Department: Features
Best of 2021
Here are some of Virginia Magazine’s most popular—and most talked-about—stories of last year. From the late Pep Band to our latest poll, from UVA’s first medalist to our newest Olympians, take a look, or even a second look.
December 9, 2021
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: 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.
Winter 2021
Admissions Interview
The head of enrollment talks about what UVA looks for in applicants, including when they’re children of alumni.
Winter 2021
The Class of 2025 in Their Own Words
Excerpts from admission essays for incoming first-years
Fall 2021
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.
Fall 2021
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.
Fall 2021
’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.
Fall 2021
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.
Fall 2021
The Cost of a Telegram
To cool student unrest in 1970, the Alumni Association did a very uncool thing. People stayed hot about it for years.
Summer 2021
Case Surge
As the COVID count swelled this spring, so did the disciplinary docket for the University Judiciary Committee.
Summer 2021
The Underground Refuge
How UVA’s first Black students, excluded elsewhere, found a community of their own off Grounds.
Summer 2021
Pep Banned
For 30 years, UVA’s scrambling Pep Band managed to stay one punchline ahead of the authorities.
Spring 2021
Making the most of a COVID situation
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.
Spring 2021
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.
Spring 2021
As Covid persists, so does UVA’s work toward a cure
Researchers on Grounds go the distance in a global race for a cure.
Winter 2020
Businesses grapple with new normal on the Corner
Shops on the Corner do their best to keep doing business amid the challenges of Covid.
Winter 2020
Eat, darlings. Thirsty? Wahoo recipes for the soul
Alumni share some favorite comfort food recipes as this crazy year winds down.
Winter 2020
Alumni confront Covid close-up
From health professionals to elementary teachers, Wahoos discuss their Covid experiences.
Winter 2020
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.
Winter 2020
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.
Fall 2020
It was about time: A timeline of women at UVA
Our timeline follows women’s 200-year journey for influence, an education and equality at UVA.
Fall 2020
How women found their place at Mr. Jefferson’s University
Women talk about what it was like in those early years of coeducation.
Fall 2020
Not Without a Fight
Before granting women full admission to the College, UVA needed a little persuading—in the form of a federal lawsuit.
Fall 2020