Department: Features
Living Legends: The Trees of Grounds
With photography from last fall's peak color, we’ve been waiting a year to tell you this story.
Fall 2018
The Carla Williams Playbook
To new Athletic Director Carla Williams, football isn’t the only thing. It’s everything.
Fall 2018
Pardon Our French
Founder’s Day, Paris 1919, the great party after the Great War, where they sang the “The Good Old Song” in what passed for French.
Fall 2018
The Exit Interview
Teresa A. Sullivan talks with us about her presidency with characteristic grit and grace.
Summer 2018
Intersecting Disciplines
Forget everything you know about required classes. The College rethinks curriculum.
Summer 2018
Bud Life
Along winding walkways and serpentine walls, our photo essay leads you down the gardens’ paths.
Summer 2018
Faces of Grounds
They have long tenure, but they don’t grade and they don’t judge. They make you feel at home.
Spring 2018
Antiwar Stories
May Days 1970: The week that would change UVA forever, through the eyes of those who were there.
Spring 2018
Color Bind
Excavation uncovers a dilemma: Should the colonnade be the bright white of our time or the unpainted tan of Jefferson’s?
Spring 2018
Calm Amid the Chaos
From meditation to monitoring social media: How the UVA E.R. team prepared for the worst of a tragic weekend’s violence.
Winter 2017
When Speech Meets Hate
The First Amendment was a major player in the events of August 11/12. A UVA legal expert shows how, and also asks some whys.
Winter 2017
Emergency Medicine
A doctor thought she’d donate blankets and socks during Hurricane Harvey and ended up contributing so much more.
Winter 2017
Getting a Read on Ryan
UVA's incoming president checked all the boxes the search committee was looking for. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and a commitment to the student experience.
Winter 2017
Quests & Answers
From workplace productivity to global health, from cybersecurity to yogurt serenity, UVA researchers reached across disciplines, schools and the world.
Fall 2017
Griddle Me This
For decades, it cheered our hearts, warmed our blood and hardened our arteries. The origin story and afterlife of the Grillswith. And also the recipe.
Fall 2017
Exactly what he didn’t want. Exactly what UVA needed.
Finding the University’s first president took 80 years—give-or-take, heeding Jefferson, or not.
Fall 2017
The First President
UVA’s first president introduced the modern era, but some of Edwin Alderman’s progressive notions were anything but.
Fall 2017
Visitor in Chief
The Board of Visitors’ new rector talks about where we’re going, how he likes to manage and what he’s looking for in the next president.
Fall 2017
North of Eden
Old vs. new, UVA past vs. UVA future: North Grounds gives a nod to Jeffersonian design, but at a distance.
Summer 2017
Next Chapter
The quiet spaces inside UVA’s 14 libraries take on new relevance in the digital age.
Summer 2017
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