now, and explore the features of the Bicentennial issue.
Do you love chuckling over awkward first-date tales or proposal mishaps? Well, we’ve got some fun for you.
Study up on the twists and turns of UVA's history, from the laying of the cornerstone to the inauguration of the ninth president.