On-Camera Admissions
Video highlights of our conversation with the new vice provost for enrollment
In video interview, new enrollment chief talks standardized testing, alumni children and treating applicants as people first.
The Class of 2025 in Their Own Words
Excerpts from admission essays for incoming first-years
The Newest ’Hoos: Who They Are and How They Got Here
How admissions officers built the Class of 2025—by the numbers, by the essays and by the seat of their pants.
The Legend of UVA’s First Olympic Medal
A tale of performance-enhancing good manners, how nice guy James Rector had his 100 meters dashed.
’Hoos in Tokyo
Here’s a look at our most recent Olympians: current and former UVA athletes and coaches who competed in the delayed 2020 Olympic Games.
UVA Sports Comes Back a Winner in Year of COVID
After a season shortened by COVID-19, UVA sports came back to claim multiple national championships and extend the post-season to Tokyo.
The Cost of a Telegram
Determined to cool student unrest in 1970, the Alumni Association did a very uncool thing
To cool student unrest in 1970, the Alumni Association did a very uncool thing. People stayed hot about it for years.
Case Surge
As the COVID count swelled, so did the disciplinary docket
As the COVID count swelled this spring, so did the disciplinary docket for the University Judiciary Committee.
The Underground Refuge
Excluded elsewhere, UVA’s first Black students found community of their own
How UVA’s first Black students, excluded elsewhere, found a community of their own off Grounds.
Pep Banned
The pep band’s 30 years of scrambling on the edge
For 30 years, UVA’s scrambling Pep Band managed to stay one punchline ahead of the authorities.
Making the most of a COVID situation
How some UVA notables found comfort and escape in a hard year
In a hard year, some UVA notables found comfort and escape in books, music, movies and the woods. Here are the good things that have helped them through.
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.
As Covid persists, so does UVA’s work toward a cure
Researchers on Grounds go the distance in a global race for a cure.
Businesses grapple with new normal on the Corner
Shops on the Corner do their best to keep doing business amid the challenges of Covid.
Eat, darlings. Thirsty? Wahoo recipes for the soul
Alumni share some favorite comfort food recipes as this crazy year winds down.
Alumni confront Covid close-up
From health professionals to elementary teachers, Wahoos discuss their Covid experiences.
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.
How UVA is getting through fall
College life returns. Sort of.
New task force prioritizes racial equity, and speed
UVA’s president gave a new racial equity action team a bold charge and a tight deadline.
It was about time: A timeline of women at UVA
A 200-year journey for influence, an education and equality
Our timeline follows women’s 200-year journey for influence, an education and equality at UVA.
How women found their place at Mr. Jefferson’s University
Women talk about what it was like in those early years of coeducation.
Not Without a Fight
How UVA granted women full admission sooner rather than basically never
Before granting women full admission to the College, UVA needed a little persuading—in the form of a federal lawsuit.
A Struggle for Equality: Women in the workplace at UVA
Before women came for college, they came for careers, often in support roles.
It’s a fraught business rolling out new sports branding
Before the revamped Cavalier and V-sabres, there was
Where Were You When … ?
Alumni recall the exact moment history intersected with their time on Grounds
Across six decades, alumni recall the exact moment history intersected with their time on Grounds.
