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Undergraduate applications break records for a second consecutive year
UVA’s decision to remain test optional is likely one reason for the continued growth.
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What was your favorite book while you were on Grounds?
From Hemingway to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the books alumni could not put down.
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Historic NCAA change lets UVA athletes profit from their names, images and likenesses
A once-unthinkable NCAA rules change lets UVA athletes cash in on their name, image and likeness. It can mean big bucks, or at least pay for books.
Winter 2021
Vox Alumni Special Report: Alumni views about UVA may surprise you; UVA athletes cash in, sort of; Q&A with the enrollment chief; Trax look-back
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- Game Show ’Hoos: Pressing their luck and testing their knowledge, clever Cavs take a spin on Wheel, Jeopardy!
- A Higher Law: One McIntire professor’s lessons extend beyond the classroom
- Born and Bread: Wahoo’s acclaimed NOLA restaurant has a slice of Charlottesville
- Making Old Dorms New Again: The spaces that defined us first-year are getting redefined.
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Hot Trax
For two decades, the hot, sticky, beer-soaked roadhouse where Dave Matthews Band began its rise to stardom drew big-name acts and packed houses.
D. Alan Williams: June 14, 1928–August 3, 2021
UVA’s ‘Swiss Army Knife’ served in a variety of influential roles in four-decade career.
Masked and vaxed, UVA opens for fall
With some restrictions in place, students return to Grounds.
Undergraduate applications break records for a second consecutive year
UVA’s decision to remain test optional is likely one reason for the continued growth.
Magill leaves to lead Penn, Baucom rises to UVA No. 2
Virginia’s new AG then adds some Mad Hall turnover of his own
Vox Alumni: Longitude and Attitudes
We mapped alumni views of UVA across a 50-year span of class years. From Jefferson to Honor to left vs. right, the results are more complex and contoured than what you might expect.
Graduation rates, student selectivity propel UVA in rankings
Virginia is 25th this year in national universities, fourth among public universities.Video
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Ryan, Magill discuss the COVID Crisis
Our interview with UVA’s president and provost—from a distance.
Making the Shots
Go behind the scenes with longtime UVA sports photographer Matt Riley, from a day of fun studio shoots to an exciting men’s basketball game at JPJ.Photo Gallery
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The Stacks come crashing down
‘Hitting the Alderman Stacks’ used to be just a figure of speech. Here's a look inside the beginning of the 3-year renovation.
The camera sees what we can’t
Charlottesville photographer Andrew Shurtleff in late March made these dramatic photographs of Grounds under quarantine using infrared technology, which captures wavelengths of light outside the spectrum of what the human eye can see. The result is a high-contrast image with a nearly dreamlike look.
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