Department: Features
Lights Out
No UVA team before or since has had consecutive undefeated seasons. Boxing went four years without a loss. Then it went away.
Summer 2017
Integrating from Behind the Scenes
A look at the quiet effectiveness of Paul Saunier, an administrator who helped desegregate UVA.
Summer 2017
Pigments of Your Imagination
Let our adult coloring book help you find your happy place. We have just the place in mind. A few of them, in fact.
Spring 2017
Unquoting Jefferson
At the University of Virginia, the postelection ignited a distinctly UVA form of protest: an outbreak of remarkably civil discourse about Thomas Jefferson.
Spring 2017
Streak Show
An update on a running University tradition, stripped to its bare essentials.
Spring 2017
Theatre of the Macabre
Jefferson’s Anatomical Theatre gave way to grave robbers, the student Cadaver Society and, eventually, the wrecking ball.
Spring 2017
Shoot to Thrill
UVA sports photographer Matt Riley shares some of his favorite photographed moments from the past decade.
Winter 2016
The Jefferson Curating Society
In the end, the need to preserve the artifacts of UVA’s oldest student group was beyond debate.
Winter 2016
National Treasure
UVA poet and National Book Award finalist Rita Dove shares stories of her family, writing career and teaching at UVA.
Winter 2016
NASA’s Unseen Heroes
Margot Lee Shetterly discovered an important part of American space race history in her own childhood neighborhood.
Winter 2016
Hire Ed
As up to 30 percent of UVA faculty prepare for retirement, the University prepares new hiring methods to fill the vacancies.
Winter 2016
Rotunda Reborn
Four years and $58 million later, the historic architectural icon is now state-of-the-art. Take a sneak peek.
Fall 2016
Every President Has a First Year
The Miller Center has some history lessons for the next commander-in-chief. Will he use them? Will she?
Fall 2016
Modern Honor
In 2013, students voted in an “informed retraction” measure to the Honor System. This past spring, the single sanction barely survived a vote. Now what?
Summer 2016
Time Capsule
Over the last 100 years, UVA engineering students have traded drafting tables and wood shops for modeling software, 3-D printers and flight simulators. See what the future holds for engineering on Grounds.
Summer 2016
Law Stars
UVA Law’s fingerprints are all over true-crime sensations Serial and Making a Murderer.
Summer 2016
Corps Challenges
From the UVA rugby pitch to the global battlefield, a conversation with Marine Corps commandant General Robert Neller (Col ’75).
Summer 2016
Studio Space
Take a look inside the A-School’s changing, bustling collaborative workspace, where students spend many hours eating, breathing and (sometimes) sleeping architecture.
Spring 2016
Tale as Old as Time
You know that sensation you feel when watching a favorite Disney film? A UVA art professor calls it the Disney myth and explains how we fall under its spell.
Spring 2016
To Catch a Thief
In the 1990s, Gilbert Bland Jr. stole rare maps from libraries across the country. This is the story of how a UVA investigator brought him to justice.
Spring 2016
Resident Life
For physicians in training at UVA’s School of Medicine, no two days are the same. Over many years and thousands of cases, they learn to be ready for anything.
Spring 2016
Funding Academic Excellence
Budgeting for a complex organization like the University of Virginia is no simple task. Here’s a look at some of the numbers, and the priorities behind them.
Winter 2015
In the Name of God
Jerry White and Peter Ochs see a world aflame with killing in the name of God, and they want to fight fire with fire—and with data.
Winter 2015
Print Shop
UVA has two of the most precise bioprinters in the nation. What can they do? How do they do it?
Winter 2015