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The rise and fall of a J-School at UVA
Amid the fervor of the Great War, UVA rid itself of a journalism school, and the pacifist it rode in on.
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A legacy on the court
Forty years ago, UVA’s basketball team rose to No. 1 for the first time, paving the way for the top-ranking teams of recent years.
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Classes of 2020, 2021 to walk the Lawn in May
Final Exercises return to the Lawn—with some caveats.
Spring 2021
Too Clever by Halftime: the pep band’s 30 years of scrambling on the edge | Why ’81 Still Matters | UVA Had a J-School? | Chainsaw Zen
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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.
Highlights
Pep Banned
For 30 years, UVA’s scrambling Pep Band managed to stay one punchline ahead of the authorities.
On the shelf
From academic research to rollicking fiction, UVA alumni and faculty members have been churning out books on a variety of topics. Here’s a look at some of them.
College life in quarantine
For some UVA students, isolation and quarantine have brought new challenges to an already unusual year.
Undergraduate application rates hit records
A few factors likely contributed to surging rates across all schools and from students of diverse backgrounds.
Two commissions take on a complicated landscape
UVA appoints a new group to reassess names and memorials on Grounds and another to reaffirm free speech principles.
A legacy on the court
Forty years ago, UVA’s basketball team rose to No. 1 for the first time, paving the way for the top-ranking teams of recent years.
Spring semester rolls on
Students return for another unusual semester on Grounds, marked by limited group sizes and regular testing, even as in-person classes continue.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.
Quotes
Read MoreThis isn't how we live life, but this is our reality for the time being.
Kiah Ford (Col ’14), a nurse in Atlanta, about the Coronavirus pandemic
